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Mars Base

Khuong Le · indie.io · 2022-10-17

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreEpic Games Store

AdventureCasualSimulation

Modes: Single player, Co-operative

Releases: Jun 03, 2024 (PlayStation 4), Oct 17, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 26, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Nov 06, 2023 (PlayStation 5)

Welcome to Mars Base, humanity’s foothold on the Red Planet! Join the expedition as an interstellar botanist and make history: turn barren soil into fertile farmland, grow food for colonists’ tables, and unearth the secrets of Mars! Are you ready to science the “crop” out of everything?

0
playing now
56%
positive of 45 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$3.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Welcome to Mars, adventurer! You have been selected to join the latest Mars colonization mission, establishing a permanent human presence on the enigmatic Red Planet. Your assignment is at Mars Base, located in the scenic Erebus Montes region on the Amazonia Planitia. Your job? Make sure that our nascent colony can sustain itself through agriculture. Achieve the impossible and convert the harsh Martian soil into arable land, to grow everything the colonists need to survive. If successful, you'll mark the beginning of Human-Martian history. However, never forget that you'll be working tens of (Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

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  • · Top 79% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.60-82%
GOG$3.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.19 at Fanatical (2025-12-11)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 131 of 178 observed days · $0.80 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-11 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$0.002021-03-272026-08-302021-03-27 — best price $0.002022-12-13 — best price $10.982023-02-24 — best price $15.892023-04-21 — best price $9.992023-05-23 — best price $19.992023-07-07 — best price $9.992023-08-25 — best price $7.992023-10-09 — best price $8.002023-11-07 — best price $19.992023-12-04 — best price $5.892024-01-16 — best price $7.992024-02-20 — best price $7.992024-03-18 — best price $5.892024-04-09 — best price $5.992024-05-08 — best price $19.992024-06-07 — best price $17.402024-07-13 — best price $5.592024-08-15 — best price $5.992024-09-23 — best price $19.992024-10-28 — best price $4.792024-12-09 — best price $6.002025-01-23 — best price $5.992025-03-03 — best price $4.792025-04-07 — best price $3.992025-05-22 — best price $19.992025-06-28 — best price $3.872025-08-07 — best price $4.992025-09-11 — best price $19.992025-10-20 — best price $4.992025-11-15 — best price $13.942025-12-18 — best price $3.872026-02-02 — best price $14.692026-03-09 — best price $3.102026-04-13 — best price $19.992026-05-08 — best price $17.402026-06-04 — best price $3.992026-06-26 — best price $3.592026-08-10 — best price $13.942026-08-30 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

2DCuteMarsAnimeCookingTop-DownCyberpunkControllerExplorationFarming Sim

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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