Quick! Surviving Mars is free to keep for the next few hours

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Quick! Surviving Mars is free to go on for the next few hours

Become your butts over to Steam to merits it

This is a PSA to all you lot fans of city-building sims: Surviving Mars is free to go along on Steam right now, and you have until the terminate of the day to grab it. To be off-white, Surviving Mars is less a "city" builder and more a colony builder, where information technology's your chore to fix a habitation on the little red planet for humans to populate. It'southward a skilful fourth dimension too, we reckon it's 1 of the best direction games and best edifice games on PC, so you lot might likewise accept this opportunity to add information technology to your library.

In his Surviving Mars review from 2018, Alec Meer said the game managed to clasp a few happy tears out of him, as he humbly watched his colonies survive, thrive and nativity a first non-Earth baby. He added that the game is attractive, has a good soundtrack, and is "skilful at keeping superficially circuitous elements manageable".

"I savour the new country of sustained fear Surviving Mars brings to city sims," he wrote. "It means that even small accomplishments feel so much bigger."

Head over to Steam to merits Surviving Mars for a very reasonable 100% off. The offer lasts until 6pm BST (10am PT) today, and then you take a few hours left to grab information technology.

This freebie coincides with the release of the game's latest expansion Beneath & Beyond, which came out yesterday. It adds more tools to help you expand your colony, including stuff that will let yous burrow hush-hush into caves and lava tubes. Sounds like a bad idea, but a fun one nonetheless.