Mars 2030

This is a driving/walking sim, but you're driving and walking on Mars. That's its biggest appeal. If the thought of exploring the Red Planet makes your inner astronaut giddy, M2030 is worth it. If, while checking out a habitat if you spot an odd rock formation in the distance and your inclination is to say "That looks cool, I wonder what's over there" you'll like this game. That's the whole game, really. Checking out the marked places on the map, planting flags, and discovering unmarked places to explore using nothing but your eyes, then figuring out how to get your bulldozer sand crawling buggy over there. Other than that there's no real "game" to this. No fuel, no water, no resources to gather, no health, no running out of air, no combat, no alien ruins. Just exploration of an open map, getting your buggy hung up on outcroppings, planting flags and collecting samples, learning things along the way. For me, that's what I want in an Astronaut sim. I loved Solus Project because it let...

This should be a free demo only. Nothing interesting to pay for it. There are some good mechannics like driving the vehicle with a virtual joystick by using VR contollers. That's it. You visit the habitats and read what they are planned for. There is no interaction, no gaming, no mission etc. Even you can't grab objects around you except some rocks on the ground. To me it can be just another VR experince if only it is free if you want to walk around for a few minutes before deleting it. Plus, it cause motion sickness. I already asked for a refund.

I guess the game is about exploring mars after a nice intro or something, but the game itself is ok, If ya wanna learn about mars and space, then this is for you, but so far its flag planting sim for me, and I still suck at driving the rover, so with it at auto pilot, its a sleeping in a moveing truck sim for a little bit, still nice to look at, but this needs a resenter button, my body gets so messed up when I get out of my chair, and its only because of the rover bit, where you stear with a joy stick

Game isn't ready yet. Needs some updates to clean up control issues and framerates. Love the scale. Love the environment. Love the concept. Willing to be patient and anticipating an experience I've been waiting for since Spacecamp.

I have about 17 hours into this game now. I absolutely love playing. The idea of exploring a real site on mars is pretty cool. I've enjoyed it, and put up with all the bad along with the good. With that said, its probably obvious I'm pretty biased due to the fact that a collaboration with NASA for the accuracy is pretty awesome. I love the game, but, read on. I would highly recommend you wait to purchase this $14.99 game for when it goes on a deep sale. There are many frustrating bugs, which will I admit seem to be addressed slowly, but are the epitome of what you would expect for an alpha or early beta level game. I had probably 3 or 4 hours into a game when a game save bug popped its ugly head (save restore caused me to fall through the map), making it impossible to continue that save. Devs claim that now has been resolve, and I haven't had that issue again, but have started over from the beginning due to the save being corrupt and unusable. The next problem is the fact that every...

I've been following this project for many years & really was looking forward to it. Unfortunately the game is not ready yet. Cons: Immersion breaking problems with the walking animations, the suit is out of place, not correctly alligned with your physical body, no body presence at all. The vehicle is totally uncontrolable, which leads to a very frustrating experience. It was an nvidia vr showcase in 2016 so i expected better graphics (1080ti & i'm not blown away even with 2.0ss). Pros: offer the most advanced reproduction/ mars walking simulation & it's in vr ! It should have launched in early access in the first place because here we are paying for a barely playable alpha "game"... Biggest disapointment of 2017 so far. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38118731/]Click here to follow my curator if this review was useful to you.[/url]

I was looking forward to this title. I was disappointed. It didn't feel scientific at all. Very basic elementary level of learning about first human mission to Mars. Very simplified explanations of equipment layouts and Mars site plans. Awkward controls and movements both when walking and driving vehicles. Equipment and interfaces you interact with are very simplified and dumbed down. Sattllite photo and terrain elevation data was appealing. There are quite a few sites to visit. But, amount of information you learn and activities you get to do at each location is very limited. Most of it is warp or drive to a site then plant a flag, then go to the next location, plant a flag.

Good educational experience - you'll learn about Mars, plans for manned exploration of Mars, technology, etc. Unlike most of the other educational VR apps I've seen on Steam, this one actually has a fair bit of content to it: most I can see/do everything in 15 minutes (or less), but this...well, let's just say that they aren't kidding when they say there's 40 square kilometers of real Martian terrain to explore. Just don't go expecting anything crazy like alien ruins or a story or anything like that. That said, its biggest weakness is immersion. You're supposed to be part of the first manned mission to Mars, but once you arrive at the habitat, there are no further goals, the other astronauts don't talk to you (or each other), they're always in the same place doing the same thing, Mission Control sends no further messages, etc. You're free to come and go from the habitat as you please. You also do everything solo without even so much as radioing the habitat every once in a while ...

An absolutely stunning game. I tend to get dizzy with any and all VR games, so I hooked it up to my 4k 60" TV and holy shit. What a magical experience. The landing alone gave me goosebumps that will last for days. The first few minutes of being on Mars are met with tutorials and some basics- I have to say that driving the rover was extremely cool. For me though, the graphics take the cake. Let me explain: Once I finished exploring the habitat- which is awesome by the way- I stepped outside. This is when the real fun began. I started walking around, just checking things out and all of a sudden I received a warning about a dust storm... what followed was the most breath taking thing I've ever experienced.... that oncoming dust storm was G O R G E O U S. I just sat there for a moment and watched it pass by me.. whoa.. I decided I would continue walking around. I reached a mountain peak and watched. a sunset. on mars. I then proceeded to star gaze. on mars. An absolutely stunning display....

Lags BAD! And that is an understatement. I ran it on GTX 980, ok may be not ran it, just dragged it... Your character will hower above mars while you are walking ON MARS (While trying to pick up the flag, my left knee was up like Captain Morgan, and my right foot was howering above martian surface. SUPER CAPTAIN MORGAN - in SPACE!!!). It laged so bad, I could do a 180 degree turn in my helmet before avatar cached up. Frame rate alone gave me a headache.... Love the concept, but currently unpayeble for us poor peeps! PS: Trying to move your vehicle with a Vive controller, is like playing Octo-dad. Was the funniest experience for me.