Tharsis - Steam Game

I never would have thought that a survival/management game based on dice-rolling would entertain me as much as Tharsis did. Even though primarily our luck with the dice will decide whether we fail or prevail, there are still some things we have to obey and do right. Like in a card game: even if we are very lucky, we are still going to fail, if we don't know the rules and the little tricks. Usually I'm not sympathetic towards board games on steam (they belong to the table or tablets, not desktop computers), but the idea makes it an enjoyable game even on a PC. As a 6-member crew flies towards Mars on the spaceship Iktomi to investigate the source of a mysterious signal coming from the Tharsis plateau, halfway they are hit by a meteor storm resulting in the death of 2 personnel and the loss of a ship module, along with the food reserves (this is actually shown in the tutorial). With the situation turning critical very quickly, the 4 remaining specialists must make tough decisions to minimalize damage in order to survive their one way trip to the Red Planet. The gameplay itself is about surviving the remaining 10 weeks (1 week = 1 turn) ahead to reach Mars. Each week more and more troubling (and often tragic) events will occur, either because of a malfunctioning ship module or another meteor storm. In order to eliminate a problem and make the necessary repairs we have to reach the number displayed on the given module by adding up the dice we rolled. So if it says 18, assuming we roll 6's only, with 3 dice we can do a full repair IF we are super lucky. Once the compartment is fixed and we still have some dice left there are several things we can do: - either use the special ability of our selected crew member - use the special benefit of the module we are in - or store the dice for later and use them as a research project for various benefits. The important thing is not to have unused dice ever (not that it will happen very often), if the storage is full, we should use a research and fiill up the storage again. So how do we get dice, which are the most vital things in the game? The maximum number of dice each astronaut can hold is 5. After each turn our astronauts lose 1-1 dice, so basically these represent the hunger level of our astronauts, or rather how well-fed they are. Since the pantry was destroyed, we have no food supplies and the game offers us the option to consume the remains of our dead teammate. Besides the fact how wrong that would be, our...