Outcast on Mars

Outcast on Mars is a third-person adventure with one complete introductory level. A robot is activated on Mars and tasked with finding the souls of people stored on a server there. They were users of Korda, a sinister social network that uploaded their souls shortly before a zombie apocalypse killed 98% of Earth’s population.

The Mars server

The wider story follows two other robots on Earth as they try to reverse the zombie apocalypse. The outbreak was created by Colonel Saklas, a multimillionaire and computer genius, and the remaining zombies are dying because there are no brains left to consume. Before the pandemic, millions of people had uploaded their “souls” through a social network; they did not know that a gigantic server on Mars was backing them up. The robots’ search for answers leads to questions about Saklas’s plan, why he wants to destroy humanity and why he preserved those souls.

The introductory level

The game’s opening takes place on Mars, where an unknown virus kills almost the entire crew of international astronauts. Dr. Mark Thompson III is the sole survivor. The synthetic virus is following the instructions of a computer program called “Drilling in the Brain,” which is also operating on Earth. Dr. Thompson is alone on Mars, but is soon visited by a formidable robot created on Earth.

The broader adventure is planned to span Earth and Mars in an open world. On Earth, an activated robot and a similarly made robot described as its “soul mate” work to save humanity. You use resources to survive while searching for answers. An experienced player can complete the current introductory level in about two hours.