Waking Mars Reviews

The main loop of this game is learning how the alien lifeforms behave and grow so you can fill the caves with more biomass. The lore, dialogue, and story is interesting throughout and kept me invested. The gameplay becomes repetitive unfortunately. But the game is not that long. So I can recommend this for its interesting setting, though it's not a strong recommendation.

I loved how this game gives you the real feeling of discovering previously unknown lifeforms on a hostile planet. I've beaten it twice and still enjoy it.

unique and mostly fun exploratory sci-fi puzzle platformer. plant seeds and create an ecosystem to go deeper and deeper and find out what lies beneath. or something, it's been a while. a few 'rooms' are on the really annoying side, so I didn't 100% them all, which I can take or leave anyway, good enough is good enough, except the real ending hides behind 100% completion here. always a dick move, so I just youtubed it. (ignore my runtime, I played in offline mode.) has 3 difficulty settings, a how to play section, separate volumes, text speed setting (typewriter/instant), rebindable controls, windowed mode, multiple save slots to keep progress separate between players, and icons that lead outside the game have a confirmation pop-up instead of immediately switching to a browser. pretty damn good, for a mobile port or otherwise. nice enough graphics, it's fully voiced, there's fast travel via the map, it saves on exit, and the great soundtrack is available as free dlc.