2017 · Industry / Manufacturing
Terraforming Mars: Venus Next
This expansion adds an optional second planet to the base game, introducing projects and corporations that focus on altering Venus’s atmosphere and building floating cities. Players gain a new floater resource, an additional terraforming parameter, a new tag type, about 50 project cards, five corporations, and new milestone and award opportunities. Gameplay integrates with the core rules: players play project cards, manage resources, and pursue terraforming objectives on Venus alongside Mars, creating new strategic paths and card interactions without changing the base game’s structure.
- Players
- 1–5 best 3
- Playing time
- 90–120 min
- Age
- 12+
- Complexity
- 2.9 / 5
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On Ludoya's tables
Full stats in Ludoya- 91
- Plays logged
- 111
- Players
- 2h 45m
- Average play
- 160
- In collections
- 9
- On wishlists
6.7/10
from 33 Ludoya reviews
Fiore3.0 Totally unnecessary. It's possible to play entire games without giving a damn about Venus. This is not how you integrate an expansion into a game.
Rules questions
Answered from the rulebook by Ludoya's rules assistant.
Does increasing the Venus scale end the game when it's maxed?
No — the Venus scale is not an end-game condition; only temperature, oxygen, and oceans being maxed out end the game (page 2).
Do I get Terraforming Rating (TR) and other bonuses when I increase the Venus scale?
Yes, increasing Venus gives TR like other global parameters until it's maxed; additionally, at 8% you draw a card and at 16% you get an extra TR, and the Air Scrapping standard project can increase Venus one step for 15 M€ gaining TR as normal (page 2).
When does the Solar Phase happen and what does the World Government Terraforming step do?
The Solar Phase occurs after the production phase each generation; Step 1 is a game-end check (if temp, oxygen, and oceans are maxed the game ends and no further Solar Phase steps occur) and Step 2 lets the first player acting as the World Government increase a non-maxed global parameter one step or place an ocean, with any bonuses going to the World Government rather than giving TR to the first player (page 3).
How do floaters count for the Hoverlord milestone — do they have to be on cards I control?
To claim the Hoverlord milestone you must have a total of at least 7 floater resources on your cards, and it is an additional milestone so up to three of six milestones may be claimed (page 3).
What does the Venuphile award count — is it Venus tags only on my cards?
Venuphile is awarded to the player with the most Venus tags in play, so you count Venus tags on all players' cards and the highest total wins; it functions as an extra award (page 3).
How are Venus project cards and corporations integrated during setup?
Shuffle the 49 Venus project cards and the 5 Venus corporations into the respective decks before dealing cards and corporations during setup; there is an optional variant where players draw one Venus corporation and one other corporation to choose from (page 2).
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