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Reshaping Mars

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70% User Score Based on 115 reviews

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Reshaping Mars is a single player city builder game with a science fiction theme. It was developed by Tholus and was released on March 30, 2023. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

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.

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Audience ScoreBased on 115 reviews
atmosphere1 positive mentions
gameplay4 negative mentions
  • Addictive and engaging city builder with a huge scale, allowing you to build and manage an entire planet.
  • Deep and complex simulation involving resource management, production chains, and terraforming mechanics.
  • Developer is active and responsive with frequent updates; game offers great value for its price and many hours of play.
  • Game is plagued by numerous bugs and performance issues, especially in mid-to-late game, including poor pathfinding and saving problems.
  • Lacks sufficient documentation, tutorials, and quality-of-life features, leading to steep learning curve and tedious micromanagement.
  • Development seems abandoned or very slow with no clear future updates; game balance and UI remain problematic and unintuitive.
  • gameplay
    22 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay offers a gradual increase in complexity with engaging mechanics like production chains and terraforming, but it can become grindy and overwhelming over time. While the core expansion loop is compelling, issues like confusing mechanics, clunky UI, repetitive tasks, and AI problems detract from the experience. Overall, it provides depth and potential but would benefit from better tutorials, polish, and bug fixes.

    • “Early game is nice with a gradual increase in complexity, adding new mechanics and production chains.”
    • “I can see the developer put a lot of effort into creating vast and complex construction systems covering almost every aspect of surviving on Mars, ensuring the gameplay remains engaging and never dull.”
    • “The terraforming mechanics are fairly involved, with each element of the planet affecting others—for example, increasing atmospheric pressure helps retain planetary heat.”
    • “Early game is nice, with a gradual increase in complexity adding new mechanics and production chains; however, the more you progress, the more grindy it becomes.”
    • “Until you get the ability to make engineering vehicles, the gameplay loop is essentially waiting for research to finish, adding a few buildings to your base, and designating more mining.”
    • “The game requires a lot of bug fixing, an interface overhaul, better AI, improved auto-pathing, and several gameplay fixes to enhance the experience, such as reducing the number of giant notifications and sounds and the AI voice reading all notifications, which can be overwhelming.”
  • optimization
    13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game suffers from significant optimization issues, causing severe lag and unresponsive controls as population grows, despite moderate PC resource usage. Users highlight poor performance, sluggish UI, and inefficient game mechanics, suggesting these need urgent refinement and debugging to improve overall playability. While the game shows potential, it requires substantial optimization patches to deliver a smoother experience.

    • “Can't say anything bad about the game, except for the lag that could be optimized.”
    • “With further UI refinements and mechanism optimization and necessary debugging, I hope it could become a must-play for fans of the construction and space exploration genres.”
    • “The game has massive performance issues once you have over 1000 people living there.”
    • “It gets laggy to a point where mouse inputs aren't registered and the camera movement is stuttering.”
    • “Un-optimized mess.”
  • story
    11 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The story aspect receives mixed feedback, with some players appreciating its depth and alignment with the game's themes, while others criticize the lack of engaging narrative, random events, and intrusive story progression panels. Though the story introduces interesting elements and a journey-like experience, some find it uneven or incomplete, leading to moments of inactivity and disconnection from gameplay.

    • “It has an interesting storyline and the game has considerable depth for an early release game.”
    • “There are a few bugs and logistics issues, but the story is complete, the research tree is robust, and the game really takes you on a journey from the dusty sands of Mars to an ocean-front paradise.”
    • “The game has a bit of a story which I could charitably describe as heavy handed with author morality, which I'm willing to forgive mostly because the game has charmed me and the morality generally aligns with me.”
    • “From the trailer it looks like Aven Colony but this game has no story.”
    • “The final change is the complete removal of random and story events.”
    • “Another example is the story progression: the game will shove new panels with story progression at you with no regard to what you are doing (fighting corrupted corp / rogue mechanized colony / trying to save colony from runaway collapse).”
  • grinding
    11 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Grinding in this game becomes increasingly tedious and unpolished as players progress, with early gameplay being engaging but later stages bogged down by repetitive tasks and poor quality-of-life features. The lack of clear guidance and overwhelming popups contribute to a frustrating experience, especially as resource gathering grows more demanding and technical explanations remain unclear. Overall, grinding detracts from the game's potential and can cause players to lose motivation.

    • “Early game is nice, with a gradual increase in complexity adding new mechanics and production chains. However, the more you advance, the grindier it becomes.”
    • “I don't have the will to finish the game as it's insanely grindy, which wouldn't be an issue if my FPS didn't drop to below 10 when I unpause due to the pathfinding of thousands of AI inhabitants.”
    • “While the developers have provided each target as detailed as possible to achieve the ultimate objective, the lack of phased guidance or triggered events makes it easy to lose direction or fall into a grinding routine.”
  • graphics
    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The graphics are generally considered acceptable but not impressive, with some users noting poor animation quality and issues like low frame rates even on high-end hardware. Overall, the visuals are rated around average (7/10), providing a satisfactory experience despite technical shortcomings.

    • “Graphics - 7/10”
    • “Graphics are ok.”
    • “I think the graphics and the sense of satisfaction at actually watching the changes take place on Mars outweigh that though.”
    • “Frame rate is poor, and although the game looks alright, the graphics compared to the frame rate are horrible (GTX 3070). CPU usage is around 20%.”
    • “Animations and graphics are not good.”
    • “Graphics are okay but not impressive.”
  • music
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The music in the game is inconsistent, often either overly intense or entirely missing, leading to a lack of cohesive audio atmosphere. Users suggest the need for more varied or improved music and sound effects to enhance the overall experience.

    • “Music is either way over the top or completely absent.”
    • “Needs more or different music and/or sound effects.”
  • replayability
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Replayability is supported by additional side campaigns available after completing the main storyline, offering extended content; however, the main campaign itself is already quite lengthy, providing substantial playtime before exploring extras.

  • atmosphere
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The atmosphere is intricately designed, with interconnected terraforming mechanics where changes in one element, such as atmospheric pressure, directly impact others like heat retention, creating a dynamic and immersive planetary environment.

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Reshaping Mars is a city builder game with science fiction theme.

Reshaping Mars is available on PC and Windows.

On average players spend around 7 hours playing Reshaping Mars.

Reshaping Mars was released on March 30, 2023.

Reshaping Mars was developed by Tholus.

Reshaping Mars has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Reshaping Mars for its atmosphere but disliked it for its gameplay.

Reshaping Mars is a single player game.

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