Surviving Mars has one of the best radio soundtracks IвЂ™ve heard in recent years, rivalling GTA V and featuring half a dozen radio stations that range from techno and country music to pop and rock. However, all of those bad points are almost completely redeemed by music. Even setting domes to not take in certain types of colonists proves useless, as the game just dumps all of them straight out of a rocket into the nearest one. More often than not, I had to hand place medics in infirmaries only to see them assigned randomly to a factory a few moments later.

ItвЂ™s all made worse by the fact their unhappiness dictates everything from colony survival to chance of babies being born, essentially ruining your experience through no fault of your own.Д«esides being impossible to efficiently cycle through your colonists, it is all made worse by the AIвЂ™s insistence on not allocating people to their chosen profession. Instead, you must look for them inside the game world and click each of them, one by one, to see what theyвЂ™re up to. ItвЂ™s unintuitive and cumbersome, lacking any sort of list or centralised display to sort colonists by parameters. Nothing beats colonist management, however, and itвЂ™s absolute awfulness. Similarly, the game lacks a continuous mid-level camera zoom, instead offering jarring transitions between a close angle or a huge planet-wide satellite view, making it extremely annoying to get a proper grasp of the terrain and the features around you. The logistics would be par for the course if some of the controls werenвЂ™t so obtuse, including an unexplainable lack of Shift-click functionality to queue multiple orders. Drone management makes building things far away exceedingly complicated, as you must move a RC rover into position to build a storage, then use a transport rover to move goods before starting the build. The game is not all wonders, though, as some pretty glaring aspects of it are not only less than ideal, but downright infuriating.

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