


Unlock over 30 different technologies that will aid you in constructing the best colony. A sandstorm may plunge your settlement into darkness and disrupt your solar batteries while cold snaps may lead to a sharp increase in electric energy consumption. With procedural map generation, you will be challenged with every landscape as you navigate the canyons, mountains, and rough terrain of the Red Planet.Ĭustomized Maps - Want more control over the maps? Customize the landscape to make it more of a challenge or ease the struggles of establishing your colony.īe ready to weather the brutal storms and temperature fluctuations of Mars. Procedural Map Generation - No two maps are ever the same when you select a new game. Be wise in your choices and always plan two steps ahead! Terraforming tiles have preset shapes, so be careful when configuring where to place them! You may end up with ice if you place a water drop tile on flat ground instead of a canyon. Need suitable terrain to build wind turbines? Use a terraforming kit to raise mountains that will help increase your energy production. Need a water source? Place a water drop tile into a canyon and watch the surrounding flat land become fertile. Use a turn and select a terraforming kit to shape the landscape to your colony’s advantage. Don’t forget to conserve your resources to create power cables and pipes that will connect the whole of your settlement! Use specialized tools to terraform the planet, build residential areas for your colonizers, and construct resource-producing factories in an effort to become a self-sustaining society.Ĭreate a viable habitat for your settlers by building water pumps, establishing farms on fertile ground, harnessing the power of the sun, and mining for precious minerals. It also includes new cards and corporations. Colonies can be combined with any expansion and variant.Lead the charge in establishing a colony on Mars in this turn-based strategy game that will challenge you to not only survive, but thrive. It features colony tiles where you can build colonies and send your trade fleet. Send your trade fleet to distant moons! Colonize the clouds of Jupiter! And let your Earth assets propel you to success!Ĭolonies lets you visit the outer solar system. Most places are not suited for terraforming, but building colonies may greatly improve your income and your possibilities in achieving that higher goal - the terraforming of Mars. Corporations expand their operations to all corners of the solar system in pursuit of minerals and resources.
