Surviving Mars

4.6
Great for Beginners
Quickly Understand the Controls
The time has come to stake your claim on the Red Planet and build the first functioning human colonies on Mars! There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony's chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world.
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Surviving Mars

Colonize Mars and discover her secrets, with minimal casualties.

Welcome Home! The time has come to stake your claim on the Red Planet and build the first functioning human colonies on Mars! All you need are supplies, oxygen, decades of training, experience with sandstorms, and a can-do attitude to discover the purpose of those weird black cubes that appeared out of nowhere. With a bit of sprucing up, this place is going to be awesome!
Surviving Mars is a sci-fi city builder all about colonizing Mars and surviving the process. Choose a space agency for resources and financial support before determining a location for your colony. Build domes and infrastructure, research new possibilities and utilize drones to unlock more elaborate ways to shape and expand your settlement. Cultivate your own food, mine minerals or just relax by the bar after a hard day’s work. Most important of all, though, is keeping your colonists alive. Not an easy task on a strange new planet.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.

Main Features:

Building a sustainable colony in space
Building on a planet not fit for human life challenges you to build a smart, functional colony. Bad planning isn’t about traffic jams, it’s about survival of your colonists. You really don’t want rolling blackouts in a city constructed in a place without oxygen.
Individually simulated colonists
Each colonist is a unique individual with problems and strengths that influence the needs and behavior of the other colonists. Things can get really interesting if your chief scientists develops alcoholism after one too many long nights in the lab.
Futuristic Space Dome construction
Retro-futuristic super structures housing colonists, factories and commercial buildings with their own “neighborhood personality.” Create colonies that value science over everything else, while tired workers drink their pay away at a local bar, or attempt a utopia among the stars.
Exploration of Mars’ secrets
Inspired by the classic sci-fi of Asimov and Clarke, Surviving Mars holds many secrets. During each playthrough players may encounter one of Mars’ individually crafted mysteries. Uncovering these secrets might bring your colony great fortune, or terrible ruin. What is that sphere that manifested itself outside colony HUB B, and is it friendly?
Randomized research tree
Combine static and random research through experimentation, which allows for a different experience for each journey through the game. Attain new scientific breakthroughs by exploring the uncharted terrain of Mars's surface.

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Epic Player Ratings

Captured from players in the Epic Games ecosystem.
4.6
This game is
Great for Beginners
This game has
Quickly Understood Controls
This game is
Relaxing
This game is
Extremely Fun
This game is
Highly Recommended
This game is
Educational

Surviving Mars Ratings & Reviews

  • 63%
    Critics Recommend
  • 77
    Top Critic Average
  • Strong
    OpenCritic Rating
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PC Gamer
by Fraser Brown
80 / 100
Surviving Mars is a lot of hard work, but managing a burgeoning colony never stops being compelling.
GameSpot
by Daniel Starkey
8 / 10
Surviving Mars tasks you with leading humanity's first colonies on the Red Planet. But Mars is hardly forgiving, and it will fight you every step of the way.
Metro GameCentral
by GameCentral
7 / 10
An enjoyable twist on the usual city building formula, that simulates the dangers of planetary colonisation impressively well – although it could have done with a slightly lighter touch.
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Surviving Mars System Requirements

Minimum

Recommended

OSWindows 7 64-bit or newer
OSWindows 7 64-bit or newer
Processor4th Generation Intel i3 CPU or equivalent
Processor5th Generation Intel i5 CPU or equivalent
Memory4 GB RAM
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsHD 4600/Geforce 620/Radeon 6450 or equivalent GPUs with 1 GB of video RAM
GraphicsGeforce 750 Ti or equivalent with 4GB of video RAM
Storage6 GB available space
Storage6 GB available space
Languages Supported
  • English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese
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