Two free new updates announced for Surviving Mars

‘Da Vinci’ Creative Mode and ‘Sagan’ difficulty will make the game easier or harder respectively. 

Publisher of Surviving Mars, Paradox Interactive today announced that the sci-fi settlement sim would be receiving two new free updates starting with ‘Da Vinci’ mode.

This creative mode gives players the ability to focus on more creative endeavours within their Martian colonies and will launch today for PC, coming to consoles shortly after. The new mode will feature some stress-reducing mechanics, such as buildings that do not require maintenance, immortal colonists, and a starting budget of $100 trillion. What could go wrong with that sort of money right?

The second update, called ‘Sagan’ is set to release later in September and is aimed at ‘the explorer who felt that surviving the inhospitable desert of Mars was simply too easy’. This new difficulty mode will feature 30 major challenges to overcome, adding a new level of difficulty for the hardcore survivalist who’s already survived everything the red planet had to throw at them.

Surviving Mars is available on Steam now with the ‘Da Vinci’ update launching today.