Posted on: June 15, 2025
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It's a fun game.
The controls on macOS are a bit janky but it works.
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Surviving Mars
Description
Colonize Mars and discover her secrets, with minimal casualties.
Welcome Home! The time has come to stake your claim on the Red Planet and build the first functioning human colonies on Mars! All you need are supplies, oxygen, decades of training, experience with sandstorms, and a can-do attitude 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!
Surviving Mars is a sci-fi city builder all about colonizing Mars and surviving the process. 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. Most important of all, though, is keeping your colonists alive. Not an easy task on a strange new planet.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Welcome Home! The time has come to stake your claim on the Red Planet and build the first functioning human colonies on Mars! All you need are supplies, oxygen, decades of training, experience with sandstorms, and a can-do attitude 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!
Surviving Mars is a sci-fi city builder all about colonizing Mars and surviving the process. 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. Most important of all, though, is keeping your colonists alive. Not an easy task on a strange new planet.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
- Building a sustainable colony in space - Building on a planet not fit for human life challenges you to build a smart, functional colony. Bad planning isn’t about traffic jams, it’s about survival of your colonists. You really don’t want rolling blackouts in a city constructed in a place without oxygen.
- 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 develops alcoholism after one too many long nights in the lab.
- Futuristic Space Dome 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.
- Exploration of 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 tree - 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.
© 2018 Paradox Interactive AB, SURVIVING MARS, and PARADOX INTERACTIVE are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Paradox Interactive AB in Europe, the U.S., and other countries. Developed by Haemimont Games. All other trademarks, logos, and copyrights are property of their respective owners.
Popular achievements
Where No Man has Gone Before
Analyze an Anomaly
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49.49%
Marvin the Martian
First child on Mars
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38.22%
Bubble Wrap
Build a Dome
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46.71%
In the High Tower
Build a Dome Spire
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32.14%
Spacey Food
Harvest Food on Mars
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42.35%
There and Back Again
Refuel a Rocket
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45.88%
Open the Pod Bay Doors
Build a Shuttle Hub
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30.49%
Good News, Everyone!
Pass the Colony Approval stage
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40.26%
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Please Note: Modding tools are currently available only on Windows
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22 hMain
46 h Main + Sides
190 h Completionist
40 h All Styles
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PC Gamer
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Surviving Mars is a lot of hard work, but managing a burgeoning colony never stops being compelling.
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8/10
Surviving Mars tasks you with leading humanity's first colonies on the Red Planet. But Mars is hardly forgiving, and it will fight you every step of the way.
Read full review »Metro GameCentral
7/10
An enjoyable twist on the usual city building formula, that simulates the dangers of planetary colonisation impressively well – although it could have done with a slightly lighter touch.
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Posted on: September 14, 2025
garrycooper101
Verified ownerGames: 142 Reviews: 1
Surviving Mars
The air is thin and water is short. Watch out for fallin rocks.
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Posted on: September 29, 2025
chrispwkoe
Verified ownerGames: 216 Reviews: 2
I like the nerdish style!
A building sim in a scifi setting. I like the nerdish style of this game. It's quite good, even without addons. The controls are a bit complicated, but that's not too bad.
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Posted on: October 12, 2025
Viper1613
Games: 61 Reviews: 1
Great game
Love replaying the game.. Sad that they didnt continue the series.
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Posted on: October 25, 2025
WanderingFrogg
Verified ownerGames: 227 Reviews: 6
Great City Builder
This is a great little city building game. I just loose myself for hours watching my little drones spring to live when there is stuff for them to do..
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