Random deck-stacking game without reload option but the game’s title might mislead as a colony building game. Unless you enjoy frustration, the entertainment value is low. Here it is all about getting right cards and right leaders in right order early in the game. Otherwise the longer you play, the harsher your people get with their expectations about their conditions on Mars and you have a game-over.

The game is not about enjoyment but about punishment with extreme difficulties at the first 40 round. It aims to ensure you fail before the round 50 and restart again and again. This is what seems the devs found appealing. Making an unreasonably difficult game.

The game unravels between turns 20-40 during the stabilization period of Heat, Oxygen, Water, Atmosphere, and Bacteria. With your luck of cards, if you successfully reach around Turn 50, then you need another 20-25 turns to introduce plants and animals to Mars. You do all these at 40% of the planet surface in 65-80 turns. 3-4 cities will mostly suffice. The more cities you have, the more you lose track of what you have been doing with them. With custom easier settings, I played up to a bit over 100 rounds. Repeating the same tasks to spread across the entire planet was too tedious and I gave up.

Ocean formations look amazing on the planet's surface, bacteria visual is somewhat ok, plants certainly need visual enhancement.

Too many improvement options for oceans at the late game.

Too many cards. As a development, drop one of robot cards. 6 power+6 titanium may directly give 3 robots. This is a casual game, no need to punish people hard. Let the punishment be bearable.

it's a single player game with anti-save scum ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. seriously bummed I found out after over 10 hours of play I can't save scum to get the starting scenario I wanted. Why lock single player content behind a skill barrier and prevent players from cheating that barrier??? such ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

This game does a really good job of rewarding the "numbers go up and now I'm happy" portion of my brain.