Tharsis

10 years later and I'm still thinking about it. I wish they'd make a mobile version.

2 found this helpful, 2026-05-04

I really like it. of course, sometimes all kinds of ♥♥♥♥ is gonna happen around the ship and it will look impossible to fix everything. But there's a way... Most of the time. It might sometimes be a long shot, but hey, it's a flight to Mars. So, For example, you have this fire in the greenhouse, 29 damage to fix. Also, you get injuries when rolling a 4, a 5 and a 6. And it does 2 dmg to your ship hull every turn....

269 found this helpful, 2016-01-18

Okay, Tharsis is an EXCELLENT game... in concept. However, In execution it is a relentless, soul-blasting exercise in complete and utter hopelessness. The fact that there is a HARD mode beyond the standard NORMAL mode is comparable to saying that the sixth circle of hell isn't so bad because technically there's something worse. The fatal flaw in Tharsis is the total lack of balance between potential player success...

1,045 found this helpful, 2016-01-17

In Tharsis, you control four crew members of the Iktomi, Earth’s first manned space shuttle to Mars. Everything goes wrong incredibly quickly. The Iktomi somehow piloted itself into the middle of a micrometeoroid cluster, and it’s up to you to repair the constant onslaught of damage. Each game begins with one of the original five crew members dying in a cutscene, a wonderfully macabre way to start a mission. It also...

71 found this helpful, 2018-09-27

You Cannot Fix Everything: The Game. — I’m not a fan of survival games. — I think that dice games are meh. — Tharsis is both. — I dig Tharsis a lot. Tharsis is a game about making hard choices. Let yourself immerse in the game, and it’ll tell you a story about the struggle for survival on a space station on its way to Mars. Things will go south, the odds are against you, but hey, it’s deep space, and it’s supposed...

46 found this helpful, 2016-08-09