MarZ: Tactical Base Defense on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Build your defense base to fight back the undead hordes of Mars and secure the future of the red planet. MarZ is a game of strategy and tactical defense where you must carefully manage your crew and resources as you try to uncover the terrible secrets of the undead.

MarZ: Tactical Base Defense is a strategy, tower defense and rts game developed and published by Giant Grey.
Released on April 04th 2019 is available only on Windows in 8 languages: English, German, French, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Polish, Russian and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 866 reviews of which 680 were positive and 186 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.5 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam with a 75% discount, but you can find it for 4.87€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified MarZ: Tactical Base Defense into these genres:

Strategy Tower Defense RTS Tactical Indie Zombies Gore Base-Building Management Sci-fi Difficult Mars Resource Management Building Atmospheric Singleplayer Futuristic Space

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System requirements

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

Windows
  • OS *: 64-bit Windows 7/8/10
  • Processor: Intel Core i5
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: DirectX 10 compliant graphics card with 2GB dedicated memory
  • DirectX: Version 10
  • Storage: 3 GB available space
  • Sound Card: any

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May 2025
An enjoyable, if a little simple, tower defense that focuses on "tower management" rather than huge sprawling mazes. The core concept here, that separates it from normal TD games is that you have a limited number of soldiers and every building requires a soldier to man it. So you have to juggle your soldiers between resource gathering, technology advancement and manning towers....... At least you would if the combination of rocket tower and laser towers didn't defeat absolute everything the campaign has to throw at you. You can also pay to recruit more soldiers so you can ,theoretically, have a sprawling tower network. Don't mistake me, this game is really enjoyable and I would encourage you not to listen to the reviews screaming about how hard it is; the game adds a unique twist to TD so as to set itself out from the huge number of copy-paste TD games on the market. Oh, the prism upgrade for the laser tower WILL eventually bug out and become an indestructible blocker; it will stop shooting but the enemies will still hit it, only they don't do any damage to it and it will either make your mission really easy or it will kill you there and then.
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March 2025
Very good tower defense. Unfortunately it's too short and too expensive for launch for the content. Two achievements are really dumb. One is to get all the others... and the other is to complete all levels on normal difficulty. I've played all the levels on hardest and didn't get this... so now I have to play them all again on easier difficulty?
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Feb. 2025
I only recommend this with some BIG caveats, because I'm on the fence about it. It looks very nice and plays well, but it has a different vibe more akin to one-and-done puzzle solving, and doesn't have the same kind of dynamism and improvisational nature of similar RTS/defense titles. The design, aesthetics and interface are all extremely polished, and I'm surprised the dev hasn't made other game titles to show off their design skills, because they're great. It has a great atmosphere and presentation, and the game is functional without any bugs, and I have played though the whole thing. However as others have mentioned, it has a linear and borderline restrictive gameplay style that usually requires a tailored build sequence to win, and replayability suffers as a result. While there's freedom with building placement, the gameplay doesn't reward much experimentation because many levels have a very limited range of effective strategies, some with very strict build timing and unit movement. There are circumstances where you need to know this correct planning and timing in order to win, and sometimes that only comes through multiple trial and error attempts and a lot of micromanagement in early levels. That's not really dynamic gameplay, it's just repeating a solution to a puzzle that only comes with rote memorization. It doesn't really have the same kind of addictive vibe that other games do when they allow for improvisation and experimentation in gameplay. There are times where a challenge is thrown at you and you have no time to counter it, so unless you're already prepared ahead of time, then be prepared to restart often in order to figure out that perfect build order. There's usually only one way to strategize: either having borderline psychic powers, or replaying the level until you get so tired of trying that you want to give up. There is also not much in the way of exploration; the game doesn't reward expansion or point control the way you may be used to in similar titles and it's not easy to defend territory outside your base because you're typically very resource limited and can't build up a surplus of anything. There are skirmish levels and custom maps to make up for this, but because there's a very narrow scope of what to do to win campaign levels, there's less urgency to revisit them because you just end up doing the same (or similar) build loop every single time. If you really love that sort of puzzle-solving and micromanagement-juggling over the spontaneous ad-lib nature of most RTS or defense games, maybe this is a fantastic game for you.
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Dec. 2024
Fun little game that you can enjoy if you get it on sale but I can't recommend this for the full price.
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Nov. 2024
Yeah I guess it's ok for a tower defense. TD games aren't particularly inventive; they all do the same thing, for the most part. Fast firing tower, AOE tower, hyper focused DOT tower. But this one is free form with its base building which helps give it a little freshness. And like all TD games, they're a hint rogue lite (or whatever the genre is called) because you have to lose a few times before you can figure out what your strategy should be. This game is no different here. so, yeah, I don't particularly care for the TD genre anyway, but this one is probably one of the better ones I've played.
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MarZ: Tactical Base Defense is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

MarZ: Tactical Base Defense is currently available at a 75% discount. You can purchase it for 4.99€ on Steam.

MarZ: Tactical Base Defense received 680 positive votes out of a total of 866 achieving a rating of 7.48.
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MarZ: Tactical Base Defense was developed and published by Giant Grey.

MarZ: Tactical Base Defense is playable and fully supported on Windows.

MarZ: Tactical Base Defense is not playable on MacOS.

MarZ: Tactical Base Defense is not playable on Linux.

MarZ: Tactical Base Defense is a single-player game.

MarZ: Tactical Base Defense does not currently offer any DLC.

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MarZ: Tactical Base Defense does not support Steam Remote Play.

MarZ: Tactical Base Defense is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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MarZ: Tactical Base Defense
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680
186
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Giant Grey
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Giant Grey
Release 04 Apr 2019
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