Terraforming Mars

Love the solo game. The AI is kinda dumb for the multiplayer.

From what I can gather from my single play session of the board game with friends, this is a pretty faithful adaptation of the board game. I'd say the board game itself is fine. It feels like another spin on the score maximization formula where different things boost your score, you get random cards and you just need to figure out what paths boost your score the most with the cards you get. Honestly, not my favorite genre, but the whole Mars terraforming theme thrown on top adds a certain flair to things. From what I gather so far, to do well, you need some luck to get winning cards and enough knowledge about winning score-boosting strategies to capitalize on them (as the game is ultimately just about getting the highest score). Honestly, I was hoping to use the computer adaptation to learn about winning tactics to do better next time I play the board game with my friends (they've played the board game a fair deal, I haven't so I finished last when we played), but so far I've found it fairly difficult to track what the computer was doing (I kind of wish there was more feedback clearly showing what the computer is doing and a pause feature to more clearly look at some of the cards they are playing) so I guess I'll learn from my own trial and errors, but not so much from what the computer is doing which is a shame. Overall, I think it is way more fun playing the board game with friends. The mechanics are not so complex as to benefit greatly from the use of a computer and you just get better feedback playing the board game with other human players. If you don't have friends you can play the board game with or just want to rampup your knowledge like me to be competitive with more experienced players, the computer is certainly worth a go. Just remember that it is meant as a card-based board game so the computer simulation of it won't add much richness and in this particular adaptation, the pacing and visibility of computer actions feels off.

After not being able to finish playing a game with some friends eight days ago, it was a lot of fun to be able to play through a complete game and get used to its interface.

I have the board game and I really enjoy the online experience for days where we don't want to set up the physical board game.

I have tabletop version, but I like also PC version!