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• gamedeal user

  Feb 1, 2023

  TLDR: New update made the game literally unplayable yet developers claim "it is the most stable version of the game so far" instead of acknowledging any issues with the game. Before 2.0 update, there was a few minor bugs but the game was mostly playable and since I love the board game, I also enjoyed playing the PC game. However, 2.0 is by far the worst patch for a game I have ever seen in my life. Instead of fixing the existing bugs like any reasonable patch would do, they introduced not one but several game-breaking bugs. First of all, mac users simply can not open the game after 2.0 update. These people paid for the game and are unable to play it because the new update broke it. Secondly, when a player leaves a game or runs out of time, AI would normally take over that player and the game would continue as usual before 2.0 update. Now when a player leaves/runs out of time, AI takes over the player but it doesn't play, hardlocking the game. There is no time limit for AI turns so it is simply impossible to continue the game. Imagine being the winning player in a game and opponent just quits and you have to abandon the game and take a loss because developers don't know how to code. This also causes you to lose karma and if you have low karma, you will be forced to play with leavers, resulting in a vicious cycle. Additionally there is a bug that causes all texts on cards to disappear if you look at your cards in hand while in card draw phase, which is something you frequently do to decide if you should buy a card or not. Unless you memorized all the ~250 cards in the game, enjoy playing them randomly. So when your new patch causes all these game breaking bugs and a plethora of other bugs, what would any reasonable developer do? Probably apologize first for the bad quality patch and say they are working on a fix. Or even roll the game back to previous version to make it at least playable until the new bugs are fixed. But what did these developers do? They claimed that "THIS IS THE MOST STABLE VERSION OF THE GAME SO FAR!!!". I'm not joking, you can't even play the game and they claim this is the best version of the game! The audacity of these guys is simply unbelievable! On top of this they even raised the price of the game in my region SIXFOLD! Because apperently making the game unplayable with a patch is worth charging 6 times the price. At this point I feel like the developers did every single wrong thing a developer can do and the only advice I can give is this: Regardless of how good the board game is, don't buy the digital version. And not just this game, I would also suggest not buying anything Twin Sails Interactive publishes in the future either. It is insulting how little respect they have for their playerbase. If you made it to the bottom of my lengthy rant, thank you for reading this far and I hope I was able to convince you to not buy the game.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 11, 2020

  This game is dangerous. As a fan of the board game, not having to set up a new game or clean up after makes it far too tempting to just play one more game. Now I suddenly have almost 200 hours playing. *Details fans of the board game should know* This is the core game, no expansions have been added as of 7/10/2020. I hope they add Prelude soon! Forfeiting and afking will lower your Karma, which will keep you out of certain lobbies. You have a limited amount of TOTAL time for your turns. Which has its own list of pros and cons I will cover below. ***ACCELERATING YOUR ANIMATION SPEED IN SETTINGS HELPS*** Pros: If someone afks eventually they will be booted and an AI will take over for the player. Games all eventually end. Inspires people to stay focused on what they are going to do for their next turn. Cons: The timer can range from 30 minutes to 3 hours per player. People usually pick between 30 minutes and 1 hour but often 30 minutes or even 45 minutes is not enough if you play a longer game with less terraforming. Especially if you play a lot of blue cards that demand additional actions for every generation. Biggest one: People can afk and you have to wait for their timer to hit zero before the game can continue. Huuuuuuuuuuuuuge issue. Luckily it happens less and less as you go up in Karma, but its still a drag when you are into a game and you suddenly realize you have to wait 28 minutes for a player run out of time. If you run into the above issue and forfeit because you don't want to wait, your Karma will be lowered and you will not be able to get into some lobbies. That's it. I'd recommend it still despite these issues. Its very well made, the graphics and cards look fantastic. Its awesome to play with friends when we can't meet due to real-life events. Oh! If your cards disappear, click on "cards played" then go back. They will reappear. Its a known bug.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 17, 2018

  Finally we are getting somewhere. By now, the game is in a state where it is, at least technically, playable. I have not encountered any bugs for some time now and was able to finish all of my play throughs vs. AI. At present i would still not recommend the game for the following reasons: 1. The AI plays very poorly. There certainly were some improvements with regard to city placing but the AI really lacks VP optimization and an understanding on which card to draft at which point of the game. There are some cards that are so good, that they should almost always be chosen. As a result: Games vs. AI work, but are not really fun since the player will almost every time win. 2. The PvP is still not very good. I admit, this is a hard one. Converting a board game into a multiplayer online game is very difficult. However the way it currently works is, you may start a game with a given timer for each player. Since the game punishes you (karma loss) for forfeiting a game, people just go afk. Which means you can either wait for an hour or 2 until you can continue your game or forfeit the game (which costs you karma). That way i lowered my karma level to 1 by now. The solution is simple: a: Allow really long timer (10 days, 20 days, 30 days) b: Allow starting of multiple games at the same time c: Sent notifications to the player when their turn is up. 3. The game is still really slow. All the animations take really, really long and are quite unnecessary. That being said: I still think they are making progress and i will continue to ocassionally play a game or 2 just to see, how the game is progressing. I now have played for several months and i am giving up on the game. Games versus AI are pointless. Not only is the AI still ridiculously bad at the game, in many games the AI gets stuck when purchasing new projects, effectively ending the game. So far, no bug fix. So the only interesting thing are games versus other players. But at present 90-100% of the games desync after disconnect at some point. So that part is basicly unplayable as well. The worst part: Literally no comments or fixes from the developers for more than a month now. No hot fixes, not even a comment aknowledging the problem. I have to say: The game is a scam. Lets start with: I LOVE terraforming mars. I have played an endless number of games with friends and colleagues i own all the extensions, so am a fanboy and i consider myself a very good player. Now. The computer-version of the game feels clunky. The interface is needlessly large yet contains little information of what is going on. Everything is hidden behing layers of menus - and its really not all that beatiful. I looks a lot as if it was made for people with poor eye sight. Too much icons, too little text. Which makes the game extremely slow playing. Also: The AI is abysmal (only tried hard AI). It kept on building greenerys, creating perfect places for cities (which i promptly build of course) and even keeps on building greeneries, which will give ME additional VP at the end of the game. They kept on building cards, which were pointless at the time (it is a bad idea to buy and play a card, which gives you 1 VP for every 4 bacteria in the pre last round of the game!!!). The AI never actually played for the special bonuses on the temperature/oxygen tracks. And so on. Right now i am deeply disappointed.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 23, 2019

  Holy crap I hate this game.... Now let me tell you why. -I have maybe 2-3 HUNDRED games of the board game under my belt. with/without all expansions. I. Play. This. Game. So when I heard that they created a virtual board top, I was very interested. The reason we play board games is to enjoy the social aspect of the game. The user interface of this game PREVENTS THAT COMPLETELY! The chat is the worst I have ever seen of any game ever. They might as well not have one. It actually DETRACTS from the game. (You have to basically close the game to see the chat...) The user interface is terrible. there's no 'back' for the phases, so if you accidentally hit 'sell patents'. YOU MUST SELL A CARD. stupid, stupid, stupid. The number of times I've needed to build a city and a greenery in the same turn, but couldn't because I didn't get the order right, is way too many. Games are supposed to be fun, not teachers of planning discipline... You cannot see what the other players did that phase. ONLY as they play it. so if you blink, you missed it. -Which means you may have NO IDEA who's attacking your production... When others are taking their turn, you MUST watch then, you can't 'plan your turn' leading to OMG LONG ASS TURNS! It's like the developers have never played this game. -What's the point? From an expert. I do not recommend this game.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 3, 2019

  Good implementation of a great board game. If you read early reviews that were negative, those were right at the time. But by now, they've fixed basically all the bugs except for a few very minor ones, and continued updates show that the developer hasn't given up on squashing the last few bugs. Highly recommended if you like the board game, or just board games in general.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 18, 2018

  Waited for so long and I got this incomplete garbage wth absolutely no playing value. I have played the board game version of Terraforming Mars for over a year and I loved this game, purchased all the expansions released so far and enjoyed them all. I wasn't hoping the steam version to be identical to the board game but this is way too worse. 1. No drafting. Drafting is a must for this game as near 80% of the decision making in this game is involed in the drafting phase, i.e. picking combos for yourself, blocking someone's key card etc. The excitement of seeing more cards and deicde which one is the best for you now or in the future is so high that it keeps me playing over and over. However, without drafting, the game is essentially just a boring solitaire about doing your own things in a correct order.(as you don't fk up yourself is alright) And the absence of drafting makes the game's result is largely decide on luck. If you pull off a great combo like Teractor + several Earth tag + Cartel and other player don't, the game is just basically over. And the worst part is , others have zero information on your cards and your upcoming strategy, there is no way they can block you or at least hinder your development. This makes the game extremely boring and lack of interaction. The drafting shouldn't be called a variant as in a game where every card is unique, drafting is the best and essential way to minimize the random factor. Drating is a must-have part in this game. I will not play Mars without drating as I think rolling some dice may be more fun, and need less time. 2. The UI is anti-human. Overall UI is pleasant to look at and clear on productions/amounts of resources, but other part is total garbage. The milestones and awards are unclear on showing who is winning, the card list is bulky and hard to find a card, the VP tracker is good but why not tracking the VP from Greeneries and cities also? Also, there are no undo button, for a at most 2 action turn, it is not hard to program a undo option. Moreover, after you comfirm playing of a card, like placing a tile or draw and examine a card, there is no way to look at others tableau or your own, you must finish the action first which is totally anti-human. The coloured border of the tiles to indicate the ownership is very unclear, why not just put a coloured cube in the center of the tiles like in the board game? 3. Tons of bug. I have just played a single game against the AI and I already discovered several bugs. Predator can't eat others animals, search for life doesn't reveal the discarded cards, Olympics Conference doesn't work at all...etc. Those errors are inevitable in a game of so many unique cards but they need to be corrected as soon as possible. For the above reasons, the game feels like a rushed incomplete product to me. I will not play it anymore before the above issues is concerned and I will not recommend it to anyone like playing the board game version.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 12, 2021

  Since the prelude update many bugs have been fixed. However, there are still a few significiant flaws that remain that can make the game unplayable at times. A few examples that impact gameplay 1. 2. Your "hand" may not render in, from time to time, this may result in you having to pass or force the game to crash and reenter just to be able to play a card. The work around suggested by one of the commenters only works some of the time. It will not work at all if your opponent(s) don't have any cards and it is only 50% effective if they do. The rest of the time, force crashing the game is the only solution. 3. There is no way to cancel an action once it is discovered not to be a legal move. Honestly, the game can be somewhat flawed, in it's interpretation of a legal move, yes I can steal resources from myself but I would honestly prefer not to. I should be able to back out of a move before it is completed. (edited to clarify that it is just clicking on the card that forces you to use it, regardless of your intention), perhaps this could be fixed with a quick display of relevant board values or showing all players resource states on the main board as a preview while reviewing the card, my intention here was about how the game buries the state and viability of cards rather than suggesting I would want to cancel a partially completed action, probably could have chosen a better way to state it as I intended to describe a blue card action rather than playing a new card) 4. The game does not clearly display all opponents resources on the main game screen. It is in the actual rules that you must clearly display all players resources and production. Having to go through each person only drags out turns to check. With tags it's even worse, having to dig two levels deep through needless menu lag (animations) to view. 5. Some cards only show part of their effects unless you waste time enlarging them, there is no reason not the shrink the icons shown enough for it all to fit. 6. Not being able to see the opponents moves immediately after they are made, forcing a wait while you watch the last players turn on your own is pointlessly time consuming. No reason to wait for input just to show the last moves. 7. When using prelude, during the first turn/move, other players show incorrectly as having passed for that generation. There are also just some aesthetic flaws in the game that don't add any other value 1. The shorthand of using >= or <= instead of min or max, saving 1 character space but making the game less accessible to younger players and easier to make a mistake when reviewing cards 2. The tile skins are poorly rendered compared to the world map, the contrast just makes the game appear poorly designed. In addition, the game is currently 3 expansions behind and soon to be 4. Based on past progress, it seems likely there will be 8 expansions to the board game before we see the second expansion here. TL;DR, some things fixed, others still broken, still needs a lot of work to recommend.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 18, 2018

  I'm a huge fan of the board game so I had some expectations going into my first PC run. All in all the game runs smoothly and the AI seems to be making intelligent choices (at least on hard mode). So I'd definitely recommend to try it whether or not you know the board game version. I personally like the graphics too. Finally, some critique points: 1. Collecting animals / microbes seems to be bugged sometimes. The resource does not get added. 2. Drafting is missing as a mechanism, which IMO is a reasonably important part of the board game, being the largest luck mitigation factor. 3. Having to click three times on a card to view the whole text is probably not necessary. The text would easily fit on the card in enlarged mode. 4. There is apparently no virtual "discard pile" within the program. A card I discarded in G1 got played by an AI in G2. I don't know whether this is intentional but this certainly would never happen in the base game so it's worth noting. Really nice game otherwise :) Hope the small bugs get fixed and the expansions will be implemented as well.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 29, 2020

  If you play solo, coz nobody want to play 4-5h with you, this is perfect 1h sidegame. HUGE negativity - only base game - no expansions!
• gamedeal user

  Mar 7, 2023

  Don't buy this game. I love Terraforming Mars the board game. It is perhaps my favorite board game of all time; certainly the one I've spent the most time playing over the last several years. Unfortunately, this digital adaptation of the game was not particularly good to begin with and has somehow become progressively worse as time goes on. It is a testament to how good the original board game is that I continue to play the digital version nearly every day, despite this version's many, MANY problems. But with the latest updates, the game has become essentially unplayable, and I now regret supporting this company with my purchase, since their development team clearly is either incompetent or doesn't care to deliver an acceptable level of quality to the customers. Where to begin? Several bugs make the game play incorrectly, according to the rules. To name just one example, the Tharsis corporation should only gain income when a city is played on Mars, but with the latest patch, the digital version increases income for the Tharsis player whenever ANY city is played. Other bugs are just incredibly annoying to deal with, like the fact that if you are playing with the Draft option enabled and you happen to be looking at the cards in your hand when the next round in the draft comes around, the information on the cards in your hand is erased for the rest of the game. You can still check the information by clicking on each card individually, but this can be a huge hassle if you have more than a few cards in your hand, especially if you're playing with a time limit on turns. Yet other bugs make the game nigh impossible to play. When playing online, the game seems almost guaranteed to lock up at least once before the end. A player will have taken their turn, but the game doesn't advance to the next player. It just sort of... forgets. To the player who ended their turn, it will look like the game is stuck on the next player's turn, but to everyone else, the game will look like the current player is still taking their turn. The only way to resolve this seems to be to have one or more players disconnect and reconnect (which takes at least a minute or two), but even then this doesn't always work or prevent it from happening again. Sometimes the game even gets stuck on an AI player's turn and remains stuck even after their turn timer has run out. In this case, there's no way to finish the game at all, which can be immensely frustrating if it comes after 1-2 hours of playing, when the game is nearly done. I won't even get into the laundry list of strange UI and design choices that, in my opinion, make the digital version a significantly less approachable and engaging experience than the physical version. I could go on and on about that aspect of it, but in the end, that's just my personal preference. We can all agree, at least, that bugs are bad, and this game, by any account, is absolutely riddled with them. The worst factor of all is that the development team seems to be actively making the game worse, Many of these bugs had been fixed in earlier patches, only to be reintroduced, along with dozens of new bugs, in later patches. No version of the game has worked completely, but almost without exception, the newer the patch, the more new bugs you can count on appearing. Many of these bugs are apparent upon the first playthrough after a new patch, which raises the question: does the development team just not bother to playtest their game? And if they can't be bothered to do that, why should people pay money for this product, as if it's finished or will ever be finished? In short, I know Terraforming Mars is awesome, and I can understand wanting to play it online with friends. But Asmodee (or Twin Sails, or whatever they're calling themselves now) does not deserve your money. Don't buy this game.