City builder Surviving Mars is a space train game now

Surviving Mars

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.

Three new pieces of user-made Surviving Mars DLC are getting added to the space city-building game next week, including a fresh look for buildings, a new radio station, and the Martian Express - which turns the space game into a sci-fi train game.

The first significant DLC for Surviving Mars since the Below and Beyond expansion in September last year is coming to the management game next week, April 29 - in fact, there are three DLC packs coming, and they're all user-made.

These "content creator packs" are essentially mods made official by Paradox. Martian Express is the highlight, made by modders Lucian 'LukeH' Hada and Sylvain 'Silva' Maupetit, which will add a fully-functioning train system to Surviving Mars. Players can build stations outside of their domes and then use their space locomotives to ferry people and resources across the planet - presumably with all the game's usual dangers and calamities intact. According to the website, even check out a colonist's reason for travelling and watch as they get frustrated if they can't get a seat or miss their train.

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