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Surviving Mars: Pioneer

Surviving Mars: Pioneer

The Red Planet is vast, desolate, and utterly indifferent to your survival. Surviving Mars: Pioneer is the first made-for-VR entry in the Surviving Mars universe, challenging you to carve out an existence in one of the most hostile environments imaginable.

Released Sep 4, 2025 Developer Bolverk Games Publisher Impact Inked Platforms Windows VRSpaceSurvivalAtmosphericImmersive Sim
View on Steam ↗ $24.99 (US · as of 2026-05-19)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.

83.3%positive84 reviews
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“It's a fun, accessible survival crafting game that doesn't punish the player out the gate. Wish the combat were more robust, but as far as native VR games go, there aren't too many like this. Not a top tier game, but pretty good. Easy recommend for fans of the genre.”

— a player, Steam review · 38 hrs played
Not recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Sorry but you lose me at the point where Paradox interactive appeared.”

— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

25achievements
6.2%median completion
0.3%rarest: Space Explorer
53.5% of players 39.6% of players 34.0% of players 23.4% of players 17.2% of players 12.7% of players 12.0% of players 10.8% of players 10.5% of players 9.1% of players 6.6% of players 6.2% of players 6.2% of players 6.0% of players 5.8% of players 4.5% of players 4.1% of players 3.9% of players 3.5% of players 2.5% of players 2.2% of players 2.0% of players 1.9% of players 1.3% of players 0.3% of players 53.5% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
53.5%Home is Where the Heart Is — Build Your First Habitat
39.6%Remember to Hydrate — Craft a Water
34.0%Yeah. Science! — Use 100 Research Points.
Rarest badges of honor
0.3%Space Explorer — Complete All Other Trophies
1.3%Speedster — Disable your first jammer as quickly as you can.
1.9%Max Power — Max out your suit completely.

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Sep 08, 2025
The Red Planet Yields - Surviving Mars: Pioneer Exits Early Access

On the Red Planet, survival is only the first step toward discovery. Surviving Mars: Pioneer has officially left Early Access and launched into full 1.0 release on Steam VR . Priced at $24.99 USD, Pio

Jun 19, 2025
Quick Update v.0.1.3!

Hey Pioneers! We’re back for another update! Some of you may have seen the “Long Connector” in the last update…and now it’s officially in the game. We can’t wait to see what players build with this ne

Jun 11, 2025
One Small Tap -- More VR Interactions, Difficulty Sliders and More!

Hey Pioneers! We have a massive patch today, dubbed the “One Small Tap” update! We’ve been reading all of your reviews, and watching your streams to see what everyone wants from Surviving Mars: Pionee

May 22, 2025
Another Day, A New Patch!

Hey there Pioneers, We are doing another round of updates today. Again, we really appreciate all the reports that have come in through Discord and on Feedbear . Thanks for making Surviving Mars: Pione

May 21, 2025
Fixes for Save Files, Inventory and More!

Hey Pioneers! We are just pushing out an updated build today. This should make things more stable. In particular, the team has been working on addressing the inventory issues that have popped up, and

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.

GenresAction, Adventure, Casual, Simulation
Player tagsVR · Space · Survival · Atmospheric · Immersive Sim · Resource Management · Base-Building · Space Sim · Mining · Colony Sim · Mars · Action (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Tracked Controller Support · VR Only · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * *
Achievements25
Official sitehttps://flat2vrstudios.com/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit Processor: 4th Generation Intel i3 CPU or equivalent Memory: 4 GB RAM MB RAM Graphics: HD 4600/Geforce 620/Radeon 6450 or equivalent GPUs with 1 GB of video RAM Storage: 6 GB available space MB available space VR Support: SteamVR or Oculus PC