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[quote name="Game recommendation"]Avoid Terraforming Mars. Seek Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition. TM:AE (nobody calls it that) is the best distillation of a boardgame I've ever seen. Cuts a 3.5 hour experience down to 30m while increasing player interaction. You play as future megacorps increasing Mars' water, temperature, and oxygen to levels suitable for colonization. Everyone's contributions go to a single pool and you get Reputation Points for contributing. The game ends once all three goals are met, so you're trying to be the one with the highest rep at the end. Gameplay is: each player has five cards with actions on them. Every turn, everyone secretly chooses an action and then everyone gets to do all chosen actions. For example, you pick Research, your buddy chooses Build, someone else chooses Income, then you all three collect income, build, and do research. Every action has a small bonus effect for the person(s) who chose that action. No individual can play the same action twice in a row. Non-violent. Plays fast. High engagement. Casual-friendly. Think about it, won't you?[/quote]