Alone on Mars Reviews

the hero looks like a character from Dota) and so the game is good.

Dynamic and addicting gameplay, the graphic component is impressive, and you want to visit some locations again

Played for a bit and wasn't feeling the gameplay, needs to be improved and rework some systems.

A funny platformer, you can play for an hour in the second evening)

good idea, cool art, nice sounds. I liked the combination of genres. Not a bad time killer for a survival shooter

All in all a good indie game, Alone on Mars is a 2D survival shooter on Mars, the gameplay is a platformer with a mixture of sandbox and Tower Defense.

This is one of those games I wish there was a middle option on the reviews. not recommended but not a full on dislike either. The basics of this game is you play an unnamed astronaut sent to Mars to investigate an SOS and the loss of contact with the residents on the colony there. Once arriving, he has to defend various generators from mutants/aliens/Martians/something. It's not really clear what they are, and only one of the cutscenes references them as "mutants". The game looks like a typical Flash game of old and not very complex. basically a 2D wave survival game with you against a bunch of mindless enemies that only walk back and forth. there's different types of mutans, starting with just the red ones. but every few levels or less, a new variant appears, from green ones that tank 4 times as many shots, to speedy blue ones that much faster but can't take a hit. and flying ones that move slow but do a lot of damage. The enemies will path find towards the generator on each mission and start attacking it, or if you get close enough to them they will attack you also, however they never specifically go after you, even in the last level that has no generator and you just have to kill a bunch of them. If they destroy the generator, which has a health bar, you lose, or if you lose your health you lose. The game is fairly easy and power ups like health or other weapons spawn constantly. so it's difficult to actually die. I never actually died. but I did struggle on one of the levels where they kept destroying the generator. but I finally figured out the pattern on the 4th try and beat it no problem. I didn't lose any other rounds. You have unlimited ammo in your gun, but 4 shots before an automatic reload. you can also pick up temporary weapons around the map that spawn and range from faster firing machine gun with a larger magazine to a big plasma gun to even a 3 shot plasma shotgun. Each one also has unlimited ammo but with reloading needed after a few shots. however each one you can only have for 30 seconds. the game isn't bad, but needs some quality of life updates to be good. for one you have no idea how many enemies you have to kill for the round to end. There is no enemy counter, there is no progress bar or any time limit. there's no indication at all on your progress during a round. you just have to keep killing mutants until it says you win. these can last from 5 to 10 minutes sometimes. there really needs to be an indicator of how many to kill. there's 12 rounds where you defend a generator. they aren't to difficult except for one. and then the final round 13 is you just have to kill a bunch of them till you win. no generator. it's not difficult, just needs improvements. If you don't die or have to start over, you can beat it in about an hour. It's nothing to write home about but can be a fun little time waster for an hour. Not bad... but not good. and there's enough material here I can make a voice acting video on Hyper Frost Productions.

A good platformer in which we have to go to a spaceship in distress and defend on it the electric generator from the attacks of alien monsters, discovering and using new weapons, while learning the mysterious history of the spaceship.

Pretty monotone game. maybe its worth it when its 0,30 cents

Absolute rubbish. Thankfully I only paid £0.39 while it was 90% off. I was attracted by the title of the game because I'm obsessed with mars (I even purchased a 10'' reflecting telescope together with several hundred pounds worth of eye pieces) so that I could observe Mars). Stupidly, I didn't bother checking the reviews, seeing the positive rating a couple of the images from the Steam store and the 90% off persuaded me to buy the game. When I booted the game up, I was presented with a medium sized window with no option to play in full screen. When trying to play the game my mouse pointer was constantly leaving the game area and freezing my astronaut. As enemies were coming from both sides, I basically kept dying as I couldn't turn around quick enough to shoot them and repeatedly wandering out of the window and freezing again and again. It was at this point I checked the reviews and saw my friend Obey the Fist's review; oh how I wished I'd seen it earlier as I trust his reviews implicitly. He said, the reviews are likely posted by paid for reviews and from the ones I read I must agree; apart from a few negative reviews all of the positive ones were just one to three lines of text, usually starting with Good Idea, Good Game, a Good Platformer, a good 2D survival game, a good indie game, the game is good.