I'm loving this game. It's somewhat easy to play (has a learning curve, but the tutorial makes it easy), and it manages to be relaxing and slow-paced and at the same time demands a lot of attention and care to planing, adverting disasters, keeping your colonies safe and well supplied. A true time-sink.

Personaly, I love the retro-futurist aesthetics and the plausible Sci-Fi setting.

Like other colony building games, you don't have direct control of your colonists, but you can control drones and RC vehicles. I've seen some complaint on how the colonists are a pain to manage, but I found out if you give them enough space and services, and place them near where they need to work, everything will work out smoothly.

The game runs excellently in Ubuntu Linux, as I haven't encountered any of the glitches other reviews speak off. I appreciate Paradox for consistently supporting my OS of choice.


As with other games published by Paradox, Surviving Mars has a bunch of DLC. I got the game on sale, and bought the First Colony bundle, so I'm kind of Ok with what I payed, but wouldn't advise buying the DLC full price, some of them are just cosmetic changes, and you can find better "radio stations" than "Marsvision" or "Quantum Sonic" in the workshop. The only DLCs I recommend are the Colony Design Set and Space Race (and this one hesitantly), but skip the Deluxe Upgrade Pack and Marsvision.

We'll see what Green Planet brings in when it's released.


I've been playing 2 race games set in a Mars colony, Vector 36 and Desert Child, both are good and available on Steam. May want to get either so you can race in a martian colony when you get tired of managing it.

[h1]Very good Colony Survival game[/h1] I'm loving this game. It's somewhat easy to play (has a learning curve, but the tutorial makes it easy), and it manages to be relaxing and slow-paced and at the same time demands a lot of attention and care to planing, adverting disasters, keeping your colonies safe and well supplied. A true time-sink. Personaly, I love the retro-futurist aesthetics and the plausible Sci-Fi setting. Like other colony building games, you don't have direct control of your colonists, but you can control drones and RC vehicles. I've seen some complaint on how the colonists are a pain to manage, but I found out if you give them enough space and services, and place them near where they need to work, everything will work out smoothly. The game [b]runs excellently in Ubuntu Linux, as I haven't encountered any of the glitches other reviews speak off. I appreciate Paradox for consistently supporting my OS of choice.[/b] [h1] Warning: Pricey DLCs[/h1] As with other games published by Paradox, Surviving Mars has a bunch of DLC. I got the game on sale, and bought the First Colony bundle, so I'm kind of Ok with what I payed, but wouldn't advise buying the DLC full price, some of them are just cosmetic changes, and you can find better "radio stations" than "Marsvision" or "Quantum Sonic" in the workshop. The only DLCs I recommend are the Colony Design Set and Space Race (and this one hesitantly), but skip the Deluxe Upgrade Pack and Marsvision. We'll see what Green Planet brings in when it's released. [h1]For a little extra inmersion[/h1] I've been playing 2 race games set in a Mars colony, Vector 36 and Desert Child, both are good and available on Steam. May want to get either so you can race in a martian colony when you get tired of managing it.