The Martian Job
Choice of Games · 2018 · Adventure, RPG, Indie, Choices Matter, Female Protagonist
PC
Mixed45% · 11
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About The Martian Job
Rob the first Martian casino and find out who really rules the planet! Crack a safe, break some hearts, start a revolution, or get rich beyond the stars!
The Martian Job is a 155,000-word interactive novel by M. Darusha Wehm. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Welcome to Mars, where one last safecracking job could nab you enough platinum to last a lifetime. But how will you pull off your heist? Do you hack into the vault, blast your way in, or finesse the locks? Can you trust your misfit team of grifters and con artists? Can they trust you?
Succeed in your mission and win power, love, and money—or fail and spend the rest of your life tending bar on another planet. Pay enough attention, and you’ll learn about the corrupt Martian government as you go—along with the rebels who oppose it and the corporation trying to take it over. Will you choose to save the planet’s troubled colonists, or use the information for your own gain? You’ll also encounter opportunities to avenge an old comrade, thwart the machinations of a power-hungry tycoon, or start a revolution. Decide where your loyalty lies: with your team, with Mars, or only with yourself.
Can you shape the destiny of humanity’s first interplanetary colony—and walk away with a trunk full of platinum?
The Martian Job is a 155,000-word interactive novel by M. Darusha Wehm. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Welcome to Mars, where one last safecracking job could nab you enough platinum to last a lifetime. But how will you pull off your heist? Do you hack into the vault, blast your way in, or finesse the locks? Can you trust your misfit team of grifters and con artists? Can they trust you?
Succeed in your mission and win power, love, and money—or fail and spend the rest of your life tending bar on another planet. Pay enough attention, and you’ll learn about the corrupt Martian government as you go—along with the rebels who oppose it and the corporation trying to take it over. Will you choose to save the planet’s troubled colonists, or use the information for your own gain? You’ll also encounter opportunities to avenge an old comrade, thwart the machinations of a power-hungry tycoon, or start a revolution. Decide where your loyalty lies: with your team, with Mars, or only with yourself.
Can you shape the destiny of humanity’s first interplanetary colony—and walk away with a trunk full of platinum?
- Play as non-binary, female, or male, as ace/aro or as monogamous or poly, and find romance with people of all genders.
- Raid the first casino on Mars.
- Master real casino games like blackjack and roulette.
- Lead a crack team of expert thieves, or sell out anyone for a shard of platinum.
- Infiltrate the center of Martian power to control, destroy, or join forces with the planet’s rulers.
- Start a revolution to topple the government, or defeat the rebels from within.
- Dominate the corporate world with an elite interplanetary industrialist, force him out of business, or execute a hostile takeover.
- Control the future of humanity on another planet!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
SO frustrating- trying to pick the middle ground ever lead almost exclusively to failure, there was no chance to build relationships so if you were like "let me wait and see" it feels like you get locked out of that option forever, and it feels like whatever you choose it doesn't matter. Even though I consistently chose to try to help the rebellion [spoiler]in the end Jammer and Nalani just said "no we should give it to the Mars Consortium" like why the ♥♥♥♥ did we bother to get the microbes if we can't even choose what to do with them?[/spoiler] Ultimately it felt like waiting after every choice to see how you failed this time for reasons that felt impossible to predict and disjointed from the overall story. There was no sense of cause or effect or like anything you did mattered. The game pulled you along to whatever place it had predetermined you should be. More of a personal take but knowing full well the inherent dorkiness of CYOA games this one didn't ♥♥♥♥ even a little bit. Was just kind of lame and didn't really have much cool or creative to it. The writing was very subpar and heavy handed too like at one point there was a line like "you saw the options spreading out befor…1 found this helpful
It's really interesting, could do with an expansion on the story as a whole with more content but for what it is, it's short and sweet. My only two complaints is that the stats don't really feel like they matter as long as you're doing things you have 55% and above for, it'd be nice if you got bigger stat boosts for things and specialized a little more in certain areas. And [spoiler] the conversations with Mads while rekindling your romance seem very unnatural for everything that happened in the past. The dialogue was just strange but not super unpleasant. [/spoiler]1 found this helpful
Honestly? Just a bit dull. The writing is decent but no more than decent, the gameplay doesn't feel like it ever asks you to make any choice more strategic than "pick best skill", the characters are... flat.
Feels right Shiny, Captain
This text-based adventure game is fun and interesting and well-written. It's a science fiction story about a heist, with drama and romance elements. The included characters are diverse with regards to genders, sexual orientation and ethnicity, and you are free to choose your own gender and sexual orientation for the romance elements of the story. I really appreciate that, but I have seen that it has caused a lot of bad reviews. So if you prefer games that are only for white males with mainly white male characters (and some sexy females for the guys to ogle), you might not like this game.
Boring, Time consuming and your actions are meaningless
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