Mars Power Industries Deluxe
Worth it · Short indie · 2019
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $5.99, a BANGER if it drops to $3.24.
- Length
- 3.3h
- Value
- $1.82/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 5000, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Mysterious puzzle inspired by 2001:Space Odyssey. Manage resources, solve challenging puzzles and uncover what lies beneath the surface! Year after year, strange happenings plague our tiny colony, darkness devours Mars. Your job as an Electrician? Bring light where darkness reigns!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
December 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. Its cuts run 62 percent off as a rule. There have been 78 in the 7 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $3.24. The record reaches that level 70 times.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Zodiacats ($1.99, scores 100) beats it on value, while it beats Railbound ($12.99, scores 65).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 15 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 1 of the 339 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 131 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
57% start to 15% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Mars Power Industries Deluxe scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/977230/mars-power-industries-deluxeReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 1.
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