MARS COLONY

Resource allocation · Collective survival · Shared decision-making

Player guide

Objective: Keep a new Mars colony alive while balancing oxygen, food, power, morale, science, and long-term settlement health.

Setup: Join with the room code from your facilitator and take your place on the assigned colony team.

How to play: Allocate limited resources, respond to crises, negotiate trades, and adapt after each round's colony report.

Your role: Help your team protect survival needs without ignoring morale, research, and future capacity.

End condition: Debrief the best balanced colony outcome and the tradeoffs that created it.

Host a Game

Host guide

Create the colony room, set team count, start the briefing, move teams through allocation, crisis, trade, round-end, final results, and debrief screens.

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Assign players to teams, then start when everyone is ready.

Join a Mission

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Mission Control is preparing the briefing...

You'll be assigned to a team automatically.

Mission Overview — Mars Colony Survival Protocol

🎯Goal: Keep your colonists alive and thriving over 8 rounds. The colony's collective survival score is the total colonists alive at the end.

🔄Each round: Allocate resources → Face a crisis event → Trade with other teams → See round summary.

⚡Resources: You start with Energy (10), Water (8), Food (10), and Parts (6). Survival costs 1 Food + 1 Water per 10 colonists each round.

📈Expansion: Spend 2 Energy + 1 Parts + 1 Food per new colonist. More colonists means higher survival costs next round — plan ahead.

🔬Research: Spend 2 Energy + 2 Parts per research point. Earn 3 points to unlock a Crisis Shield that blocks the next crisis event entirely.

🤝Trade: After each crisis, teams can post and accept trade offers with other teams. Use it to balance resources across the colony.

☠️Starvation/Dehydration: If food or water hits zero after a crisis, you lose colonists — 2 for starvation, 3 for dehydration. A team reaching 0 colonists is eliminated.

Waiting for Mission Control to begin Round 1...

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Allocate Resources

Plan your expansion and research for this round.

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Colonists | Survival cost: 1 Food + 1 Water

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Research

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This Round's Decisions

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