Surviving Mars
Mild overall intensityWhat's in it
Colonists can die from suffocation, starvation, cold, or disaster, and optional 'mystery' storylines introduce events such as plagues, colony war, and an AI revolt, all handled abstractly without on-screen gore.
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What it is
Surviving Mars is a city-building survival strategy game in which you oversee a colony on Mars, choosing a sponsoring nation and commander before landing rockets carrying drones, resources, and colonists. Gameplay is about managing infrastructure — power, water, oxygen, food, and domes — while weathering natural disasters like dust storms, meteor strikes, and cold waves. Individual colonists have traits, morale, and health and can die if life support fails, and optional narrative 'mysteries' add events such as plagues, corporate rivalry, or an AI uprising. There is no combat against people, no bad language, no sexual content, and no purchasable content or chat; it is an offline single-player simulation.
How it's framed
The game frames its content through the lens of resource management and long-term colony survival; death and hardship appear as failure states or narrative complications to be solved through planning rather than as violence, and the tone is measured and problem-solving oriented.
Details
- Developer
- Haemimont Games
- Publisher
- Paradox Interactive
- Released
- Mar 15, 2018
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