![]() To set up, you start with the first board (which shows the surface of Mars) on the table. Just getting started–achievement cards are above the board, tokens are in a supply. The object of the game is to score the most points by buying cards and getting achievements. You can download a copy of the rulebook here. Helpfully, the back page of the rulebook lists all of the various icons with their meanings. There are a couple icons that are more rare, and you’ll probably need to look those up the first few times you encounter them. Overall, the iconography is pretty easy to interpret once you’ve played a little while. The four player decks have different colors on the backs so you can sort them easily. The cards themselves are a decent quality–mine were slightly curved but nothing too severe. (I’m particularly fond of the bird-man seen above.) What’s more, the card bonuses (the small icon at the bottom center of each card) also vary from deck to deck, so there are asymmetric powers in the game. What’s really fun, though, is that each of the four player decks has its own four pilots. Each player gets their own deck of cards, with four types of pilots (yellow, red, blue, and multicolored). One thing I really liked about Super Motherload is the illustrations–in particular, the pilots. Each player’s team of four colors has unique character drawings. That means that you have to be particularly careful not to flip over mineral tiles after you’ve earned them, or else you’ll be changing the value. The weird thing, though, is that these are also double-sided with a different mineral on the back. The square mineral tiles show the six different types of minerals (matching the ones shown on the game boards), with the dollar values in the corner. There are six types of minerals, worth varying amounts of money. ![]() There are four game boards, representing increasing depth, and they’re double-sided with different configurations of rocks and minerals on each side. The tokens are all nice, sturdy cardboard and they punch out cleanly (which is nice, because there’s a lot to punch out). 80 Mineral tiles (6 denominations, double-sided)įour boards show the increasing depth that you’ve drilled into the surface of Mars.92 Player cards (4 decks, 23 cards each).I think the game could be played by younger kids who have the patience for it it does include some deck-building and resource management, and there isn’t really anything in the game that isn’t kid-safe. It retails for $49, and is available from Roxley Games or Amazon. A couple years later, when XGen Studios launched a Kickstarter campaign for an updated, multi-player version called Super Motherload, they teamed up with Tolman and Brown to make an officially licensed board game.Īt a glance: Super Motherload is for 2 to 4 players, ages 13 and up, and takes about 75 minutes to play (depending on number of players). ![]() This inspired a 2011 board game by Matt Tolman and Gavan Brown, Undermining. In 2004, there was a Flash game about mining on Mars called Motherload. ![]()
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