Dissent on Mars

Dissent on Mars is about designing a society on Mars and experiencing the results of your choices by living as a colonist. You set the rules for the economy and government, build a colony from scratch and shape the lives of its residents. If the society fails to meet everyone’s needs, another revolution may begin.

Design a society

Mix and match different rules to create dozens of alternative societies. Decide who controls resources, how colonists receive income and who has decision-making power, then see how those choices affect life in the colony. Different societies have different advantages and drawbacks.

Build the colony

Transform an empty Martian desert with vegetation and natural resources. The resources you place determine which products can be made and enable you to construct futuristic buildings.

Shape the colonists

Create characters with different personality traits, passions and attitudes to work. Their choices can be selfish or selfless, and the traits you assign lead to a range of situations that shape the colony’s outcome.

Run the economy

Take part in a simulated economy whose rules determine which actions you can perform. You can build a system based on competition and greed or on cooperation and solidarity; prices are generated by the circumstances.

Set society’s goals

Compare societies by pursuing goals such as eliminating poverty and unemployment, automating the economy with machines, or seeing where events lead. Each goal’s difficulty depends on how you design your society.