Terraforming Mars

Basically it's Dominions or Colonists of Catan in a Mars colonization format. Choose cards, collect resources, optimize your strategy while occasionally hindering the opponent. Personal frustration, the turn process is slow like a turd rolling uphill. After your opponent passes, you still have to take turns despite being alone. Then you have to wait ten seconds for the actions menu to load in, because it doesn't register that your turn has started. THEN you have to repeat this 3 more times because you can only take two actions per turn. It quickly gets old and massively inflates the duration of nearly finished rounds.

The board game is great and the game mechanics are great. But the execution of the computer game is less so. I have been screwed over many a game by the game not correctly tallying tags. That means that you often cannot unlock/use cards due to not meeting the tag-prerequisite - despite having more of the specific tags than needed. And the game is sufficiently hard as it is, so it's really unnecessary to punish the player unfairly. It's still a good game but I wouldn't recommend paying full price seeing how it doesn't feel like a finished product.

It's my favorite board game of all time, so I enjoyed digital version, notes, animations, management and other are all designed to have a great time. But every second game is frozen with some lags or bags, so players can't play cards. It's very frustrating, especially when 5 people each play for 30+ minutes and game just starting to crush player by player. I found going into main menu and then resuming sometimes help, but even if you lose at least 1 player like that — the game is ruined, all result, achievements and fun is vaporized. Please, search for the reason of this issue, it will be very important for players, and then I will write a good review with another rate then 2/5.

Terraforming Mars is a board game I always was interested in but didn't have tho opportunity to play yet. Therefore I cannot really judge how faithful this digital recreation is to the original. I can however say that version 1.2096 runs perfectly on Linux, using Wine 6.0. I cannot confirm reports of stuttering or glitchy animations or opponents turns not getting displayed other reviewers experienced on Windows. Everything plays smooth as butter. The interface could give a little more information upfront I'd say but other than that there is not much I would criticize. Hot-Seat Multiplayer is supported out of the box, online-play requires a third party account.