Some cards offer immediate bonuses, some offer game-long benefits, and some can be used to screw over other players at the last minute by stealing their resources. Actions are represented by purchasable projects and playable cards, and by placing things like oceans, forests, and cities onto Mars' hexagonal grid players can increase their corporation's Terraforming Rating, thus giving them more money to execute actions with in the following round. While all of Terraforming Mars' players have the same endgame goal, their secondary, more competitive task is to be the corporation which accomplishes and contributes the most to the red planet's evolution. Related: 10 Gateway Board Games To Get Your Friends And Family Hooked Players (of which there can be up to five) take control of corporations and spend their time funding projects, placing domed cities and open forests, and calling down asteroids from the sky in order to, well, terraform Mars. The ultimate goal of Terraforming Mars sees players tangentially working together in order to bring life to the planet Mars by raising the planet's temperature and oxygen levels until it's considered to be safe both for animals and the majority of the human race. While not the easiest game for inexperienced players to pick up and enjoy without prior explanation of the rules and a small training session, once everyone involved knows what's going on Terraforming Mars can become an enjoyable way to pass the time.
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Terraforming Mars on Android and iOS devices plays quite similarly to the game's original physical board game version, but with the added bonus of portability.