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.

Main Features:


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.


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.


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.


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?


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.


A sleek, modern take on the bright futurism of the 1960s. A time of exploration and adventure.


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.

What future awaits humanity on its journey to the stars?

Discover the sandbox nature of retro-futuristic colonization adventure

Experience one of the biggest challenges that mankind has ever undertaken. Test your ability to plan for survival. As a part of a space agency-founded mission to Mars, you have to establish livable conditions. Determine the agency to go with, which will specify your cargo limit and funding, among other benefits.

One of the initial challenges of this colony builder is simply figuring out what you need to do and how you can do it. The realism of the heart of Surviving Mars is just unbelievable! Send a wave of adorable little drones to lay a foundation, set up mining facilities, gather resources, and set up domes that are actually habitable spaces for humans to live in.

Construct & plan your own Mars colony

As your handful of drones trundle down the ramp of your reusable rockets, your first job will be to place the prefabricated drone hub. Construct solar panels and connect them with power lines, find a source of concrete to dredge up, and start to turn water into fuel for the rockets to make the return trip. Learn that attention to detail and planning are vital to your success.

Gradually expand your base, making sure that there is a steady supply of water, oxygen, and power before building a habitable dome and then the accommodations and the services within. Manage your colonists, the flow of resources, and constantly expand your alien home.

Get some humans on the red planet

Running a huge Mars colony requires a variety of specialized professionals. You will need geologists down in the resource mining facility, engineers in the factories, and scientists in the research labs.

Make sure that your humans are kept busy and geared towards self-sufficiency: researching, building farms, mines, and fuel production lines, making mechanical parts, and more! Picking the colonists with the right specializations and character quirks is pretty important. Carefully filter all the applicants for your Martian expedition.

Finding yourself short of any one of the core resources can completely screw you over, causing a ripple effect through your colony if you arent flexible enough to deal with it.

Deal with the unpredictability of the mysteries of Mars

Surviving Mars features many unexpected hazards that increase the overall difficulty.

Are you ready to face the raw, brutal, and alien nature? There are dust storms that can blow through and disrupt your fragile infrastructure.

Prepare yourself for occasional meteor strikes and many mysteries of Mars itself. These narrative events (which are random by default, but can be specifically chosen or just turned off entirely if you dont want them) add an extra adversity for you to overcome.

Develop your technologies in various ways

Explore the fascinating research tree which gives you various technologies in a randomized order. Build larger domes, develop production instead of simply trading resources back to Earth, and improve your colonys efficiency.

Make significant scientific breakthroughs, sometimes unveiling bits of Mars mystery. Investigate the anomalies of the area that youre scanning. Manage a huge, sprawling colony and remember that all resources need to flow smoothly from one into the other to keep buildings in good maintenance.

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 days 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 colonys chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
 

The Digital Deluxe Edition of Surviving Mars provides ambitious colonists with a variety of new ways to customize their new homes and domes. New content, exclusive to the Deluxe Edition, includes:

• The Metropolis Building Set:
  Add some chrome to your dome with a shiny new visual upgrade to your infrastructure, providing you with chromatic skins for Oxygen Tanks, Water Towers, Fuel Refineries, and more.
• Additonal Radio Station, "Quantum Sonics" :
  An additional in-game radio station, with new music and chatter, comes exclusively with the Deluxe Edition.
• Onyx Housing Skins:
  Three alternative skins for residential housing structures allow you to add different flair and design to your colonies.
• Art Book:
  A 50+ page digital art book that give you a detailed look at the art and making of Surviving Mars.
• Deluxe avatar and icon for the Paradox forums.
• Wallpapers:
  Beautiful artwork from Surviving Mars to decorate your computer desktop.

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 days 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 colonys chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.