Fans who balked at the idea of cutting up their Terraforming Mars cards can breathe out. Terraforming Mars: Legacy of Mars lands on Gamefound in the middle of May 2026, and Stronghold Games and Fryx Games have confirmed it does the unusual thing for a legacy game: nothing gets destroyed. No stickers, no torn cards, no permanently altered components. You play through the campaign, then reset and play it again.
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Find events near youThe standalone box covers missions 1 to 4 of a 7-mission arc, with Part 2 (missions 5 to 7) due on Gamefound in late 2026. It's built on the original Terraforming Mars engine, the 2016 Jacob Fryxelius design that sits at 8.3 on BGG with over 100,000 ratings, but adds new maps, a new resource, and several hundred new cards across the campaign. Stronghold reckons you can declare yourself a winner after mission 4 if you don't fancy waiting for the second half.
The pitch is canny. Most legacy games trade replayability for narrative weight, and players who love the destination tend to wince at the journey. By keeping the components intact, Fryx is betting that Terraforming Mars's heaviest fans will treat the campaign as a 4-hour-per-mission box of premium content rather than a one-shot experience. Gamefound campaigns from established publishers tend to push prices higher than retail, so bargain hunters might want to wait, but campaign-exclusive content will only be available during the funding window.
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Set up your group for freeThe project hit its funding target before the campaign even launched. Mid-May is when pledges open properly. If your group already runs Terraforming Mars nights, find a community on Backseat Gamer to recruit a campaign team that won't ghost you halfway through mission 3.
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