Mars Attracts A park sim with a wicked streak

Your star attractions are people, and getting them is half the job. Some are famous names: Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Date Masamune. Every era teaches you something new about what humans need, which feeds straight into how you build their habitats. You drop a Roman into a villa with the right props and he carries on as if the trip across the solar system never happened. That is the trick, and learning to pull it off is the core of the game.

Each enclosure is a habitat you design around what a particular human wants. Decor items collected on expeditions let you tailor the space: the right furnishings keep captives calm and happy, which keeps them docile and keeps your guests entertained. Push them too hard instead, and unhappy humans stop staying put. Escapes happen, and when they do you hire security teams and build defences to deal with rampaging captives before they trash the park and take guests down with them. There is a genuine balancing act here between keeping humans content and squeezing them for everything the park needs.

You are a Martian CEO, and the books matter. Set prices across your stalls and rides, take out loans when a big build needs funding, and keep the whole operation supplied by assigning porters to haul goods around. Merch stalls, food vendors and decorations all unlock as you grow, and the financial system goes deep enough that pricing decisions genuinely shape whether the park turns a profit. On top of that, a cast of colourful Martian board members sets optional missions and park inspections, and pleasing them is its own game of office politics, alien style.

If you like running a park and watching the money roll in, this has the full loop: place attractions, hire and manage staff, balance the budget against guest satisfaction, and grow until the park hums. Guests have diverse needs, and the range of stalls, rides and amenities you can unlock keeps expanding. What sets it apart is what the guests want. Martians rate your park partly on cruelty, so torture devices, experiments and merch made from human body parts sit on the same menu as ferris wheels and snack stands. Profit and happy visitors are still the score. The visitors just have unusual tastes.

There is a proper tech tree here, and it feeds on your captives. Perform experiments on the humans in your care and you unlock new buildings and staff abilities, so the park itself evolves as your research gets nastier. Dissect excess humans and you can construct anatomical horrors to decorate the grounds, which is exactly as tasteful as it sounds. The campaign runs across several maps, each unlocking new tech tiers, mechanics and buildings as you progress, so the place you are running at the end looks nothing like the concrete boxes you started with.