Reviews for Mars Colonies Demo

[desierto]

It started very promising, but there are a lot of unclear things, such as the On/Off of the buildings, it is never specified how does that even work, thus building the required things still didn't produce me anything at all.

I can tell there was a lot of effort put into this and i'd love to play the whole thing, but not being able to beat just one stage because of lack of instruction makes it very unattractive.

I can see this as a great play, it does not need polishing, it needs to fix its basics.

[maprdr57]

the graphics are epic, the concept is epic, the complexity is epic, but the colonists are all retards.
level 4, i got reduced to one dude named sebastian smiley, and he kept trying to mine this one crystal right next to a crazy colonist spawnpoint. he'd bring the materials over, he'd see a crazy colonist, the materials would disappear, he'd kill the crazy colonist, and have to go back to base toget more materials. by the time he returned, there would be another crazy colonist, and the materials would disappear again, hed kill the crazy colonist, go bak 2 base, etc, etc. make the colonists less retarded and ill give another star.

[savagecookies]

this is awesomely sim city.... tips for better playability
1. change colors for each resource, blue squares for where to connect the water pipes and a yellow square to show where to connect electricity.
OTHERWISE just allow any square adjacent to the building to 'accept' the pipe or water.
2. georadar needs a legend, i have no idea what the upside down triangles are vs the spherical thingy

allow better building rules, or what have you, i had to wait around for a colonist to fix a single pipe for ever...even in fast mode. the bugger never came, allow us to FORCE jobs immediately on the colonists

[serty3000]

decent but it should have a freeplay mode

[WayneCore]

While I really like this game, and the versatility that comes with it - the fact that the workers do not care which things should be build first makes it - at least for me - quite hard to play.
Not only that, I had a game where I lost, because instead of bringing iron to the factory, they decided to carry food instead...