Terraforming Mars

I abhor long games with low interactivity, and I can get engine building and variety in plenty of other games. I've seen people play TM multiple times and have never felt like I missed out on anything. **Terraforming Mars** is (apparently) very good at what it does, but it's not for me.

Terraforming Mars-I liked how the turns are so snappy in the beginning, even with card drafting. Then by the end, there is so much downtime while everybody fires off their engine. I realized a want my games to either keep the same tempo or speed up towards the end. I enjoyed my plays of it but it’s a bit too long when playing more than 2.

**Terraforming Mars** (with Prelude) has almost always gone down well for me with people who generally play lighter games or even newbies. It might help though that I have 3d printed terrain and player boards, so visually it looks amazing.

Terraforming Mars uses the vp track as your base income for each round. Scythe doesn’t have a VP track, but it’s based on total money at the end. Every coin you spend is a potential victory point. We just started learning Barrage, but it seems like there’s some similar interplay where your actions may give others direct VPs during the game.