Surviving Mars Review - Worthabuy?

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[sirfinleygaming]

is there mining and grinding, and mining and grinding?

[WorthABuyreviews]

If you do take the plunge and buy this game I strongly recommend you watch a few tutorials or lets plays as the game has a bit of a learning curve, I took to it pretty easy but I read that a lot of people are struggling.

[Sophistry]

Why wouldn't there be wind on Mars? It's got an atmosphere. The atmosphere is piddly thin at 0.6% of Earth's, so the wind wouldn't be a strong as on Earth. But it is still there.

[kevinjhonson]

Just picked it up for $11 on steam. If you were on the fence grab it now. I’m having fun. It’s a nice relaxing hide from the world for 6 hours kind of game.

[SickLiq]

So bleh = I'm really having fun with it? Glad I stayed till the end? Or did i misunderstand that intro.

[kurisu]

Despite dlc doldrums, paradox games are just some of the most complex, satisfying games out there. Worth a buy any day

[ViperEye]

3:58

Boils down to realism, plenty of space nuts out there, myself included, who don't mind setting up a sustainable colony based on hard science. Solar and nuclear power generators would be the way to go at first. Mars itself has no magnetic field to protect against solar radiation. Means the first settlers would probably move underground or use extra dirt/ice/water layers _if_ set up on the surface. The soil is way different (toxic), harder to grow a food supply, lot of things that make the early colony days quite difficult...

But you sacrifice or ignore a few of these details for the fun and visuals, i get that. Much like "The Martian" made a dust storm powerful enough to rip a radar dish off and make it a projectile, in order to get the story going. Still love it either way.

[daemonthorn]

Actually, there IS wind on Mars. In real life is has been thanks to the occasional dust devil cleaning the dust from the rover's solar panels, that has kept the rover going as long as it has.

[AlgaeEater]

I always love the quiet whispery voice you do in the beginning lol

[stimskills]

Thanks for everything you do Mack. You make my day so much better when a review drops.

[matthewbassett]

Love hearing you talk about games you like almost as much as the ones you don't

[ross.metcalf]

This game is free on the epic store in 1 week!

[RodCurrie]

For anyone reading this in 2022 who still hasn't played Surviving Mars yet... The game is currently free on Prime gaming for Amazon Prime members: "For a limited time only, get the full game on the Epic Games Store. This offer is applicable to PC only. Prime members have the ability to claim Surviving Mars until April 1, 2022."

[Madetolast]

This came just in time! Saw this on steam buy no reviews. EXCELLENT TIMING 👌👌

[mmgbtv]

After this game came out, your channel was my first stop to get a first impression.

[Siptom]

After watching this I think I'll play another round of Planetbase

[reenapandey]

Mack for God's sake please put back the Witcher 3 review.

[Luredreier]

3:85
Actually there *is* wind on Mars, and while the amount of power you'd be able to extract with wind power is significantly lower then on Earth, the same holds true for solar power, and wind power would produce the most power exactly when solar power would produce the least so those two cancel eachother out.
Also it's more likely that we'd be able to produce wind power fairly early on while solar power in reality (not the game) would require quite a bit more infrastructure to set up.
(Although granted, there's some experiments that's been done with the idea of just essentially baking the soil into a crude solar power of sorts with some chemistry, but there you'd get even *less* power out of it)

But yeah, the game is pretty neat. =)
Have you tried the other Paradox games out there?
Crusader Kings 2 with the way of life DLC is probably my own favorite, but I also enjoy Stellaris (without the latest patch) and Hearts of Iron 4. =)

[SteveGeary]

Feels like an expanded version of 'Planetbase'.

[poeticpursuits]

It is free on Epic Games next week, so I came back to this WAB, glad I had not bought it yet. Excited to play it.