Epic Games has announced that Surviving Mars is currently free on its store. As such, PC gamers can acquire their free copy today, and until October 17th, by visiting its Epic Games Store page.
Surviving Mars is a sci-fi city builder all about colonizing Mars and surviving the process. Players can choose a space agency for resources and financial support before determining a location for their colony. Moreover, players will build domes and infrastructure, research new possibilities and utilize drones to unlock more elaborate ways to shape and expand their settlement. Players will also cultivate their own food and mine minerals.
Here are the game’s key features:
Building a sustainable colony in space
Building on a planet not fit for human life challenges you to build a smart, functional colony. Bad planning isn’t about traffic jams, it’s about survival of your colonists. You really don’t want rolling blackouts in a city constructed in a place without oxygen.
Individually simulated colonists
Each colonist is a unique individual with problems and strengths that influence the needs and behavior of the other colonists. Things can get really interesting if your chief scientists develops alcoholism after one too many long nights in the lab.
Futuristic Space Dome construction
Retro-futuristic super structures housing colonists, factories and commercial buildings with their own “neighborhood personality.” Create colonies that value science over everything else, while tired workers drink their pay away at a local bar, or attempt a utopia among the stars.
Exploration of Mars’ secrets
Inspired by the classic sci-fi of Asimov and Clarke, Surviving Mars holds many secrets. During each playthrough players may encounter one of Mars’ individually crafted mysteries. Uncovering these secrets might bring your colony great fortune, or terrible ruin. What is that sphere that manifested itself outside colony HUB B, and is it friendly?
Randomized research tree
Combine static and random research through experimentation, which allows for a different experience for each journey through the game. Attain new scientific breakthroughs by exploring the uncharted terrain of Mars’s surface.
Next week, Epic Games will be offering Observer and Alan Wake American Nightmare for free.
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Surviving mars would’ve been excellent if the ressource management wasn’t such TRASH. Omfg i hate it just because of that. Otherwise god this game was fun.
What’s the problem?
Gonna make it short. You can’t have all your ressources in one place and benefit from that same warehouse from far far away.
Managing stockpiles is part of the fun.
Observer for me!
Agreed, you should really be under observation.
Awww, you poor troll.
Hello Fernando
Fernando, Kim, Tim …..
There are too many.
Love the Epic store, everything is free :p
Epic, make piracy great again.
Epic is amazing! Great store, great exclusives. I’ve bought so many…no wait. I have a bunch of free games in my queue that will never be installed.
Agreed, I download all the free games they give just to not play them, maybe in a couple years.
I’d been waiting for Inside to go on sale for a long time. I’m glad for it.
That’s great. I’ve played most of what they offer. I know it’s great for a lot of people.
Alan Wake AN I finished on a 360. Ouch. Lol
Free hongkong. Forget China. And and forget Timmy Tencent and Epic. Don’t support them.
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EGS spyware ? Not even for free…
even if epic gives red dead redemption 2 for free , i still ain’t gonna install this abomination epic launcher ? ,tim sweeney stop wasting money and focus only on Fortnite
Imagine being such a worthless peasant pretend PC gamer that you are swayed by “free games” that you could just earn the money to buy.
Every single one of those games has been obtainable for $12 or less.
I got Surviving Mars and Observer both in Humble Bundle. $12. I bought Alan Wake AM 8 years ago when it was new and it’s been like $5 for both Wake games every year since then.
Literally the only game they’ve ever had free on EGS that I don’t own, is Subnautica. And I’ll wait for that to be in HB as well.
And I’ve gotta tell you, I’ve bought exactly 3 games this year on purpose – RE2R, Monster Hunter World, and DMC5 yesterday. The rest came from Humble.