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Run a Martian corporation in a real-time strategy game where resource production, market shifts, and stock buyouts replace armies.
Released 28 Apr 2016
Claim Martian Resource Tiles
Manipulate Resource Prices
Buy Out Rival Firms
Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.
Developed by Mohawk Games · Published by Stardock Entertainment







You run a corporation on colonized Mars, competing with rival companies to become the dominant business on the planet. The conflict is economic rather than military: the goal is to build enough financial leverage to buy out your competitors.
Scan the Martian surface and claim resource tiles, then build facilities to extract and process materials. Your choices shape a player-driven market: increased supply can push prices down, while scarcity can make goods more valuable. Stocks and black-market actions offer additional ways to pressure rivals.
Play through a single-player campaign featuring CEOs with different traits, or take on skirmishes and multiplayer matches using different corporations. Maps, available resources, and market conditions vary between games; the Jupiter’s Forge expansion also adds scenarios on Io, where resources deplete over time.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its unusual focus on economic competition, the shifting market, and the need to adapt quickly to each match. Several also like its brisk, intense sessions, replay variety, and soundtrack. Some find the mechanics demanding to learn, and multiplayer reliability and access problems appear repeatedly in the reviews, though a few players report that multiplayer is working for them.

| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 255 |
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| Players | 1–8 |
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| Multiplayer | Offworld Trading Company supports multiplayer for up to 8 players according to the store description. Steam features list Online PvP, Online Co-op, and Cross-Platform Multiplayer. Reviews also describe ranked 1v1, ranked 4-player free-for-all, and custom games with free-for-all, teams, and comp stomp, but some of this is user-reported rather than store text. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Steam Workshop and a level editor are listed, but the provided text does not state how mods or custom maps function in multiplayer. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 13 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 78/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
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