If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy.

Connect 4 meets Monopoly in upcoming board game Zillionaires On Mars

Remake of 2014 release The Game of 49.

Upcoming board game Zillionaires On Mars combines the four-in-a-row competition of Connect 4 with the property auctions of fellow family classic Monopoly.

A remake of The Game of 49, first released in 2014, Zillionaires On Mars follows the basic premise of Connect 4: the first person to claim four spots in a row wins. Here, each space on the game’s board represents a different real-estate lot on Mars in the year 2160.

Making things a little more complicated than the traditional disc-dropping kids’ game, however, is the addition of property auctions similar to those in Monopoly that also expand the two-player game to support up to five people during roughly half-hour sessions.

Cover image for YouTube video

Players must use the cash in their possession - everyone starts with 49 zillion Martian dollars to spend, and can earn more from their existing properties when certain cards are drawn - to bid on a numbered space randomly drawn from the deck. Cards can also allow players the ability to choose which space they claim with a token.

The Game of 49 was originally created by Mark Corsey and self-published by the designer’s label Markee Games following a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2014, before seeing a wider release under publisher Breaking Games in 2016. In 2015, the game was Recommended by Mensa as part of the IQ organisation’s Mind Games event.

Cover image for YouTube video

The upcoming re-release of the auction board game as Zillionaires On Mars comes via Big Potato, the UK-based maker of party games including The Chameleon and Obama Llama. The studio said that the game would be a “reskin” of The Game of 49, revamping its artwork to fit the futuristic Martian theme.

Zillionaires On Mars will be released in early October, with a UK RRP of £24.99. The box will include a little wooden gavel, which is cute.

Dicebreaker is the home for friendly board game lovers

We welcome board gamers of all levels, so sign in and join our community!

In this article

Zillionaires on Mars

Tabletop Game

Related topics
About the Author
Matt Jarvis avatar

Matt Jarvis

Editor-in-chief

After starting his career writing about music, films and video games for various places, Matt spent many years as a technology, PC and video game journalist before writing about tabletop games as the editor of Tabletop Gaming magazine. He joined Dicebreaker as editor-in-chief in 2019, and has been trying to convince the rest of the team to play Diplomacy since.

Comments