- 79/100
- Players12 ratings
- 79/100
- Metacritic5 critic reviews
More scores
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 68/100
- GameFAQsEasy-Just Right
- 3.52/5
- Player reviews
- 89% positive651 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Runs on
- Windows, Mac, Linux
- Price
- US$9.99
Where to get it
2012 · Tiger Style · Adventure · Indie
Waking Mars
Waking Mars is a one-of-a-kind adventure in which you jetpack through subterranean Mars encountering a host of extraordinary alien lifeforms that operate as a living, breathing ecosystem. Learn and master the behaviors of these creatures to create ecosystems of your own design if you are to survive and discover the secrets of Mars' past.
- Released
- 1 March 2012
- Platforms
- AndroidLinuxWindowsiOSmacOS
- Genres
- AdventureIndieMetroidvaniaPlatformer
- Developers
- Tiger Style
- Publishers
- Tiger Style
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Side view
- Themes
- ActionScience fiction
- Country
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Time to beat
- 6.5hmain story9hcompletionist
- Composers
- Randy Smith
About
Waking Mars is a 2012 platform-adventure game developed and published by Tiger Style. Players jetpack through underground Mars caves and encounter a host of alien lifeforms that operate as an ecosystem. Players must master the behaviors of these creatures to create ecosystems of their own design to survive and discover the secrets of Mars' past. The game has been nominated for Best Mobile Game and Excellence in Audio in 2012 Independent Game Festival. In June 2012, Waking Mars was also named the Best Game of 2012 (So Far) by Paste.
The game was originally developed for iOS and released on iTunes in March 2012. Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Android versions of this game were released as part of the Humble Indie Bundle for Android 4 on November 8, 2012.
›Story
In 2097, life is discovered on Mars. When your mission of first contact becomes trapped by a cave-in, you must master the alien ecosystem to survive. Soon you stumble upon more than anyone expected, and with time running out, you will make a decision that determines the fate of a lost planet.
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Reception
The reception has been generally positive, with the game receiving favorable reviews on Steam as well as numerous other publications.
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Collections2 collections
Years
- Games released in 2012List › January–March
Genres
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