Race To Mars

If these guys are still going I think it might be time to white board this project. From one Dev to another 1. Run through the bugs and make a list (may need several boards). Forget cosmetic graphics at this time the core programming need the most attention graphics is secondary to all else just look at minecraft and remember they did a lot with 8 and 16 bit graphics, no one builds a AAA game over night 2. Don’t be afraid to ask for help the community may have the help you need, some have already paid to support it. But paid or not the community may be willing to lend a hand to make this project succeed just look at Apache or firefox. Don’t be a rob the builder (can we fix it … no its Fracked) and move on. 3. Project Management. Invest in a bug tracker most are open source (free) milestones help a lot and it shows the progress of development to the community and improves communication between dev and supporter. Forums Help but there not the be-all and end-all (Optional) lower the price your rep is bad enough and the slow progress ain’t helping the cause So at this time i would not recommend buying it but this might change in future (if an update is released before christmas) A few thoughts (mainly to the devs but its general): The motto I develop by is “By small and simple things are great things brought to pass” (got that from a religious door knocker but it works) The big picture looks good but building it, it’s like climbing Everest with your teeth you just freak out and start rocking in a corner saying this is not happening 50 times. Just take small steps and by the time you realise it your half way there So frequent small update are better then very long large update as it shows you still care about your project

18 months ago I bought it trusting on developers. But now I is clear that is a waste of time being waiting for updates. If you check the update list in this game you will see nothing just news lke: "we are fixing this, we fixed that' and nothing happens? From one dev to other: Nothing works, nothing is completed, no evolution in more than 18 months, YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED. Steam should ban companies and developers as you that only take money and do not deliver nothing. Stop to STEAL money from others. STEAMERS DO NOT BUY THIS GAME AND CHECK THE REVIEWS AND UPDATE HISTORY BEFORE BUY ANYGAME IN STEAM.

This game is terrible. Nothing can be clicked, all you can do is move to the next month. When I bought this game originally it had more functionality, now it's completely broken! Do NOT buy this game. It is a scam.

This game seems to have been completely abandoned by its developers, even though they maintain that another patch is coming. It hasn't been updated since April 2014. Time and time again we've been promised a patch at a certain date, only to get an apologetic sob story. Avoid this game. It is unplayable in its current state, and contrary to recent communication from the developer, no update seems to be forthcoming. Edit, June 2015. A patch was released in the month of March. It added a few non-essential things and broke parts of the game. The game is still unplayable. It is not even remotely finished. Avoid this game. Edit, May 2016. This game has received several updates as of late. The latest one actually managed to fix Mac support - it hasn't been working on Mac OS X for several months, so I've had the opportunity to check the state of the game for the first time this year. It is still far from a beta. It is hardly even an alpha. At the current pace I would surmise that the game might be in beta state somewhere in the middle of 2017. Avoid until someone actually posts a positive review. Edit, October 2017. Avoid. Do not buy. Completely abandoned by its developers.

Sadly this game really is early access - so early acces, that it's not in a usable state yet. This starts at the tutorial: The tutorial ends after explaining the interface - and then leaves you alone to find out what you are supposed to do. Out of all buildings available in the game only two or three are actually usable yet, all others only have a "graphical userinterface not yet implemented"-screen. The graphics are okay, just be aware that you'll never get to see something that isn't shown on the screenshots already: When you click the "End Turn" button in the upper right corner a night-day-cycle animation is played, and you'll see this animation quite often. About the game itself: I have no idea. It sounds promising, but the lack of tutorial definitely keeps you from actually playing (unless you like to figure out which technologies in a tech-tree you need to explore to get an actual result). Absolutely nothing in the menus has a comment on what it influences, some menus aren't even translated yet, and the few things that already work don't really do anything - e.g. Prestige-points: You can hold press-conferences, which increase or decrease your prestige in four different fields, depending on your answers to the reporters questions. But that's it - four numbers go up or down, and you have absolutely no idea what the point is. I guess it has something to do with your contracts and how much you earn from them, but for like everything else I'm left guessing. At the end of the day it's simply far too early for this game to exist on steam: Most other Early Access-Games are playable with not all content yet implemented, and a lot of bugs - this game doesn't seem to have lots of bugs, simply because nothing exists that could be bugged yet. Conclusion: I'm looking forward to the game, since the idea really looks promising, but I can't recommend buying this game YET. My recommendation: check again in two or three months, because at the moment you'll be heavily disappointed by spending 18,99€ (or the equivalent amount in your countries currency) on this game. I'll keep an eye on the game and check out if the updates improve it and will update my review.

I bought this game about a year and a half ago, because I liked the concept behind the game. By now I gave up hoping that this game will be playable in the foreseable future. I hoped that the company One More Level, would keep their idea of small weekly updates and a better communication. Right now this game starts and you can see the launch complex of your agancy and thats it. So there is nothing to do except enjoying the view and the music which you cannot turn up or down within the game. I payed $20 for this game during launch, so i think it is my right to demand better communication, even if they tell me that they canceled the game once and for all. I reccomend not buying this game as it is right now. Maybe when One More Level is stepping up their game

Years later, game has been banded from developer to developer and remains just placeholder art. Literally there is no game here and we have had no updates for 6 months. Save yourself the money. Go outside and jump, you'll have more chance of getting to Mars than with this POS EDIT: Amazing all these years later that Markiplier has sent people here. Add me!

I never post reviews. It is actually more of a comment on Steam at this point that this game is still available for sale. It's not usable software, let alone an actual game. There has been absolutely nothing from the (changed) devs in a year. This game represents everything Steam should be actively working against. It errodes my trust in their system, it leaves every player feeling scammed, and it raises very bad questions about whether the Early Access system is worth the risk to consumers, a risk that Steam seems to have ZERO interest in protecting us from, based on the continued presence of this game in their store.