Mars Escape (2023)

About this game

Your ship has just crash landed on Mars and the aliens have run off with the parts. Collect gear and weapons as you hunt down the aliens and retrieve your parts to repair your ship. However, you are not the only one and there are only enough parts for one astronaut to make it home. . Mars Escape is fun backstabbing game in which players have to sabotage each other and eliminate aliens in order to win the game. You are equipped with weapons and items to take down aliens, but at the same time stopping your friends from collecting all the ship parts to make it back home. The first player to collect 4 ship parts (exterminate enough aliens) will be able to fly home to safety while leaving their friends to their fate at the hands or tentacles of aliens. Mars Escape contains a 64 card deck which includes 11 aliens, 29 weapons, 24 items, and 1 rule book.

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Works with 2 to 4.
• Rules load. At 1.0/5 this is a light game — explain it in a few minutes, good for a table that has not played much.
• Age. The publisher suggests 13 and up. That rates the rules rather than the artwork, so judge the box yourself for younger players.