Take On Mars
Skip · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.33/hr
- Reviews▼
- 55% of 2,038
- Critics
- 62 players 7 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 100% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 30h
- To 100%
- 62.5h 2.1x the story
- Achievements
- 40
Price and sales
- Sales
- 90 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 June 2023
- Sale every
- 37d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 2 now
- Cheaper than
- 29% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 3% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
64% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
90 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 97 percent. Kerbal Space Program 2 ($49.99, scores 2) outscores it, and so does Occupy Mars: The Game ($29.99, scores 18). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Take On Mars
Of the 334 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 30 percent of the 275 reviews written there were positive, against 55 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 30 hours. Doing everything runs 63, 2.1 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I love the concept, I love the feel... they almost had it. The problem is, it's got the Bohemia Bugginess. There are a lot of decisions they made that are very questionable, such as the fact that canisters don't snap in place when you load them, they remain fully simulated and the physics sim will ruin you at times when it freaks out. It's just a lot of annoyances that through no fault of your own, things just blow...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I couldn´t even build something in the Tutorial. Spent about 1 hour trying to fit the first peice into place. Thought that for 9 € on sale it might be something. I suspect it was a waste of money.
Great old game. It's not abandoned - it's finished. It's 10 years old. Still better than early access garbage we get now
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Take On Mars places you right in the middle of mankind’s most exciting undertaking. Start out in the seat of a rover operator, finish as the first human to have ever set foot on the Red Planet.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Take On Mars scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/244030/take-on-marsReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.