{"id":1363127,"date":"2025-10-19T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/V3wr5RpCPHDs2VEHxRfDWZ"},"modified":"2025-10-19T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:00:00","slug":"surviving-mars-relaunched-arrives-in-orbit-next-month-bringing-a-whole-new-political-system-and-every-dlc-from-the-get-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/surviving-mars-relaunched-arrives-in-orbit-next-month-bringing-a-whole-new-political-system-and-every-dlc-from-the-get-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Surviving Mars: Relaunched arrives in orbit next month, bringing a whole new political system and every DLC from the get-go"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When I first saw that city-builder Surviving Mars<\/a> is getting a remaster, my first thought was “Isn’t that a bit soon? It only launched recently.” It turns out ‘recently’ was seven flipping years ago<\/em>. That’s a shorter period than between the original Resident Evil and its 2002 HD edition. Truly, my ability to measure the passage of time has been destroyed since 2020.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, Surviving Mars: Relaunched<\/a> goes a little further than your standard visual overhaul. It aims to upgrade the game’s tech and refresh the UI like most projects of its ilk, but it also introduces a whole new system to your Martian colony\u2014politics.<\/p>\n

Developer Haemimont Games outlined the political system in a Steam post<\/a> a little over a week ago. What’s interesting is that your politicking starts not on Mars, but on Earth. While your colony is small, political decisions are largely conducted by an Earth-based council, convening every couple of years to vote on new laws that affect your colonial prospects. An example Haemimont cites is whether or not to deregulate rocket-speeds standard\u2014which presumably will get resources to Mars faster, but increase the risk of the planet developing new craters.<\/p>\n

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