Surviving Mars

Before this game came out I was watching the count down for it during school. Great game

This game was good but a second would be better. It's nice but repetivtive.

It's not good...

There should be a clear objectives, but it's too sandbox, I don't even don't know what to do and what's the objective on playing this game. Where to put the domes? Where to put the generators? Where to put the cables and pipes? It's very unclear and in the end, your martian colony is a big pile of mess that you will hate. Not pretty at all. For a city building game, I wish I could build pretty colonies, but no. It always become ugly colonies in my playthroughs.

This game is not bad. It is acceptable. Finished, polished a little bit. And thrown to players. Like one of tens soulless strategic games from Paradox.

I was looking for something like Frostpunk or Against the Storm. What I got is the difference between developers who love and play their games, who have a passion for it, and some people who just make a product. This game is a simple product to consume. It is playable, yet has a lack of everything. UI, bugs, and most importantly, atmosphere. Remember the feeling of cold dread from Frostpunk? Forget about it. You won't be feeling here like alone against a desert planet in empty space. There is no atmosphere here at all. Just some functions. Some bugs. And some disappointment with the interface.

You can't even put a camera up to watch the stars in a game about space.

Don't forget to buy 14 DLC! Developers know their audience. I guess they are the same sort of people who buy every Fifa or DLC for sims. What a freaking slop.

Fun resource and building game. Slow at times but not boring.

One of my favourite games. It takes time to learn the mechanics and succeed, but it is an awesome game. The soundtrack is also very nice.

Great survival sim, one of my favorites of all time. Much better with the DLC.

While it certainly has replay value and it is engaging, the game is overpriced for the value of the product. While the visuals are AAA quality, the depth of the game is incredibly shallow. The DLC are cheap cash grabs that basically offer what would be considered "public made mod" quality additions.

I was deep into the game when they suddenly disabled a content pack. The developers aren't even actively working on the game anymore. Now my progress is gone. I'm uninstalling this and moving on. Wont ever buy a game from this dev again.

Incredible colony builder. Management is very involved, and there's plenty here to do and to calculate if that's your cup o' tea. You can make it as easy or as challenging as you need. Just watch out for DLCs with low user reviews.

One of my all time fav top down survival building games! Always so much fun and every new save is different!

Game is fun until you have to start focusing on the humans needs, then the game seems to spiral out of control after you start mismanaging the humans.

Fun game, however once you get to a certain point some mistakes can literally ruin your run.

Great game. I like the way you can build up the colony. The mods are good if you find the right ones. I suggest you use the mods displayed in the game screen and not from the landing page at Steam. The reason is because you have the choice to filter out the ones that don't work with the version you have. Learning curve is medium. But once you get the hang of it it's very good. Request: More buildings and a better management/leveling system. And a clear scenario win condition. Overall I recommend this game to those who like building/turned based games.

If you have ever played cities skylines or just like grinding builder games, I really do recommend this one. It is a very easy way to lose track of time, however. I will say, in addition, the game has a slow learning curve. Just make sure to savor your electricity at the start, as well as your money if your base of operations aren't near any deposits.

I have never in my life seen a game trying to access my phone number my contacts, PASSWORDS?
or any other personal information like my home address they should never be allowed to have.
This is what the privacy policy says.

fuck this game and the developers!! I will avoid this developer and anyone associated with them.

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Bad game. Not interesting, costs a lot . Isn’t worth buying it, trust me don’t buy it don’t waste ur money just buy rust

This was fun, I learned how to play by watching a few videos. The late game was annoying because it is FAR too tedious to move your colonists across the various domes. We need a new screen that lets us match up colonists to jobs. Getting my geologists who were living in two other domes to move over to the dome where they were needed; was a big pain. This is probably why I likely won't be replaying this game :).
Also, I would love a bit more excitement; martian attacks, or sabotage by rival nations or the apparently nutty colonist.

With a few mods to correct some lingering bugs, this is one of my favorite builders to come back to. It oozes theme, the fake radio stations are catchy, and the various options and breakthrough techs keep playthroughs from feeling too similar.

This was one of the first games I bought when I got into PC gaming, I have loved it ever since, the first DLC "green mars" is a not a must have but I highly recommend it as it is really fun, however the second dlc "below and beyond" is less so, its still fun and it does have its merits but you are not missing much if you dont have it, I would really have loved if you could have set up a permanent colony on phobos or demos, and getting a colony set up underground is a hassle.

Here we have a colony management sim from a developer famous for their franchise of city-building games. Since several Tropico titles were so similar and probably could have just been DLCs, it would be fair to wonder if Surviving Mars should have also been marketed as a Tropico On Mars DLC. Well it's not, it is (enough) of a new game to be its own game. Gone are the unintuitive traffic management issues, in are the advanced tech tree and plethora of resources to manage. What I miss most sorely however is the charm of the narratives. Instead of cheeky personalities of island dictators and their lackeys we get cold Civilization-style quotes from pop scientists and tech moguls. Still, the game has good balance and a wide selection of difficulty levels to confer accessibility for players new to the colony sim genre. I recommend the game for its gameplay merits even if it's not keeping up with the fashionable trend of story-rich narrative games.

This is my favorite game of all time, and I'm surprised not everyone knows about it. It's my secret getaway from the world for real. I tell my friends "I'm going to Mars" and I play it to decompress my life overall.

I'd be happy to get new updates or new DLC for it, but I guess it is not in the agenda of the developers at all.

It would be wonderful to get a Venus or another solar planet version of it too in the future as we learn more about other planets as well.

Want to go back to a time when Elon wasn't just a toxic punchline and actually represented futuristic idealism? Want a calm fun and strategic game with top-shelf music? This is the one.

Super satisfying building game with great flexible tech tree and resource planning and just the right amount of Oh-Crap natural disasters.

There's a lot to like here, but there are some serious balancing issues with some of the breakthroughs that completely trivialize entire game mechanics. The "AI" for the bots and colonists is poorly coded, and constantly does nonsensical things. You'll spend almost as much time figuring out how to work around the AI quirks as taming the environment. Terraforming the planet (if you get the DLC) feels really good, but takes so long you start to lose interest.

The much bigger problem with this game is that Paradox handed it over to a "game studio" whose entire experience was a few mobile ports, for the Below and Beyond DLC. They screwed the game up super badly, to the point where it took months for them to get it back to a reasonably stable (bug-free) state. This wouldn't have been a problem if it was contained to the DLC, but they "updated" the base game with most of the underlying code changes, which broke it for the people who didn't want the DLC as well. Despite the uproar, Paradox refused to roll back the changes, or make the old version available for download, claiming it was "technically impossible". Despite hundreds of games doing this with no problems at all.

Many of these bugs are still not fixed. You'll be forced to rely on a couple of dedicated modders who have tried their best to fix most of these -- for free. Paradox essentially screwed over a bunch of their customers and refused to back down when it looked like it was going to impact DLC sales. So buy with caution. it's a decent (if buggy) game, but you're also supporting an absolutely terrible developer.

really good balance, most interesting one in genre.

Whoever designed this game is idiot. After 2 hours - my map selfdestruct. meteor shower destroyed all vehicles, then all drone hubs, then electricity, then domes and finally colonists. you can not defend because you dont have tehnology, you can not repair and without resources game is over like that.... you can not do anything. why would game destroy the map? so stupid design.

boring, yesteryear content without any charm. this game had its moment and it is not right now

i really liked the game, it has so many options for an easy task

It's fun and hard.
Essentially a city builder with survival aspects, and a goal of teraforming mars.

its a good game, I like it, the pc version is so much better than the xbox verison and Ive played both

Un des pires jeux que je n'ai jamais eux la malchance de jouer, Extrêmement peu ergonomique ou intuitif, les drones ne foutre rien et sont plus une nuisance qu'autre chose, la météo est une horreur, et je parle même pas de la logique du jeu en elle-même, je regrette cruellement d'avoir acheté ce jeu (même en rab) si vous lisez ceci, est à éviter à tout pris et je ne veux même pas parler des dlc ou des ''mod''/
One of the worst games I've ever had the misfortune to play, Extremely unergonomic or unintuitive, the drones do nothing and are more of a nuisance than anything else, the weather is horrible, and I'm not even talking about the logic of the game itself, I cruelly regret having bought this game (even in spare) if you're reading this, it should be avoided at all costs and I don't even want to talk about the DLC or the ''mod''

the game is a decent challenge and quite fun, though what brings down it's appeal is the fact SO MANY IMAGES in this game are made with ai generated slop. there's one REALLY obvious one when the first martian born pop up appears. the image looks really ugly and just.. it's crap. you can clearly make gorgeous models and interesting narratives but it absolutely falls apart when there's a discrepancy in the art direction (or lack of it in these images). only recommending it for the challenge in the game play, but a thumbs down because you could have EASILY paid a freelancer for better chance card & pop ups art.

Looks like its been years since this game could be played on a Linux OS, neg on using Proton either. Insta crash freezing up computer, that's always helpful and fun. If I need to reprogram your game to make it work you should pay me to play it. Refund requested after reading issues that went back 6 years. Wish i would have read all that first.

Love the Mars setting, took a couple of run thrus before I figured out what I was doing wrong. Will try adding more DLCs after I've played it awhile.

Love strategy games like this. Reminds me of what Outpost 2 from Sierra should have been ;-)

Surviving Mars is a fun little city builder that adds in a mix of resource management and organization into the mix all on Mars. The game’s minimalist but stylish aesthetic really sells the sci-fi feel, and there’s a lot of depth in managing supply chains and automation. It can be a bit tough for new players since the tutorial doesn’t cover everything, and the pacing can feel slow at times, especially in the early game. There are several radio stations to give background music and occasional breaks of talking from the host to add more immersion to the game. The base game on its own is very good but some DLC can be hit or miss. Overall, recommended.

Pros:
✅ Deep, rewarding colony management with real challenges
✅ Beautiful sci-fi aesthetic and great atmosphere
✅ Tons of replayability with different starting conditions and mysteries
✅ No two playthroughs feel the same

Cons:
❌ Steep learning curve with a lack of in-depth tutorials
❌ Can feel slow, especially in the early game
❌ Some RNG elements can make or break a colony

A great game for anyone who's ever dreamed of one day stepping foot on the red planet. Accompanied by an amazing OST, the ambiance is absolutely fantastic and the city-building/survival aspect is real fun!

Very fun management game I really enjoyed it while i was playing it. It has much to offer but many dlc are necessary like the green planet dlc as it adds allot to the endgame.

Solid game , even better if you get the DLC on sale , Green planet is the only one that matters . Game feels complete with Green planet not so much without it.

There is some replayability beyond just sandbox in the different mysteries , its a solid couple hundred hours worth of gameplay if your into colony builders.

推荐度★★★★★
上头度★★★★★
性价比★★★★★
宝贝很好吃一点也不起球，也不捂脚，洗的也特别干净，泡沫很绵密买了三宝了，质量非常好，与卖家描述一致，孩子们都特别喜欢吃，版型很好，面料舒适，尺码标准，非常满意，完全超出期望值，发货速度也十分快，包装非常仔细、严实，很满意的一次购物。强烈推荐！

Look, I get it. Earth has its issues. But trust me, you haven't lived until you've tried to explain to a group of scientists why their "breakthrough terraforming project" just turned the entire Martian atmosphere into a giant, flammable fart cloud.

Fun Game
upkeeping domes and citizen wellfare hard

TLDR Rating: 63 / 100.

I played a lot of colony games so I inadvertently I make direct/indirect comparisons.

Positives:
- The game has decent tutorials and as far as basic / common mechanics is easy to learn to start your colony.
- Reasonable starting options / scenarios with different bonuses and challenges.
- Early to mid-game the colony building and management seems quite balanced and enjoyable.
- Good performance & no FPS drops / high CPU load.
- Good UI for creating your infrastructure.
- Easy to manage the colony build flow of a localized colony (drones, sending rockets, adding some shuttles for remote drones).
- Modding support included in base game. Easy to look/enable/disable mods.
- Resources are split in categories and easy to understand / they make sense and are quite intuitive.
- I like early-midgame playstyle. The progression seems about right.

Neutral:
- I like the fact that you can adjust the terrain with no research. I would hate to not be able to build a structure because of a small rock. On the other hand, I dislike the fact that you can terraform the terrain in an "extreme" manner without any research. For example, you get remove the biggest mountain on day 1 and make complete flat terrain instead. This breaks a bit the immersion and nullifies a bit the map geography since you can easily flatten everything.
- The game lacks a depth when it comes to management. For example, even if you have 8 types of food, each food is counted the same when it comes to colonist satisfaction. Basic Oxygen building will last you the whole game. Basic water building will last you the whole game. Food,oxygen and water are the base resources you need for survival.

Negatives:
- The game is quite buggy. I had around 10 crashes in 100 hours. Colonists randomly runs outside of domes and die to suffocation. Concrete discount breakthrough doesn't work (sometimes only UI bug; sometimes entirely). Building domes / infrastructure in specific ways breaks the AI logic (drones/ colonists moving to the right domes)
- Game lacks colony management tools required for its genre. Example: very limited priority for chain supply / depo. No reasonable way to set a dome composition. Setting thumbs up / down in a dome will generally aim to push for a reasonable composition but it doesn't work that well. At 900 colonists, I had almost 100 unemployed even though I created open jobs for them and my shuttles were set to colonist transportation - marked "low" or underused.
- Bad UI when considering the bonuses/mechanics of colony management. For example, there is no information on much much comfort each housing gives. And this is one of the primary criteria for selecting one type of house over another.
- There is no "Mission success". Most colony games have an "end-target" - e.g. Rimworld asks you to build a rocket and escape the planet. While I appreciate the fact that you can create an infinite colony, there should be final objective for each colony. At that point, the player can decide whether to continue the colony or start a new one with a greater challenge.

game has bs event with rocket drones that just demolish ur entire base game is ass

I was a big fan of your games, and your Stellaris was the first game I ever bought. But today, I chose to uninstall 10 of your games and DLC from my computer and request a refund.

We understand that Hearts of Iron IV, as a game with a military and alternate history, inevitably touches on some sensitive issues. But as a game based on history, it should at least be responsible for historical facts and users. For a long time, Chinese users have been extremely tolerant of you.

Giving "Silk Road" as DLC content to India is not only a desecration of Chinese culture, but also an insult to Indian culture, simply changing the name will not solve the problem. On the question of Tibet, you have never given us a satisfactory answer.

Have you ever wondered what drives users in a country where harmony is a important thing to do, to respond with negative reviews, refunds, and even what you call unacceptable ways? It's your arrogance, your perfunctory, your self-righteousness.

I'm totally disappointed in you guys.

我曾是你们游戏的忠实粉丝，你们的《群星》更是我购买的第一款游戏。但今天，我选择卸载电脑中10款你们的游戏和DLC，并申请退款。

我们明白《钢铁雄心4》作为一款以军事和架空历史为内容的游戏，不可避免地会涉及到某些敏感问题。但作为一款以历史为基本的游戏，其至少应对史实和用户负责。长久以来，中国用户已经对你们报以极大的宽容。

将“丝绸之路”作为DLC内容给予印度，不仅是对中国文化的亵渎，也是对印度文化的侮辱，单纯的改名并不会解决这个问题。而关于西藏的问题，你们更是未能给予我们满意的答复。

你们是否有想过，是什么把一个主张“以和为贵”的国家的用户们，逼到要用刷差评、退款乃至你们所谓的不可接受的方式反馈问题？是你们的傲慢、敷衍和自以为是。

我对你们彻底失望。

very complete game, and also kinna difficult

Although it's a pretty micro-managing type games, it's very engrossing and fun to figure things out.

Excellent sim and sandbox game, entertaining, interesting and with very good balance. Highly recommended 👍

80% of this game is waiting, and I still enjoy it. The city building is simple and fun, and the resource management layer outside of city-building is the same way. That said, the late game is pretty boring, and the green planet dlc is a must (even though every other dlc is a bust.)

also, in lieu of bugfixes and other customization options, take the time to download Choggi's workshop mods as soon as you get the chance.

Without reading online, you will struggle a bit to understand what you need to build. But it is learnable. The only thing that may bother people is the base mission has no set ending.