The Dark Side Of Mars

The Dark Side Of Mars

The Very Big Fish Games · January 24, 2023 · Singleplayer, First-Person, Horror, Sci-fi, Survival

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The Dark Side Of Mars price by region

The Dark Side Of Mars costs £0.89 in the United Kingdom, $0.90 in Georgia (USD), $0.99 in the United States, €0.99 in Europe (EUR), CA$1.29 in Canada, NZ$1.49 in New Zealand, A$1.50 in Australia, R$3.49 in Brazil and zł4.49 in Poland right now.

Cheapest The Dark Side Of Mars offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £0.89 £0.89 — 1
Georgia (USD) $0.90 $0.90 — 1
United Statesyour region $0.99 $0.99 — 1
Europe (EUR) €0.99 €0.99 — 1
Canada CA$1.29 CA$1.29 — 1
New Zealand NZ$1.49 NZ$1.49 — 1
Australia A$1.50 A$1.50 — 1
Brazil R$3.49 R$3.49 — 1
Poland zł4.49 zł4.49 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

About The Dark Side Of Mars

✦ AI summary

Escape the Mars facility as head of security Conroy by collecting key cards and a space suit while avoiding deadly creatures in this survival horror maze. With limited stamina and flashlight battery, you'll need to find audio logs, memorize layouts, and strategically lose your pursuers to survive.

STORY
In the near future man has discovered a cave system on Mars. In it they found plant life but after testing the plants mysterious water source they accidentally unleashed a terrible disease. In The Dark Side Of Mars you play as the Red Arc Facility's head of security Mr Conroy and all you have to do is escape, by finding the key cards and space suit.

GAME PLAY
The Dark Side Of Mars is a survival horror game where you need to find your way though one big maze that is the Red Arc Facility. You need to Find four Key cards and one Space Suit to escape the facility alive. You can discover audio logs around the map revealing what really happened as you explore.

But be careful because something is roaming around and they kill anything human, some enemies run and some relentlessly follow you, loose sight of them to make them give up. All you have is a flash light, Your battery dies quickly and recharges slowly and so does your stamina.

FEATURES
The game is one big maze so make sure you take notes!Sprint from danger!Duck under half open doors to escape!Use your flashlight to light the way!But be careful! You tire fast and recover slow and your flashlight battery dies quickly and powers back up slowly!

CONTROLSController support is active but menus and pause screens can only be navigated using mouse and keyboard.

The Dark Side Of Mars — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

The Dark Side Of Mars receives mixed reactions from players, with some appreciating it as a solid short horror experience while others find it marred by technical issues and design problems. Common complaints include poor optimization (unfix able resolution and motion blur settings), awkward protagonist movement and stamina mechanics, and monsters that are either poorly rendered or unintentionally funny rather than frightening.

Not recommended Jan 25, 2023
Did you ever wonder why colonizing Mars is estimated to be so incredible expensive? This game finally provides an adequate answer: There is simply too much space in a Mars station! The protagonist directly experiences pure human extravangance by walking through a tremendous amount of rooms that are filled with... nothing! Wait, did we see a desk with a computer? Nice, computers are surely benefitial in a station on Mars! So what does this other room feature? A... plastic sculpture? Nevermind, it becomes quite apparent that the protagonist is actually a drunken sailor with lung cancer. He basically can't walk straight, can only run a few seconds before experiencing serious health problems and sounds like a chainsmoking Darth Vader. While the physical condition of the protagonist might sound problematic for surving murdering creatures on a Mars station it actually isn't a real problem since you can just walk away from them. You might ask youself why the other (now dead) people in the station just didn't do that? Maybe they somehow underestimated the creatures since they do look oddly weak on first sight. It might be quite possible that the crew members just thought something like:…
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Not recommended Mar 29, 2023
Right off the bat, i could tell this game wasn't going to be a good experience when i paused it to tried to Fix the Resolution, motion blur, and the sound. None of which i could fix by the way. Realizing this and trying to exit back into the game just caused more problems as now the pause menu was just stuck over the actual game. Actually playing the game felt more funny than scary. At first, i didn't even recognize the monster as it was just a red blur popping in and out of existence, and even the monster where the first keycard was just a funny walking animation. I was more scared of the MC's voice and a distant monster that was sitting meditatively which turned out to just be a plant. This game should be more like Five Nights at Freddy's.
2 found this helpful
Recommended Feb 27, 2023
Pretty solid short horror game, only thing was i felt the movement was a bit off. ♥♥♥♥ myself when one of the sliding doors first opened lmao.
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