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Mars Base

Welcome to Mars Base, humanity’s foothold on the Red Planet! Join the expedition as an interstellar botanist and make history: turn barren soil into fertile farmland, grow food for colonists’ tables, and unearth the secrets of Mars! Are you ready to science the “crop” out of everything?

Storyline

Welcome to Mars, adventurer! You have been selected to join the latest Mars colonization mission, establishing a permanent human presence on the enigmatic Red Planet. Your assignment is at Mars Base, located in the scenic Erebus Montes region on the Amazonia Planitia. Your job? Make sure that our nascent colony can sustain itself through agriculture. Achieve the impossible and convert the harsh Martian soil into arable land, to grow everything the colonists need to survive. If successful, you'll mark the beginning of Human-Martian history. However, never forget that you'll be working tens of millions of kilometers away from Earth. Resupply is not an option for the most dangerous gardening job ever.

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35 Steam reviews

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Steam User 9225STEAMRecommended

Mar 10, 2025·5h·Verified

Steam User 2057STEAMNot recommended

Don't waste your time on this game. There are MUCH better games out there that has you building a base on Mars. This game feels like it is still in early access and has been abandon. Controls are clunky, games has bugs ( go to turn in a quest and the NPC says there are no other quests but the quest items they asked for are still in your bag). getting the bare basic materials is hit and miss when you "mine" the planet for them or once you can "fly" into space you play a mini game similar to asteroids to get a very small quantity of materials)

Mar 2, 2025·2h·4·Verified

Steam User 1645STEAMNot recommended

The game has a bug on the dialogs that doens't allow you to start acces the quests.
Hydroponic greenhouse has a bug that crashes the game

May 25, 2024·5h·Verified

Steam User 8293STEAMRecommended

Jogo divertido, gostei muito, porém do nada crasha e quando tento voltar só aparece que está executando mas não abre a tela do jogo, por favor arrumem isso!!!

Feb 11, 2024·14h·2·Verified

Steam User 4839STEAMNot recommended

捆绑包买的-85%我都觉得不值。创意想法有一点，都体现在商店截图上了，开发执行太差劲。下载包80.99MB震撼我一整年，非常缺乏上手指引，界面和操作惨不忍睹。进入游戏后全屏没有鼠标，切换输入法时不小心进入到窗口模式才出现。在领英网上发现作者和开发公司和我同城，感觉挺有缘分，本来想勉强给个好评，但是良心上实在过不去。说起来作者也是科班出身，毕业这么多年了，身处公司高位，这水平或者态度实在与之不匹配。知不足而奋进，望远山而力行。

Dec 5, 2023·Verified

Steam User 2298STEAMRecommended

очень похоже на стардьювейли, правда запускается 1 раз из 5ти почему то %(

Jul 28, 2023·4h·2·Verified

Steam User 8733STEAMNot recommended

This game has the potential to be very good. At the moment, though, it is not worth purchasing.

To put it lightly, the game is incredibly unintuitive, almost to the point of being unplayable, and certainly to the point of being not particularly enjoyable.

One of the basic mechanics of this game is planting, and I kept thinking I was doing something wrong when I tried to figure out how to plant. Because I got information about planting from a character in the lab, and at approximately the same time I got a plan for a bio park or something, I assumed that would be where I would plant. But I needed grown crops to make the plastic to make the bio park, so what gives? Turns out I needed to sleep another couple of nights before the farmer showed up to give me the blueprint for the greenhouse, which was where I ended up farming.

Luckily, while I was searching the Steam forum trying to figure out how to get farming, I found out that if you press the Y button, you’re given a whole bunch of stuff, so I ended up getting a pretty good haul of crap to get me started.

When farming you use L to go into the crop menu and press A and D to cycle between crops, then L again to select and either click or use space to plant. But if you press the corresponding number of the crop (1-0) you can’t use A or D to cycle, and if you have selected the crop then A and D will move you. It would be much easier to use scroll or another button to move between the selected crops.

In order to get to your any kind of menu, you have to go into your main menu using either M or Esc, then go into the build or inventory or player menu. There’s an item menu but equipable items are never there.

When you’re assigned quests in order to track them they go under the character that assigned them to you, under the player menu. Unless the quest involves building something, which doesn’t seem to be tracked at all??

Getting into and out of the rover (thanks Y button for giving me a rover, I think) uses the same button as activating your extraction tool, and but the game seems to prioritize using the extractor, so I found myself extracting every time I tried to get into the rover.

When you’ve built a building there’s a little green icon next to it in the build menu, except I kept thinking that was an indication that I had enough stuff to build the building.

Jul 25, 2023·2h·7·Verified

Steam User 1863STEAMNot recommended

[h1]Unplayable mess[/h1]
TLDR: unless they majorly fix it, don't bother with this one.

I've had this one on the wishlist for a while and despite the mixed reviews decided to give it a shot. It's got the elements that tickle my fancy: sci-fi, farming, exploration and invention. But unfortunately, whomever coded this must have used their rear to do so. If you have used any other program on your computer? The game won't launch, just stick at 'running' on the in-library page. Restart the comp, launch Steam and the game? Kinda works. But then you come to the suit/character creation and it just freaking crashes to the desktop if you press the wrong button or spend too long in the character editor. Yes, it still has potential, but the technical maladies just tank this one. Refund requested and I urge you not to spend money on it unless it gets majorly fixed.

Jul 24, 2023·Verified

Steam User 7645STEAMNot recommended

More guidance in the beginning to show what is expected, how to find items and other tasks. It sucks it doesn't have that because I get to the point where I'm frustrated and want to give up. Players get stuck between the first to and masses with quest that have no hints where to find anything. Very frustration. This game had potential. They need to update this game to make it player friendly.

May 1, 2023·5h·5·Verified

Steam User 2936STEAMRecommended

the game is very interesting especially using the concept of the planet mars. I really like this game the game is very exciting !

Dec 31, 2022·12h·Verified

Steam User 4438STEAMNot recommended

Its like Stardew Valley but in space. After about half an hour its gets more and more dull and boring because you do literally the same things all over again and again. I regret playing this longer than 2 hours and can't get refund

Dec 8, 2022·3h·Verified

Steam User 5494STEAMNot recommended

character walk slower than tortoise

Nov 25, 2022·2·Verified

Steam User 5206STEAMRecommended

游戏指引做得太差劲了，三个机器人的位置太难找了，而且根本没介绍人类的排泄物怎么获得，我现在没法制作沃土，剧完全卡住了

Nov 14, 2022·2h·1·Verified

Steam User 9369STEAMNot recommended

really bad controls and unfinished in my view. needs A LOT of work one to it and for the price NO! simply NO!

Oct 31, 2022·1h·10·Verified

Steam User 5068STEAMRecommended

I'm very on the fence about recommending this one. I got some mild enjoyment out of it, and if you'd like a Mars aesthetic for a farming game, maybe buy on sale and check it out. I did have a bit of fun with unlocking new buildings and exploring the different minigames for a few hours.

But after 7 hours in, I am on day 36, and as far as I can tell, my only remaining objective is "keep playing until day 200". I don't think I want to do that, without any hints of anything else to look forward to.

There are some other design choices I especially feel aren't optimal in this type of game:

* Equipment upgrades mostly only mean I run out of energy more slowly, i.e. my reward for advancement is I get to do MORE repetitive chores in a day if I choose to.

* Thoroughly filling out my recipe list actually seems to make me less profit, because complex ones just take more time but don't seem particularly more valuable.

* The dialogue trees feel a little clunky to navigate. Some things are insufficiently explained (like a quest I didn't know was aimed at the park building), sometimes I keep opting out of a quest because I'm trying to make the dialogue display faster and click the decline option, sometimes I feel punished for talking to someone because I get a 5-step set of instructions I can't opt out of.

There are several things I had trouble figuring out how to do. I couldn't find a wiki or forum for the game, not sure if it doesn't exist yet or if "Mars Base" is a little too common a phrase.

Anyway, if you go in with patience, persistence, and not-too-high expectations, you might find it to be a reasonably fun little game.

Oct 28, 2022·8h·8·Verified

Steam User 0467STEAMNot recommended

ゲームをやって10時間弱ですが、料理をAボタンで作って提供するまでボタンを押しても
持ち上げられず提供できない。。。。

Oct 22, 2022·12h·2·Verified

Steam User 1098STEAMNot recommended

内容が薄い、単純、高い

Oct 22, 2022·4h·4·Verified

Steam User 3683STEAMNot recommended

Game feels unfinished in its current state. Wouldn’t be a problem is it was marked for early access.

Oct 21, 2022·19·Verified

Steam User 4972STEAMRecommended

Hi there! Let me preface this by saying:
If you're looking for a challenging game, this isn't it.

It's a fun relax little game by a single dev and small team. So far I'm just shy of 10 hours played and I'm liking it, The Pixel art graphics are great, the characters although lacking in dialogue have good looking portraits. The Music is great too, looking forward to finding more tracks as the game expands.

The game starts out with little to do but that quickly expands once settlers arrive and add different activities to your routine. What starts out as little more then extracting soil from mars turns to farming, then fishing, then combat, then cooking, and so on.

There are also quite a few bugs but the Dev and his team have been pretty quick to respond and try to patch as much as possible. So I'm looking forward to the future of this game.

TL/DR: Good game, Not hard, quite a few bugs but the Dev is present to address the issues on Discord!

See you in space

Oct 20, 2022·11h·Verified

Steam User 4134STEAMNot recommended

一応ゲームクリア？らしき状態まで進めて実績もほぼ取得しました。

火星でひたすら採掘と農作業に明け暮れるゲーム。
グラフィックやサウンド、翻訳はしっかりしているが、それだけに中身の薄さやボリューム不足が残念。
作品の水準としてはTravellers Restといい勝負かな程度の代物。正直、この値段はかなり強気価格と言わざるを得ない出来。

自分がプレイした段階では色々とバグが散見されたが、小まめにアップデートを重ねているようなのでそのうち修整されると思う。

クエストクリアなどのタイミングで人が増えてクエストを出してくれたり居住施設のレシピを出してくれたりといった塩梅でゲームが進行する。
とおはいえクエストやイベントの密度が非常に薄く、出てきたはいいが2～3パターンの会話ができるだけのキャラクターや、施設を建てて一瞬で終わり、というものも多い。
プレイ時間の大半は単調な作業で資源集めや金策に費やすことになるが、数少ないクエスト自体もお使いレベルの代物が殆どで、クリアしたところで達成感もなにもない。

ちなみにゲーム中の説明不足もあいまって、一部のクエストやミニゲームの難易度が妙に高い。
ほぼほぼ説明が皆無で総当り的な解決を強いられるクエストや、レベルを上げて物理で殴れ的なレーシングゲーム、操作方法からして意味不明なクッキングゲームなど、プレイ感はかなり残念。

とにかく全体的に説明不足や不親切さが目立つが、絶対的にボリュームや演出が不足している非常に淡白なゲーム性。
ゲームを進めてなんとかクエストを全て片付けてもそれらしき演出やエンディングらしいものもなく、クレジットを流してくれるアイテムが購入できるようになるだけ。「あれっ？これで終わり？？？」という尻切れトンボな状態で決着する。
クリア時の実績が「ステージ１クリア」的な名称なので、今後もアップデート予定があるのかもしれないが、現時点だと首を傾げる出来。

正直、農場ゲー大好きな自分でもプレイ感はひたすら虚無。
これにこの値段を出すくらいなら別のゲームやった方がいいんじゃないかなぁ・・・。

Oct 19, 2022·7h·8·Verified

Steam User 8189STEAMRecommended

操作比较僵硬，机器助手不是特别好用，现阶段原价不介意入手

Oct 19, 2022·3h·1·Verified

Steam User 3106STEAMRecommended

Mars Base es un juego que venía esperando hace bastante tiempo, me alegró mucho ver que está en español.

Me recuerda mucho a Littlewood.

Realmente Mars base no es nada del otro mundo, es divertido, no tiene una historia muy profunda y hay que entender que aún quedan cosas por corregir.

Lo más flojo que puedo destacar es el viaje en el cohete, creo que podría aprovecharse mejor, como aterrizar en lunas y minar manualmente, pero eso de esquivar rocas y coger minerales es decepcionante.

Hay muchas estructuras y el proceso de ir creando y realizar las misiones te da bastante entretenimiento.

ACTUALIZACIÓN tras casi 9 horas de juego:
Llega un momento en el que sientes que avanza muy lento y termina volviéndose monótono, cumpliendo las mismas tareas día tras día. Hace que te aburras al final, por lo que viendo que pasas unas 8 horas de disfrute para luego bajar lo divertido sigue valiendo la pena.

Oct 19, 2022·9h·Verified

Steam User 3343STEAMRecommended

This game is fun and I love the retro style graphic design. Been playing for couple of hours and still learning how to build in the game. Hopefully able to shoot some Aliens in Mars.

Oct 19, 2022·13h·1·Verified

Steam User 7722STEAMRecommended

Diese Rezension wurde am ersten Tag der Veröffentlichung verfasst, ohne ein bisheriges Update:

Mars Base ist ein sehr entspanntes Game und eher mit Littlewood statt mit Stardew zu vergleichen.
Man landet auf dem Mars und beginnt bei null. Es hat keine wirkliche Story und muss auch keine Beziehungen aufbauen. Aufträge bekommt man natürlich trotzdem.
Es ist ein super entspanntes Spiel zum abschalten.

Ein paar Dinge könnten noch angepasst werden:
- Der "Raus-Zoom" (Controller mit LB) springt leider immer wieder um, wenn man beispielsweise Wege legt oder Gebäude umstellt.
- Wenn man im Markt sich einen Gegenstand angeschaut hat und mit "B" (Controller) zurück geht öffnet sich sofort das Menü, statt einfach zurück zugehen.
- Beim Angeln fehlt da, dass nach dem letzten Fisch automatisch gefragt wird, ob man noch weiter angeln möchte. Bisher muss man aus dem Bildschirm raus und wieder erneut auf das Aquarium klicken.
- Mir erschließt es sich nicht, wieso die Tür im Schlafraum oben ist, wenn man aus dem Aufenthaltsraum nach oben gehen muss um in den Schlafraum zu gehen. Normalerweise müsste die Tür doch unten sein?
- Es fehlt für mich eine "Aufgabentafel" in der noch einmal aufgelistet wird, welche Aufgaben gerade noch offen sind.
- Es wäre cool, wenn man Pläne (beispielsweise für den Schreiner) fixieren könnte, um zu sehen welche Materialien noch benötigt werden.

Oct 18, 2022·5h·6·Verified

Steam User 6221STEAMRecommended

I've been looking forward to this game and first things first, I absolutely love the graphics in this game. It kind of brings back Pokemon type/pixel art graphics but in an outta space setting. I've only put about 30 minutes into this game but I definitely see myself putting more into it. The music has also been a good choice, coming from someone who normally mutes the music in the games I play. I hope there's more different tracks as I progress! I've got a few game play improvement/suggestions which I will list in comments. Seems to be a very self-paced game so I'll definitely be putting hours into it from time to time :)

Oct 18, 2022·7h·2·Verified

Steam User 3689STEAMRecommended

A rather unique take on the farming sim genre and reminds me of harvest moon, which is a game I truly love so that says something. Love the art style. Gameplay was also good, but would've loved to be able to change the key bindings as I'm used to the WASD+IJKL keyboard-only play for games like this. On my first run I managed to soft-lock myself by using up all the resources needed to move the game forward, but that was no big deal since I was only minutes in. I have not played long enough to comment on the storyline if there is any. I see this as the perfect game to be played on the Switch, so I'm really looking forward to that!

Oct 18, 2022·1·Verified

Steam User 5471STEAMRecommended

Muy buenas Pichones de marte.

Nos ponemos al mando de la colonización del planeta rojo, el juego tiene gráficos que cumplen, la jugabilidad es correcta y es asequible aprender a gestionar y construir sin rompernos mucho la cabeza, de momento la historia tampoco es nada del otro mundo pero aun es pronto para juzgarla.... Si os gustan los juegos de recolección, construcción y gestión lo vais a disfrutar.

Os dejo vídeo de los primeros 40 minutos:
https://youtu.be/oXdQWfJI-fQ

Oct 18, 2022·1h·Verified

Steam User 1978STEAMNot recommended

游戏价格偏贵，而且这游戏不支持鼠标操作而且无法调整分辨率，玩这游戏的人最好准备一个手柄才能方便操作，键盘操作非常繁琐。
总而言之这游戏更像是掌机游戏或者手机游戏，所以放电脑上这游戏不太合格。

Oct 18, 2022·7·Verified

Steam User 4388STEAMNot recommended

操作太僵硬，走路非常慢，地图小，玩法略少，游戏本体才56M，价格太高了，喜欢种田游戏的，建议1折在入手，即使现在打8折，56块钱，这都能买3部打折的3A大作了。

Oct 18, 2022·12·Verified

Steam User 9770STEAMRecommended

Couple of hours into the game now, and here are my first impressions:
It is pixel art, has a variety of mini games and seems slightly different from other typical farm sims/base builders, chef mode reminds me of overcooked. Overall I’m enjoying the chilled nature of the game, the music is very relaxing and I love the pixel art.

Oct 18, 2022·13h·3·Verified

Steam User 6416STEAMNot recommended

I will preface this by saying I got this cause steam said in its like others you played tab that it was like Littlewood, a game I loved and played through multiple times, So I know i'm not judging it fairly on its own merits, but this is how it was presented to me and i feel others that it might present to need to know. Now I haven't completed the game yet, but I can see where the like Littlewood suggestion came from, it has very similar gameplay loop of start a town from nothing, build up your town by using up your energy on daily tasks, slowly unlock more features as time goes on and your town grows. light farming and building while having to use lower materials to upgrade to better ones.

These similarities at least at the moment feel surface level at best, like someone looked at Littlewood and said that was neat, lets do that in space, without any of the heart. The Npcs are soulless cutouts, all of them have like one quest (a few as of yet don't even have quests) and then they just repeat the same 1-2 lines everyday, again unfairly comparing to Littlewood where each npc has a distinct personality, their own wants out of the town, you can hang out with them, flirt with them ect. The town building is equally flat, you can place things however you like and build roads and walls, but you have one road option and one wall option (preface there may be more later and i just have not unlocked them). The little scraps of story are something, but not really compelling thus far.

Its been 3 hours and I don't really feel like I did anything of substance, wake up, talk to new colonist, get new building, place new building, add one new thing to the routine maybe, go to bed, rinse repeat. In and of itself isn't a bad thing, like I said the gameplay loop is very similar to Littlewood, but it lacks the push Littlewood had. You can go up to the NPCs and talk to them everyday, it won't change a thing, they will still just say the same stock phrases. There are only three areas, at least at the 3 hour mark, one of those areas is a really shallow combat dungeon that you press one button and nothing will ever hit you, and one is a big open space that you only go to for like four quests thus far and it just sits there, other then that you are stuck walking around your base. Compare again to the varied locations in Littlewood where you could realistically plan a whole day around going to the forest for trees, or the mines for rare minerals, or town for buying stuff and a fishing trip.

In conclusion, This really feels like it should of been early access, a lot of the basics are there, it just doesn't go much deeper then that. My opinion might shift if i play it more, but right now I have to say i don't feel like its in a state to be worth the price tag I paid of 20 CAD. I say if you are looking for something that you can just turn your brain off and build for a bit, I'd say it will do that, but wait for a sale. If like me you were drawn to it by the like others you played suggestion, I'd say don't get your hopes up and know what you are going into. For me personally If i was talking to my past self, I would have to give it a not recommend, tho i do acknowledge there is something there that could net someone, Just Steam set me up for an expectation it just could not live up to, and that is completely on me.

Oct 18, 2022·4h·34·Verified

Steam User 0702STEAMRecommended

A little over an hour into this game so far. I'm finding it intriguing so far with graphics reminiscent of the 16 bit console era. There have been a couple of minor ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that I've easily worked past nothing unexpected for an indie game IMO.

So far I've taken a look around and found a second area which I won't go into due to spoilers, an area that looks like it'll open up into a dungeon with combat, taken a rocket into space with a minigame taking place in that sequence, built some stuff and started growing some plants in a greenhouse... it's unclear as to whether the latter is Matt Damon style... :S

Oct 18, 2022·5h·2·Verified

Steam User 2372STEAMNot recommended

The game is fun but it is in an unfinished state. It is also full of bugs.

Early access would have been the best. The developers need to make significant improvements.

Not only fix all the bugs but also improve the quality of life.

At this point I can't recommend the game. I hope it improves with the updates.

bugs list in the comments

Oct 18, 2022·3h·79·Verified

Steam User 4247STEAMRecommended

It's a cute little game where you're building your village without being a city builder. You are one of the colonists and you build the colony which is something I like.
It's cute, graphics wise, at least if you like pixel art. I'm not very far in the story as I only played 30 minutes, but I can see myself playing this game a lot.
Two things that kinda bug me. 1. It's played with 2 hands on the keyboard, which irritates me, but I'll get over it. 2. There is no quest menu, or at least not one that I have found yet. For someone like me who has the attention span of a dead goldfish, it's hard to keep track of them. It's not a deal breaker for me, but it's a nice feature to have and one I expected to find.

Edit 1: After a few extra hours of gameplay, I finally found a way to reread my active quests while on the go, not a quest menu per se, but they are listed next to the characters' description but going there is like a whole journey through the different menus, reminds me of when we had to open 10 different folders just to play Solitaire in the '90s.
There's also a few texture glitches where if you plant a "tall" crop like corn or wheat in front of a smaller crop, it blinks on and off when you are near it. Annoying a bit, but easily fixed.
One more con I came across by playing a bit more was that you can't rotate the buildings so you can't really make a street corner, I mean you can but the entrance won't be facing the road and that annoys me to no end.
Doesn't change the fact that I like this game, but I like nitpicking stuff.

Oct 17, 2022·2h·2·Verified

Steam User 4074STEAMRecommended

I like this game, stardew valley in space. Just need more refinement, customization, v-sync, etc.

Oct 17, 2022·6·Verified