Surviving Mars

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  • Summary: 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 moreSurviving 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.    … Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 39
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 39
  3. Negative: 0 out of 39
  1. Eurogamer Italy
    Mar 22, 2018
    90
    Surviving Mars is a marvelous experience of city building, management, exploration and strategizing. Overall polish and good production values all around complete a deep and interesting package that will make genre enthusiasts and Mars fanatics very, very happy.
  2. Multiplayer.it
    Mar 15, 2018
    85
    Quotation forthcoming.
  3. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Sep 13, 2018
    80
    Slow but hypnotically absorbing building strategy game. You will feel great while conquering the inhospitable planet, pity for designer’s mistake in not being able to connect the domes. [Issue#285]
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  4. Power Unlimited
    Mar 15, 2018
    78
    It is such a pity that Surviving Mars is infested by frustrating bugs, is at times unclear and has some resource balancing issues. Because, despite these problems, it is still a fun game, bursting with potential.
  5. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Mar 30, 2018
    73
    During the middle-game the process becomes blatantly boring: as your colony steadily grows, your biggest struggle will be with interface and lack of automation for certain tasks. After hours of going through the motions, you’ll wonder if moving to Mars was a good idea in the first place. [Issue#228, p.48]
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  6. Games Master UK
    Mar 22, 2018
    70
    A solid colony builder packed with complex systems, but the red planet feels a little too familiar. [Apr 2018, p.81]
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  7. Game Over Online
    Mar 15, 2018
    55
    I eventually stopped playing after about 30 hours because the game was just too mind-numbingly boring to continue. I was also shocked that I had only played for 30 hours. It felt like at least twice that long.

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  1. Positive: 20 out of 48
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 48
  3. Negative: 17 out of 48
  1. speedpitch
    Mar 18, 2018
    10
    Zum Glück gibt es kein Tutorial. - Da wir das erste Mal auf dem Mars sind und uns durchkämpfen müssen eine Zivilisation zu gründen. Ist diesZum Glück gibt es kein Tutorial. - Da wir das erste Mal auf dem Mars sind und uns durchkämpfen müssen eine Zivilisation zu gründen. Ist dies genau der richtige Weg das Spiel mit Trial and Error zu beginnen.

    Grafik 9.5 - schöne Atmosphäre, viele liebevolle Details
    Musik 10 - mehrere Radiostationen zum Auswählen (ähnlich Fallout)
    Spiel 10 - Es gibt viele Perks, unendliche Variationen wie man voran kommt.
    Wiederspielwert 9,5 - viele Geheminisse zu entdecken

    Für mich nach Jahren, endlich eine wunderschöne Marssimulation.    … Expand
  2. PinkusPaekus
    Dec 12, 2020
    10
    Чудесная игра. Очень атмосферная. Всё потрясающе проработано. Потенциал для многократного прохождения с различными настройками сложности иЧудесная игра. Очень атмосферная. Всё потрясающе проработано. Потенциал для многократного прохождения с различными настройками сложности и изменяемыми условиями - присутствует :)… Expand
  4. alexaltair
    Mar 27, 2018
    9
    Perfect game. A long waiting strategy/simulator/building game. Worth playing.
  5. KevLooney
    May 12, 2021
    6
    Game sucks, it has very little depth and no drive to do anything. :P I did not enjoy the game.
  6. ErixKing
    May 12, 2022
    5
    El juego se ve bien y es entretenido, pero siento que siempre le falta algo
  7. yosa1
    Apr 7, 2018
    4
    This is a mars colonization simulation that aims to add discovery, tight management with a sandbox feel. I find its various systems to be aThis is a mars colonization simulation that aims to add discovery, tight management with a sandbox feel. I find its various systems to be a mess; the overall feel of the game is mediocre.

    Game play - you start with automated builders to set up a supply chain before you can colonize, those drones are controlled by various control stations, drone rovers and the rockets that you use for supply; the problem I noticed right away is not all drones are active across command areas when there is enough free space at a command. Time management in this game is a mess, structures will wear down by the time time you unload a cargo rocket full of the material it needs for maintenance,
    resource producing buildings will stop working or produce slowly at this point impacting any functional resource chain. Hex based assets and main grid do no work with a managed area, never have; the inability to make a pipe line in the direction that is needed ruins layout design. Time is handled in an asinine manner in whereby the tasks you take do not represent a believable in game disbelief, instead it feels fine tuned to make resources thin.

    Graphics - there great, they are detailed, there is an adequate zoom; no bugs nor lack thereof.

    Sound - adequate, not the best not the worst, and in a game like this, a looping soundtrack is about the norm.

    I would say the game play and shallow feel of this game weigh it down heavily; play it if your a fan of the genre, otherwise you will be disappointed.    … Expand
  8. Elysium82
    Mar 26, 2021
    0
    This game gets 0 for sure. It feels like a lame beta release. The colonists do whatever the hell they wish to. That is the only realisticThis game gets 0 for sure. It feels like a lame beta release. The colonists do whatever the hell they wish to. That is the only realistic thing...I assume on Mars that would mean death, but whatever. So, in a nutshell: this game is the perfect example of how a lame AI should work.… Expand

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