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Your ship has just crash landed on Mars and the aliens have run off with the parts. Collect gear and weapons as you hunt down the aliens and retrieve your parts to repair your ship. However, you are not the only one and there are only enough parts for one astronaut to make it home. .
Mars Escape is fun backstabbing game in which players have to sabotage each other and eliminate aliens in order to win the game. You are equipped with weapons and items to take down aliens, but at the same time stopping your friends from collecting all the ship parts to make it back home. The first player to collect 4 ship parts (exterminate enough aliens) will be able to fly home to safety while leaving their friends to their fate at the hands or tentacles of aliens.
Mars Escape contains a 64 card deck which includes 11 aliens, 29 weapons, 24 items, and 1 rule book.
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Maze Puzzle — Players engage in a maze puzzle game.
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- In terms of light filler card games, this one is a real standout to me.
- It adds this fun bit of tension for a really light little set collecting game.
- And adding that shuffle push your luck mechanism to a draft that you've manipulated really really worked well.
- It's a good game. Highly recommend it. Very approachable. Even though it has those couple of uh very gamery mechanisms in it, it's very family level friendly. It'll be a perfect filler for people who like heavy down to light games.
- They always have great components, great artworks and this is a great engine building.
- Yes, this is, you know, this style of game, the arknova ants, terraforming Mars type of game where you've got the giant deck and the major thing you're trying to do is get a big tableau of those and most of them do something immediately and some of them give you ongoings and some end game points.
- I always say that's the one of the things that frustrates me about or terraforming Mars is that you are mining the deck for things randomly.