Per Aspera is a city-building game developed by Tlön Industries and published by Raw Fury for Windows on December 3, 2020. The player takes the role of AMI, an artificial intelligence with the objective of terraforming Mars for human colonization. Gameplay The game features a branching nonlinear story and multiple endings. Release Per Aspera was announced in June 2019 at the PC Gaming Show. An expansion pack, Green Mars, was released on October 21, 2021. A second expansion, Blue Mars, was released on May 2, 2022. A third expansion, Home, was released on January 23, 2023. The game was released on Meta Quest 2 on February 9, 2023. Reception Per Aspera received "generally favorable" reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic. Davide Pessach of Italian Eurogamer said that "Per Aspera is a very interesting colony builder narrative game that has a stellar esthetic, a very engaging story and a super cast of actors. The gameplay is fluid, rewarding and rich of surprises and references to cool tech (both fictional and kinda realistic). If you like the genre and the setting you will have a blast." Jonathan Bolding of PC Gamer summarized: "Per Aspera's novel adaptation of nonlinear narrative to fit a strategy game goes over surprisingly well. Combined with a novel terraforming mechanic, slick aesthetics, hard science chops, and classic genre gameplay, this one is definitely worth the time." Martynas Klimas of PC Invasion said that "Per Aspera reaches for lofty heights, but I could never shake the impression that the difficulties I encountered were more because of the game breaking down rather than Mars being a hostile place. But who knows, patches do wonders these days." References External links Per Aspera at Tlön Industries 2020 video games City-building games Hard science fiction Indie video games Meta Quest games Single-player video games Video games developed in Argentina Video games set on Mars Video games with downloadable content Video games with expansion packs Video games with Steam Workshop support Windows games Raw Fury games