Occupy Mars: The Game

Clunky mechanics makes this game perfect for the 1990s. It's not so much 'mixed', as a complete fail.

Presque 40 heures de jeu et bien que prometteur, il y a trop de bug qui obligent à recharger pas mal en arrière. On aurait aimé un arbre technologique plus fournit et mieux équilibré (au moment où on accède aux minage et au rover, on en a plus besoin) J'aime mais trop de frustration, de répétitivité et de manque de contenu final font que je ne recommande ce jeu qu'en grosse promo car vous risquez de vite l'abandonner... au moins tant que les bugs ne seront pas corrigés.

Occupy Mars ist ein richtig geniales Spiel! Die Atmosphäre, das Überleben auf dem roten Planeten und die ganzen technischen Herausforderungen machen einfach süchtig. Man fühlt sich mittendrin, als würde man wirklich eine Marsbasis aufbauen. Ich hoffe sehr, dass das Spiel noch weiterentwickelt wird – da steckt so viel Potenzial drin! Mehr Inhalte, neue Features, wären der Hammer. Ich bleib auf jeden Fall dran!

Game is horribly buggy and slow. It is basically still in an EA state. Main parts of the game not or just barely working due to bugs. And you still run into things where you have the feeling it is still WIP. On top (on my system) it struggles to get 60FPS (with drops as low as 10FPS and sometimes freezes for over a second), while the CPU is at 10%, GPU at 20%, RAM at 50%, and VRAM at 40%. There is no excuse.

This game is incredible! I haven't found any other games being set on the Mars just like occupy Mars is. It's perfectly delivering how difficult it can be to live on the Mars and how rewarding it can be to just get new things and survive. 10/10. I can just recommend it.

I got it for $15 on sale, and I played at least 90+ hours. That's $0.16 per hour for entertainment of good quality. Haven't finished the main story yet. It's very playable on an older machine with 30 FPS. Conking out is rare, but does happen, Beyond this, very little problems. They could make it harder yet. I float within a day of gameplay playing single life. (that means all available, food+water+air+temp+power) It's fun for survival players, and it gives the feeling or truly being out there alone and doing your thing to survive, after it feels like breaking down of everything. Medium to good mechanics, could even be excellent, if not for the awkwardness of the camera during driving vehicles. That should be locked forward and freelook on key or such. Good physics, doing the lower gravity well, except ofc jumping, which is lousy like in most games or climbing. Even someone who's a lousy jumper could easily jump 1m upwards to even 1.5 straight up on Mars. But... It's not a requirement, and I still like the game. Tech tree is well done. Back to the game, writing this on a whim.

I played this game about 2 years ago, for 20 odd hours. I played this game just now for 30 mins, its almost identical to the game I played 2 years ago. What have they been doing all this time? Tutorial is the same, game start is the same, even has the exact same POI next to the starter pod, same tools, same resources, same go out and gather blueprint pads, same grind down stuff, everything is almost the same except they added chemistry. Same clunkyness, character movement is weird, sound effects are terrible, goes quiet by itself then returns to full volume, the UI is uninformative, even the tooltip only work half the time and literally just tell you what it is, not what its for or what it does, the hover over text is half invisible most of the time because the text is a light half faded colour, put a damn outline on it. Honestly for a v1.0 release its very disappointing, considering they have had years of development.