Surviving: Mars

4.5 out of 5
12 User Ratings
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There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
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About Surviving: Mars

About this game

A-MARS-ing survival strategy game

The time has come to stake your claim on the Red Planet and build the first functioning human colonies in sci-fi city builder Surviving Mars. With this Steam key, all you’ll need is a can-do attitude – and maybe supplies, oxygen, decades of training and experience with sandstorms – 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.


BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE COLONY
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. Keeping your settlers alive is not an easy task and there will be lots of challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world.

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 develop alcoholism after one too many long nights in the lab.

FUTURISTIC 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.

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
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.

UNIQUE RETRO-FUTURISTIC AESTHETIC
A sleek, modern take on the bright futurism of the 1960s. A time of exploration and adventure.

EXPANSIVE MOD SUPPORT
Craft your own fantastic buildings, parks or even a mystery to share through Surviving Mars’s extensive and convenient modding tools. Share your finest creations with the community to build the perfect society.

YOUR OFFICIAL SURVIVING MARS STEAM KEY GIVES YOU:

  • Sci-fi strategy fun
  • A game experience that is ‘out of this world’…
  • Mod support
  • Creative and challenging objectives for your new civilization

Game Details

Platform:
steam
Release Date:
March 15, 2018
Developer:
Haemimont Games
Publisher:
Paradox Interactive
Supported Languages:
English
Steam Deck Support:
Unsupported
Franchise:
Surviving Mars

Product Requirements

Steam account required for game activation and installation

PC System Requirements
MINIMUM:
OS: Windows 7 64-bit or newer
Processor: Dual-core CPU
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel integrated video HD 4000 or higher with 1 GB of video RAM
Storage: 10 GB available space

Mac System Requirements
MINIMUM:
OS: OSX 10.9 or newer
Processor: Dual-core CPU
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce 600/AMD Radeon 7000 or higher with 1GB of video RAM
Storage: 10 GB available space

Linux System Requirements
MINIMUM:
OS: Ubuntu 14 x86 or newer
Processor: Dual-core CPU
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce 600/AMD Radeon 7000 or higher with 1GB of video RAM
Storage: 10 GB available space

Product Requirements

Steam account required for game activation and installation

PC System Requirements
MINIMUM:
OS: Windows 7 64-bit or newer
Processor: Dual-core CPU
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel integrated video HD 4000 or higher with 1 GB of video RAM
Storage: 10 GB available space

Mac System Requirements
MINIMUM:
OS: OSX 10.9 or newer
Processor: Dual-core CPU
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce 600/AMD Radeon 7000 or higher with 1GB of video RAM
Storage: 10 GB available space

Linux System Requirements
MINIMUM:
OS: Ubuntu 14 x86 or newer
Processor: Dual-core CPU
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce 600/AMD Radeon 7000 or higher with 1GB of video RAM
Storage: 10 GB available space

Critic Reviews

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IGN

78 / 100
"If you can stick it out through an unforgiving and poorly explained learning phase, there’s a lot of excitement, challenge, and customization to enjoy beneath and beyond the...

CGMagazine

90 / 100
"Surviving Mars is a challenging yet engaging city builder that makes me want to colonize Mars again and again."

Destructoid

80 / 100
"My gripes aside, Surviving Mars might be the most fun I've had with a city-building game since SimCity 2000, and Haemimont has accomplished this feat by drilling down into the...
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6.45% of players played this game for >= 80 Hours!

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Easy
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Just Right
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Tough
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Relax & enjoy! 59.09%  of players consider this game to be Just Right

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Tried It
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Completionist! 1.67%  of players have Conquered It

Surviving: Mars User Reviews

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User Rating

Average score from 12 ratings
92% of users would recommend this.
4.5

User Ratings Breakdown

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4 Stars
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Surviving Mars Review

Sam Jones
Staff Review
Challenging conditions like lack of oxygen, freak storms, and electrical issues make Surviving Mars very much a survival strategy game. It's an addictive game, one that lets you build a futuristic city and tests your abilities as a ruler, builder... and savior!
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Recommended

Bstard
Verified purchase
Very entertaining, very in-depth. Very easy to lose yourself in the game
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Recommended

TheElm
Verified purchase
Surviving Mars is a lot of fun to just go back to from time to time. It can be played either casually or to extreme difficulty, it is starting a colony on a fresh planet after all. I prefer to play it a lot more like Cities Skylines, where you can just enjoy the in-game radio (Great music btw), build up a civilization from scratch, and kill many hours.
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Frequently Asked Questions

There are 2 editions. They are Mars and Mars Digital Deluxe Edition
Available DLCs for Surviving include Mars All New In Bundle, Mars Below and Beyond, Mars In-Dome Buildings Pack, and Mars Mars Lifestyle Radio
Somewhere in the middle. 59% of GameFAQs users said the difficulty is Just Right. 34% of GameFAQs users said Surviving: Mars is Tough or Unforgiving.
No, Surviving: Mars is not currently playable on Steam Deck.

Steam account required for game activation and installation

PC System Requirements
MINIMUM:
OS: Windows 7 64-bit or newer
Processor: Dual-core CPU
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel integrated video HD 4000 or higher with 1 GB of video RAM
Storage: 10 GB available space

Mac System Requirements
MINIMUM:
OS: OSX 10.9 or newer
Processor: Dual-core CPU
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce 600/AMD Radeon 7000 or higher with 1GB of video RAM
Storage: 10 GB available space

Linux System Requirements
MINIMUM:
OS: Ubuntu 14 x86 or newer
Processor: Dual-core CPU
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce 600/AMD Radeon 7000 or higher with 1GB of video RAM
Storage: 10 GB available space

The average playtime for GameFAQs users is 33 hours. 58% of users played Surviving: Mars for over 40 hours.
59% of critics on Metacritic recommend Surviving: Mars. The Metascore is 76 out of 100.
92% of Fanatical users recommend Surviving: Mars. The average review score is 4.5/5
Surviving: Mars was released on March 15, 2018
Yes, Surviving: Mars supports MacOS.
Yes, Surviving: Mars supports Linux.
Surviving: Mars is published by Paradox Interactive
Surviving: Mars was developed by Haemimont Games
Fanatical users tagged Surviving: Mars as Survival, Colony Sim, City Builder, and Strategy
Fanatical users tagged Surviving: Mars as Space, Mars, Sci-fi, and Management
Yes. Fanatical users tagged Surviving: Mars as having Singleplayer
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Surviving: Mars as Survival
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Surviving: Mars as Colony Sim
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Surviving: Mars as City Builder

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