Surviving Mars: Starter Bundle

A fun little management game, detailed graphics. Simplistic though and easily automated. Not much replayability, set it up and let it roll tbh. The sort of game where you can easily read a book at the same time. Think Pharaoh without the combat and detailed trade (yes there can be combat but it's simple) and trade can be handy at the start but money is never really an issue, trade appears to be a minor part.

Played it with standard difficulty (100%) and thought it was nice, but not challenging. Then activated a few of the difficulty settings, and now I'm at 500+ hours of gameplay. Also, the Green planet DLC is a must have, since it adds a few terraforming milestones which are very hard to reach. Since the game is open end, I mostly finish when terraforming is completed Finally, the game has a good modding community, and an easy ingame way to install mods, although one needs a paradox account to use that.

Colonize Mars before Elon

Is is so difficult to get anything done in this game because the UI, and overall feel of this game is so bad. Paradox has some of the worst UI amongst every developer I have ever witnessed. This game is so hard to follow, it is not worth playing for me. This could be a good game, if they completely reworked the UI from scratch. Space Haven does this type of game far better than Paradox. That is where I am going.