its a fairly decent game,although its much more rng-based than it should be for a colonizing game;all the breakthroughs are fully random,so some of the actually good stuff you most likely will never get in several playthoughs and will instead get things that are technically "useful",like soylent green,but are overall not at all good compared to oval/diamond domes,project phoenix,and the two breakthroughs that give free maintenence-free pipes and wires. most of the available sponsors/colony managers are somewhat acceptable,but unless you're achivement hunting or doing memelord challenged (new ark,oligarch,last ark,hunger,inflation,max disasters) you're most likely going to stick with international mars mission and inventor. as for the dlcs...i havent really gotten any due to them seeming like they just add more challenge;the one with other sponsors just makes it so you get less bonuses and also need to add martian diplomacy into the mix (especially as one of the rival colonies nukes mars and sends weaponized rovers after you),laika just adds pets and an additional food source that needs people to work in,and green mars adds in acid rain storms and multiple ways to waste your reasorces to try and make mars earthlike. all in all,its...in dire need of actual work. specifically in the form of updates,not dlc.

its a fairly decent game,although its much more rng-based than it should be for a colonizing game;all the breakthroughs are fully random,so some of the actually good stuff you most likely will never get in several playthoughs and will instead get things that are technically "useful",like soylent green,but are overall not at all good compared to oval/diamond domes,project phoenix,and the two breakthroughs that give free maintenence-free pipes and wires. most of the available sponsors/colony managers are somewhat acceptable,but unless you're achivement hunting or doing memelord challenged (new ark,oligarch,last ark,hunger,inflation,max disasters) you're most likely going to stick with international mars mission and inventor. as for the dlcs...i havent really gotten any due to them seeming like they just add more challenge;the one with other sponsors just makes it so you get less bonuses and also need to add martian diplomacy into the mix (especially as one of the rival colonies nukes mars and sends weaponized rovers after you),laika just adds pets and an additional food source that needs people to work in,and green mars adds in acid rain storms and multiple ways to waste your reasorces to try and make mars earthlike. all in all,its...in dire need of actual work. specifically in the form of updates,not dlc.