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Terraforming Mars: Hellas & Elysium
Year
2017
Players
15
Play time
120min
Min age
12+
Weight
2.77
BGG rating
8.38
Best with
3

Local copies

Terraforming Mars: Hellas & Elysium, the first expansion for Terraforming Mars, consists of a double-sided game board presenting two new areas of Mars: • Elysium takes players almost to the opposite side of Mars' equator, with vast lowlands for oceans in the north and a dry, mineral-rich south. Place a tile on Olympus Mons, the highest peak in the solar system, to gain three free cards! • Hellas, the southern wild, includes Mars' south pole and the enormous seven-hex Hellas crater that just begs to become a giant lake. Building around the pole gives you new placement bonuses in the form of heat and possibly even water. Each of these maps consists of new sets of milestones and awards with relevance for that particular map. Place three tiles around the south pole to be a Polar Explorer, for example, or race to have the most estates beside water on Elysium!

Categories

Expansion for Base-gameEconomicEnvironmentalIndustry / ManufacturingScience FictionSpace ExplorationTerritory Building

Mechanics

Closed DraftingHand ManagementVariable Player PowersTile Placement

Best with how many players

1
Recommended
2
Recommended
3
Best
4
Recommended
5
Recommended
5+
Not rec.

Community votes from BoardGameGeek

Language dependence

No necessary in-game text(10 of 15 votes)

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External data

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Latest Wikidata run: ok · 06/20/2026.