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Reshaping Mars

Tholus · Yooreka Studio · 2023-03-30

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Aug 26, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.

Reshaping Mars is an Indie, Simulation, Strategy game released in 2023, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (84% of 832 reviews).

3
playing now
84%
positive of 832 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

In this game, you will start from scratch to obtain minerals and energy from Mars, build a hydroponic farm to store food, build habitats to accept batches of immigrants. This is not enough. The harsh environment on Mars will bring a lot of trouble to your colony. Low air pressure, high radiation, large sandstorms, etc. There is no future in dealing with various natural disasters. Therefore, you need to research more powerful technologies, build more powerful colonies, and then perform some surgery on Mars to make it more livable and you'll become the real master of Mars. Besides, there are (Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 31% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (161 reviews).
  • · Top 12% of 49,602 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 17k–37k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 832 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.99 at Steam (2021-11-24)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
13713720212026Week of 2021-08-01: 124 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 137 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

602026-09-15 01:00 — 2 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 4 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 3 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 4 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 5 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 5 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 4 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 3 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 4 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 6 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 3 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 3 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 3 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 3 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 4 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2214Aug 2021Aug 2026Aug 2021 — avg 220 · peak 395Oct 2021 — avg 26 · peak 82Dec 2021 — avg 12 · peak 34Feb 2022 — avg 6 · peak 25Apr 2022 — avg 5 · peak 16Jun 2022 — avg 5 · peak 18Aug 2022 — avg 5 · peak 15Oct 2022 — avg 4 · peak 11Dec 2022 — avg 6 · peak 18Feb 2023 — avg 58 · peak 138Apr 2023 — avg 221 · peak 640Jun 2023 — avg 31 · peak 82Aug 2023 — avg 21 · peak 44Oct 2023 — avg 14 · peak 33Dec 2023 — avg 14 · peak 41Feb 2024 — avg 14 · peak 32Apr 2024 — avg 15 · peak 36Jun 2024 — avg 13 · peak 30Aug 2024 — avg 9 · peak 25Oct 2024 — avg 9 · peak 19Dec 2024 — avg 10 · peak 24Feb 2025 — avg 10 · peak 22Apr 2025 — avg 13 · peak 40Jun 2025 — avg 8 · peak 15Aug 2025 — avg 7 · peak 18Oct 2025 — avg 5 · peak 12Dec 2025 — avg 5 · peak 13Feb 2026 — avg 7 · peak 15Apr 2026 — avg 5 · peak 14Jun 2026 — avg 5 · peak 13Aug 2026 — avg 6 · peak 14
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$9.99$7.992021-08-262025-03-312021-08-26 — best price $8.492021-09-01 — best price $9.992021-09-30 — best price $8.492021-10-04 — best price $9.992021-11-24 — best price $7.992021-12-01 — best price $9.992021-12-23 — best price $8.492022-02-03 — best price $9.992022-06-23 — best price $7.992022-07-07 — best price $9.992022-11-22 — best price $7.992022-11-29 — best price $9.992022-12-22 — best price $7.992023-01-05 — best price $9.992023-01-23 — best price $7.992023-01-30 — best price $9.992023-03-16 — best price $7.992023-03-23 — best price $9.992023-03-31 — best price $7.992023-04-06 — best price $9.992023-06-29 — best price $7.992023-07-13 — best price $9.992023-11-21 — best price $7.992023-11-28 — best price $9.992023-12-21 — best price $7.992024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-03-14 — best price $7.992024-03-21 — best price $9.992024-06-27 — best price $7.992024-07-11 — best price $9.992024-11-27 — best price $7.992024-12-04 — best price $9.992024-12-19 — best price $7.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-03-13 — best price $7.992025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-03-24 — best price $7.992025-03-31 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

59
achievements tracked
29.5%
earned "More People, More Power"
5.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2021-09-03 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2200%59

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3D4XRTSMarsSpaceBuildingStrategyColony SimFuturisticManagement

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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