Choose a sponsor, pick a landing zone, send your first supply rockets and establish a foothold on the Martian surface. Then keep it alive. Oxygen, water, power and food must be produced, stored and distributed across a growing network of pressurised domes and infrastructure. Dust storms knock out solar panels. Equipment breaks down. Colonists die from careless planning. Mars does not forgive mistakes — but it rewards patience and good engineering.

Surviving Mars is a colony-building strategy game that blends hard sci-fi planning with management sim depth. Before the first colonists arrive, players build automated drone infrastructure — extractors, factories, power lines — to prepare the planet for human habitation. When settlers arrive, each is a named individual with traits, skills and social needs that must be balanced inside domes. Mysteries hidden in the planet's surface unfold through random events and research discoveries. The Space Race expansion adds rival corporate and national colonies vying for the same resources and territory. Green Planet allows full terraforming of the Martian atmosphere. Below and Beyond opens subterranean cave exploration. The 2025 Relaunched update overhauled the UI and added the Martian Assembly endgame — a political system for shaping the colony's future laws and independence from Earth.

Key Features: • Pre-colonisation drone phase — build automated infrastructure before humans arrive • Named colonists with traits, skills and social needs · dome design and management • Mysterious anomalies and random events - Space Race rival colonies expansion • Green Planet terraforming · Below & Beyond underground caves • Relaunched (2025): overhauled UI + Martian Assembly political endgame system