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Lead a Mars expedition: build life-supporting domes, manage colonists and resources, and grow a settlement toward independence.
Released 10 Nov 2025
Build Oxygen Domes
Mine Passing Asteroids
Run Martian Laws
The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.
Developed by Haemimont Games · Published by Paradox Interactive









You command an expedition tasked with establishing a human colony on Mars, where people cannot survive without reliable life support. Choose a sponsor and landing site, then develop a settlement that can withstand the planet’s hazards and support its colonists.
Build domes, power grids, and supply networks, and keep resources such as water, oxygen, food, and power flowing. Drones construct and maintain infrastructure, while colonists bring individual needs that affect how you plan housing and work. Research unlocks buildings, production methods, and upgrades.
Explore the surface, underground areas, and passing asteroids for resources and discoveries. Randomized maps, sponsors, technologies, and mysteries change the challenges between runs. Later goals include shaping Martian society through laws, pursuing independence, and terraforming the planet.
The supplied reviews praise the underlying colony-building loop as engaging and replayable, with some players enjoying the political system’s added decisions and others noting that patches improved parts of the experience. Many reviews instead focus on bugs affecting colonists and systems such as trains or asteroid expeditions, along with concerns that the relaunch offers too little change to justify paying again.
Welcome home! The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded, and more stunning than ever. Your mission: colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming human colonists and achieving long-term stability. There are new challenges to overcome, new strategies to plan, and now with an upgraded look and feel for a new generation of explorers.
All you need for this relaunched mission to create a thriving Martian settlement is a steady supply of resources, oxygen, decades of training, experience with sandstorms… and a curious attitude to discover the purpose of those weird black cubes that appeared out of nowhere. With a bit of sprucing up, this place is going to be awesome!
Surviving Mars: Relaunched brings together the original colony management game from Haemimont Games, its entire catalogue of expansions, improved and reworked, from major expansions to cosmetics and radio stations, as well as the all-new Martian Assembly update. Upgraded graphics together with updated UI will give veteran players the definitive Surviving Mars experience, and provide an ideal launch point for new commanders as well.
Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
The new Martian Assembly brings an expanded endgame challenge never seen in the original. Shape your Martian society through laws. Balance the needs and demands of your colonists, keep the peace and develop a long-term plan for Mars - up to and including independence from Earth!

Building a thriving colony on a planet not fit for human life brings its own challenges. Construct life-support systems, power grids, domes, and supply chains, and keep them running, because blackouts on a planet without oxygen are never a good idea. And you’re not alone. With the included ‘Space Race’ expansion, rival colonies backed by competing sponsors add even more pressure as you fight for resources and the future of Mars.

Balance critical resources like oxygen, water, power, and food to keep your colony alive. Drones build and maintain your infrastructure, while the revamped ‘Martian Express’ adds trains that move people and supplies across longer distances. Every colonist has their own needs and behaviors and smart management is essential for their survival.

Advance your colony through a deep research system that unlocks new buildings, production methods, and essential upgrades. Discover breakthroughs, resources, and hidden secrets reaching ‘Below & Beyond’ the Martian surface. With randomized maps, varied sponsors, and unpredictable Mysteries, every playthrough offers new challenges, and every decision shapes your story of survival and growth on Mars.

Terraforming is no longer a distant dream, it’s your next challenge. With the included ‘Green Planet’ expansion, you can engineer Mars into a more habitable world. As the environment transforms, introduce animal life with ‘Project Laika’, bringing the first creatures to thrive alongside your colonists. The future of Mars isn’t just survival, it’s building a self-sustaining, living planet.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 65 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 3 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |