How to Play

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition

1-4 players 45-60 min 7.6 Board Game Geek Rating

Players control corporations terraforming Mars by investing credits in project cards that boost global parameters: oxygen, temperature, and oceans. Each round, players select phases determining available actions like building projects, producing resources, or research. All players participate in chosen phases, with selectors receiving bonuses. Victory goes to whoever accumulates the most points when Mars becomes habitable.

Published 2021

Get Ready

Setup the game with these step-by-step instructions before diving into your turn.

Component identification needed

The PDF shows ocean hex tiles with various bonus icons (plants, steel/titanium resources) but no setup instructions are provided in the document

Reference cards included

Multiple reference cards show a "Bonus/Count" table listing tile distributions, but setup procedures are not specified

On Your Turn

What you can do during your turn.

Rules not provided

The document contains only visual components (ocean tiles and reference cards) without gameplay instructions

Tile placement implied

The ocean tiles with resource bonuses suggest a tile-placement mechanism, but specific turn actions are not detailed in this PDF

Winning

How to claim victory.

Victory conditions not specified

No winning conditions or end-game triggers are included in this component reference document

*Note

** This PDF appears to be a component sheet or print-and-play file showing ocean tiles and distribution reference cards, not a complete rulebook. The images show:

Ocean hex tiles with various bonus combinations (plant icons, resource icons with numbers 1, 2, or 4)

Reference cards listing the count of each tile type (2 tiles with no bonus, 1 tile with single plant, 1 tile with "1" resource, 2 tiles with double plants, etc.)