Mars Base
Khuong Le · 2022 · Farming Sim, Exploration, Mars, Pixel Graphics, Character Customization
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About Mars Base
Welcome to Mars, adventurer! You have been selected to join the latest Mars colonization mission, establishing a permanent human presence on the enigmatic Red Planet. Your assignment is at Mars Base, located in the scenic Erebus Montes region on the Amazonis Planitia. Your job? Make sure that our nascent colony can sustain itself through agriculture. Achieve the impossible and convert the harsh Martian soil into arable land, to grow everything the colonists need to survive. If successful, you'll mark the beginning of Human-Martian history.
However, never forget that you'll be working tens of millions of kilometers away from Earth. Resupply is not an option for the most dangerous gardening job ever.
The scenic Erebus Montes region is located in one of the most fascinating regions of Mars, with a rich geological history. Mars Base will be tasked with digging into this rich history and help humanity understand our next home a little better.
- The base is a living organism, with dozens of facilities. You will have access to all the necessary essentials upon landing, including crafting facilities, research labs, solar power plants, and your trusty greenhouses.
- Every colonist has something to share. Be sure to interact with your fellow expedition members to learn their stories and see if you can't help them with their tasks. Teamwork!
- More colonists will join you at the base every two Earth years, bringing with them more job expertise and assisting in growing Mars Base. See it grow from an outpost to humanity's first extraterrestrial city!
As the expedition's main botanist, you'll be responsible for turning a dead planet into a living one, a planter at a time. The other colonists will certainly appreciate your tireless labor to keep them fed and alive.
- Martian soil can be toxic and barren, so botanists have to get creative. Starting with raw resources supplied by fellow colonists on a daily basis, you'll be able to gradually turn this sterile land into something much more suited for life to thrive.
- A colonist does not live on “poo-tatoes” alone. Expand agriculture endeavors to provide a variety of crops and provide them with all the necessary micronutrients. Scurvy is not fun - and positively lethal when in the red variety instead of yellow.
- Utilize a broad range of tools to succeed, from modular planters that can be combined in an infinite variety of configurations to autonomous robots to automate much of the labor.
Mars is more than just humanity's first foothold in the stars. It is also endless wind-swept plains and cyclopean mountains above ground, gigantic pyroducts and vast caverns below, as well as the most hostile environment humanity has set foot upon. Grow your crops, pack them for the journey, and venture out beyond the safe perimeter of Mars Base to explore the Red Planet!
- If you brave the dust storms on the surface and the undiscovered mysteries of the underground, you will gain access to valuable resources for crafting tools and supplies. You might even help further the mission's scientific research goals while you're at it.
- Crafting is essential. Bring back those resources and see what can be made to help you survive the challenges of Mars - or grow your agricultural projects instead!
- During down time, don your iconic chef hat and whip up Martian-cooked meals with freshly grown produce, race Mars rovers for research, or build rockets to explore other celestial bodies beyond the red horizon.
- Settle into your assigned living space - a fully customizable home base - to catch up on sleep after a hard day’s work. We would like all colonists to remember that, on Mars, while sleep may be optional, work is not.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This game has the potential to be very good. At the moment, though, it is not worth purchasing. To put it lightly, the game is incredibly unintuitive, almost to the point of being unplayable, and certainly to the point of being not particularly enjoyable. One of the basic mechanics of this game is planting, and I kept thinking I was doing something wrong when I tried to figure out how to plant. Because I got information about planting from a character in the lab, and at approximately the same time I got a plan for a bio park or something, I assumed that would be where I would plant. But I needed grown crops to make the plastic to make the bio park, so what gives? Turns out I needed to sleep another couple of nights before the farmer showed up to give me the blueprint for the greenhouse, which was where I ended up farming. Luckily, while I was searching the Steam forum trying to figure out how to get farming, I found out that if you press the Y button, you’re given a whole bunch of stuff, so I ended up getting a pretty good haul of crap to get me started. When farming you use L to go into the crop menu and press A and D to cycle between crops, then L again to select and either c…7 found this helpful
More guidance in the beginning to show what is expected, how to find items and other tasks. It sucks it doesn't have that because I get to the point where I'm frustrated and want to give up. Players get stuck between the first to and masses with quest that have no hints where to find anything. Very frustration. This game had potential. They need to update this game to make it player friendly.5 found this helpful
Don't waste your time on this game. There are MUCH better games out there that has you building a base on Mars. This game feels like it is still in early access and has been abandon. Controls are clunky, games has bugs ( go to turn in a quest and the NPC says there are no other quests but the quest items they asked for are still in your bag). getting the bare basic materials is hit and miss when you "mine" the planet for them or once you can "fly" into space you play a mini game similar to asteroids to get a very small quantity of materials)4 found this helpful
This game has a pretty fun start, Stardew on mars, but falls way short of Stardew Valley. Its like they quit or ran out of time & left a promising game...BROKEN. Stay Away.
[h1]Unplayable mess[/h1] TLDR: unless they majorly fix it, don't bother with this one. I've had this one on the wishlist for a while and despite the mixed reviews decided to give it a shot. It's got the elements that tickle my fancy: sci-fi, farming, exploration and invention. But unfortunately, whomever coded this must have used their rear to do so. If you have used any other program on your computer? The game won't launch, just stick at 'running' on the in-library page. Restart the comp, launch Steam and the game? Kinda works. But then you come to the suit/character creation and it just freaking crashes to the desktop if you press the wrong button or spend too long in the character editor. Yes, it still has potential, but the technical maladies just tank this one. Refund requested and I urge you not to spend money on it unless it gets majorly fixed.
the game is very interesting especially using the concept of the planet mars. I really like this game the game is very exciting !
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