Terraforming Mars

Name: Terraforming Mars
Price: 8.99 USD
Rating: 4.5 (7108 reviews)
Author: Twin Sails Interactive

The strategy game on Mars

$8.99 · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad

7.1K Ratings
Ages

13+
Years
Category

Board
Developer

Twin Sails Interactive
Language

EN
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Size

341.8
MB

CREATE LIFE ON MARS Lead a corporation and launch ambitious Mars terraforming projects. Direct massive construction works, manage and use your resources, create cities, forests and oceans, and set rewards and objectives to win the game! In Terraforming Mars, place your cards on the board and use them wisely: - Achieve a high Terraform Rating, by increasing the temperature and oxygen level or creating oceans... Make the planet habitable for future generations! - Get Victory Points by building cities, infrastructure and other ambitious projects. - But watch out! Rival corporations will try to slow you down... That's a nice forest you planted there... It'd be a shame if an asteroid crashed right on it. Will you be able to lead humanity into a new era? The terraforming race begins now! Features: • The official adaptation of Jacob Fryxelius' famous board game. • Mars for all: Play against the computer or challenge up to 5 players in multiplayer mode, online or offline. • Game variant: Try the rules of the Corporate Era for a more complex game. With the addition of new cards, including 2 new corporations, focused on economy and technology, you will discover one of the most strategic variants of the game! • Solo Challenge: Finish terraforming Mars before the end of generation 14. Try new rules and features in the most challenging Solo mode on the (red) planet. DLCs: • Speed up your game with the Prelude expansion, adding a new phase at the start of the game to specialize your corporation and boost your early game. It also introduces new cards, corporation and a new solo challenge. • Explore a new side of Mars with the new Hellas & Elysium expansion maps, each bringing a new set of twists, awards and milestones. From the Southern Wilds to the Other Face of Mars, the taming of the Red Planet continues. • Add the Venus board to your game, with a new Solar phase to hasten your games. With new cards, corporations and resources, shake up Terraforming Mars with the Morning Star! Languages available: French, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Swedish Having an issue? Looking for support? Please contact us: https://asmodee.helpshift.com/ Find all the latest news for Terraforming Mars on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TwinSailsInt Twitter: https://twitter.com/TwinSailsInt YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/twinsailsinteractive © Twin Sails Interactive 2019. © FryxGames 2016. Terraforming Mars™ is a trademark of FryxGames. Developed by Artefact Studio.

Ratings & Reviews

4.5

out of 5

7.1K Ratings

Workable to Clunky
01/28/2023

J-Torrio
Come on now… A slew of new improvements for this release advertised in App Store convinced me it’s time to reinstall, only to finally update and find it less stable than my 6+ month outdated version. I play this regularly on the solo challenge, and this update downgraded an already just okay user interface. Please test your application before releasing updates. That multiplayer bug you list “fixed issue where first player in X map freezes” about says it all. That’s a pretty absurd error. I’m stuck on a solo, where it won’t let me place a greenery and is flat stuck. Can’t click anywhere. Never happened before in my 2-3 dozen games. Yikes, man…. Love this board game, enjoyed the app enough to play before, disappointed to the point of actually getting my lazy self to type out a review.Edit/Update: downgrading to 1 star, do not buy if you plan to play solo with current release. Just froze and failed on a different game, different map, different tile placement and cannot move past error. The game worked well enough prior to update but is now failing 1/3 matches. Not playing going forward until update - very poorly QA folks.
Workable to Clunky
01/28/2023

J-Torrio

Come on now… A slew of new improvements for this release advertised in App Store convinced me it’s time to reinstall, only to finally update and find it less stable than my 6+ month outdated version. I play this regularly on the solo challenge, and this update downgraded an already just okay user interface. Please test your application before releasing updates. That multiplayer bug you list “fixed issue where first player in X map freezes” about says it all. That’s a pretty absurd error. I’m stuck on a solo, where it won’t let me place a greenery and is flat stuck. Can’t click anywhere. Never happened before in my 2-3 dozen games. Yikes, man…. Love this board game, enjoyed the app enough to play before, disappointed to the point of actually getting my lazy self to type out a review.Edit/Update: downgrading to 1 star, do not buy if you plan to play solo with current release. Just froze and failed on a different game, different map, different tile placement and cannot move past error. The game worked well enough prior to update but is now failing 1/3 matches. Not playing going forward until update - very poorly QA folks.
Good implementation needs a few things
03/22/2020

nmarra
First my brother and I have both played their actual board game so it was fairly easy for us to learn the digital version. As much as we loved it we couldn’t help but mention how difficult it’d be to learn the game because there were multiple things we had to search for in the Ui. However we were able to do everything we expected to through the game, it is a great digital version as it’s not lacking in any features we could find. My largest complaint is that it has no notification system so it is really only worthwhile to play if both players are going to play live. The online component gives the option to put time limits on turns but that doesn’t work great because you have to constantly go back into the game to check if it’s your turn. Even that wouldn’t be awful but it takes a good 15-30s to resume your game if you leave the app for ANY reason, even a switch to a respond or view a text message you have to sign back in and wait to reconnect. The game needs to implement notifications or have a way to see from the main menu whose turn it is. The only other flaw of the game is there is no undo, if you play a card or an action there is no way to back out of it even if it is still your turn. If those two issues were resolved it’d be a 5 star game

Developer Response
Hello, We've taken a note of your detailed review. We thank you for your feedback. Best regards,Asmodee Digital Support
Good implementation needs a few things
03/22/2020

nmarra

First my brother and I have both played their actual board game so it was fairly easy for us to learn the digital version. As much as we loved it we couldn’t help but mention how difficult it’d be to learn the game because there were multiple things we had to search for in the Ui. However we were able to do everything we expected to through the game, it is a great digital version as it’s not lacking in any features we could find. My largest complaint is that it has no notification system so it is really only worthwhile to play if both players are going to play live. The online component gives the option to put time limits on turns but that doesn’t work great because you have to constantly go back into the game to check if it’s your turn. Even that wouldn’t be awful but it takes a good 15-30s to resume your game if you leave the app for ANY reason, even a switch to a respond or view a text message you have to sign back in and wait to reconnect. The game needs to implement notifications or have a way to see from the main menu whose turn it is. The only other flaw of the game is there is no undo, if you play a card or an action there is no way to back out of it even if it is still your turn. If those two issues were resolved it’d be a 5 star game
Developer Response 03/23/2020
Hello, We've taken a note of your detailed review. We thank you for your feedback. Best regards,Asmodee Digital Support
A lesson in how to frustrate users
06/01/2020

Blergan
In order to add a friend you have to go through the chat tool. Not intuitive at all but whatever, I can deal with that. The really bonkers part is that your friend needs to be online in the app AT THE SAME TIME YOU ARE SEARCHING FOR THEM in order for you to be able to find them in the user list. Wuh?Notifications do not work at all...at least not for me on iOS. Cross platform, yay! Oh wait, it doesn’t matter if you don’t get alerted it’s your turn. I’ve tried turning off notifications and then turning them back on, power cycling my phone multiple times, I even uninstalled the app and reinstalled. Nothing helped.You get disconnected if you let your screen go to sleep for an instant or if you jump over to another app (even for only a second or two). Then you must reconnect and load your game again which takes FOREVER. I’ve played other ports where you get disconnected easily (CoB and the true TM, Terra Mystica) but with those you could jump to another app and back into the game after a few seconds and not have to restart.I wish I could review the gameplay but it’s been very difficult to even make it halfway through an online game. Played a few local games against the AI. The gameplay seems solid but even the expert AI is pretty bad (not unexpected for a game like this). So playing local games against AI gets stale quickly.In general, the app has promise but it is almost unusable for online games in its current state.

Developer Response
Hello, Many thanks for your detailed feedback. We're truly sorry about the issues you encountered with our app. Please note that, in order to provide us with further feedback, you can contact our Support team here: https://asmodee.helpshift.com/a/terraforming-mars/?contact=1Best regards, Asmodee Digital Support
A lesson in how to frustrate users
06/01/2020

Blergan

In order to add a friend you have to go through the chat tool. Not intuitive at all but whatever, I can deal with that. The really bonkers part is that your friend needs to be online in the app AT THE SAME TIME YOU ARE SEARCHING FOR THEM in order for you to be able to find them in the user list. Wuh?Notifications do not work at all...at least not for me on iOS. Cross platform, yay! Oh wait, it doesn’t matter if you don’t get alerted it’s your turn. I’ve tried turning off notifications and then turning them back on, power cycling my phone multiple times, I even uninstalled the app and reinstalled. Nothing helped.You get disconnected if you let your screen go to sleep for an instant or if you jump over to another app (even for only a second or two). Then you must reconnect and load your game again which takes FOREVER. I’ve played other ports where you get disconnected easily (CoB and the true TM, Terra Mystica) but with those you could jump to another app and back into the game after a few seconds and not have to restart.I wish I could review the gameplay but it’s been very difficult to even make it halfway through an online game. Played a few local games against the AI. The gameplay seems solid but even the expert AI is pretty bad (not unexpected for a game like this). So playing local games against AI gets stale quickly.In general, the app has promise but it is almost unusable for online games in its current state.
Developer Response 03/18/2020
Hello, Many thanks for your detailed feedback. We're truly sorry about the issues you encountered with our app. Please note that, in order to provide us with further feedback, you can contact our Support team here: https://asmodee.helpshift.com/a/terraforming-mars/?contact=1Best regards, Asmodee Digital Support
Great adaptation of the real thing
04/18/2020

Joe Nathan Scott
Hey devs, I hope you’re doing well and thanks for all your hard work on making my favorite board game available for my iOS devices. I’ve literally played this game hundreds of times irl and online and I would like to ask if it would be possible to let the user decide the time restraints based off of 15 min intervals. So if I wanted to set the game for 1 hour and 15 min it would be easy to do so. Also there have been plenty of games where I was just moments away from seeing the score and I timed out and I felt like 2 hours of my life were wasted. Would it be possible to allow your opponents to grant you more time when you’re going to time out? Especially in private games when I’m playing with my friends. And finally there have been public games were my opponent leaves mid game with over half an hour left on his timer. I then have to wait half an hour for his timer to run out before the AI takes over. Can you give players a 5 min window to make their move and if they don’t make it they forfeit their rounds for that generation?I also wanted you to know that I would be willing to pay extra to play with the expansions. Jonathan Gomez
Great adaptation of the real thing
04/18/2020

Joe Nathan Scott

Hey devs, I hope you’re doing well and thanks for all your hard work on making my favorite board game available for my iOS devices. I’ve literally played this game hundreds of times irl and online and I would like to ask if it would be possible to let the user decide the time restraints based off of 15 min intervals. So if I wanted to set the game for 1 hour and 15 min it would be easy to do so. Also there have been plenty of games where I was just moments away from seeing the score and I timed out and I felt like 2 hours of my life were wasted. Would it be possible to allow your opponents to grant you more time when you’re going to time out? Especially in private games when I’m playing with my friends. And finally there have been public games were my opponent leaves mid game with over half an hour left on his timer. I then have to wait half an hour for his timer to run out before the AI takes over. Can you give players a 5 min window to make their move and if they don’t make it they forfeit their rounds for that generation?I also wanted you to know that I would be willing to pay extra to play with the expansions. Jonathan Gomez

BUG FIXES - Fixed issues with forfeiting/launching new games. - The game no longer gets stuck when the AI takes over a player who leaves an online match. - Fixed a freeze that could happen during the endgame plant conversion phase. - Fixed an issue where a card action could appear as available when it shouldn’t be. - Fixed using Floaters from Dirigibles #222 as payment. - Fixed duplicated icons cases. - Self-Replicating Robots #210 doesn't count anymore for the Eccentric Award. - Fixed a freeze caused by Corroder Suits #219. - Fixed a game-breaking bug with a Self-Replicating Robots #210 x Olympus Conference #185 interaction. - Fixed Great Dam #136 tile sometimes not being available on a compatible spot. - Fixed a crash when checking the scoreboard in solo mode. - Online game filters now work properly. - Players can now see rankings correctly in the Join Game screen. - Fixed Manutech’s resource payment's order of resolution. - Fixed an issue with the flow of Hot Seat mode. - In local games, Milestones and Awards no longer show 1st player as “You”. - The full HUD now displays correctly during card actions and resource stealing. - Fixed cases where the UI could disappear. - Fixed a problem when loading a tutorial for the second time. - AI that replaces a player now behaves correctly during the draft. - Fixed an issue where Sponsored Academies #247 effects could be canceled. - Crash Site Cleanup #X17 now only playable when Plants were removed, not Plant production. - Fixed a display bug for card conditions. - Added the missing text for Asteroid Deflection System X14. - Fixed the graphic quality option so it actually changes visuals at high settings. - Restored the side scroll bar appearing after joining a game. - Adjusted the collision box for the decrease/increase-cost arrows. - Fixed Immigrant City’s icon appearing on top of text. - The menu icon now works during the research phase. - You can now switch between players correctly once one is selected. - Fixed the "Ignore" list. - Harmonized the display of “Minus X” resources as costs on action cards. - Fixed an icon mistake on Advanced Alloys #071. - Fixed a visual glitch where confirmation text appeared behind map icons. - Fixed an order of resolution issue between Viral Enhancer #074 and Potatoes #X28. - Fixed a display problem on certain tablet resolutions. - The in-game settings window is now properly sized on iPhones. - Fixed an issue where all tiles were highlighted at the start of mobile games. - Opponent card replays are now centered correctly and no longer cover text on mobile. - Adjusted the size of the line behind Draft and Prelude text on tablets. - Fixed various interface issues.

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