Mars Horizon News

The next of our free Mars Horizon updates is now available on on PC (Steam and GOG!) This time we’re bringing the Vega Rocket, Himawari Satellite, and Akari Satellite to our game!

All content updates will be coming to console as well, we will give updates about this when we can.


We have more exciting things planned for the future that we will announce here on Steam, across our social, in our Discord, and to our Mars Horizon mailing list once we have more information to share. So make sure to follow the game or sign up to be the first to hear about these. For now, we hope you enjoy taking on the space race with these all new vehicles.



Platforms: Steam (Win and MacOS) & GOG (Win)

1. Vega rocket
2. Himawari (Satellite)
3. Akari telescope

[h2]What are we adding and why?[/h2]

This update is called 'Distant Observations' and features two observation payloads the Himawari and the Akari, plus ESA's Vega rocket.

Small, versatile, and efficient — the Vega launch system is Europe’s way of launching light satellites to multiple orbits in a single launch. It's a cool addition to the game and looks spectacular standing on the launch pad ready for action.

The Himawari and Akari are both Japanese payloads but with very different purposes. Himawari series satellites provide data observations to support weather forecasting, where as the Akari was an infrared astronomy telescope designed to survey the entire sky and help further our understanding of the universe around us. It's neat to have one advanced observations payload pointing to earth, the other out into space!

Read more about the update in our blog post

Thank you to everyone who has played Mars Horizon, streamed it, chatted to us in our Discord, and reviewed our game. Your support means everything to us!

Our first free Mars Horizon update has now landed! We’re bringing the SPOT Satellite mission and Rockets Nippon 1 and Nippon 2 to our game! Read on to learn more about these and why we are excited to bring them to Mars Horizon.

All content updates will be coming to console as well, we will give updates about this when we can.


We have more exciting things planned for the future that we will announce here on Steam, across our social, in our Discord, and to our Mars Horizon mailing list once we have more information to share. So make sure to follow the game or sign up to be the first to hear about these. For now, we hope you enjoy taking on the space race with these all new vehicles.



Platforms: Steam (Win and MacOS) & GOG (Win)

1. SPOT Satellite mission
2. Rockets Nippon 1 and Nippon 2

[h2]What are we adding and why?[/h2]
We're adding the SPOT, which is an earth observation satellite used by the European Space Agency (ESA). The purpose of the SPOT series of satellites is to improve the knowledge and management of Earth by exploring the planet's resources, detecting and forecasting phenomena involving climatology and oceanography, and monitoring human activities and natural phenomena. Since the launch of SPOT 1 in 1986, the series of satellites have been providing high-resolution, wide area optical imagery for the European Space Agency (ESA) which it shares with its partners around the world. It's a great payload to use in Mars Horizon for earth observation missions, and also gives an ESA playthrough a little more flavour!

We decided to add the Nippon 1 and Nippon 2 because they were so fundamental in what would become the Japanese Space Agency's earlier successes. These liquid propellant rockets assisted Japan in launching satellites from the 1970's all the way up to the present day, and are perfect for undertaking low payload weight request missions in Mars Horizon in a Japan playthrough.

Check out our blog for more information about these vehicles, or jump straight into Mars Horizon and test them out for yourself!

We have pushed a new patch live for Mars Horizon!

It adds support for MacOS as well as some improvements and fixes listed below. We hope you enjoy the changes

[h3]Additions[/h3]

• Mars Horizon now supports MacOS on Steam
  

[h3]Fixes[/h3]

• Fixes for some German localisation
  
• Fixes bug with skip failed task animation in mission gameplay
  
• Fix to "Screw Loose" achievement not accounting for launch date modifiers
  
• Various localisation fixes
  
• Fixes a bug where support from narrative events was not properly accounted for if they occurred on the same turn as a funding review
  
• Fix to prevent the cost of vehicle parts from being negative
  
• Fix for months not being correctly localised in the event log
  
• Fix to impossible tasks in Neptune Flyby mission
  
• Fix to Russian translations in Spacepedia
  

[h3]Improvements[/h3]

• Enables dragging of scroll bar in research tree screen
  
• Makes tutorial popups darker, making them easier to read on some screens
  
• Improvements to custom mission rules
  
• Percentage cost reduction from buildings is now displayed in vehicle designer tooltips
  

Good Luck Aurochnauts!

MacOS users, you asked and we listened, you can now join us in running your own space agency! If you’re planning on entering the space race remember to share your highlights with us on our social channels 🚀



In Mars Horizon you lead a major space agency and guide humanity to Mars. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency, the UK Space Agency and published by The Irregular Corporation.


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[h2]See you in the space race! [/h2]

Firstly, the team behind Mars Horizon want to say a HUGE thank you to you all for supporting us during the launch of our game. It's been incredible! Thank you to everyone who has bought and played Mars Horizon, posted about it on social, reviewed it, recommended it to friends, watched streams, shared screenshots, and chatted to us in our discord.

We've loved watching you play our game, hearing your stories, celebrating your milestone victories, and sharing in the dismay of those failed rocket launches. A lot of love, hard work, passion, and space nerdery went into making our game.

We also want to say a big big thank you to everyone who has reviewed Mars Horizon so far. We are a small studio and reviews help a lot with getting our game in front of new audiences. We really appreciate you taking the time to do it!



If you'd like to continue supporting us and our game, the Steam awards have just opened up! We'd really appreciate any nominations you'd like to give to Mars Horizon.

Feel free to chose the award you think suits us best.

We think we fit right into

• SIT BACK AND RELAX AWARD
  
• BEST SOUNDTRACK AWARD
• BEST GAME YOU SUCK AT AWARD - When you get those runs on Mars Horizon where everything just wants to blow up...
  
• GAME OF THE YEAR AWARD - We would be over the moon if you felt we deserved a nomination for GOTY! ❤
  

We would be beyond excited if you pick our game for any of the categories in the list - Thanks for considering us!

Best of luck on your mission to the red planet Commanders!