Surviving Mars launch date is here for PC and Xbox, Xbox One X enhancements in tow

Surviving Mars is a survival city-builder mash up from the developers of the popular Tropico series, Haemimont Games. In partnership with Paradox, Haemimont has set its sights on creating a rich and intuitive city builder to complement other Paradox sims, such as Cities: Skylines.

In Surviving Mars, you will be tasked with managing resources, braving hostile cosmic hazards, and defending against potential alien threats, all while trying to build a large and thriving space colony on the red planet.

Today, Paradox announced Surviving Mars' launch date, due to blast off on March 15, 2018 for Xbox One, PC, PlayStation 4.

As part of today's announcement, Paradox added that Surviving Mars would receive full modding support on PC, and enjoy 4K visuals on the Xbox One X.

For more details on Surviving Mars, take a look at our preview below!

Preview: Surviving Mars on Xbox and PC

Surviving Mars targets a March 15, 2018 launch date on Xbox One, Xbox One X, PC, and PlayStation 4 with a recommended price tag of $39.99.

See at Steam

CATEGORIES
Jez Corden
Executive Editor

Jez Corden is the Executive Editor at Windows Central, focusing primarily on all things Xbox and gaming. Jez is known for breaking exclusive news and analysis as relates to the Microsoft ecosystem while being powered by tea. Follow on Twitter (X) and Threads, and listen to his XB2 Podcast, all about, you guessed it, Xbox!

Latest in Xbox
The Thing: Remastered key art
The Thing comes to Xbox Cloud Gaming's "Stream Your Own Game" library alongside other new arrivals
Cover art for Heroes of the Storm.
Xbox Game Pass will give you more benefits in free-to-play games like Heroes of the Storm
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 accessibility settings at launch.
Activision user research workers form union under Microsoft
Xbox Game Hubs 2025
A quick look at Xbox's new "Game Hubs," a small new feature that may be more meaningful than you think
8BitDo Retro 87 Mechanical Keyboard Xbox Edition
Drop everything — the Xbox keyboard is on sale
Xbox
Microsoft's Xbox strategy has reader opinions split almost perfectly in half
Latest in News
Cloud servers
Microsoft has killed "several" data center projects in the U.S. and Europe, according to reports — Microsoft responds (Updated)
Photo of Microsoft's new sign-in page for Xbox.com using the Microsoft Edge browser.
Over one billion users will get a new Microsoft user experience, and it has a dark mode
The Thing: Remastered key art
The Thing comes to Xbox Cloud Gaming's "Stream Your Own Game" library alongside other new arrivals
Promotional screenshot of heroes fighting a giant in Pillars of Eternity
Obsidian's classic Baldur's Gate successor 'Pillars of Eternity' is getting a surprise turn-based mode later this year, alongside other updates
Atomfall
Atomfall reviews and Metacritic scores are in: Here's a roundup of what everyone's saying about this new Game Pass survival game
Screenshot of one of the new flat world presets in Minecraft.
Minecraft testing new flat world presets and a better way to locate your friends in-game