Surviving Mars: Relaunched

I would like to love this sequel. The base game had been great, with some bugs towards the end game that made me never truly finish a project i had. While this "relaunch" adds a lot of content and enjoyable upgrades to logistics and tech. It also adds a massive amount of game breaking bugs which, once they are in your save, are breaking it. The constant changing of workplace and living space totally breaking workplace rotations and sanity, without any logic to it, can only be mitigated by heavy micro-management. Unless i have missed functions (such as never leave assigned workplace & living place unless destroyed) i would consider this a lack of testing "feature". If the devs had truly played their game they would have come accross this. It already starts to anoy when you have habitats & domes. (it starts the very moment you have a second dome, but can already start in your first by people rearanging themselves funny in your service buildings rendering some not working while others are filled to the brim (priority settings and workplace restrictions can be used to counter, but its tedious, especially with a growing colony ; try doing that with over 1000 colonists and a high birth rates..) Speaking of which, i did try to micromanage my brain out: the result is massive chaos; you assign people to their desired workplace and a smart apartment in their workplaces dome (cant be more optimal right?) - the person will randomly leave the apartment and workplace to wander around homeless and workless because he cant migrate to a dome on the other side of the map as i micro.manage migration to avoid that.. Okay lets go singular dome for singular purpose, cmon scientists wont migrate to the tourist dome just to travel by train to their workplace... especially when their dome has a lot higher comfort and service... Oh they did it again. You have naturalists (geologists/botanists) in their Habitat, they are super exited and happy, you even researched the appropriate breakthrough to boost that satisfaction, their character sheet is all green and smiles.. nothing missing. all is working fine for 2 sols, it took you only 3 minutes to set it all up; and there isnt even a dome in walking distance. You wonder why your rare metal production dropped all of a sudden and why you have a sanity breakdown on a medic. Ahh the medic decided to go to the habitat, kick out the geologist who worked next door, just to require a shuttle haul to a workplace, which apparently decided to fire him for the sake of being expensive, excentric and a little bit stupid. Sanity breakdown, on an enthusiastic genius who happened to have the Homer Trump hidden trait. (his name was Homer Simson, that should have been a warning ?) Another fun, game breaking, bug : ghost tracks. You build a nice train infrastructure.. all is working well, its not even complex, just 5 stations going a smooth round course with a total of 10 curves. But they are not connected? though you can see the tracks, and you get the pop up with the info, you go through the entire track to see if you made an error, and than you find a part of the track which says its not connected. ????? why ??? , okay np, i will salvage and rebuild... yeah. You will have a track monument forever standing in your colony. Reload doesnt fix, restart doesnt fix it.. I even tried raining down meteors for 20 sols to get that part of the track destroyed. Unfortunatly, ninja-ghost tracks are not to be hit by asteroids. But they block your construction area. Enough rant, the game is still "fun", till it breaks. Maybe the devs get these glitches out, but i have reasonable doubt considering that Surviving Mars still has logistic, migration and workplace glitches in the late game.

Unplayable. Crashes after playing for a short while. UI dont work on high dpi display and mouse panning dont work reliably. I spent hundreds of hours on the original game, but cant play this Relanched version. Don't waste your money on this one.

A lot of people seem to think that Relaunched isn't worth it. Here's why it is. There have been many streamlined, QoL fixes. It's easier to add specific colonists. The build menu is set up better than it was. The UI has more information without compromising the space. Drones don't have to run to storage to build new things. All DLC is included, and if you already owned the original, you get the new one for $20. So if you didn't have all the DLC, it's definitely worth it. It's cleaner, easier to use, and overall works better. These are just the things I've discovered in the first few hours of playing.

I own the original game with all DLC, still enjoying this one all over again. Looking forward to future content.

Not yet. Far too buggy, especially for a game that supposedly released with a new engine in order to deal with said bugs. If the bugs get ironed out, I will flip my review. I love this game, but as of right now I can't even interact with the underground system or the asteroid catching system without encountering bugs that ruin the experience. What's the point?

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If a company asks me to pay to buy a game I already own, I expect the remake to improve on what I already own. This game is full of bugs that make it impossible to enjoy.