
Terraforming Mars: Venus Next
In Venus Next, the World Government chooses to also fund the terraforming of Venus. Around 50 project cards and 5 corporations are added, with a special focus on how to make Venus habitable. With the new floater resource, a new milestone, a new award, a new tag, and a new terraforming parameter, players are given more paths to victory and an even more varied play. Here’s what’s new in this expansion: 49 new project cards – These are added to the main deck and function just like the other cards of the deck. However, they introduce some new strategies, most notably the floater strategy. Floater resources represent infrastructure which floats on the thick clouds of Venus. There is nothing special rules-wise with floaters, they work just like animal- and microbe resources, but there are many cards in Venus Next which allows adding floaters to other cards. So there are many exciting combinations to discover. Some cards also feature the new Venus tag, which – again – doesn’t add any new ru