Occupy Mars: The Game News

We would like to invite you to play the new demo version of Occupy Mars and to watch the rebroadcast of our developers' live stream during the Steam Game Festival.

In the new demo you will find:

• New Crane control system (mouse or keyboard)
  
• New tutorial location (Power Management)
  
• Additional control tooltips on screen
  
• Building on grid setting
  
• Improved Save system
  

and a lot of improvements and bugfixes!



Feel free to join an amazing community on our Discord server and visit our social media. Don't forget to play the demo!

Occupy Mars Team
https://store.steampowered.com/app/758690/Occupy_Mars_The_Game/

We’re happy to announce that Occupy Mars is a part of the Steam Game Festival! Play Occupy Mars Demo and have fun!



[h3]About the demo version:[/h3]
Occupy Mars Demo is a small introduction to the world of Occupy Mars. As a member of one of the first successful Mars colonies, you have been sent to Remote Research Station located inside the Gale Crater. You have to complete your tasks and do everything you can to survive!

The demo version for the Steam Game Festival: Autumn Edition is much more improved than the version that was available during the Summer Edition - make sure to check it out!

[h3]How to download a demo?[/h3]
You can download the demo from Occupy Mars steam store page during the Steam Games Festival. If you encounter any issues, please contact us on our Discord server we'll try to help :)




During the Steam Game Festival, you may expect a live stream, a chat with developers and more! More information will follow later so stay tuned!

Occupy Mars Team

Yesterday we've made a Developer Stream as part of Gamescom Indie Arena Booth. During the stream we've talked about Occupy Mars and shown the recent features and updates as well as some hidden features available in the game.



The stream went live yesterday (28.08) at 17:00 PM CEST (8 AM PDT) and was about 3 hours long. For those of you who missed it - you can still watch it on one of our channels below. We will also keep re-streaming it here on Steam at least until the end of Gamescom. Be sure to watch it if you haven't already:

• Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/videos/724129820
• Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/1310520
• YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtGeseVqtRo

Thank you so much for playing and for the amazing feedback which helps us with the development of this game. Occupy Mars wouldn't be possible without such amazing community. If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask: here on the comments, on the forums or on our Discord server. If you are interested in the details of the recent updates to the game you can read the full changelog here.


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1310520/Occupy_Mars_Prologue/

P.S. we will take some much needed rest this weekend, and next week we are coming back with another update to the game, stay tuned! ;)

Yours sincerely,
Pyramid Games Team

[h3]Are you ready for your mission to Mars? Our free prologue version of Occupy Mars is NOW available on Steam! 🚀[/h3]



[h2]Live Stream![/h2]

What's more, we are streaming live now, so make sure to join us!

1. Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1310520/
2. Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/pyramid_games
3. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PyramidlabPl/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1310520/Occupy_Mars_Prologue/

[h3]Survive the Prologue and help us prepare for the full Early Access release![/h3]

After the Demo version presented during the Steam Games Festival we've prepared a survey for you. Below you can find the answers from that survey. We've tried our best to implement as many of Your requests as possible in the Prologue.



We've also asked you about features most expected in the Prologue version. After reading your answers -we've managed to add most of those requested (and more - you can find the changelog here) (except translations) which are almost done but will be added in the next updates.



You can now play with saves, change key bindings, automatically load rocks on trailer, invert mouse, fix PCB and survive many shorter sandstorms!

While playing the Prologue remember to Press F4 during the game to send feedback to us. Thanks to your invaluable feedback we will keep updating the game to prepare the best possible Early Access launch of the full game.



Play Prologue and have fun!
Occupy Mars Team

The Prologue is in the final stages of testing before the release. Thanks to your amazing feedback and suggestions, we've added lots of improvements that require additional tests and fixes. Due to this, we have to postpone the release date of the prologue slightly. The prologue will be released in August.



New features added since the Steam Festival Demo version:

• new semi-automated grabber & simplified rocks loading mechanic for Heavy Rover
  
• possibility to change key bindings
  
• possibility to plug in oxygen to the Rover / buildings
  
• enabled save system
  
• possibility to produce water bottles from the well
  
• enabled well expansion
  
• implemented workbench for fixing PCBs
  
• new missions after the storm
  
• new night sky
  
• new interface including HUD
  
• new item icons
  
• improved rocks physics
  
• dust storm ends quicker
  
• new printing animation
  
• new animation of unloading rocks
  
• prologue intro cinematic
  
• new animated tutorials
  
• player’s AI sounds in the spacesuit
  
• hundreds of bugfixes and optimizations
  
• and much more!

All those changes were implemented thanks to your feedback and they bring us much closer to the release of the full game in Early Access later this year.

Meanwhile take a look at our new prologue teaser:

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

Stay tuned!
Occupy Mars Team

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1310520/Occupy_Mars_Prologue/