Terraforming Mars vs Ark Nova: Which Heavyweight Tableau Builder Deserves Your Shelf?
Two of the ten highest-rated board games ever made. Both card-driven tableau builders. Both games where you draft from a huge deck, build an engine over two hours, and feel genuinely clever by the end. And both sitting in nearly every serious collection already. So why compare them? Because if you only have room (or budget) for one, the choice is less obvious than it looks. Terraforming Mars and Ark Nova share a skeleton — play cards, build combos, race toward a finish condition — but the experience at the table is surprisingly different. ...
