PC (Microsoft Windows)2020

Per Aspera

Per Aspera is a narrative-driven strategy game with the goal of overcoming the challenge of terraforming Mars. Explore the planet, gather resources, and make strategic decisions as you live the fantasy of scientifically-based interplanetary expansion. Hardship awaits.

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Steam User 5298STEAMRecommended

It's good

Mar 27, 2026·14h·Verified

Steam User 4539STEAMRecommended

Challenging but not impossible, keeps me entertained.

Mar 27, 2026·143h·Verified

Steam User 9367STEAMRecommended

Очень неплохая игруля про терраформирование.

Mar 25, 2026·29h·Verified

Steam User 5988STEAMRecommended

推～比 surviving mars 更好玩，遊戲做得很細緻，有一步步真實改造火星的感覺
劇情也很豐富，揭開政治背後的黑幕，也探討人工智慧的意識

遊戲劇情最後有 bug，播完 ending 後會沒辦法操作，要等自動存檔後再重開才行。

劇情完後會有一些額外內容，但收尾沒有很明顯，還以為後面還有更多東西。
說什麼建立火星貿易網路之類的，但 NPC 說準備好了再聯絡他，就再也沒有下文了。

Mar 25, 2026·46h·Verified

Steam User 4639STEAMNot recommended

Kinda mid but when I encountered the Musk related content I was pretty turned off of the game. Not really into celebrating NAZIs.

Mar 25, 2026·7h·4·Verified

Steam User 2245STEAMRecommended

This plays very similarly to "Surviving Mars" but this is a GORGEOUS game! Really quite stunning. When I first started the game I wasn't even interested in playing it as much as just spinning the martian globe and looking at the map for a while.

After 3 hours playing I've only barely nicked the surface. Mars hardly knows I'm even here. I have about 6 drones and I'm generating a little food and water, but I'm worried there might be some big disaster so I'm not even considering making a colony yet until I have some redundancy for keeping them alive once they do show up. Poor stupid people. You want to go to Mars huh? Well okay I'll do my best to make that happen.

In case you've never played Surviving Mars - this is just a kind of city builder where you build systems for digging up resources and as those resources become available you can build more buildings. There's a very slow beginning to the whole process where you can't even afford to build any more worker robots - there's just one. So the game near the start is moving around priorities among the several buildings to make sure that resources are available for the most important parts that are needed for high priority buildings first. But eventually there are enough workers and enough production that it's no longer as difficult to micromanage the priorities - you can just leave everything alone and eventually everything will be built.

There is a tiny "tetris-like" feel to placing buildings, but it's not a big part of the gameplay. Mostly the game - at least the early game - is a very relaxing "sit back and watch the robots running around". But eventually limits are reached - there is a 50 building limit at the game opening, and I haven't reached it yet, but I'm guessing I need to have humans and research built out before hitting that limit.

This is fun - of course it's also ridiculous. Mars will always be without an atmosphere, but it's fun to pretend that it could!

Mar 23, 2026·6h·Verified

Steam User 1484STEAMRecommended

VAMOS ARGENTINA

Mar 23, 2026·30h·Verified

Steam User 9308STEAMNot recommended

있을 게 다 있는데 순수하게 재미가 없고 피곤한 게임. 추천하기가 좀 그렇다.

화성 전체를 배경으로 하는 초대형 맵, 꽤 있어보이는 스토리, 본진 하나부터 시작하는 야심찬 화성 테라포밍계획은 정말 듣기만 해도 신나는 아이템들이다

그런데 마이크로매니징을 필요로 하지 않는 게임인데 마이크로매니징이 필요하다. 분명 자동화가 많이 되어있는 느낌인데 묘하게 노가다를 하고 있다. 자유도가 높아보이는데 삽질 안하려며 결국 정해진 정도로만 알뜰살뜰 써야한다. 인게임 내 16배속을 열심히 돌려도 정말 느리다. 할 건 한참 남았는데 뭔가 진행속도는 더디다.

보통 이런 기지 건설 류의 게임을 할 때면 초반 챕터 정도 진행하며 감을 잡고 재시작해서 큰 그림을 그리는 걸 즐겨하는데, 이건 큰 그림을 그리기가 참 어렵다. 계속 플레이는 하겠지만 남에게 추천하기에는 좀 아쉬운 수준. 75% 할인하면 8천원밖에 안하긴 하니 찍먹할 정도로는 추천드려요.

Mar 23, 2026·10h·Verified

Steam User 8270STEAMRecommended

I'm still trying to decide what I think. I loved Surviving Mars, and have like 150 hours or so in that. I really want to like this game more, and I think I do like it? It's definitely worth the price when it's on sale. I just think there are things they could have done to make it much better.

Pro: it does look nice. Nothing crazy, like it's not the pretties thing I've ever seen, but it definitely looks good.

Pro: a lot of the mechanics feel interesting and fleshed out. Like, your ice deposits you rely on eventually disappear as you terraform, so you need to switch your entire ice industry halfway through.

Con: This especially comes as I compare this to other strategy games I like... but nothing feels that visually distinct. It's super hard to tell resources apart, since there's like 3 that look super similar. Buildings also are crazy hard to tell apart. This gets worse because buildings only tell you what resources they take/produce as the icons, with no mouse-over tooltips to immediately see "oh this takes aluminum, not ice or iron or whatever."

Con: There are just some quality of life features I feel like I miss. This is, at the end of the day, a logistics game. It would be really nice to have more map filters, especially ones that show where resources are being produced or required.

Con: Control of military units is like, super different and I hate it. Like every RTS ever has you selecting units with left mouse, and giving them orders with right mouse. Because it's a good way to do it, like the only good way to do it. Somehow, the developers came up with... selecting with left mouse, and then giving orders with left mouse. But then, like it's hard to tell you're in the "give orders" mode or "select units mode." The only way to get out of giving orders mode is to right click, for some horrific reason.

Con: Like in Surviving Mars, you have like special projects? Actually, you have probably more special projects that SM. But, the issue is that a lot of missions are like when you turn "auto" on your rockets in that game, where it'll just keep repeating until you're done? And you can't cancel a mission until a rocket is either back on earth, or back on mars. So if you want to cancel a recurring mission, you have to wait until it's done with travel, and hope you don't forget. This could have been solved by a simple "cancel when finished" button.

TL;DR: good game, would have been so much better with some QoL features, more distinct graphics, and changes to controls.

Mar 22, 2026·8h·1

Steam User 8849STEAMRecommended

This game was amazing, I had a lot of fun with it and managed to get up to a million population. I really recommend it if you like mars colonization or ever studied terraforming, it was great to put a lot of what you learn in books into practice.

Mar 19, 2026·92h·Verified

Steam User 1034STEAMRecommended

Не с первого раза, но распробовал игру и кайфанул

Mar 17, 2026·37h·Verified

Steam User 6989STEAMNot recommended

The game is simplistic, the pace is painfully slow, the graphics are basic, and the autosave doesn't work.
I've lost a few hours of play when it crashed, and the thought of going back and slogging through the part I've already done... I'd rather just uninstall it.
It's a no from me.

Mar 15, 2026·12h·Verified

Steam User 3201STEAMRecommended

i picked this up after fully completing Terraforming Mars and wanting more mars sci-fi terraforming and Per Aspera fulfilled that while also serving some excellent storytelling with AMI the AI. Good game play, excellent storytelling, and a soundtrack that switches between upbeat and soothing. 10/10 would 100% again. I recommend getting the DLCs with the base game. Ice/water generation is one of the gatekeeping mechanics mid storyline when colonists ramp up and it would be more difficult to progress without the added mechanics.

Mar 11, 2026·48h·1

Steam User 8541STEAMNot recommended

this game is a run of the mill building game at the start there is enough going on to keep you going but after a while the dialog runs dry and you go long periods just waiting to gather enough goods to get you to the next part and then the process repeats its not to bad of a game just dull

Mar 8, 2026·104h·Verified

Steam User 0576STEAMRecommended

good game

Mar 6, 2026·20h·Verified

Steam User 0869STEAMRecommended

Per Aspera ist ein solides Spiel, aber hat auch seine Schwächen.
Terraforming ist cool und es ist cool zu sehen wie sich der Planet verändert. Zusätzlich gibt es ein paar existenzielle Fragen.
Das Balancing ist an ein paar Stellen frustrierend und kann eventuell zu Softlocks führen.
Die Story ist in Ordnung, aber nichts besonderes.
Wer alle Errungenschaften holen, sollte sich auf sich ziehende Stunden einstellen.

Insgesamt ein gutes Spiel, aber nach der Story muss man nicht weiterspielen.

DLC ist ok.

Mar 4, 2026·70h

Steam User 4260STEAMRecommended

самый медитативный и не напряжный градострой, своих денег однозначно стоит, прошел полностью за 36 часов на пк подруги, и сразу купил этот шедевр уже себе на аккаунт

Mar 2, 2026·8h·Verified

Steam User 0583STEAMRecommended

Great game

Mar 1, 2026·52h·Verified

Steam User 2045STEAMRecommended

Crazy underrated game, if they made a version 2 I would also get that.
Coop is fantastic
Expect long term game play!

Feb 28, 2026·57h

Steam User 2872STEAMRecommended

7/10
Мало механик, а те, что есть, будто как-то неправильно сбалансированы. На 1 раз по скидке сойдёт, но берите со всеми длц, потому что я не представляю что там тогда было от игры в оригинале.

Feb 28, 2026·21h·Verified

Steam User 0771STEAMRecommended

Great game, definitely triggers my hyperfocus! Very enjoyable as a multiplayer co-op, surprisingly rich in lore for this genre as a single player game. The Blue Mars DLC is an absolute must, especially for the completionist.

There's one soft-lock bug at the end of the campaign. It's possible to work around it by waiting for the game to autosave, closing out of the game, and then resuming the last save. Still, I hope this will get fixed soon.

Feb 27, 2026·72h·Verified

Steam User 3356STEAMRecommended

It's really good. There are some QoL issues but it shouldn't keep you from enjoying the game or finishing it. There are some situations that I've noticed people in the forums complaining about and blaming the developers like runaway O2 production for instance. You can recover from it and there is no need to quit or restart. Use your head. If you can't figure it out then cheat a little and read some threads. It seems to me that EVERY runaway terraforming issue is solvable. You also have to intentionally sabotage yourself to do poorly. Just restart and stop being terrible and always play at 16x speed no matter what. A couple of obligatory early-game restarts and you will be primed to beat the game easily. Minor bugs aside it's an amazing builder. 100% get it on sale though. Screw paying full price for anything these days. Hoard toilet paper or chin diapers or maybe buy your wife's boyfriend something nice like some sportsball tickets or something so you don't have to sleep in the shed.

Feb 25, 2026·73h·1·Verified

Steam User 9203STEAMRecommended

Игра норм, но под конец очень скучная и лёгкая даже на самом большом уровне сложности

Feb 25, 2026·25h·Verified

Steam User 3842STEAMRecommended

да ниче вроде, правда читать много надо и с логистикой все время проблемы. Есть чувство что по механикам не дожали как в схожих проектах

Feb 24, 2026·13h·Verified

Steam User 4088STEAMRecommended

decent little game. some research costs seem a little high right now, but still learning the stratagem for the game. overall, its a nicely put together game.

Feb 22, 2026·9h·1·Verified

Steam User 9130STEAMNot recommended

서바이빙 마스와 비교를 안당할 수가 없는 게임이다.

행성 식민화나 개척을 주제로 하는 게임들은 대부분 게임적 허용이냐 아니면 아예 판타지로 가느냐의 사이에서 고민한 흔적이 보이는데,

이 게임은 캐쥬얼하지 않은척 하면서 캐쥬얼하게 잘 포장한 편이다.

긍정평가는 이걸로 끝.

공장과 광산 업그레이드 시스템이나 도로 업그레이드 시스템 등은 다 갈아엎어야 할 정도로 형편없다.

게임에 별로 영향도 못 줄 뿐더러, 인터페이스가 수준 이하라서 일괄 업그레이드나 단축키조차 없다.

하나하나의 영향력이 크게 하고 싶었으면 그만큼의 리워드가 있던가 그게 아니면 쉽게 딸깍 적용이라도 되어야하는데 그게 안된다는건 개발자조차 이 게임의 방향성에 갈피를 전혀 못잡았다는 뜻이다. 솔직히 개발자들도 한 2회차 해보고 대충 출시한 것 같다. 25년 이후에 개발된 게임이었으면 AI 딸깍으로 만든 게임이라는 의심까지 받을 뻔한 수준이다.(AI 게임 개발을 모욕하려는 의도가 아님)

행성의 바다를 생성하는 것도 수위가 올라감에 따라 건물들이 침수되는 시스템은 컨셉만 좋았을뿐, 거기에 대한 대응책 기술이 전혀 없어서 그냥 눈뜨고 구경만하면서 수위가 차오르는 그 짧은 반복마다 계속 건물 라인을 새로 지어줘야한다. 처음부터 고도가 낮은 지역에는 더 큰 비용으로 방수 건물을 지을수 있다던가, 아니면 비용을 소모해서 방수 업그레이드를 해주던가 하는 아주 간단한 방식으로 클릭 노가다를 회피해줄 수 있을텐데 전혀 관심이 없다. 애초에 화성의 대기에서 버티는 건물들이 침수대책조차 없다는게 코미디지만.

게다가 스팀 언어 점유율 2%대 언어들은 전부 다 번역됐는데, 유일하게 한국어만 무번역이다.(26년 2월 기준) 이미 중국어 일본어 번역 완료라면 한국어도 시스템상 적용이 전혀 어렵지 않았을텐데 이걸 안했다는건 번역기 돌리는 것조차 귀찮았거나(게임 컨텐츠에 공들인 수준으로 보면 이쪽이 맞겠지만) 고의적 한국어 누락이라는거겠지.

플레이어의 컨셉이 인공지능 관리자기 때문에 인공자아에 대한 정체성 선택지가 많이 나오고, 이걸 바탕으로 한 스토리 컨셉질이 매우 비중이 큰 게임이다.(인게임 영향력은 별거 없지만) 따라서 언어 독해가 안된다면 반쪽짜리 게임이라고 해도 과언이 아니다. 이건 선택지 및 스토리 부분이 풍부하다는게 아니라 게임 컨텐츠가 얄팍하다는 의미이기도 하지만.

어느쪽이건 개발사의 자유지만, 경영 우주 게임에 미친 나같은 유저가 아니면 한국인이 굳이 이 게임을 정가에 구매할 이유는 없다. 그냥 서바이빙 마스 1회차를 더 돌리던가, 그것도 지겹다면 익시온 하드코어 모드, 하다못해 노맨즈스카이 정착촌 건설이라도 하는게 낫다.

문제가 해결된다면 얼마든지 평가는 바뀔 수 있겠지만, 패치 속도로 봐선... 이 평가가 몇 년은 갈 것 같다는 게 더욱 부정평가의 이유.

Feb 21, 2026·15h·Verified

Steam User 1950STEAMNot recommended

Хорошая идея... Но реализация (логические и технические ошибки, слабая аналитика ресурсов, непродуманная логистика) сильно портит впечатление.

Feb 21, 2026·218h·2

Steam User 9745STEAMNot recommended

It's alright. Ran into quite a few bugs, and ultimately wish that there was more to it. Glad I got it on a really steep sale.

Feb 20, 2026·27h·2·Verified

Steam User 4347STEAMRecommended

В общем, игра прекрасна простотой и понятностью своих механик. Картинка красивая, сюжет интересный, прокачка увлекательная, Марс преображается восхитительно! Но... На один раз.

Feb 17, 2026·40h

Steam User 8607STEAMRecommended

I've finally finished this game, so expect spoilers.

Story ends inconclusively with elements like the Tekkies being completely gone after the Martian republic is formed. In addition military was completely underutilised.

I like that the paths split, but by becoming a rogue AI you destroy everything you started with, destroying 8 hours of progress. I would've preferred if you could take over the buildings instead.

When most of the gameplay was hindered by waiting for a projects resources to be filled over and over, with a lack of visual feedback, or feedback from ISA elements, or resources from tekkies or other allied elements, it felt like there was a point where the content ran out and I just resupplied resources until the game ended.

Still though the game is fun, and while I couldn't finish it without mods due to worker restrictions and other logistic issues I couldn't solve, I'd still recommend it.

Feb 11, 2026·18h·1

Steam User 7518STEAMNot recommended

Really interesting. Great visuals. Story starts off enjoyable (mostly just due to Troy Baker).
Love the theory behind terraforming mars. The changing landscape as mars becomes slowly flooded, ice mining turns into water... pumping... it's easy to see how this could have been a great game.

Sadly, both the mechanics and story fall long before the game ends. Not only is the story inane and predictable, but you hear less and less from Troy Baker as the game goes on. Repeatedly, the game only has dialogue that assumes you 'failed' a particular challenge here and there, no matter how well you crushed it. There are actual plot points because of this.

And the mechanics? Repetitive to the point of failure. Games with simple mechanics can go far if they're consistently fun, but this game has three actions in a trenchcoat.
1. Place a worker hub, power source, maintenance hub. Repeat as needed (wherever the game tells you "no power" or "no maintenance" or "high congestion".
2. Build mines. Every resource you can touch, mine it.
3. Research tech. This should be interesting, at least thematically, but after the first few layers the tech tree becomes "aerobrake an asteroid with X chemical instead of Y chemical" or "Make factories work faster, but no more efficiently, at the cost of resources". At no point was it useful for me to build a tier 2/3 factory, and my mines were only built at the lowest possible level for that depth.

The game really wants to be taken seriously. It has many tabs for resource management, viewing different temperatures, biomes, congestion - a lot of which I really like. Individual resource graphs, including both maximum and current supply and demand, and alerts whenever you need to build more of any specific building. But most of it... doesn't have much use. If you don't have enough raw materials to supply your factories, you just keep expanding. More raw materials. Rarely did I need to build more factories.

And despite the UI and visuals, some issues were almost impossible to diagnose. Mines should only "stop" mining if they run out of resources, lose power, or their storage "fills up". Many times in the game my "current production" would be significantly lower than my "maximum production", despite manually verifying all of these were not issues. And clicking on a resource opens a graph, but doesn't select (or highlight) all of the relevant buildings? So many good overlays and they didn't include one of the most important ones.

And the end-game takes absolutely forever, which would be fine if there were interesting things to do, but it's still just the same - Steps 1-3, rinse and repeat.

Great job voice actors, and good try by the dev team. Genuinely interesting game with good implementation ideas, that just... falls apart by the seams.

Feb 11, 2026·20h·10

Steam User 9533STEAMRecommended

Very good story. And good management Also please release a sequel

Feb 6, 2026·68h·1·Verified

Steam User 6871STEAMRecommended

Good simulation of terraforming mars, with a slight twist ;)

Feb 5, 2026·37h

Steam User 1700STEAMRecommended

For those who like logistics and supply chain, this is for you!
Story telling is excellent and understanding the needs for growth is (for me) spot on.

Enjoy

Feb 2, 2026·38h·Verified

Steam User 4466STEAMRecommended

macht spaß

Feb 2, 2026·71h·Verified

Steam User 6342STEAMNot recommended

Starts great, but really falls off towards the ending into basically "set speed to 16x and go do something else."

Performance really suffers as the game progresses; I suspect a memory leak.

The builder AI does not do what you would expect and there is no way to force them to build where you need them to build. It works on some kind of opaque queue system that doesn't really work and isn't predictable.

I couldn't finish the game because I ended up in a gamebreaking stalemate, where my 2000 repair drones were not repairing anything, all except 10 of my builders vanished, and the remaining 10 would not respond to my instructions to build; It was as if they didn't exist. The number showed they were in play, but I could not see them and they would not respond to my instructions.

I'm not willing to spend another 19 hours just to see the end.

Feb 2, 2026·19h·4

Steam User 0918STEAMRecommended

I think this is a fun game, and relatively well executed.
What is missing is being able to select buildings of given type and move to the next such building. The icons become too tiny and the screen too busy at later game stages.
And nomatter what I do I hit a bug when the scenario ends, and supposedly I should be able to continue playing, but nothin reacts to the mouse clicks or the keyboard. It is not possible to interact with the game - everything is grayed out, even the quit button - have to alt+F4 it.

Feb 2, 2026·32h

Steam User 4176STEAMNot recommended

咋还建筑上线了，看不懂。

Jan 30, 2026·2h

Steam User 9624STEAMRecommended

История о том как ИИ борется с шизофренией

Jan 29, 2026·1h·1·Verified

Steam User 0349STEAMRecommended

Ad Astra

Jan 25, 2026·8h·Verified

Steam User 4429STEAMNot recommended

Игра, которая вроде бы обещала много нового и интересного, но оказалось всего лишь симулятором жизни на другой планете. Мне нравится идея - вы играете за колонистов, которые стремятся построить новую жизнь на дальних планетах. Но чем дальше я играл, тем меньше мне хотелось это делать. Начало было интересное - нужно было заниматься всеми делами: ростом растений, сбором ресурсов, постройкой инфраструктуры и так далее. Но со временем все стало настолько однообразно, что даже самой простой задаче началась надоедать. Игра полна мелких проблем - если у вас сломается ферма, то нужно будет ждать целую вечность, пока она восстановится, а если вы поставили неправильную конструкцию, то можно и вовсе пропустить какой-то важный момент в игре. Нравится ли это играть? Разочарован.

Jan 25, 2026·18h·5

Steam User 9867STEAMRecommended

Eine sehr coole Geschichte, hat Spaß gemacht und kann ich empfehlen, für alle die Basenbau gerne daddeln. Nicht zu komplex, aber durch verschiedenen Phasen auch abwechslungsreich.

Jan 21, 2026·56h·Verified

Steam User 9828STEAMRecommended

Me gusta como está diseñado la terraformación y visualmente es muy atractivo.

Jan 16, 2026·53h·Verified

Steam User 0330STEAMRecommended

Игра затягивает. Очень интересно разбираться в механиках игры. Все советую!

Jan 14, 2026·31h·Verified

Steam User 1962STEAMRecommended

советую игра супер

Jan 14, 2026·13h·Verified

Steam User 6323STEAMRecommended

Very beautiful simulation of terraforming Mars. Probably the most "realistic" one on the market at the moment. It looks satisfying to watch water levels rise and flora spread. Surely not for players that prefer fast gameplay, because the terraforming process ist slow. But for me that is a part of the beauty, since the process can be seen into small details. (I still mostly play on 16x)

Dear devs, please add a function to jump to and/or cycle through mines, that have empied their deposit or better yet, every building. It's a pain to find obsolete buildings. That is literally the only thing bothering me - next to the building limit, but I hear that sadly is hard coded (even with mods).

Jan 12, 2026·45h·4·Verified

Steam User 9972STEAMRecommended

Tras varios años rejugando este juego de vez en cuando, sólo quería comentar que es una pena que no haya tenido una secuela. En los diálogos de la campaña se puede leer entre líneas que el siguiente paso es terraformar algún satélite de nuestro sistema solar u otros planetas. Habría sido muy interesante verlo.

Jan 11, 2026·130h

Steam User 8097STEAMRecommended

Fun game. Not too challenging; sometime it can be unclear what trigger is necessary to advance the story.

Jan 11, 2026·70h·1·Verified

Steam User 8733STEAMRecommended

First 9 hours. I've risen water levels enough to sink some of my structures, get some green on the surface, and become my own worst enemy. I sure hope crashing this moon into the surface won't create any regrets.

Jan 11, 2026·10h·2·Verified

Steam User 5997STEAMRecommended

Wirklich ein sehr gutes Mars-Terraforming-und-Besiedelungsgame

Jan 10, 2026·88h·Verified

Steam User 2066STEAMNot recommended

I wanted to play coop with a friend, couldn't get it to work. Guess i refund it now.

Jan 9, 2026·1·Verified

Steam User 6515STEAMNot recommended

Bastante simple, la historia es curiosa al principio. Se vuelve repetitivo y aburrido muy rápido.

Jan 8, 2026·11h·Verified

Steam User 1919STEAMRecommended

is so good

Jan 8, 2026·118h·Verified

Steam User 5868STEAMRecommended

Rien a dire le joue est super bien ficeler.

Jan 7, 2026·22h·Verified

Steam User 0143STEAMRecommended

剧情结束过动画之后会卡住，鼠标点击没有反应

Jan 5, 2026·19h·1

Steam User 6808STEAMRecommended

This game is pretty fun to play, 5 years on and I still come back to it over other games. I looked over some reviews and it seems like people overlook the notes about how it plays out and how to use nodes properly. The Story is pretty awesome and the play style is nice. I kinda wish they make another game in this style.

Jan 5, 2026·62h·Verified

Steam User 4534STEAMNot recommended

Did 2 playthroughs of the story mode, don't feel like starting a new one or trying other modes. Here are my reasons:
-completely useless combat aspect, no tactical depth, no variety in military building or units
-terraformation falls into the FM (f#king magic) area of technology, so some fantastical elements are fine, therefore I can forgive addition of hyperloops and space-elevators aka other FM technologies. What I cannot forgive is outright Elon Musk d#ckriding, which is marginally present in the story dialogue.
-I thought the biggest scientific strenght of this game is the atmosphere mechanic, that all changed when I found when the pressure meter goes to infinity. For some reason overoxygenation is a problem but colonists operating in lung crushing pressure is fine.
-the game doesn't need a story
-simplistic dialogues, over-emotional delivery and rapid, unnatural character arcs
-the game doesn't need a story
-the whole story feels like a cliche commentary on philosophy of AI and free will
-the game doesn't need a story
-the logistics don't actually matter, you just place buildings down and start projects
-no matter how mismanaged my colony was, all it lead to was delay, not failure. Hard to enjoy a game where losing is impossible.

Jan 2, 2026·29h·2·Verified

Steam User 4591STEAMRecommended

топ

Jan 1, 2026·20h

Steam User 4304STEAMRecommended

Интересная игра, сюжет есть , выбор. Мне понравилась.

Dec 31, 2025·29h·Verified

Steam User 2458STEAMRecommended

Игра прикольная,
Только вот не прикольно когда твои колонисты внезапно сдыхают,
А так рекомендую.

Dec 30, 2025·8h·1·Verified

Steam User 6330STEAMRecommended

Good game

Dec 30, 2025·36h·Verified

Steam User 8354STEAMRecommended

Just the kind of game where you can queue up a research project and some construction, and sit back and listen to the nice music. (It works for me...). I need an ice deposit really bad right now, though.

Dec 29, 2025·18h·Verified

Steam User 9927STEAMRecommended

Meh not too bad for an abandoned, yet, finished game. Endgame becomes pretty tedious with ports and shipyards having to be replaced every few minutes as sea level rises. Not bad, but not great. Game doesn't need much attention after you've built the core base up which means you can leave it running in the background without having to look at it--until your sea level begins to rise. A bit more planning on my lazy ass part would make it easier, but, eh, planning is for real life not games.

Dec 27, 2025·28h·Verified

Steam User 0679STEAMNot recommended

[h1]Per Unoptimised Boredom[/h1]

Per Aspera is a management game with a story element. I found it personally very boring. I cannot comment on the combat aspect, as I did not get far enough. I identified the main gameplay loop consisting of: find resources; make components from resources; and build buildings to expand to more resources. Due to the map scale of a planet, this loop became ever more boring, since the distance required the same monotonous expansion of buildings: worker hubs, power structures and maintenance buildings. Once the game threw in some comet rains as "a challenge" I became absolutely done with it. This made the game not only boring but also annoying, since buildings now had to be rebuilt by the worker drones. The comet rains thusly offered no extra feature except for displaying how poorly the management of the worker drones was. You can only macro-manage these worker drones by increasing their quantity, speed and possibly even some other quality aspects (maybe carrying capacity for example), but you cannot give them direct commands. This makes that your priorities in expanding the base are completely reliant on the optimisation of the worker drone AI. Like someone else already mentioned, this is done quite poorly. They prioritise the wrong stuff and you can help them with "prioritising" buildings, but there's no further micromanagement there. This made that rebuilding areas of my base became annoyingly clicking the "prioritise button" of every burned builing. On top of this, I had no insight in how many drones were enough or too many. [b]The game is basically designed to just throw in as many worker drones and resources as possible. The spiralling effect generates a good base, but boring gameplay since there's no real management.[/b]

Story wise I was not impressed either. The AI persona getting consciousness was interesting, but it all felt very superficial. I was especially annoyed (again) with the physics side of the story and terraforming the planet. I am no physicist (far from), but when you tell me that raising the pressure in the atmosphere would terraform a planet, I'll believe you. Nevertheless, they never explained how to do this. When I have to figure this out from having only one building option on one resource kind, filed under "atmosphere buildings", I find this lackluster and uninteresting.

I probably could go on still, but I think you get my point. I did not think this game worthy of the storage on my hard drive, let alone paying for it. I hope this review helped you form an image of this game.

Dec 24, 2025·4h·6·Verified

Steam User 6242STEAMRecommended

es macht einfach spaß, dem terraforming zuzusehen. hat was beruhigendes. ich wünsche mir einen dlc mit doppelt soviel gebäude typen und dem ziel auch tierisches leben einzufühen.

ansonsten: die hyperloops verbinden hilft sehr, die brauchen aktiv gesetzte röhren ^^ nicht nur stationen bauen

Dec 24, 2025·53h·1·Verified

Steam User 4648STEAMRecommended

The management/logistic side is quite weak, but it compensates with an intriguing, branching story and a good progression feeling (albeit a bit slow and stale sometimes).

Overall I'd give it a 7/10.

Dec 23, 2025·26h·Verified

Steam User 2306STEAMRecommended

loved it

Dec 22, 2025·66h·Verified

Steam User 6783STEAMNot recommended

うーん…ちょっと癖が強くてあまり好きじゃないかな。
人口を増やすには技術開発が必要なんて思わなかったし。コロニーと水と食料があればいいと思っていたのに、全然人口が増えないからマイクロソフトのCopilotに聞いちゃったよ。そしたら、技術開発しないと増えないですよって。そういえば、建設できる施設の数も開発しないと増えなかったよね。この制約って何なんだ？
おまけにAIはくだらないことをしゃべって思考の邪魔をする。英語だし、字幕を読まなきゃならないんだけど、内容がないんだよな。忙しいので、変な哲学的な独白をやめてもらっていいですか？
建設が完了した、電力が不足だ、とか、様々に変化する状況については、何も語らない。気づくと廃墟になっていたりするしね。なんでこっちが気づくまで何も教えてくれないの？変な哲学的な独白はいいから、大事なことを教えてくれよ。
そうそう、ゲームの中でAI懐疑派から心理テストみたいなのを受けさせられるんだけど、あの回答内容って非公開でいいんだよね？プライバシーに関する規定を見ていないんだが。あんなことをさせられるのなら、プライバシーポリシーを見せてくれよ。
で、一番頭にきているのは、港や造船所がメンテナンスドローンのメンテナンスを受けられないこと。全部が全部って感じでもないみたいだけど、メンテナンスエリアに入っているのに放置され、廃墟になる。で、廃墟になったことをAIは黙っている。おいおいおいおいおい～…役立たねぇなこいつは。
頭にきて、港の隣にメンテナンス施設を建てたけど、やっぱり駄目なんだな。こういう、喫水域の建物は何か特殊なことをしなければならないのかい？おじさんに教えてくれよ…っていうか、もうこのゲームやめようかなって思っているので、いいや。つまんなかったです。

Dec 21, 2025·108h·2·Verified

Steam User 2525STEAMRecommended

Nice implementation

Dec 21, 2025·4h·Verified

Steam User 1587STEAMRecommended

sait un bon jeu pour faire du mars

Dec 20, 2025·34h

Steam User 0987STEAMNot recommended

J'aime beaucoup. Malheureusement je suis à peu près sûr que c'est buggé. Les ressources s'entassent sur un bâtiment que j'ai ordonné de détruire et n'alimentent pas le spatioport à côté malgré beaucoup de drones à proximité et l'ordre de priorité.

Si quelqu'un peut m'expliquer ce que j'ai fait de travers je lui en serai reconnaissant.

Dec 19, 2025·10h·Verified

Steam User 3401STEAMRecommended

游戏本身是可以的，星球改造也是有的，但内容偏少，非打折不推荐

Dec 18, 2025·22h·Verified

Steam User 3035STEAMNot recommended

They somehow broke the endgame. After the credits the whole UI becomes unresponsive, I cant even close the window that tells me I can continue playing and neither is the game saved at that point. Huge downer because I really like the game and got the DLC for my second playthrough but with this bug I cant even make proper use of the boats.

Dec 15, 2025·50h·10

Steam User 6786STEAMRecommended

A much easier time than Surviving Mars. Much simpler mechanics and no old people to worry about. There's also a... frankly somewhat half-baked RTS combat thing in it, but it's mostly non-offensive. If you don't like the Tik-Tok lady AI voice, this will probably grate on you. It's noticeably pro-AI and pro-Elon Musk, but not so much that you can't ignore them. It's a good enough time.

Dec 15, 2025·22h·3

Steam User 4383STEAMRecommended

[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! 👍

Dec 14, 2025·70h·1·Verified

Steam User 2899STEAMRecommended

Fun little story packaged with a colony builder with some additional elements to factor in thanks to terraforming. Maybe not quite worth the $30 it's currently going for but pick it up on the next sale.

Dec 12, 2025·32h·Verified

Steam User 7140STEAMNot recommended

The premise of the game is good but the execution is a complete failure. The AI is completely broken and nonfunctional. The workers do not behave in any intuitive or correct way and there is nothing you as a player can do to fix it. Every playthrough is the same. The worker hubs sit idle and refuse to move resources or do work. If you make a building a priority the game completely breaks and you will literally watch workers move the same resources back and forth from one building to another in an infinite logic loop. The worker unit moving resources and building structures is the most basic element of an RTS/building game. If you mess that core mechanic up then the rest of your game is broken beyond repair.

Do not waste your time or money on this game. You will be extremely upset.

Dec 12, 2025·158h·5·Verified

Steam User 0027STEAMRecommended

Классная стратегия с кучей механик. Развитие базы в данной игре - это то, чем хочется заниматься часами. Пока не упрешься в ограничение. Заниматься развитием нужно разумно...

Dec 11, 2025·1h

Steam User 4871STEAMNot recommended

This is one of the most boring games I've ever played... and I really really like colony builder/sims. It's just not interesting at all. Maybe it picks up later but in my experience, I need to be hooked on these style games early so that I'm invested the whole run.

Dec 11, 2025·3h·Verified

Steam User 7336STEAMRecommended

Just the right level of complexity to keep it satisfying, entertaining, and addicting. (Recommend to grab Blue ocean dlc)

Dec 9, 2025·29h

Steam User 1225STEAMRecommended

jep

Dec 7, 2025·15h·Verified

Steam User 9761STEAMRecommended

Per Aspera hits exactly where a good game should: it hands you a hostile world and asks a simple question:
what can you build with nothing but your mind and your will?
That’s the kind of challenge that respects a high gaming IQ: clear systems, no nonsense, no padded mechanics. Every resource, every distance, every drone route is a problem you can dissect and dominate.
It rewards real strategic thinking, long arcs, patterns, anticipating failure before it arrives.
The game doesn’t hold your hand, and that’s its strength.

Emotionally, it works on a deeper register. Mars feels empty, but not dead, more like a blank space waiting for intention. AMI’s narrative has that introspective, almost philosophical tone that actually lands.
It doesn’t moralize. It doesn’t preach. It simply explores consciousness, responsibility, and purpose in a way that resonates if you naturally reflect on your own decisions while playing.
That aligns perfectly with a high EQ gamer who engages, feels, and evaluates, not someone just clicking through objectives.

And there’s a theme running through the entire game: the individual shaping your own path against indifference, constraint, and external expectation.

That’s the core of the experience. Mars doesn’t care. No one is there to save you. Every breakthrough is earned, not handed. It’s pure self-determination.

What makes Per Aspera great is that it never wastes your time. It keeps moving forward, new tech, new pressure, new discoveries, and it trusts you to keep up because it assumes you can. And you can.

If you want a game that respects intelligence, intensity, emotional depth, and the drive to impose order on chaos through your own effort, then this is exactly that game.

It’s not just enjoyable, it’s aligned.

Dec 4, 2025·9h

Steam User 6972STEAMRecommended

Per Aspera was something I thought was absolutely fresh and new. Upon playing it further, it's kind of not, but at the same time still retains some appeal from games similar to this series. In essence, Per Aspera is similar to games like Bulwark and other expanding node type building games. The player is tasked with harvesting material, refining it, and building with it. In short, the game isn't bad, but I can see how it may not appeal to everyone.

Per Aspera's [b]gameplay[/b] is alright overall. Nothing over the top to keep the player's attention darting back and forth, but enough that the player is required to check up on their base/colony, unless it's been properly built and supplied. Only then can a base be left alone without supervision. Play time of the game can also be paused or slowed down at any moment when the player requires it, which is a neat feature. The [b]controls[/b] will mainly demand the player to use their mouse to achieve most of their goals in the game. This is sort of what made the game sort of mundane during my play; there was a large demand to keep expanding, however it seemed like this was all there was to the game. Fortunately, there were some other additions that do add some shine to Per Aspera. The player can zoom out from the planet and find that there are other icons they can interact with orbiting Mars. Such actions include scanning of new surfaces, launching new bases in new areas of the planet, exporting or importing material, and a few other events that have to do with the story. It's nothing too - too interactive, it's more like click, assign, and let it happen type of deal. There is another edge to the game where there are hostile forces that are present. They can be eliminated (to a certain degree and depending where the player is in the story) and upgraded through a technology tree. The more colonists the player brings in the more technology points they get for each research station discovered or built.

The [b]graphics and visuals[/b] are appropriate and flow well together with the entire game design. Although not Unreal Engine type realistic, it still provides animations to demonstrate to the player that there is movement and actions occurring in the game. Minor animations are not visible, but given the distance the camera is from the surface I guess it makes sense. There are other minor details such as battles that are visible during drone skirmishes, but didn't quite see any smoke trails or after burners. The terraforming visuals do occur gradually as the player heats up and adds CO2 to Mars, which of course is a nice addition to a game that literally requires the player to change a planet. The [b]sounds and music[/b] are okay. At times the music sounds like a nice relaxing piano back track then at times it seems like there are hints of NES music with a slightly modern twist. Sometimes a little odd, but interesting to say the least. Some of the sounds can be redundant and annoying as clicking the same building or creating new pathways may lead to repetitive "PSHHH" sort of noises.

Overall, the game is decent. I won't - won't recommend it, but won't also strongly recommend it. I do have to say the campaign does provide an interesting philosophical twist at the end which I enjoyed. I got it for a decent price on sale and perhaps would've given it a thumbs down if I paid more for it. The game is not bad, it seems like it was really fleshed out and properly cared for (such as roads being adjusted or made as new buildings are placed). It's just an average game to be frank. There seems to be an effort to include as much as possible in regards to [b]gameplay[/b] mechanics such as trade, colonist migration, new landing locations, satellite launches, and orbital weather modifications, but again, it's a simple point and click sort of deal. The game stops to show any event animations to signify to the player something happened, but again - again, doesn't feel like much is happening. The game has a decent [b]gameplay[/b] loop, but I can certainly see some players being like "OK - there is not much going on here for me". My suggestion even with a thumbs up review is to do your homework accordingly and see if this is something that would interest you.

[h1]RATING: 7.35/10[/h1]

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[td]Gameplay[/td]
[td]C+[/td]
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[td]Story / Campaign[/td]
[td]C+[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Visuals / User Interface[/td]
[td]C+[/td]
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[td]Sounds / Music[/td]
[td]C+[/td]
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[td]Replay-ability[/td]
[td]C+[/td]
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[td]Overall [/td]
[td]C+[/td]
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Dec 4, 2025·43h·14

Steam User 1331STEAMNot recommended

有点无聊说实话，是我科技解锁的东西太少了吗？但是前期我周围全是铁，一点冰和化合物都没有，只能疯狂加速，玩了3小时就没心情玩下去了

Dec 3, 2025·3h

Steam User 6819STEAMRecommended

A beautiful slow-burn resource management game...
It gets more complex the more you expand...
but you can do that at any rate of speed that you want.

Thumbs Up! :)

Dec 2, 2025·11h·Verified

Steam User 7980STEAMRecommended

Сюжет, конечно, получился уныленький на мой взгляд. В остальном кайфово, разок точно пройти стоит.

Dec 1, 2025·18h·Verified

Steam User 5232STEAMRecommended

Норм. Ощущение что ты компьютер (ИИ) присутствует. 1 ачивка требует порядка 20 часов афк, а в остальном неплохая игрушка.

Dec 1, 2025·65h·Verified

Steam User 8666STEAMRecommended

good game

Nov 30, 2025·49h·Verified

Steam User 8658STEAMRecommended

Jeux sympa

Nov 30, 2025·17h

Steam User 8303STEAMRecommended

Ein sehr gutes Spiel! Doch man muss viel Zeit investieren, denn alles dauert sehr lange.

Ich bin auch nicht besonders weit, habe allerdings schon Menschen auf dem Mars.

Nov 29, 2025·9h·Verified

Steam User 2574STEAMRecommended

Habe eine halbe Millionen Leute auf den Mars gebracht und dann den Mond auf den Planeten stürzen lassen 10/10

Nov 29, 2025·27h

Steam User 6046STEAMNot recommended

Well that was an unexpected let down from a game with a ton of potential.

Pros:

- Some of the cleanest UI and graphics of any game I've played.
- Initial exploration is fun.
- Approachable mechanics that can be understood by the end of the first game.
- Being able to change game speed is cool and unique.

Cons:

- Storyline was quite lackluster. The game finished and it felt like I was 75% of the way through the story and when I went back to play more, the game was bugged in a way that prevented me from interacting with anything- even after restart and reload.

- Balancing and game pace are broken. On my first- and likely only- playthrough, I had each of the tech trees entirely researched complete before unlocking a third sector with a fully upgraded military populated in my singular district before the second joke of an attack came. Oh, and instead of attacking the first nest, you can just ignore it because it gets destroyed from floods.

- Replayability is non-existent. Aside from discovering research facilities you couldn't the first run because they got flooded by completing the main mission, you start at the same place on Mars with all the same variables- aside from maybe resources if you chose to suffer. For a game that takes 12-20 hours, it's crazy there isn't more single player variation.

- Combat system is also lacking. Sometimes you'll click on an enemy unit with a drone and your drones would go to the location instead of attacking. Even fully upgraded drones are not fast enough to quickly eradicate enemies before they destroy buildings.

- Game progression is extremely linear. It sure seems like you don't have many impactful choices.

Nov 23, 2025·27h·11·Verified

Steam User 5388STEAMRecommended

Samey after a while but addictive till then.
Gives me a headache.

Nov 23, 2025·29h·Verified

Steam User 5264STEAMRecommended

It's a fun game that satisfies a certain itch for low-conflict 4X. Instead of expanding, exploiting, exterminating, etc you're effectively gardening, and that's nice. The story mode is serviceable but not riveting. I played through the sandbox first and I would recommend doing that because figuring out how to terraform and progressing at your own pace is more rewarding than the story which I often felt hampered my progress. I only wish there was more to do in the end game. Once you have a bunch of greenery the game is basically over, but what about ecological management? Urban expansion? Maybe even economic concerns like exports? You can eventually unlock open air farms and cities, but by the time they're viable there's no point. I might be asking too much, but I wish there was more reason to stick around once the terraforming objectives are completed because I want to be able to enjoy the greened Mars more. Regardless, it's a good time while it lasts, worth the money I'd say.

Nov 22, 2025·53h·Verified

Steam User 0288STEAMRecommended

Przyjemna gra o terraformacji marsa. Nie posiada zbyt skomplikowanych mechanik, i duża część gry to czekanie na badania/projekty/zasoby, ale przyjemne jest wrażenie wpływu na wygląd całej planety, obserwowanie wielkich sieci i setek robotów poruszających się po niej oraz wpływ na wygląd planety jaki mają akcje gracza.

Nov 18, 2025·20h·Verified

Steam User 1450STEAMRecommended

This is a factory game, but a very.. slow one. Veterans of the genre might think, "that doesn't mean anything, there's always more factory to build!" and, well. You have a maximum number of buildings, gated by research. You have logistics drones that you have to wait to actually build things on their own pace. Your research gain is gated by the arrival of more colonists which is also a very slow process. It all compounds to be quite sloooow.

I would not recommend this at full price. At a steep discount of $15 for the base game and Blue Mars combined? Sure. It's a pretty good game for me to leave running and periodically check on while I'm working. But if I was paying attention to it the whole time I'd probably doze off. In other words, it's an idle factory game. This is what most of the negative reviews echo, but it's also what made me give it a look in the first place. Buyer beware.

Oh, some of the music bops too. That helps.

Nov 17, 2025·5h·2

Steam User 7270STEAMRecommended

Its a fun game to play while watching tv

Nov 12, 2025·14h·1·Verified

Steam User 7553STEAMRecommended

Fun to play. If you're into the semi-automated base building genre, then this one is the most suitable for you. Some content is locked behind the DLC Blue Mars, but you can still finish the game without it. Recommend to get the DLC if you plan to play a save file in a long run

Nov 11, 2025·89h·Verified

Steam User 1820STEAMRecommended

Mixed reviews? I guess people lost entirety of their ability to like things moving a bit slower. I am mostly playing at 8x and having so much fun. I read the complaints and I almost skipped this. I am so happy that I didn't.

At 10 hours, I kind of expanded to half of the planet already. The story is great, game play is great. I really like this game. I feel like it could be played twice too. I am not sure how far I am, but from the perspective of terraforming, I think I am at 40%.

Nov 7, 2025·23h·1·Verified

Steam User 1558STEAMNot recommended

if you wanted to play per aspera in coop don't bother there are literally no reason to play it in coop why ?
1 person is more than enough to do everything in this game and player 1 will already be afk half of the game why ?
bc the coop is only in sandbox mod no story, by doing so you miss like 70% of the game
want to start on different spot of mars? only player 1 will have resources spawn near them so you can't play separately
the game can also decide to corrupt the file in multiplayer making p2 instantly desync over and over
and on top of that both player need to have the dlc

Oct 26, 2025·9h·4