Dear Martians!
When NASA announced that the Opportunity Rover mission officially ended on Feb 13th we were all very sad. This "little rover that could" along with his twin brother Spirit landed on Mars in January 2004.
Since that time he gave us amazing science and pictures. He was designed to operate for 90 days, but he worked tirelessly for 15 years!
We thought it's not fair that the Rover is to stay broken on Mars forever and we decided that if there's anything we could do to bring him (and other Mars Rovers) back to life we would do it!
That's why we are announcing Rover Mechanic Simulator - a new game in the "Occupy Mars" Universe where you play as one of the colonists - an engineer who works in one of the first Mars bases with the goal of fixing all the historic Rovers and Landers that ever landed on the Red Planet.
Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, Phoenix, InSight and more... all of the rovers and landers that ever touched the surface of the Red Planet we want to ultimately add to this game. Learning all the details about their internal components and hundreds of scientific instruments they have on board will be an exciting and fun scientific adventure!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/864680/Rover_Mechanic_Simulator
See also our other game about Mars. Occupy Mars is a completely different game with different mechanics. It's a science-fiction, sandbox, survival game. We know that players who enjoy playing "Mechanic" games usually don't play survival / open-world simulators and we hope that thanks to Rover Mechanic some of you will actually get more interested in Mars exploration as well :)
Also we want to clarify that by making Rover Mechanic Simulator we are not taking anything away from Occupy Mars - on the contrary - thanks to this second game we were able to grow our team so we can actually do more in both games.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/758690/Occupy_Mars_The_Game