Mars Horizon News

[h3]Hello Aurochnauts![/h3]

We've had some awesome stuff happen in the world of Mars Horizon lately and we can't wait to share it with you!


[h2]👀 Official Mars Horizon Patches now available! 👀
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Mars Horizon patches are now available! These are limited edition and won't be made again, so get them while you can. As you can see, they have been beautifully modelled by our own Jem, and some of our streamer communities cute little doggos.

If you want to join the Mars Horizon crew (officially), grab yourself a patch!

• ⭐Buy yourself a patch!⭐

[h2]🏆 We won two GEE! awards! 🏆[/h2]
We won both of the awards we were nominated for in the Gee Awards. Informal Learning and the People's Choice award which were voted for by you!

Thanks so much to all who voted for us! We are really proud of Mars Horizon, we're glad we could share the excitement and importance of space exploration with our game.

• 🏆 Find out more about the GEE! awards🏆

[h2]🚀 New Scientist featured Mars Horizon! 🚀[/h2]
We were recently featured in New Scientist, where they gave Mars Horizon a glowing review!

"Pretty much every mission in the history of space exploration is represented in the game – a recent update added NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover – and I had a lot of fun working through the greatest hits.

• ⭐Read the whole article here!⭐

[h2]🌌 Mars Horizon's biggest ever update! 🌌
[/h2]In case you missed it, Expanded Horizons, our huge new free update for Mars Horizon is available now on all platforms!

Bringing you a new mission, new payloads, a reusable vehicle, vehicle packs, Sandbox Mode, Iron Core Mode, and improvements to gameplay.

To read more about this update, check out our blog post about it here. And if you have any questions, we have collated a handy little FAQ for you!

⭐ Read all about the update ⭐ ⭐ Check out our Mars Horizon FAQ ⭐ ⭐Catch up on our Expanded Horizons Livestream ⭐

Good news, Mac owners! For a long time we had been chasing down the cause of a bug on some hardware configurations which was making the game not display certain screens correctly.

Although we can't be completely sure this has solved the problem in every single case, his new patch should sort out issues experienced by Mac users where the gameplay screen can go pink, black or red and not properly display the game. The team thank all the mac users for their patience with this issue, please do let us know if it's fixed or if the problem is still persisting for some users.

We're constantly in awe of our community, not to be cheesy but you really are out of this world! Your feedback in the past, from our betas, to our alphas, and all of our surveys in between have helped us make Mars Horizon the game you all know and love today.

So that's why we need to hear from anyone who has played Mars Horizon, as we need your feedback once again! We're running a survey to help us plan the next steps we take with Mars Horizon, see what kind of things you'd like to see from the game going forward. However, please only fill in this survey if you have played Mars Horizon.

Filling in these surveys help us so much, and they only take about five minutes of your time. And to say thank you, we will be gifting £25 worth of Steam vouchers to one lucky entrant of this survey. Entries close 20th August 2021 at 11pm UK Time!
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Fill in the survey here! [/h3]

Mars Horizon is a finalist in the 2021 James Paul GEE Award in the Informal Learning category. We think games can be a brilliant tool for learning and that is definitely something we focussed on with Mars Horizon.

With Mars Horizon we wanted to create an experience that thrills, informs, and entertains, but more importantly we want to make sure the player has an appreciation for where our species is and how we got here. Even though it's a game about being the first crew to Mars, we've highlighted the cooperation between space agencies, humankind's ingenuity, and spirit of adventure. We worked to bring our collective space exploration history into the game, as we wanted Mars Horizon to be accessible, inspiring, and fun.

The GEE awards also includes the People's Choice awards and we'd love it if you could vote for us!

[h3]Voting is open NOW and you can find out everything you need by following this link here and vote for us here![/h3]

Being nominated for a GEE award is absolutely amazing so we'd absolutely love it if you could two minutes out of your day to vote for Mars Horizon!

[h3]Thank you![/h3]

[h2]Expanded Horizons, our huge new free update for Mars Horizon is available now on all platforms!
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Bringing you a new mission, new payloads, a reusable vehicle, vehicle packs, Sandbox Mode, Iron Core Mode, and improvements to gameplay.

To give you a taste of what you’ll be seeing, you’ll see the Perserverance Rover, the Ingenuity Helicopter, a reusable Wyvern Upper, Iron Core Mode which saves after EVERY turn whether you like it or not (soz save scummers), and did we mention SANDBOX MODE?!

This update also comes with the previous two updates, The Distant Observations Vehicle Pack and the Early Observations Vehicle Pack, so console players will have access to all those vehicles now too.

• Check out our last Steam announcement for the full list of what’s included in the update

or jump straight into Mars Horizon to check it out for yourself.

You can also check out our Expanded Horizons FAQ for any questions you may have

[h2]Switch Demo[/h2]
We’re also adding a free demo to the Nintendo Switch on June 28th - if you’ve had your eyes on Mars Horizon for a while but have been unsure, now’s your chance to take it for a test launch! Get the Mars Horizon Free Switch Demo on June 28th.



[h2]Sneak Peek Livestream[/h2]
Catch up with our livestream of the new update here, where you’ll see streamer eirawave, Principal Programmer, Stefan Richings, and Allie, our Community and Marketing Executive.

Eirawave worked on designing our new logo, and is an art and variety streamer. They’re a big space fan and have appeared on our channels in the past, so you might recognise them! Stefan worked on Mars Horizon since before the alpha, some of his biggest work was coding the tooltips system, the tutorial system, the research tree, and the narrative events.