Not gonna lie, I totally opened this thread thinking it was going to be about Elon Musk trying to get the first Humans on Mars by 2024.
Where are the damn reviews.
Probably not a big enough game to warrant pre-release reviews. Lots of games don't get reviews at all nowadays. I'm also not sure if Paradox published games send out review copies.
This game is definitely big enough for that. Unless they didnt send out review copies like you said. But after released all the big sites will review it.
I Don't think I'll get it at launch, but like a lot of Paradox games, I'll grab it at some point.
Seems to come from the Cities XL side of the company.
I think that's a bit of a narrow definition of a "Paradox game". Yes their core set of hardcore strategy games are all similar, but most of the games they publish follow similar themes as well. You can almost always expect long term support for the game with many expansions or DLC, and heavy mod support.It's not really from Paradox at all. It's only published by them. What we think of as "Paradox games" (EU4, CK2, HoI4, Stellaris, etc.) are games that are developed and also published by Paradox. Surviving Mars is being developed by Haemimont Games, and this appears to be the first game of theirs to be published by Paradox. Most of their previous games were published by Kalypso, including Tropico 4 & 5, as well as the Grand Ages: Rome games. I would expect Surviving Mars to be something along the quality of those: solid strategy games with personality, but not hardcore strategy like "Paradox games."
I think that's a bit of a narrow definition of a "Paradox game". Yes their core set of hardcore strategy games are all similar, but most of the games they publish follow similar themes as well. You can almost always expect long term support for the game with many expansions or DLC, and heavy mod support.
Seems like mixed reviews so far?