Per Aspera on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

Per Aspera is a online co-op, real-time and management game developed by Tlön Industries and published by Raw Fury.
Released on December 03rd 2020 is available only on Windows in 8 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 5,423 reviews of which 4,118 were positive and 1,305 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 7.49€ on Steam with a 75% discount, but you can find it for 3.53€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Per Aspera into these genres:

Online Co-Op Real-Time Management Strategy Automation Base-Building City Builder Moddable Colony Sim Resource Management Building Robots Simulation Multiplayer Sandbox Mars Survival Sci-fi Space Science

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System requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10
Processor: Intel Core i5-7400 / AMD Ryzen 3 1200
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050ti / AMD Radeon RX 570
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 10 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card

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Feb. 2025

basically they turned the kim stanley robinson trilogy into a city-builder. there's a ton of production value here in the voice acting, the UI, and the general visual design. but it's pretty lacking in gameplay mechanics, game system transparency, and the logistics model. buildings don't clearly show their production/consumption rates. the worker-territory system is limiting, buggy, and a huge step down if you're used to other logistics games with more sophisticated controls still, it's compelling. there's a long core game loop of dealing with the consequences of your own actions. like, ice is a limited resource, which pushes you to flood mars, which in turn forces you to retreat from the rising waters, but then opens up liquid water as a resource. if you're willing to deal with the logistics jank it's worth at least one playthrough

Nov. 2024

Loved the game. The only 2 issue's I have are the pacing of the story and the lack of better logistics options. Once you reach mid game eveything gets clogged even with hyperloops and max level roads. Other than that: great game. I would love another game like this set somewhere else with a different story.

Sept. 2024

Great space city builder/Management game! Very chill to play. - Space theme! Not many games have this kind of theme. - Cool story but some of them have quite bad timing. - No bugs so far, I haven't seen any. - Have a lot of buildings to build. - Fun gameplay and good mechanics. - Good presentation and have a voice acting. - QOL could be better, but it is forgivable. - Quite short for this kind of game.

Aug. 2024

Per Aspera is a colony management simulation game that has a story containing multiple possible endings, allowing for replay ability. It took me about 20 hours to complete the game's story mode and understand each mechanism. I absolutely loved the playthrough. I felt like the Blue Mars DLC should have been included in the base game, since it includes mechanisms that just make sense, and I also feel as if the game itself is in need of further performance optimizations. Outside of those two cons, I think this is a great game that eases you into each stage, and eventually requires precise resource management and allocation of structures. Don't get overwhelmed by the idea of that though. The game does a great job at making the whole experience fun.

June 2024

This is a base building game where you are an AI tasked with terraforming Mars. You build workers, mines, factories, colonies, utility buildings. The first thing that impressed me about the game was the world map of Mars. The topology is very well done and it was interesting just scrolling around and looking at all the features of Mars, especially after having recently read the Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson. The formulas for resources and buildings are very simple and easy to understand - it is a very basic system compared to Factorio. Other reviews complain about the dumb workers, but unless you are a min-maxer you can just build a bunch of workers and forget about them. By the end of the game I had over 200 and my base was humming along just fine. I had my food producing buildings on priority the whole game which seemed to work well for keeping colonists happy. Some parts of the game are quite tedious. I had to build over 200 oxygen capture plants one by one because all the plants were making too much oxygen. Rising water levels will destroy your water treatment plants and so you have to constantly destroy them and move them back as water levels rise. Drone combat is very annoying, thankfully there isn't too much of it. I quite enjoyed the story and it gave me a reason to keep going with the game. I don't think the replayability is very high - I don't see myself coming back to the game now that I've finished it. Overall I'd definitely recommend getting the game if you like builders. However if you like your builders very complicated, have high replayability or want finely tuned control over production it might not be for you.

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