Surviving Mars

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7.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 218 Ratings

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  1. MaxBouncer
    Feb 26, 2023
    0
    Se você está pensando em comprar esse jogo é possuiu um macOS com o sistema Ventura não compre porque o jogo não funciona desde a atualização e o suporte pouco se importa com isso. Eles continuam vendendo o jogo em diversas plataforma informando que ele funciona em macOS na versão atualizada mas o fato é outro. Você pode entrar no site deles e procurar a area de suporte que vai terSe você está pensando em comprar esse jogo é possuiu um macOS com o sistema Ventura não compre porque o jogo não funciona desde a atualização e o suporte pouco se importa com isso. Eles continuam vendendo o jogo em diversas plataforma informando que ele funciona em macOS na versão atualizada mas o fato é outro. Você pode entrar no site deles e procurar a area de suporte que vai ter comprovado a minha informação.… Expand
  2. ErixKing
    May 12, 2022
    5
    El juego se ve bien y es entretenido, pero siento que siempre le falta algo
  3. Hensin
    May 4, 2022
    9
    Очень атмосферная игра с возможностью создавать свою колонию, развивать ее, как тебе хочется, что построить в первую очередь, а что во вторую. При этом люблю усложненные варианты игры, где побольше метеоритов, песчаных бурь и торнадо. Нравится огромное количество модов к игре и обновления до сих пор выходят, т.е. разработчики игру не бросили. Но при этом хотелось бы побольше разныхОчень атмосферная игра с возможностью создавать свою колонию, развивать ее, как тебе хочется, что построить в первую очередь, а что во вторую. При этом люблю усложненные варианты игры, где побольше метеоритов, песчаных бурь и торнадо. Нравится огромное количество модов к игре и обновления до сих пор выходят, т.е. разработчики игру не бросили. Но при этом хотелось бы побольше разных рельефов, которые можно было бы выбрать в начале игры. Хочется увидеть более сложные ландшафты, где построить базу было бы вообще очень сложно.… Expand
  4. Mattyc96
    Mar 18, 2022
    5
    The level of micro management needed is excessive. Colonists starving to death because they wont use a passage way. Endlessly transporting resources from one area to the next. It's not fun past a certain point. The foundation is here for a fun city builder, but the game wont get out of its own way to be enjoyable for me.
  5. Genek13
    Feb 10, 2022
    9
    One of the best sim-economy-strategy games I played in recent years. The atmosphere and mechanics are driving you in to hours with this game.
  6. Rnoviok
    Dec 4, 2021
    4
    A game with an interesting idea but for me monotonous and quickly boring .
  7. Bushido95
    Sep 28, 2021
    4
    Игра кажется не завершена и довольно таки скучная, но если это реально финальная версия, то это печально.
  8. nahuelst
    Sep 15, 2021
    0
    Y tuvieron que arruinar todas mis partidas guardadas, ya no sirven más, para poner el parche DLC que yo ni siquiera compré. Una absoluta falta de respeto hacia los jugadores de este juego. Lo tendré muy en cuenta en mis futuras compras, en las cuales dudo mucho que incluya a estos desarrolladores tan cínicos.
  9. Klewer
    Jul 27, 2021
    8
    A great little sim city style game about developing a colony on Mars. Plenty of depth and replay ability. Well worth your time and has different challenges and scenarios to keep you interested.
  10. Sepherim
    Jul 21, 2021
    7
    Surviving Mars probablemente, por sus mecánicas, sea un juego relativamente fácil para aquellos avezados gestores. Sin embargo, para los que no lo somos (es un género que siempre se me ha dado mal), tiene una serie de mecánicas que hacen que la colonia vaya creciendo progresivamente, de modo que es relativamente fácil mantener controlada la situación, saber lo que hace falta y avanzar. NoSurviving Mars probablemente, por sus mecánicas, sea un juego relativamente fácil para aquellos avezados gestores. Sin embargo, para los que no lo somos (es un género que siempre se me ha dado mal), tiene una serie de mecánicas que hacen que la colonia vaya creciendo progresivamente, de modo que es relativamente fácil mantener controlada la situación, saber lo que hace falta y avanzar. No tiene una campaña como tal (como sí tiene Tropico, por ejemplo), pero tiene una variedad de historias que puedes escoger en cada partida (una cada vez) que le dan ese rollo de trama, junto con el desarrollo de la colonia desde el primer dron hasta el final. Me hubiera gustado que hubiera una mayor variedad de edificios que construir en la colonia y más tecnologías, incluso con los DLCs se acaban haciendo un poco escasos. Pero en general el juego está guay, te enfrenta a las hostilidades de Marte pero sin resultar abrumador.

    Gráficamente el juego cumple, aunque no es ningún portento. La música es discreta, lo suficiente como para no llamar la atención y no aburrir, aunque no tan variada como podría ser. Y, al menos en mi experiencia, no me he encontrado con bugs (salvo que consideremos un bug la tendencia de la tierra a no ser plana aunque la aplanemos).

    Por todo ello, sin duda Surviving Mars probablemente no sea el mejor exponente de su género, pero si resulta un juego muy entretenido y con la suficiente progresividad como para no ser abrumador. Un 6,5.    … Expand
  11. Gorbunov2004
    Jul 18, 2021
    9
    Игра прикольная но через пару часов быстро надоедает и больше в неё играть не хочется. Как стратегия игра хорошая, меню отвратительное и кривое. Но все равно колонистом быть прикольно!
  12. Jenne
    Jul 10, 2021
    10
    I wasn't impressed with Surviving Mars at launch. In just two hours I found a lot of bugs and a mountain of features and systems that clearly needed a bit more time in the oven. When I saw it in a bundle with Aven Colony and Stellaris for 18 euro though I gave it another shot. And boy has this game grown. I immediately bought the season pass and with all the content the game is simplyI wasn't impressed with Surviving Mars at launch. In just two hours I found a lot of bugs and a mountain of features and systems that clearly needed a bit more time in the oven. When I saw it in a bundle with Aven Colony and Stellaris for 18 euro though I gave it another shot. And boy has this game grown. I immediately bought the season pass and with all the content the game is simply amazing. It already swallowed 30 hours of my time and I still feel haven't seen anything yet. A minor gripe - too bad the visuals are not nearly as sexy as the Tropico games, especially the UI looks cheap and old. I think it's a mistake for strategy/building game devs to underestimate visuals, it's what sells. But the rest of the game is phenomenal. The depth and complexity is absolutely spot on for my tastes, it's one of my favourite games of the last decade.… Expand
  13. 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.
  14. Malah
    Apr 9, 2021
    2
    I really like the game. There is a lot of planning involved in building your base since you can fail quickly. I enjoyed playing the game even when my first few days were just failures because I was forgetting about something. Music is really well composed. However, I have never finished any scenario, it took ages to upload the saved game to Epic store and in most cases it didn't work atI really like the game. There is a lot of planning involved in building your base since you can fail quickly. I enjoyed playing the game even when my first few days were just failures because I was forgetting about something. Music is really well composed. However, I have never finished any scenario, it took ages to upload the saved game to Epic store and in most cases it didn't work at the firs attempt. Each time I tried to play I needed to wait ages for the synchronisation with a cloud so at some point I just give up. Which is a shame because the game seams is great. I regreat that i get it on epic store.… Expand
  15. 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 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.
  16. CompleteIdiot
    Mar 17, 2021
    8
    I thoroughly enjoyed the game overall. It has plenty of fun mechanics, and seeing your colony grow is very pleasing visually. Great concept and overall solid execution. But unfortunately the end game is quite lacking for me. You build all the wonders, see a pretty colony and feel happy for a while. But having an additional run with different difficulty settings seems unnecessary, as thereI thoroughly enjoyed the game overall. It has plenty of fun mechanics, and seeing your colony grow is very pleasing visually. Great concept and overall solid execution. But unfortunately the end game is quite lacking for me. You build all the wonders, see a pretty colony and feel happy for a while. But having an additional run with different difficulty settings seems unnecessary, as there is little incentive to do so. The variations between runs is not there, you will gain the same tech and focus on the same economic points. I recommend the game for anyone who wants to play something strategic for 10-15 hours.… Expand
  17. Demiurge11
    Feb 25, 2021
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Surviving Mars is a city-building simulation game, but on Mars!

    The Good:
    - It's visually stunning when it comes to the surface of Mars and the objects you're building on it. This is particularly true for the blast marks for space ships and meteor impacts. Amazing! This really helped put me in the mood of "I'm on Mars!"
    - I really enjoyed the sound track.
    - The tutorials do a decent job of showing you how to play the game without over-explaining.
    - The early game is a really interesting mix of exploration, resource management, difficult choices, and the struggle for survival. You have to carefully balance producing resources locally, bringing in resources from Earth, becoming independent, and protecting yourself from potential disasters or accidents. You decide what to build and research. Really stressful and freaky natural disasters can happen that add a lot of tension. Each decision feels meaningful and impactful.
    - Decent game design in the early game, where annoying chores can be automated and you move on to bigger and better things.

    The Bad:
    - Surviving Mars transitions really poorly into the late game. The boredom started to set in for me once the colony became self-sufficient. Natural disasters that are a huge deal in the early game are just an annoying chore in the late game. The game transitions from the joy of exploration and the struggle for survival into the drudgery of manually moving colonists around between domes because they are too stupid to move themselves. You get warnings that your clinics are not functioning because no one is working in them and when you look around you find all your doctors working in random buildings. It's possible to automate some of this, by creating specialized industrial or farming domes for example, however, jobs that are needed in every dome, like doctors, can't be automated! You have to manually tell each doctor where to go and then impatiently wait a really long time for them to go. Sometimes, they decide they don't want to leave and you have to tell them three or four times. As your population increases, the micro-management problem only gets worse.

    The Ugly:
    - your colony, of say 500 people, is on a hostile planet. Everyone is living in domes. You desperately depend on each other for survival. Despite your best efforts, some colonists become permanently angry. If you don't set up a substantial security force perhaps they'll start blowing up buildings and stealing supplies. What would the normal reaction be to this? You throw them out of an airlock without a space suit. Obviously. If you're feeling humane you put them in prison. Why does the game have no option for capturing, killing, or reforming renegades? The only way to do this is to attract them to a particular dome and turn off the power, which seems really awkward to me.

    MINOR SPOILER: I don't want to give any serious spoilers, but there's something called Mysteries, I don't know if there are different kinds of them, but the one I got was really dumb. It involved some kind of telepathic powers, dreams, and a previously populated Mars with trees! It's just ridiculous and somewhat hurts the premise of the game, which otherwise has a very hard science feel to it.    … Expand
  18. Rekbond
    Jan 23, 2021
    6
    A pretty good city building game with a good "core gameplay". But the Insane micro-management that comes mid-late game (4+ hours into the game) ruins the experience of having fun playing "Surviving mars". NPCs just go from dome to dome with no plan at all and after a while, it just goes into a mess and there is almost nothing you can do unless you want to micro-manage for 20 hours.A pretty good city building game with a good "core gameplay". But the Insane micro-management that comes mid-late game (4+ hours into the game) ruins the experience of having fun playing "Surviving mars". NPCs just go from dome to dome with no plan at all and after a while, it just goes into a mess and there is almost nothing you can do unless you want to micro-manage for 20 hours. furthermore, in late-game all of your resources are gonna run out which is really annoying to deal with. plus the planet transformation, although it's a nice mechanic and fun at first, is taking way too long to complete and it's becoming kinda boring after a while.
    In conclusion, 6/10, buy after-sale.    … Expand
  19. PinkusPaekus
    Dec 12, 2020
    10
    Чудесная игра. Очень атмосферная. Всё потрясающе проработано. Потенциал для многократного прохождения с различными настройками сложности и изменяемыми условиями - присутствует :)
  20. Sandro86
    May 17, 2020
    10
    I friggin love this game. No action, no violence and yet it is so immersive.
  21. adrenilinmatt
    Apr 11, 2020
    10
    amazing game, sunk so many hours into this already. dont understand the low user score here, only complaint i have with this game is too much micro management, visuals are gorgeous, it runs like a dream, well made overall.
  22. Ryhley
    Dec 27, 2019
    9
    I played it on Mac. It counts as PC game ? I absolutely loved it. The graphics was great, the tempo of a game was good, sometimes the amount of disasters at same time, same region was a bit too much. But Definitely a game worth several hours per level. And few dozens in general (so far :) ).
  23. Psiraphim
    Mar 21, 2019
    8
    Отличный градостроительный симулятор другой планеты. Интересные события, хорошо продуманная экономическая составляющая. С точки зрения реализма есть некоторые проблемы (куполы бессмысленные, потому как проще отдельные здания связывать трубами-переходами, питание только растениями и быстрый полет) но все перекрывает юмор. Don't Panic!Отличный градостроительный симулятор другой планеты. Интересные события, хорошо продуманная экономическая составляющая. С точки зрения реализма есть некоторые проблемы (куполы бессмысленные, потому как проще отдельные здания связывать трубами-переходами, питание только растениями и быстрый полет) но все перекрывает юмор. Don't Panic!
  24. Tomaso
    Jan 28, 2019
    2
    Replayability is not meant to be reached only with some randomized events - the gameplay should feel good at first.
    Here, the gameplay is feeling bad - not enough management options, no proper aim to add drive to the game.
    The game is about setting the colony, but you can't even connect your domes in any sensible way. If you are into economic simulators/city builders/tycoon, avoid at    Replayability is not meant to be reached only with some randomized events - the gameplay should feel good at first.
    Here, the gameplay is feeling bad - not enough management options, no proper aim to add drive to the game.

    The game is about setting the colony, but you can't even connect your domes in any sensible way.
    If you are into economic simulators/city builders/tycoon, avoid at all costs - it will only make you mad because you will not be able to get things done in the colony, like they should be done.

    The first couple of hours may feel interesting but only because you have to learn basic operations... Then you find out there's nothing more left, and you can't even optimize these simple actions.

    It feels like an ALPHA version with basic features set up, but no one ever taken time to think about how to connect these features into satisfying and deep gameplay.
    Quite a potential, but... wel... maybe they will reach ~60% of it with DLCs, as always with Paradox.

    All this stupid pace of the game could appeal to somebody who haven't ever played a well designed game like this. For all the others - it will get tedious faster than you'd expect.    … Expand
  25. Widden
    Dec 3, 2018
    9
    Brilliant builder game, very interesting, reasonably complex mechanics, beautiful graphics & pretty good usability.

    I reckon the really negative older reviews were mostly due to a lot of things not completely polished at that point - but now the game is really well playable, bug-free, and the interface is user-friendly. And on top, there's some mysteries to uncover. :) The game    Brilliant builder game, very interesting, reasonably complex mechanics, beautiful graphics & pretty good usability.

    I reckon the really negative older reviews were mostly due to a lot of things not completely polished at that point - but now the game is really well playable, bug-free, and the interface is user-friendly.

    And on top, there's some mysteries to uncover. :)

    The game is tons of fun, with only some slight nags, nothing worth crying about.

    The main points that could improve IMO are the in the controls area, eg somewhat sluggish camera handling with mouse.

    Oh, and I think they've missed an opportunity by not having a game 'ending' of some sort.    … Expand
  26. Leviax
    Nov 22, 2018
    10
    Игра получилась хорошей. Неплохая графика как для стратегий. Интересное взаимодействия между НПС.
  27. TitaniumDragon
    Nov 18, 2018
    3
    Surviving Mars is a 2X game. I say 2X because it is about half of a 4X game – it has the explore and expand parts down, but you’re just colonizing a dead planet, rather than competing with anyone else. The “risk” is that of a natural disaster of some sort or other striking your fledging Martian colony, but without anything really pushing back against you, it ends up feeling like you’reSurviving Mars is a 2X game. I say 2X because it is about half of a 4X game – it has the explore and expand parts down, but you’re just colonizing a dead planet, rather than competing with anyone else. The “risk” is that of a natural disaster of some sort or other striking your fledging Martian colony, but without anything really pushing back against you, it ends up feeling like you’re going through the motions.

    The game tries to differentiate itself from other, similar games – as a game with real-time building and development going on, it tries to create some time pressures, and you have to lay out electrical lines and pipes to transport life-giving water and air, as well as use autonomous drones to explore the surface and build stuff. But in the end, it all ends up falling a bit flat.

    You are in charge of overseeing the colonization of Mars. You aren’t an actual character, but the standard impersonal RTS commander. The game starts with you deploying a rocket to Mars full of the stuff you’re going to need to set up your colony. Rather than starting you off with people on the planet, instead you start off with a bunch of drones and some prefab structures to help set up your first colony. You must set up some water condensers, some oxygen refiners, set up some fuel manufacture (so you can send your reusable rocket back home), and eventually build a glass dome for you to build your colony inside, using metal you’ve scrounged from the surface and cement you’ve refined using an autonomous factory.

    This is all pretty rote; while you get the chance to slowly learn how the game works, this part is pretty challenge-free, and is mostly just going through the motions.

    Only once you’ve got that glass dome built – and some buildings inside that – is it wise for you to summon another rocket, this one full of people. Each of these rockets can contain up to 12 colonists. You get to pick from a list of colonists of various professions, with various perks and flaws – some might be religious and thus have higher morale and never commit suicide, while others might be gluttonous, eating twice as much food. Some of these perks and flaws are better than others, and as you don’t have fine control over who the volunteers are, you have to go over a list of a few hundred people to find the ones you actually want, using some filters to find ones with particular traits or professions you want.

    This sets you into the next phase of the game, where you must keep these colonists alive for 10 sols (the game’s year-equivalent, though it treats each one as if it were a day). This is not really challenging if you’ve set yourself up properly, as all you really have to do is make sure people don’t starve to death and have something to do, like research technologies, grow food, or serve it to other people in the diner.

    Once you manage to keep those 12 alive, you can start requesting more colonists from Earth.

    Over the rest of the game, you research more advanced technologies, giving you access to new, better buildings, as well as various passive perks. Meanwhile, you work on expanding your base, building more domes, and eventually dealing with the offspring of colonists, working to train them up to be your next generation of colonists, while still bringing over more people from Earth.

    Unfortunately, the game as a whole is kind of mediocre. If you aren’t paying attention, your stuff can break down, but once you build up a decent enough supply line, it basically becomes impossible to fail and you just gradually steamroll your way over the surface of Mars. The game has a ton of micromanagement to pay attention to, but it also feels like a lot of it is outside of your direct control, as the little builder drones you have zip around and do their thing without your direct input most of the time. It’s a bit annoying to watch them not build something you want them to build, or to let something accumulate somewhere until the building can’t produce any more until a drone comes by, but even that can be circumvented by building or importing more drones.

    In the end, it all felt kind of tedious. Gradually building out your stuff without having any opposing force or faction is just kind of dull; it’s like a game of civilization where you never have to interact with any opponent and can just keep building up your cities and never react to anything. I encountered no serious setbacks, with the worst thing I faced being a broken water chip which cost me a bit of money to replace. While I intellectually appreciated that the game tried to be a bit simulationist in order to make it feel like you were colonizing a lifeless planet, it didn’t translate into fun gameplay.

    All in all, Surviving Mars is mostly a game of surviving tedium. It just doesn’t ever excel in any way, and the game struggles to engage you more than passively.    … Expand
  28. OverdriveA
    Nov 1, 2018
    5
    I would say that the game is fundamentally flawed because of the mechanic that does not allow the player to assign certain colonists to certain buildings. I thought that it actually worked quite well for one dome, or for a few domes connected together at the early stages when the system assigned colonists to buildings based on their best specialisation automatically. But if you built domesI would say that the game is fundamentally flawed because of the mechanic that does not allow the player to assign certain colonists to certain buildings. I thought that it actually worked quite well for one dome, or for a few domes connected together at the early stages when the system assigned colonists to buildings based on their best specialisation automatically. But if you built domes that are on the other side of the map, then everything broke down. For example, at some point the number of colonists rose so much, that the food delivery system that I had in place wasn't able to meet the demand. I figured I would just use the space in a dome that was built on the other side of the map, where resources were much more abundant, and build a new farms there. I had plenty of time before the amount of food that I had stockpiled run out. I had the shuttles built. To my surprise the system didn't relocate the colonists to a new dome, or didn't even assign botanists available in abundance at the first dome location, to work in the farms at the second location. Spare botanists were working at the factories instead. It goes even further, the system didn't assign ANY colonists to work at the second location farms for a long time, preferring to send them to factories and mines instead. When I tried to increase the priority in the farms, then the system reassigned engineers from factories, instead of moving botanists from the first location. The logic behind this setting is beyond me. It should be possible to assign certain people to certain jobs, or at least force the system to look for best application of the colonists skills first and move them if needed. Aside from this botched logic, the game has a high replayability and is interesting resource management simulator.… Expand
  29. Spartan91
    Jun 19, 2018
    9
    This is a fun, game that's relaxing and stressful at the same time. It's not for you if you don't have the patience, it's not that easy to get into and takes it's time. You have to constantly deal with your colonys problems and make sure that you're planning for the long term. It also brutally punishes any mistakes you make, you might spend hours on a colony and by the time you realize youThis is a fun, game that's relaxing and stressful at the same time. It's not for you if you don't have the patience, it's not that easy to get into and takes it's time. You have to constantly deal with your colonys problems and make sure that you're planning for the long term. It also brutally punishes any mistakes you make, you might spend hours on a colony and by the time you realize you did something wrong it might be entirely too late to do anything about. With you desperately and hopelessly struggling to safe it.
    I liked the graphics and design of the game, the whole look really adds to the experience. Controls are simple and easy to learn. I would have liked some more statistics to help plan my production and figure out my colonys consumption of resources. I guess it adds to the challenge, forcing you to do more planning yourself.
    The story elements are a fun addition to the game, really adding to the replay value.    … Expand
  30. umbershap
    Apr 24, 2018
    9
    Great game, It was the most clean launch I've ever seen. Played it over 70 hours and never faced with a bug. Soundtracks are also masterpiece specially quantum sonic radio. I hope they continue to support to this game. I don't know why meta score of this game is low.
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Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 39 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 39
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 39
  3. Negative: 0 out of 39
  1. 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]
  2. Jeuxvideo.com
    Jun 23, 2018
    65
    Surviving Mars surely doesn't lack charm and depth. Dedicated gamers will be pleased to establish a massive colony. Others will probably look for a more structured and organized game.
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  3. CD-Action
    Jun 5, 2018
    70
    The depth of systems overseeing gameplay is commendable. It’s a shame though that few players will find enough patience to endure poorly balanced pace and experience Surviving Mars’ biggest strength – its inventive endgame. [05/2018, p.82]
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