Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life News

[h3]The WDC World Oceans Day Sale starts today and runs until 15th June, 10am PDT 2023, and you can save a fin-tastic 50% off Mars Horizon 1 and 90% off Dark Future: Blood Red States. We will also donate 20% of our net profits to WDC to support their conservation work.*
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[h3]Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life is also included in this event as an upcoming title, make sure you wishlist and follow![/h3]

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[h3]At this year’s TactiCon we made an exciting announcement – we will be working with Professor Konstantin Batygin, a Professor of Planetary Science at Caltech, who will be providing his expertise on all aspects of Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life. [/h3]

This includes mission design and supporting on research and facts included in the Spacepedia. We are excited to have Professor Batygin working with us on Mars Horizon 2 as it means his knowledge and expertise will make the game as authentic as possible, meaning we can accurately portray the search for life.

Professor Batygin’s research has advanced the field of Solar System Exploration, and he is particularly well-known for his work on Planet 9, the massive celestial body that orbits our sun far beyond Pluto. This subject is among the most current and exciting topics in space exploration today, with Batygin leading the charge in both its discovery and ongoing theoretical characterisation.

Join us in our excitement over on Twitter!

You, our community, are the driving force behind Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life. Without you, there would be no sequel to Mars Horizon 1, and you gave us such good feedback on our first game, from the alpha, to the full release, and all the surveys in between.

So that's why we'd like to ask for your input once more. We're currently running a survey, where we’re looking for answers on what you would like to see in our new game Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life. We will also be asking about your gaming habits, and if you played Mars Horizon 1 (it's ok if you didn't!).

This survey will only take around 5 minutes of your time, maybe less, and they help us so much! To say thank you for your time, one lucky entrant will be selected to win a £25 Steam voucher, make sure you give us your email to be able to be entered! Entries will close Monday 15th May 2023 at 11.59pm BST.

[h2]Fill in the survey here![/h2]

Join Alice, Tess, and John from Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life as they play Mars Horizon and chat about all the ways the sequel is going to build upon the first game.

Learn more about what Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life is going to be about, what the “search for life” means, how it will differ from the first Mars Horizon, what’s going to be bigger and better, and listen as the devs explain what they are most excited about.

📆 Date: Sunday 26th March
⏰ Time: 6.15pm GMT, 8.15pm GMT, 10.15pm GMT

Tess and John have so much more that they can’t wait to share with you, but for now you can listen to this more-in-depth discussion on what’s already been announced 🚀

• [h2]🚀 Join the team as they chat about Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life 🚀[/h2]
  
  

[h3]Important links:[/h3]

• Mars Horizon 2 Twitter
• Mars Horizon 2 TikTok
• Join our Discord (we have a Mars Horizon 2 suggestions list – let us know your thoughts!)
  
• Sign up to our newsletter

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Make sure to check out the rest of Digital Tabletop Fest: Blood and Dice - there's other great let's plays as well as some brilliant panels. Alongside this you can get great deals on a whole host of games.

The news is out! Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life is coming in 2024. We are so excited to share the development journey with you. To kick things off we’d like to introduce you to Tess, one of the producers on Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life.




I am sorry if you felt neglected, it has been deeply difficult to ignore your pleas for more content and prayers for updates. Instead, I have been biding my time and anticipating the day when I can finally say…

[h2]WE ARE MAKING MARS HORIZON 2! [/h2]

Oh wow, that feels better.

The team behind Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life are passionate, dedicated, and have been researching astrobiology, rocket improvements, orbital mechanics, toon shaders, accessibility… etc. in pre-production for the last year.

Next, we are heading to Production to knuckle down and deliver the game our players truly want. We have been listening and we aim to please! We are going further into the future and searching for life- not just on Mars but through our solar system, letting the player play Astro-detective.

This won't be Mars Horizon 1.5. We are going to take what was great about Mars Horizon 1 and improve upon it, we are aiming for double as good!

Please enjoy our pre-alpha trailer full of things we are going to build on and refine over this next production process. I am looking forward to saying so much more but for now I will leave you with my cathartic exercise of spilling the space beans! Have them on toast and rest assured there are more courses to come.

Sending Meteors of love and gratitude to all the Mars Horizon fans that have been with us along the way.

Tess 👩🏻‍🚀
[h2]👀 Check out our trailer here:[/h2]
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][h2] 📝 Press coverage so far [/h2]
We’ve had some amazing coverage since the announcement of the sequel of our well received Mars Horizon. Take a look at some of the highlights here:

• 🚀 Space.com’s Elizabeth Howell spoke about how Mars Horizon 2’s Search for Life is similar to real life, “In real life, NASA and the European Space Agency are engaging in a sample return campaign that may bring back evidence of life on Mars as soon as 2033. The Perseverance rover has already collected and stored 10 twin samples of material, one set on the surface of the Red Planet and one inside its belly. The mission calls for Perseverance to deliver its set of samples to an awaiting spacecraft or, if needed, for two fresh fetch helicopters to nab the backup tubes on the surface.”
  ⭐ Read the full article here!
  
• 🌌 ReneeSky pieced together some of her best moments from playing Mars Horizon 1 in celebration of Mars Horizon 2, which you can watch here!
  
• ⭐ We had a lovely write-up from NME. Read it here.
  
• 🚀 We were also featured on IGN’s video page!
  
• 👩🏻‍🚀 Rock Paper Shotgun are also excited about Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life, as they were big fans of the first game too!
  
• ⭐ Wccf Tech said "I , for one, like my management sims, so this is certainly one for me” and had very nice things to say about Mars Horizon 1.
  
• 🚀 Bleeding Cool are excited for Mars Horizon 2 as it “capitalizes off of the things that worked in the first title and builds on it, giving you a far more robust experience.”

[h3]Thank you to all the sites and channels that took the time to cover the announcement, we can’t wait to show you more. 🥰 [/h3]