MARS FIRST LOGISTICS

From Deliver Us Mars to Deliver On Mars

Playing Mars First Logistics, we quickly become aware that we’d never have made it as a NASA engineer. Having been given a rough completion time for this handful of early tasks, we find ourselves exceeding that estimate on one mission alone, our various additions to the basic rover with which we’ve been provided to fulfil a series of deliveries causing it to capsize at the slightest provocation: accelerating up a gentle slope, say, or brushing the right rear wheel against a small rock. Sure, we can reset our haphazardly constructed vehicle in a pinch, but doing so means we have to pick our cargo up again – a job that is a good deal trickier than it sounds.