Terraforming Mars

Do you have a strong, unshakable sense of adventure?  Do you long to visit faraway, uninhabited places, like another planet?  Do you have friends that are total dicks who are hellbent on seeing you cry as they destroy everything you try to contribute to this new venture?  Well, Nelson has friends like that, and they shine on like the assholes they are in this week’s episode of Beer’d Gamers, Terraforming Mars.

Terraforming Mars is both a cooperative and competitive game, where players work together to make Mars habitable, while still trying to achieve their own objectives and increase their own victory points.  Players work together to raise the temperature of the planet, to increase its oxygen level, and to create ocean and forest areas.  Cities are created, pets are bred, and many other things occur as players race to accrue VP.

Terraforming Mars retails for about $50 or so, depending on the seller.  We really enjoyed this game; we recommend it to people who love resource collecting/exploiting games, as well as fans of cooperative and competitive games.  Hopefully your friends aren’t as terrible as Nelson’s, though.

This week in beer selections we’ve got Nelson drinking Beyond the Pale IPA from Point Brewery, Teej enjoys Polish Moon from a Beer’d Gamers favorite brewery, Milwaukee (MKE) Brewing Company, Schnell blasts off into space with Light Speed Pale Ale from Toppling Goliath Brewing Company, and Junior, who still has the healthiest liver of all of us, decides to put his liver to the test and is double fisting Schell’s Snowstorm Rye Ale and Rock Hard Red from Gray Brewing Company.  Think of that last one what you will.  We totally did.  There’s a dog on the label for God’s sake.