News Surviving Mars - Green Planet Expansion OUT now

prudis

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The Green Planet expansion will give players the power to turn the Red Planet green with terraforming elements, alongside a host of other improvements to the core gameplay.


Make Mars habitable and build a second home for humanity in Surviving Mars: Green Planet.

Terraforming
Terraform Mars and make the hostile planet habitable for humanity. Each decision you make while managing your colony can affect the Terraforming Parameters, which include the Atmosphere, Temperature, Water, and Vegetation, and ideally brings them closer to habitable levels. Monitor your progress on a planetary scale with the Planetary Overview UI.

Green Mars
Seed the surface of Mars with various lichen, grass, shrubs, or trees and watch as they begin to turn the Red Planet green. Low maintenance plants like Lichen can improve the soil quality to help more complex plants grow while Trees produce high seed yields for your colony to harvest. Be sure to monitor your soil quality levels to keep your plants healthy and growing.

Special Projects
Take on seven challenging Special Projects like melting the polar caps, capturing ice asteroids, launching a space mirror, and more to begin shifting the Terraforming Parameters. Be careful, these projects will have a lasting impact on the planet and can trigger natural disasters!

7 New Wonders of Mars
Construct seven new buildings that can help you terraform the planet or capitalize on the changes. Use the GHG factory to release greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, the Forestation Plant to boost vegetation production, the Water Pump to fill lake bed, and more.

Climate Calamities
Terraforming a planet can have unexpected consequences. If you release too many greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere you can trigger acid rain which reduces soil quality, or if an asteroid slams into the planet it will cause a Marsquake that can disrupt your colony’s production.

 

StereoVSN

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What I would like to see in one of these terraforming Mars games are nuclear reactor options from fission to fusion. It's kind of silly to think that colonists would do just solar on Mars considering the amount of sunlight is so much less.
 

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I had Surviving Mars on my wishlist but the initial response was "mixed" on Steam.

Now I see that it's "mostly positive." I can't even think of an expansion because the initial game was met with a lukewarm reception.

Can I safely assume that they got it all together? I just finished a Rimworld playthrough that put me at 50 hours to build the ship and leave the planet. Love Prison Architect. Love Oxygen Not Included (will be exiting EA soon).

Where does Surviving Mars fit within this scope of simulations?
 

lashman

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Is the game content complete now? Or are there more dlc planned?
definitely more DLC coming ... but the game has been complete since release

just like all other Paradox games

think of all that DLC as expansions, not essentials