Chart a new course for humankind in Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life
Chart a new course for humankind in Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life
The proof is out there…
Mission Control Centre: Bristol, UK – 07 March 2023. In 2020, Auroch Digital’s and The Irregular Corporation’s hit space management game Mars Horizon let players re-write the history of the space-race. Today, renowned developer Auroch Digital, in tandem with publisher Secret Mode, can reveal that players will forge new, as-yet undiscovered histories in Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life, coming to PC in 2024.
Following on from the first Mars Horizon’s giant leap into the unknown, Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life offers an astronomical vault into futures unwritten. Players will take control of a fully customisable space agency and experience an authentic exploration of the unknown.
Reaching Mars is just the beginning as Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life sends players to the farthest reaches of the Solar System on the hunt for evidence of life. Players race to make discoveries ahead of rival agencies, using established scientific methodology in tandem with modern and near-future technologies to seek, recover, and analyse alien biosignatures.
“At Auroch Digital we pride ourselves on making authentic, entertaining experiences,” says studio director Tomas Rawlings (He/Him/His). “We’re working closely with the world’s leading space experts to accurately portray the pioneering science used to seek life within the Solar System. Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life launches players to the forefront of human endeavour and hands them the freedom to build an agency of their choosing, but every facet of every feature in the game is underpinned by meticulous research.”
Ed Blincoe (He/Him/His), Secret Mode’s Vice President of Publishing, says: “Two years ago this week, Secret Mode was founded on a pledge to publish great games not just from external indie studios, but from Sumo Group’s award-winning development teams. As we begin our third year of operations, we are working closer than ever with our internal studios. The vision and quality of Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life by the immeasurably talented Auroch Digital team blew us away. Its announcement is the perfect way to underline Secret Mode’s commitment to publishing exceptional titles from studios within Sumo Group.”
About Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life
Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life is an authentic space management game where you take on the role of the head of a space agency on your mission to Search for Life. Search for evidence across the solar system to prove there’s life on other planets. Manage your staff, build your bases, design and launch rockets, and plan missions. You’ll be writing a new space history every time you play.
Following on from Mars Horizon where you were able to re-write history, now you’re going to be making history. Will you be the first to find evidence of life out there?
📝 You’re in charge of mission control, plan all the aspects of your missions to find anomalies, use flybys and satellites to look for them, land on planets to collect them
👩🔬 Manage your staff: hire, fire, train, and customise your own team of experts with different skills and roles
🏭 Build your base on Earth, Mars and the Moon, with important buildings like testing facilities, launch pads, and more
🚀 Design multi-stage rockets using cutting edge components, reusable boosters and a variety of payloads
📅 Decide when is best for your mission with launch windows, and then decide closer to the time the best day for launch, based on weather, and climate
📚 Make key decisions in tough narrative events which will make or break your mission and impact the future of space exploration
📈 Every mission has a different reliability with different points of failure such as fuel, guidance, engines, and more
🔎 Follow the clues, collect anomalies and discover biosignatures that get you closer to discovery of life - signs of life can include fossils, microbes, unusual atmospheres, and more
🔬 Process anomalies in the lab, and research a huge tech tree to help you in your journey
Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life is coming to PC in 2024. For more information, please visit the official Steam page. To be the first to hear about Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life news, as well as alphas and betas, sign up to the Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life mailing list. To stay up to date with Auroch Digital’s other games, sign up for the Auroch Digital Newsletter.