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Press release:
The Warsaw-based (Poland) PlayWay S.A and Lublin-based (Poland) indie games developer Pyramid Games, are today very happy and excited to announce that their highly technical, open-world sandbox, survival game “Occupy Mars: The Game“, is coming to PC via Early Access (through Steam GOG, and EGS) on May 10th, 2023.

About Occupy Mars: The Game:
Occupy Mars is a technical, open-world sandbox, survival game about Mars colonization inspired by the most promising technologies, and companies that are working towards the goal of humanity becoming a multi-planet species.

Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen,
grow crops, fix broken parts, and learn how to survive on Mars! Build and upgrade your base.
Make sure that there is enough water, oxygen, power, and food to survive. Build greenhouses, oxygen tanks, fuel generators, connect all the pipes and cables,
and remember about proper cable management. Grow your own food.

Fix broken parts using realistic electronic components and tools. Learn the basics soldering, using hot air, electronic measurement tools,
and all the details necessary to fix your equipment. Explore different regions of Mars while searching for valuable resources, discover mining sites,and find the best place to build a city.
Remember that you need to find a relatively leveled area with good access to underground water in a place where temperatures don’t drop too much during the night.

Experience an open-world sandbox game with a realistic day/night cycle and overcome real challenges that colonists face.
Build solar arrays and batteries for energy storage, upgrade them, and find the optimal way to power your colony.
Upgrade your vehicles and equipment in your garage. Organize your workshop and modify your rover.
Change crane hydraulics, operate the robotic arm, dig for valuable resources, build mining rigs, and more…
Occupying Mars is not always easy. Sometimes things will explode, break or not go exactly as planned. Learn to cope with “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.”
Sometimes you have to really act quickly before you run out of air, food, or energy.

About Pyramid Games:
Pyramid Games is a game development studio founded in 2012. Our main office is located in Lublin, Poland. We are gamers and we love making games. Our goal is to deliver the best possible quality in our games. We’re also very passionate about Science and Science-Fiction! Our upcoming games focus around topic of exploring the unknown and gathering knowledge for mankind. Our studio will take gamers to Mars and back, teach them how to become NASA engineers or show the interesting work of paleontologist.

About PlayWay S.A.:
PlayWay was created in 2011 to build games for PC, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, Android and iOS. Since then it has produced and released over 100 games that are sold or downloaded worldwide.
PlayWay is direct shareholder in more than 100 game development companies, with more then 200 games still to come.

Company was founded by Krzysztof Kostowski, who has been working in the gaming industry since 1991. In October 2016, Playway was listed at Warsaw Stock Exchange and joined an index the 80 largest companies of Poland. Over 10 companies from PlayWay are now on Warsaw Stock Exchange.

PlayWay is selling their products via their account on platforms such as: STEAM, AppStore and GooglePlay. USA, China and Germany are the biggest markets corresponding for a total of 60% of sales.

Most important games are: Car Mechanic Simulator, House Flipper, Thief Simulator, Uboat, Discovery Gold Rush.