Surviving Mars

The game itself was fun, but expecting us to pay another $40 for the same game with patches is crazy.
"Relaunched" = give us money you stupid consumers.

The game itself is very awesome and addictive. But the DLC policy s**** a**, as with every Paradox game. Basically, get Green Planet and maybe the Deluxe Upgrade pack for the Quantum Sonics radio station and then leave it at that.

A chill game that frustrates you when you least expect. Regardless you get addicted to expand your colony and play through the story.
When you get tired of the game mechanics, you can always change difficulty and other settings for your next colony, making the game dynamics completely different. So you need to adapt fast and pick the best strategy.
There is still one annoying bug that isnt fixed besides being reported for some years...
"Tourists overstaying" without any reason.... like per 100 tourists, only like 10 leave the colony. Its very anying and sadly, using tourists as a strategy is not worth it....

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
---{ Replayability }---
☐ One and done
☐ Maybe after a year
☑ Worth a second run
☐ Played it 20 times and still not bored
---{ Microtransactions }---
☑ None
☐ Only cosmetics
☐ Slightly pay-to-progress
☐ Pay-to-win
☐ More shops than gameplay
☐ Casino Simulator
---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
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☐ 10

Surviving Mars: Relaunch: re-purchase the same game again. PASS. Spend US$40 for an updated game from Paradox? PASS. I can't seem to create a review on the relaunched store page because I don't own it. I don't own it because I won't pay for it. This original "is no longer available on the Steam store" - PARADOX, why must you be the worst?
I'll keep my buggy (?) one (honestly, i don't think I witnessed any bugs, it is a sim that you need to keep massive numbers of colonists busy and happy, I see no problems).
It doesn't really matter recommended yes or no; the original this review is being left under is a YES (that cannot be purchased any more), the relaunched is a hard NO.

Why are the reviews for this game so poor? It's actually really cool/fun - you build a Mars colony over time and then teraform the planet! Like.

Leaving a positive review for this one. It is a great game. But closing this one down forcing me to buy a new copy of the same game in order to keep getting updates? Super-greedy bad dev behavior. I had much higher thoughts on Paradox.