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Surviving Mars will soon let you drill underground, accidentally abandon colonists on asteroids

If Hollywood and Doom games have taught me anything, it's that nothing good lies beneath the surface of Mars. Surviving Mars' latest expansion, Below & Beyond, it's first premium expansion since mid-2019, says otherwise...
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Surviving Mars: Below & Beyond will have you dig below the surface and on asteroids

Releasing on September 7, Surviving Mars: Below & Beyond is the brand new expansion for the Martian city-builder from Paradox Interactive and newer developer Abstraction (who took over from Haemimont Games).

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Below & Beyond, Launching September 7th

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Commanders, get ready to explore the Martian depths and extract precious minerals from the elusive asteroids in this brand new DLC for Surviving Mars!
Below & Beyond pushes the limits of what is possible on the Red Planet. Expand your horizons with additional buildings, more resources, and a cavernous world full of mysteries. You can tunnel beneath the surface and construct subterranean bases below the colony and in nearby underground caves. Or you can attach rocket-propelled buildings to passing asteroids and mine exotic resources, but you’ll need to make it back to the Red Planet’s surface before the asteroid leaves orbit or else you lose your stuff and your colonists.

The DLC will launch on September 7th on all available platforms.

Key Features

Back to the Bases - Expand your colony into caves and lava tubes under the surface. Players can use existing structures, or underground-specific buildings to build a base for exploration. Expand with caution, potential cave-ins can destroy everything.
Mine Your Own Business - Players can now go below the surface and beyond the red planet for resource mining. Construct special rocket-propelled buildings to mine resources, including exotic minerals and Data Samples, on passing asteroids. Don’t stick around too long or else the Asteroid will drift away with your stuff!
Branching Paths - The Recon and Expansion research tree unlock additional buildings, vehicles, upgrades, and locales. They will also unlock asteroid mining and tunnel colonization.

Launching alongside Below & Beyond is the Mars Lifestyle Radio. The pack includes 16 original tracks from four different artists, for 70 minutes of chill roving tunes.

Fans of Surviving Mars can check out the Surviving Mars OST Vinyl, available for preorder at vinyl.survivingmars.com until September 7.

Surviving Mars: Below & Beyond takes the Martian city builder underground

Publisher Paradox has been teasing a comeback for Surviving Mars for some time, and now we know what to expect from the game's next major expansion. Surviving Mars: Below & Beyond launches next week, and it'll take us below the surface of the red planet to build new types of bases and collect new resources.

With the expansion, you'll be able to start building subterranean bases through caves and lava tubes under the Martian surface, using new and old structures as you try to mitigate the potential effects of cave-ins. You'll be able to mine resources underground, or you can build rocket-propelled structures to dig up new minerals on passing asteroids, too. Naturally, the tech tree is getting expanded to help you acquire all these new toys, too.

Below & Beyond is set to launch on September 7 on PC via Steam, GOG, Epic, and Humble, as well as PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. As with the previous Green Planet expansion, Below & Beyond will be priced at $19.99 USD / £15.49 / €19.99.

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Humble are giving away Surviving Mars for the next 72 hours

Need another game? How about a free copy of the colony building game Surviving Mars? You can get it free for 72 hours from Humble Bundle as of today.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/06/humble-are-giving-away-surviving-mars-for-the-next-72-hours