Surviving Mars

Surviving Mars is an economic strategy and survival simulator on Mars. The graphics in the game are excellent. The voice acting is good with well chosen music.

Before starting the game, you have to choose some important parameters. First of all, you need to decide which of the programs for the colonization of the red planet will join. This affects the amount of resources available at the start of the game. Next, select a mission leader who has traits that you think will help him fulfill his duties.

After that, it is necessary to direct efforts to scan the planet in order to determine the optimal location near the sources of basic resources for successful survival in an inhospitable environment.

The most important resources in the game are four types:

• Metals are mined from the soil in some places
• Concrete and water are mined by glacier cracking
• Oxygen and electricity can be obtained from the atmosphere of the planet
• Food is primarily of plant origin

These are the main resources, there are also secondary ones, for the most part they can be obtained by recycling waste.

Before the arrival of the colonists, you need to prepare the camp for their arrival. The first ship to land on the surface of the planet is a ship carrying robots. By managing them, create a camp fit for life. To do this, you need to provide the settlement with electricity and water, build a dome and fill it with oxygen.

After these preparations, the first 12 colonists arrive on the planet, led by the leader. They have to live there for a while and, if everything went well, only after that the bulk of the people arrive.

The planet is not very hospitable, there are dust storms on it, and meteorites and meteoroids fall every 20 seconds. Fortunately, the surface of the planet is large and the chances that such a gift will arrive at the base camp are quite small.

All colonists have individual abilities and directing people with the right inclinations to the right types of work can greatly increase their efficiency.

If you run out of any of the resources, don't despair, the camp has a small supply that will allow you to do without them, although not for a long time.

In a pinch, you can always request a delivery from Earth and you will most likely get what you need pretty quickly.

It is better to try to manage on your own, getting what you need on the spot. The most difficult thing will be with the extraction of metals. The fact is that this requires the direct participation of people and cannot be performed by robots. This means that domes will have to be built in suitable places to provide living conditions for workers.

The game has a small script, which is rare for such games. On the ground, events can occur that affect the supply of your mission.

Don't forget to develop new technologies. At each start of the game, the development tree is generated randomly. Thus, at another time, at the start, you will probably receive scientific achievements first of all, which in the last game were revealed to you only at the end.

Surviving Mars download for free on PC, unfortunately, will not work. You can purchase the game on the Steam platform or on the official website.

Start playing now to learn all the secrets of the red planet and move there to live!