The solitaire news year is off to a flying start as publishers FryxGames and Stronghold Games have announced Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, a stand-alone engine-building game for 1 - 4 players designed by Sydney Engelstein, Jacob Fryxelius and Nick Little. Currently there is not much information to go on other than this is not the rumoured dice version of Terraforming Mars which has been in development for the past couple of years. One thing though that has caught the attention of the board game community is the fact that the Kickstarter preview page describes Ares Expedition as “faster gameplay & over 200 beautifully illustrated cards!” the latter indicating new and improved card art as a major selling point.

At the time of writing Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition is scheduled to launch on Kickstarter February 16th.