Terraforming Mars 4+

Worth every penny

This is a fantastic online version of this game. The interactions on the board are great, it hides and expands all the various components well, and is a great way to play games relatively quickly (you can adjust the speed too). Some things to look out for - it can be hard to tell the difference between cities and other board components laid down at times, you can’t zoom on the temperature or oxygen level to double check the status, and you need to pay attention otherwise occasionally you will miss what the AI’s actions were. But none of these really detract from a fantastic adaptation of an already great game. Well done team, looking forward to the expansions!

Almost perfect - a few bugs persist

Really enjoyed playing with friends online. Great fun while in COVID quarantine. Sadly one bug got really frustrating by the end of the game. When a player is viewing their cards and the player after them completes their turn, the player who was viewing their cards loses access to their cards: the hand of cards graphic (in the bottom-center of the screen) disappears. This happens on iPad and PC. It isn’t a game breaker because when play gets back to the frustrated player the screen is refreshed and the hand of cards graphic becomes visible again. I also have a feature suggestion: add a view where all the players information is shown on the screen at the same time; instead of having to select each player one at a time. This would make it more like looking around a physical table to see which player to perform an action against.

Nearly there for online asynchronous!

Latest patch has definitely improved playability for online games; however, I would like to suggest three small changes to really improve play for online, asynchronous games. Hopefully these are all doable with minimal coding changes:

- identifying within the online games menu which games it is my turn in. If I have multiple games going, there’s no way of telling which game it is when I get a notification.

- removing the need for a player turn for the final card of the draft. The final card is forced, and is not displaying anyway within the interface - so it’s a completely redundant step/action, which slows down the draft a lot

- either: registering draft card selections to the server out of player order (at the moment, it will only register selections strictly in player order, which slows the draft down a lot); or, if that is a major change, not displaying the cards in the interface for the next round of the draft until it is actually the player’s turn (at the moment, the cards come up, I can choose a card, but I just have to choose it again when it’s my turn)

Thanks!

Developer Response ,

Hello,

Thank you for your feedback! Our teams are currently working to fix the issue with notifications.

Best regards,
Asmodee Digital Support