Per Aspera

Das Spiel super gut gemacht und die Geschichte finde ich gut. Weit so :-)

If you can forgive it for a few shortcomings in the user interface and combat that can be worked around you'll be able to enjoy this gem and its unique and well polished aesthetic. I often find myself playing at 1x speed instead of the insane x16 speed it offers, because it is fun to just take it slow and carefully look at where to grow and where to prune. This team has really achieved something with this game. My main gripe is with the road upgrading interface, which requires many clicks. I wish it just had a button or a shortcut and you could click the roads you want to upgrade. But no, you have to click on a building to reveal the upgrade button. Now you go into the traffic overlay to see what road needs paving, and the tool is suddenly canceled. The way around this is to not micromanage the roads, but rather to make an overall plan of where you want traffic to go, as the bots will follow the fastest path. You can also hold ctrl and click multiple buildings and easily connect them that way. Then there's the balancing issues. I've played the campaign twice and each time I ran out of aluminium. The solution is to start pruning parts of your base to regain the aluminium, but this wasn't really obvious as most games don't refund all your resources when doing this. The campaign makes me feel locked up, as it doesn't allow you to use the entire planet. It rushes you and takes control from you when you are having a chill time, and it punishes you and locks you up if you are going too fast. I've realized that playing sandbox is much better. Once you know the game you can always roleplay the campaign. Then there's the combat. It's just not fun. It's just throwing numbers at numbers, it's slow, it's not exciting. To me it appears as a hurried feature that should never have been added. It's just bolted on there in the campaign in order to create some drama but I think this was a mistake. It's best to just avoid the campaign when first playing as you'll be able to play peacefully then. As I mentioned before you can always roleplay it later and focus on the story, and then the military tech branch might be a fun little extra flavor. That being said, it looks and sounds and feels amazing, it's a game I occasionally return to because it has that unique thing, dare I say akin to Stronghold. There are plenty of well balanced, polished and well rounded Mars colony games out there that just don't offer you that spark.

A cool little city builder on Mars, you manage energy and progress through the range of production tiers with a thinly veiled plot somewhere in the background. I wanted to like it but got bored quite fast.

So they made it too Mars and got a colony going. Is this a different timeline where Elon Musk didnt exist ?

An exciting economic strategy game with a pleasant gameplay. The game evokes associations with dreams of the future and colonization of Mars, as in the 1990 film" Total Recall". Main save - before plot selection to see all three endings. Simple and pleasant achievement system.

[h2] "Terraform Mars" in der Sim City Variante! [/h2] Als künstliche Intelligenz AMI ist es unsere Aufgabe, den Mars zu terraformen und die ankommenden Siedler zu unterstützen. Mit der Zeit finden wir aber heraus, dass bei den Vorgängermissionen nicht alles so abgelaufen ist, wie unsere Erbauer es uns in die Speicherbänke geschrieben haben... Per Aspera ist grandioses Siedlungsspiel mit einen wirklich schönen Artstyle und packender Kampagne. Man spielt auf der echten Marskarte und kann schön beobachten, wie sich das Antlitz des Planeten mit der Zeit ändert. Wie in dem Genere üblich ist platziert man verschieden Gebäude, um Rohstoffe zu fördern und weiter zu verarbeiten. Dabei werden die Gebäude von den sogenannten Arbeiter, autark arbeitende Robotfahrzeuge, erbaut und mit nötigen Rohstoffen versehen. Ebenfalls erledigen diese nützlichen Helferleine auch den Transport von und zu den Gebäuden. Die dafür notwendigen Straßen werden automatisch vom Spiel angelegt. Man hat keine direkte Kontrolle über die Arbeiter und den Warenverkehr, die vom Computer gesteuert werden. Leider klappt das nicht immer ideal, was das Spiel für Kontrollfanatiker schwer verdaulich macht. Wenn man aber damit klar kommt, nur die grobe Richtung der Entwicklung zu überprüfen, bekommt man ein geniales Spiel mit stimmungsvoller Atmosphäre. Abgesehen von dieser Einschränkung ist das Game sehr zu empfehlen! 👍

Polecam

Good terraforming game, still not as good as plan B terraform though.