Surviving Mars: Relaunched
Skip · Strategy · 2025
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $39.99.
- Reviews
- 54% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 | AMD Radeon RX 470 | Intel Arc A380, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $19.99. It has gone on sale 2 times in the 11 months tracked here, most recently in September 2026.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 97 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Omerta - City of Gangsters ($14.99, scores 16) and Stranded: Alien Dawn ($34.99, scores 59) both outscore it.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 13 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2025 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 770 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 228 reviews written there were positive, against 54 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Surviving Mars: Relaunched scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3215050/surviving-mars-relaunchedThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 22.
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