Hello, fellow Martians! I am Boyan Ivanov and today Im here to share some juicy details about the cool new features coming in Space Race - the first expansion for Surviving Mars.

New and Improved Sponsors (paid feature)

With Space Race, we wanted to improve upon the variety of each playthrough and make the choice of sponsor matter even more. Each sponsor in Space Race has a new unique building and a unique new vehicle that may be a Rocket, Rover, Drone or even new type of Probe. All of these dramatically change the way the individual sponsor plays and develops their strategy.

Instead of spoiling all the changes to existing sponsors, Im going to showcase my favorite sponsor the Blue Sun Corporation.

The Blue Sun Corporation is all about making money and having additional uses for Funding. Their new unique building is the Corporate Office which generates funding each Sol based on the number of workers in the office. This provides a good alternative to mining Rare Metals, however working in an office is not really the life colonists imagined on Mars and they take Comfort penalties when stationed there. Of course, you can offset the Comfort loss with additional services.

You can read the dev diary in full here.

***ALSO*** Join us for the Space Race Launch stream tomorrow at 17:00 CET. Susie and Niki will be joined by Haemimont on stream to take a good look at the expansion and celebrate its release (it will release at 18:00 CET and we have an awesome release trailer which we will also show off on the stream! You can watch the stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/paradoxinteractive