This game is a simulation at its best, it takes a long time to learn but rewards you with great immersion, story missions that basically simulate the Martian movie ... survival on the red planet by any means necessary ... moon missions and missions on the space station. It is sometimes painfully slow - but again ... it is a simulation as all bohemia games :) But I would recommend it. There are mechanics like cold solar radiation, harvesting of material and crafting of everything...

Probably the only Mars In depth Simulator out there its like arma on mars without guns. pacing is slow, tutorials are not great, too many bugs and it requires patience. its a 7/10 for me the game performance stopped me from completing the game.

I've played Take on Mars from early on and had a lot of fun with the rover missions. Unfortunately, the game took 4 years to develop and when it was about to be released, the rover missions were removed in favor of a fancy survival-astronaut mode for some reason (later they put back the rover missions). I found the manned mission to be mostly tedious. Time passes too fast and somehow the nights last way longer than the days. I had to build and manage equipment in pitch dark. Of course one can use thermal/night vision, but then the displays are unreadable due to the glow. Second, food and water run out too fast, which is bad if the mission wants you to preserve those. Third, grabbing and moving things around causes all sorts of physics glitching and jumping around, sending items fly all over the place. Fourth, those damn cylindrical containers that you can't put down properly and they start rolling downhill unless you can stand next to them to stop them. The physics is annoying. Unfortunately, there is not much official content, the game time is mostly spent on getting from A to B really slowly and I can't see much replay value.