🎮 Paradox Relaunches Surviving Mars Relaunched Lah — OG Studio Returns but Same Dust Everywhere
The original Surviving Mars devs came back to “save” the colony. Pok Gai Gamer came back too — to watch it crash again.
💀 The “Relaunch” That Nobody Asked For
So Paradox did the unthinkable: re-re-launched Surviving Mars,
called it “Relaunched Edition,” and acted like it’s the Second Coming of Red Dust Jesus.
They hyped it up like:
“We’re returning to our roots!”
Translation: “We broke it, begged the old devs to fix it.”
🧠 The OG Devs Return — But They Need More Than Oxygen
The real twist? Paradox finally brought back Haemimont Games — the original studio that actually made the good version back in 2018.
Gamers cheered for five seconds … until the patch hit.
Yes, the boys are back on Mars — and it still runs like a budget space program.
You can feel the tension: Paradox execs pushing DLC, OG devs duct-taping legacy code.
It’s like your divorced parents trying to co-parent a dying colony.
They promised “fresh leadership and stability.”
Stability lasted one save file.
💸 The DLC Economy Still a Black Hole
Relaunch price: $39.99 USD.
Full bundle with DLC: $149 USD and your soul.
New “Deluxe Colony Pack”? Adds one lamp and two bugs.
Haemimont Games should’ve charged Paradox a bug bounty per fix — they’d be richer than SpaceX by now.
🚀 Same Dust, New Drama
The return of the original studio gave players hope,
but Paradox gave them lag instead.
Colonists still starving in glass domes, AI still confused, drones still on strike.
Patch notes bragged:
“Improved colonist pathfinding.”
Pok Gai test results: colonist walked into dome wall, died happy.
They even added new “corporate mission trees.”
Bro, I didn’t come to Mars to manage LinkedIn.
🤡 Pok Gai Mission Log 2025
🧩 Pok Gai Economic Theory of Mars
Paradox built a new revenue loop called “hope.”
They sell nostalgia disguised as progress,
and every time we buy, we get another launcher update instead of content.
This isn’t early access — it’s early mid-life crisis.
💀 Pok Gai Verdict
The OG devs returned like heroes; Paradox still treated them like DLC.
Same bugs, same crashes, slightly more dust.
Pok Gai Gamer verdict:
“Surviving Mars Relaunched = Surviving Paradox again lah.”
If you really miss 2018, just install the old version and save yourself a hundred bucks and a headache.
💬 FAQ
1️⃣ Did the original Surviving Mars studio return meh?
Yes lah, Haemimont Games came back to help Paradox fix its own mess. Respect the effort, not the publisher.
2️⃣ Is the Relaunch better lor?
Barely. Same bugs in higher resolution. New dust shader though wah.
3️⃣ Worth buying aiya?
Only if you enjoy collecting disappointments for your Steam library.