Mission: Red Planet - 20th Anniversary Edition (EN)

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Mission: Red Planet - 20th Anniversary Edition is a new release of the classic sabotage and area-control game, celebrating 20 years since the original 2005 edition. As the head of a mining company, you've discovered rich mineral deposits on Mars. You've assembled an expedition and your rockets are aimed at the red planet – the problem is that all your competitors had the same idea, and only one of you will truly succeed in terraforming Mars.

How to play: You have ten turns to send your astronauts into space, claim the richest resource zones on the planet, and collect as much celestium, sylvanite and ice as possible. You have a team of nine professionals, each with unique abilities – from helping your astronauts navigate the red planet to blowing up spaceships before they even launch. Each round, players secretly deploy one of their character cards, which determines when they place astronauts on the spaceships awaiting launch and which special action they take that round. Until an astronaut sets foot in a region, no one knows which resource awaits there. Resources are scored three times during the game, and each player also has a secret mission that may grant extra points at the end of the game.

This anniversary edition introduces a modular board made of interlocking tiles, allowing the layout of Mars to be arranged differently every game for greater variability. The visual style also shifts away from the steampunk look of earlier editions toward a full sci-fi atmosphere, with striking artwork by veteran game artist Derek Stenning.

The game is in English.

Box contents: rulebook, modular Mars game board, astronaut miniatures, ship cards, character cards, event cards, missions, resource, point and destination tokens.