About This Demo

Experience the First Weeks on Mars

Guide your crew through the landing and the colony's critical first days and beyond. Start building your base, set up power generation and food production, and manage the comfort of your colonists.

This demo gives you 2-5 hours of early colony chaos, enough to see how everything connects. Usually when something breaks.

What You'll Do

Expand your initial lander, construct solar panels, build a mining industry and set up food production. Balance oxygen generation, power, food, and water that each interact with a variety of other systems.

Face dust storms, resource shortages and colonist mental struggles. The demo throws real crises at you that test whether you can prioritize and improvise when multiple things go wrong.

Research early technologies to unlock important new buildings. The demo includes a curated slice of the tech tree, enough to understand progression without overwhelming you.

Demo Scope

• Early-game buildings

• Carefully selected list of research entries

• Dust storms

• 2-5 hours of gameplay (no time limit)

Red Dust Colony isn't our day job, but it's our real work. We’re two people, working on it for more than five years, during evenings, weekends and occasionally our vacation days.

If RimWorld, Oxygen Not Included, or Surviving Mars are your kind of game, see if Mars colony chaos is your thing.

If the demo clicks with you, wishlist the full game and follow the game on Steam.