Micro Martians

Micro Martians is a pocket-sized tile drafting game about building a colony on Mars.

Players compete to provide the most benefit to the colony by building modules depicting a variety of resource symbols.

To start the game, 32 double-sided tiles are shaken up and scattered on the playing surface.

Each turn, a player may gather a resource, or spend resources to build one of the available modules.

When one player can no longer complete an action, the game ends, and players score based on how many kinds of symbols they collected, as well as collecting the most symbols of each kind.

The game officially supports 2-3 players, but is manageable with up to 5, and as a solitaire puzzle, wherein the player(s) try to place all of the modules before the resources become deadlocked.

—description from the designer