The Martian VR Experience

The Martian VR Experience

The Third Floor, Inc · November 15, 2016 · Simulation, Adventure, Casual, VR

Buy The Martian VR Experience from Steam at $4.99 — the cheapest of 1 store we compare.

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lowest tracked $3.99
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The Martian VR Experience price by region

The Martian VR Experience costs £3.99 in the United Kingdom, $4.99 in the United States, €4.99 in Europe (EUR), $4.99 in Georgia (USD), CA$5.69 in Canada, NZ$6.29 in New Zealand, R$10.89 in Brazil and zł17.99 in Poland right now.

Cheapest The Martian VR Experience offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £3.99 £3.99 — 1
United Statesyour region $4.99 $4.99 — 1
Europe (EUR) €4.99 €4.99 — 1
Georgia (USD) $4.99 $4.99 — 1
Canada CA$5.69 CA$5.69 — 1
New Zealand NZ$6.29 NZ$6.29 — 1
Brazil R$10.89 R$10.89 — 1
Poland zł17.99 zł17.99 — 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.

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About The Martian VR Experience

The Martian VR Experience is a truly out-of-this-world, interactive and immersive adventure, with viewers participating from astronaut Mark Watney’s perspective, performing tasks to facilitate his chances for survival. Viewers can fly onto the surface of Mars, steer at zero gravity through space, drive a rover navigating over craters, and experience key scenes from the hit film in a 360-degree virtual reality environment. The Martian VR Experience is executive produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Robert Stromberg. It debuted at CES 2016, was accepted into the New Frontier Program at Sundance, and is the recipient of the Cannes Silver Lion in Digital Craft as well as the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) Next VR Award. Winning 2 Golden Globe Awards® (Motion Picture and Actor for Matt Damon), and nominated for a third (Director for Ridley Scott), The Martian is Ridley Scott’s highest-grossing domestic movie.

The Martian VR Experience — 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

Players largely agree this game falls short of expectations, delivering only about 20 minutes of content that functions more as a cheap movie advertisement than a standalone experience, with most time spent watching 2D film footage rather than engaging gameplay. Common complaints include poor performance requiring excessive RAM, janky mechanics, and an overall sense that the product should be free rather than paid, though a few players appreciated brief moments of visual effort and the rover driving segment. The core frustration is the massive missed potential given the beloved source material

Not recommended Jun 12, 2020
Doesn't really do what it says on the tin. There are 20 minutes of this. Most of that time is spent watching film footage in 2d.
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Not recommended Apr 23, 2020
This is basicly an interactive trailer for the movie. Im a big fan of the movie and an even bigger fan of the book and i gotta tell you this is just horrid. it so cheap and short it should be free
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Recommended May 11, 2025
I beat the whole game 10/10
Not recommended Oct 21, 2023
2 fps EDIT: this review was made with 16gb of ram, I have since upgraded to 64 gigs and the FPS goes up to 90-120. This game is hogging as much ram as it can, so that's why everybody has low frames, am I going to recommend it? No, it should be free, mechanics are jank, the only part I liked was driving the rover, and it should not take 64 gigs of ram to get a good framerate.
Not recommended Dec 27, 2020
Too bad... This is probably my favorite BOOK of all time. The movie was ok but poor casting and pacing made it underwhelming. The book is just a different animal - its a light hearted techno thriller vs the action movie Hollywood tried to produce. And this "experience" is nothing but a 10 minute advertisement / summary of the movie. Basically its a handful of key moments of the story with 2D clips and 4 (give or take based on definition of game) interactive mini games in between. That being said, you feel mostly disappointed because of the potential this could have had. The visuals clearly had some effort go into them and, for a few seconds (literally), in a few key spots it actually does enhance the overall book if you are a fan. The opening walking to the door is neat, first mini game (sorting) is terrible but the room itself was well done, crane mini game was ok, driving was actually kind of fun, ship thing was ok and the space part was pretty fun. All very restricted and all very, very short. But the designing of the rooms / environments were good enough that i just wondered why bother when they really did nothing with it. I typically don't mind spending a few do…
Not recommended Apr 16, 2020
NO!!

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