Exciting news from Asmodee Digital with the Hellas & Elysium expansion maps now coming to the Terraforming Mars app.

This is Hellas, with the South Pole ocean

(all pics taken from the Steam product page, not from my own beta testing, which would be against the terms & conditions)

Fans of the game who have been playing it religiously have been clamouring for these maps for a while now because…

We’re almost to the end of my Top 25 games played of all time, 2022 edition, and there may have been a few surprises.

I know there have been some new games, and some games have fallen drastically from their 2019 ranking.

I feel bad about that somewhat, but one thing I think I did in 2019 is over-estimate some of the newer games that I had played at the time.

Or maybe I just hadn’t played that…

The Terraforming Mars app has had an up and down history.

So much so that for a while, I wasn’t going to buy it (though I eventually succumbed).

And it has greatly improved over time, especially with the Prelude expansion.

However, one thing players have been clamouring for is the implementation of the two expansion maps for the game: Hellas & Elysium.

That day has finally arrived!

On…

With the close of the year 2021, I have actually played 422 games since I really started playing boardgames in 2012.

Since my “Top 25 Games Played of All Time” series in 2019 was predicated on my having played almost 300 games, I thought that 2022 would be a good time to update that list.

I’ve played over 100 new to me games since January 2019!

Thus, here is the first entry in the 2022 version…

It’s the end of the year 2021 (or it was when I played these games, anyway).

Having been able to go to game days again since August 2021, it was nice to have a bunch of new to me games to play each month!

I know this blog has been much better for that.

Still, December was a bit of a slow month, mainly because we didn’t have December 26 (Boxing Day up here in the Great White North and nobody…