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Mars Base

Khuong Le · indie.io · 2022-10-17

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AdventureCasualSimulation

Modes: Single player, Co-operative · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

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?

Mars Base is an Adventure, Casual, and Simulation game released in 2022, priced at $3.99, with an owner estimate of 50,000 .. 100,000 and a Mixed review sentiment (56% of 45 reviews).

0
playing now
56%
positive of 45 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
3.17★
PlayStation Store rating (30 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$3.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 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

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 63% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 57% of 28,748 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Current store prices

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 156 of 205 observed days · $0.80 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
141420222026Week of 2022-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$0.002021-03-272026-10-142021-03-27 — best price $0.002023-01-05 — best price $19.992023-03-23 — best price $19.992023-05-14 — best price $9.972023-07-07 — best price $9.992023-09-04 — best price $7.992023-10-21 — best price $6.982023-11-29 — best price $7.992024-01-16 — best price $7.992024-02-26 — best price $15.082024-03-30 — best price $7.802024-05-01 — best price $5.992024-06-07 — best price $17.402024-07-18 — best price $4.992024-09-03 — best price $5.292024-10-16 — best price $19.992024-12-09 — best price $6.002025-02-13 — best price $4.992025-03-26 — best price $4.992025-05-09 — best price $4.002025-06-28 — best price $3.872025-08-19 — best price $4.662025-09-29 — best price $3.872025-11-10 — best price $3.872025-12-18 — best price $3.872026-02-09 — best price $14.692026-03-27 — best price $3.992026-04-30 — best price $3.992026-06-04 — best price $3.992026-07-13 — best price $13.942026-08-22 — best price $3.992026-09-13 — best price $3.992026-10-03 — best price $3.992026-10-14 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

27
achievements tracked
33.9%
earned "Mars Base Alpha"
6.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

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.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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