#Surviving mars review Patch

Not bad by any means - just a little frustratingly finicky, and not something I felt compelled to return to after reaching the midgame a handful of times. I’ll get to it: I found Surviving Mars a tiny bit disappointing when it was first released in March last year. It’s now coming up on 01:00hrs the next day: I had been anticipating a brief recon expedition, but much like the Opportunity rover, it seems my operating parameters have been dramatically extended.

My mission is to have a go on Green Planet, the new DLC for Surviving Mars, and I began operations at 16:00hrs. I’m eating potatoes because that’s what was left over from dinner, and the rest is because I work in a conservatory and it gets cold at night. Mars is completely barren, but we're building a seed stockpile already, and scoping out subsurface water. Sol 17, and the first 12 colonists have landed.

#Surviving mars review Patch

Suddenly, my whole perspective changes: it’ll be worth sacrificing any amount of sleep to see that patch of green spread. On one tiny scrap of Martian soil, exposed to that whole frigid desert, a dusting of lichen has taken root at last. I’ll have to set a new vaporator, and that’ll mean making new parts, which I’ll need metals and… yeah, it’s going to be a long night yet.īut then my eye catches on something else, and a new colour reflects on my glasses. My face looks haggard in that light, as I review the colony’s dwindling water stocks. Leaning forward to inspect my screen again, my face is lit with the dull red glow of the monitor - the same sombre ochre as the Martian surface. So I put another layer on, rub my hands to warm them, and press on with the mission. But there’s no way I can see them again, until I’ve solved a lot of problems I’m eating boiled potatoes yet again, and I miss my family like crazy. Despite the reflective sheeting I’ve hung up to insulate my workspace, night has long since fallen, and the heat is leaching from the glass walls. I’m trapped on Mars, and it’s getting cold.