First Martians App is being updated to version 1.28
First Martians: Adventures on the Red Planet is being updated to version 1.28 on all platforms! This version adds Spanish language. Have fun playing First Martians in Spanish!
Please note, that there is NO auto-update feature for PC version – download it manually here!
will you translate the app in french?
Please update the PC App to Version 1.30 soon! The current Version (1.28) has a bug that makes previous events inaccessable. This bug does not show up on my iPhone where Version 1.30 is available. Thanks in advance
I really love the game: the realism, the depth due to its complexity, the possibilities, the setting and I also like the layout/design. Some may think differently, but I would give it a 9 out of 10 if it wasn’t for the issues I have with the app:
1.) The generator on the publisher’s website lets you create your own astronaut. How super cool is that? But why can’t I change the portrait within the app to suit the generated/printed out character sheet? My smartphone has a camera built in – it would be a breeze if I could just use it to easily create my portrait.
2.) I would like to have the current Sol within the app visible at all times (had to go back all the way to check, if I already switched to new sol)
3.) Battery drainage is massive! Even when my phone is connected to the mains it dies at some point!!! It also gets incredibly hot – the app is almost cooking my phone.
4.) App crashed on me occasionally in mid game. Thankfully with the resume function it remembered where I left off.
5.) Just as to make it 10/10 score I would have loved to have video recordings of the astronauts shown as diary entries instead of textual description of events. Maybeeven audio recordings with them making diary entries on what happened on the station, etc.
Bottom line:
I would really love to play the game, but due to the battery strain and performance issues of the app I am forced to use a laptop. Not ideal, especially if you would like to take the game along and play it at your friend’s house.
A great game, but not for everyone. I will surely keep playing it and hope for lots more content or expansions to come.
I have gathered quite a few suggestions to attract a wider audience to First Martians and how portalgames could generate revenue, aswell as addressed a few concerns the publisher might have on it. Please go here for info and possible feedback:
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2155050/suggestions-future-first-martians/
I’ve been waiting for it for a long time ! Now it has been translated into Spanish ! A small detail, but even more…now we can see the Insight mission …now we can feel like Matt Daemon in “The Martian”…now we can feel like “Apollo 13” movie…or even like those children in the movie “Explores” (1985) (Yes it’s true, I’m a bit old, but with young spirit!!!). So let’s see if we have a lot of fun with this game, so designers…please update the app and followers “Time to create more and more scenarios” .Maybe some kind of Aliens on Mars? or War of the Worlds or Travellers competing for their companies, how knows? It’s time for: First (and no last) Martians !