Surviving Mars

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Surviving Mars

Short description

There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.

Developer
Abstraction, Haemimont Games
Publisher
Paradox Interactive
Release
Thu, Mar 15, 2018
Price
$29.99
Reviews
17,453
Positive
79%
Followers
147,651
Owners (estimated)
2M – 5M
Concurrent players
507
Genres
Simulation, Strategy
Features
Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, Remote Play on TV
Tags
Colony Sim City Builder Strategy Survival Space Base-Building Mars Simulation Sci-fi Resource Management Singleplayer Building Management Sandbox Space Sim Futuristic Open World RTS Great Soundtrack Moddable
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$21.5msomewhere between $9.6m and $137m · roughly 349K–5M copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by $27.40, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $29.99 launch price. That is 9% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

84 data points since Jul 31, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$21m → ~$21.5m
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Reviews 17,084 → 17,453
Followers 147,801 → 147,651
Concurrent players 507 → 507
Price $29.99 → $29.99
Positive reviews 80.4% → 78.6%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 220 further data points reach back to May 1, 2017 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $5.99 on Mar 24, 2022.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around Surviving Mars is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Colony Sim + City Builder + Strategy

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Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with Surviving Mars. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.

Image Name Studio Shared Tag difference Price Reviews Positive Released Revenue (estimated)
Planetbase Planetbase Madruga Works 4 titles 6 same tags $14.99 9,590 80% Thu, Oct 15, 2015 $6.1m
$2.7m – $28.3m
IXION IXION Bulwark Studios 4 titles 5 − Base-Building + Resource Management $34.99 15,413 78% Wed, Dec 07, 2022 $35m
$35m – $43.1m
Space Haven Space Haven Bugbyte Ltd. 2 titles 5 − City Builder + Simulation $24.99 10,384 86% Wed, May 13, 2026 $9.8m
$4.4m – $10.5m
RimWorld RimWorld Ludeon Studios first game 4 − City Builder − Space + Sandbox + Management $34.99
$27.99
20%
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210,381 98% Wed, Oct 17, 2018 $318m
$168m – $336m
Northgard Northgard Shiro Games 7 titles 4 − Survival − Space + Simulation + RTS $34.99
$9.79
72%
54,547 85% Wed, Mar 07, 2018 $62.5m
$50.9m – $111m

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