Mars Horizon

Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.

Mars Horizon is a management, space and strategy game developed by Auroch Digital and published by Secret Mode.
Released on November 17th 2020 is available on Windows and MacOS in 8 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Portuguese - Brazil.

It has received 2,917 reviews of which 2,447 were positive and 470 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 4.49€ on Steam and has a 75% discount.

The Steam community has classified Mars Horizon into these genres:

Management Space Strategy Education Mars Space Sim Science Historical Choices Matter Building Alternate History Turn-Based Exploration Simulation Stylized Logic Singleplayer Resource Management Immersive Sim Physics

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7 / 8 / 10
Processor: 2.0GHz Dual Core Processor
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GT 740 (2048 MB) / Radeon HD 5770 (1024 MB) or equivalent
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 4 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX compatible

MacOS

OS: 10.15 (macOS Catalina)
Processor: 3.2 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 630
Storage: 4 GB available space
Additional Notes: A dedicated graphics card is strongly recommended for the best experience.

Reviews

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Nov. 2024

I started playing 5 hours later... You can get involved in this game. I'd change the success Process for space missions, but the basis of the game is very good. It is not perfect and is not for the action minded player. 7/10 -2 for the lack of random success scores early on. -1 for the Building Bonus system

Oct. 2024

Fun time killer! Was neat living the stress of being the first to land on the moon but overall if you're a manned space flight fan it's right up your alley

Aug. 2024

The game is all right, but it got boring pretty quickly for me because of the mini-games. Nice historical background First of all, this game has a very nice historical side where you can learn about the different boosters and upper stages used by space agencies since the 1960s, so it's definitely a very enjoyable way to learn more about the history of space exploration as a whole. Very basic gameplay, mini-game based The gameplay is pretty basic and it goes like this: [*] Research . You can only focus on one technology at a time, for example developing a booster or unlocking a mission. You can't improve your parts later with more research, so research doesn't make your rockets better - it's just an 'unlocking things' system. [*] Base building . Extremely basic, you have a grid and you must place your buildings there. Your options are very limited because the closer you are to your main buildings, the cheaper it is to build something, so you can't really plan ahead and build things where you want them. [*] Missions . Missions are the core of the game, but they don't really work like a management game. They are minigames where you receive a set of values - energy, communications, data - and you must trade them in a short amount of turns to get a positive outcome. It's powered by basic math and way more RNGs than we deserve. Detailed explanation of the gameplay and the mini-games The management side is okay, but quite simple in my opinion. There's basically three things you can do: research, expand your base, and launch missions. Research and expanding your base are the management side of the game and are not really developed in depth , they're pretty straightforward. Even the base construction leaves little to imagination because some slots cost a lot more than others, so you can only place each building in one place or two. Missions are the core of the game, but they are mostly minigames , and they are not related to management at all. You have certain values like power, communications or data, and you need to trade these values using a conversion table, an RNG, and a limited amount of turns. This is where it gets boring for me because your missions may be successful or unsuccessful based on your ability to counting cards, instead of being based on your ability to develop better technologies and manage your space agency. For example, once you develop a booster, you can't really improve it. It's just that booster, and everytime you build it you get a RNG telling you if it was better or worse. This affects your launch RNG, which in turn may affect your upper stage RNG during a mission. So the game is essentially a long preparation of optimizing your chances against RNGs until you reach the mission, which, like I said, is simply a mini-game , and it's completely unrelated to management. If you do it well you'll get a bonus in cash or research points, which only leads to you playing the same mini-games faster in the coming missions. So, definitely not my cup of tea. Also, competition with other space agencies is quite irrelevant because you can't see their values , so you can't plan a proper strategy to beat them. All you can do is try to make a lot of successful missions very fast, so, be ready to play a lot of mini-games over and over again for no particular reason other than unlocking new stages of the same mini-games. Mars Horizon can be the grounds for something better Since this is an indie game I give it a thumbs up, as it's clearly made with love. However my thumbs up is not really because I enjoy the game. I can tell it's going to be an endless succession of mini-games forever, so I won't really finish it. I will just move on to the next game because I don't want to trade values in mini-games, I want an immersive management experience this game doesn't provide. On the bright side, this game can be the grounds for a much better space agency management game in the future. All the devs need to do is to remove the mini-games and make management actually relevant in Mars Horizon .

April 2024

It's purely a management game, don't expect Kerbal Space Program level design here. Great in it's own way. 7/10

March 2024

Very good space agency sim, although much lighter simulation than the likes of old BuzzAldrinsRaceIntoSpace. It's easy game to get into, but AI competition is on the harder side to beat, as time and money are very tight, except for easy difficulty. In general space agency sim games are very few and far between, so it's nice that this one is well made for what it does.

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