Red Planet Tycoon
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Mars colony tycoon - playable now
A free idle factory tycoon on a 256×256 hex map. Survey the fog, claim finite deposits, chain 19 production recipes, and keep the lights on when the storm hits.
Free · no install · no account · progress saves automatically
What it is
Red Planet Tycoon is a free Mars colony-building, factory automation and idle tycoon game for web browsers and Android. You explore a fogged hex map, discover finite resource deposits, construct mines and factories, automate production chains, manage electricity and shared storage, survive Martian dust storms, complete contracts, and compete on global leaderboards.
It takes the part of Factorio and Satisfactory that people love - designing a production chain and then scaling it until it breaks - and removes the part that does not fit on a phone. There are no conveyor belts and no per-building inventories. Buildings share global resource pools, so the puzzle is what to build, where, and in what ratio.
The systems
Every hex changes the equation. Survey hostile terrain, discover resources, balance production against power, and decide how far beyond safety you are willing to build.
Twelve terrain types decide what can be mined and what can be built. Rich deposits run dry after 2,000 units and force you outward. Ancient ruins and adjacency bonuses can turn one well-placed factory into the heart of an industrial district.
Four demand bands pay 100%, 75%, 50% and 25%. Flood Mars with one resource and you crash through all of them. Diversify, drip-sell, and turn 19 materials into a resilient economy instead of one perfect spreadsheet.
Exposed extractors reach valuable ground, but the top-of-hour dust storm erases anything beyond the protected network - even while you are away. Outposts are strategy, not scenery.
Take server-generated production, construction, power and survey contracts - up to Legendary size at thirty times the scale. Earn Gold and booster cards, join weekly community events, and measure your colony against real players on the global leaderboard.
Climb thirty levels from your first regolith drill to the Atmospheric Processor at level 20 and the Biosphere Relay at level 30. Then terraform again: keep your permanent perks, roll a new map from a six-digit seed, and do it harder.
Is it for you?
Marketing copy is cheap. Here is the version that actually helps you decide.
More comparisons in the FAQ, and the complete system-by-system breakdown on the gameplay page.
Where to play
The same colony follows you between devices once you sign in. Everything works without an account too. Compare every way to play →
Built in the open
Red Planet Tycoon is an independent project written by one person - simulation, interface, art pipeline, server and this website. Every update is written up publicly, including the balance reasoning and the things that did not work.
Player feedback drives a large share of that work. The economy overhaul, finite deposits, the contracts system and the adjacency rework all started as community complaints.
Latest from the devlog
Daily Challenges One map, one seed, one goal per day, scored in ticks - plus placement points and Cores for the fastest colonies. Language Packs, Chain Tuning, and the Sprint Wraps Up Six new language packs, a reworked Chain bonus that rewards fully wired recipes, and the Level 31 Sprint closes out. Contract Rally Results and the Level 31 Sprint The first community event is almost over, there is a clear winner, and the next one is a Level 1 to Level 31 speedrun starting August 13. Read every update →Quick answers
Yes - free in the browser and free on Android. As things stand there are no real-money purchases and no third-party ad networks; the in-game "video ads" are parody Martian commercials that pay out Gold, Cores or Boosters.
It shares the production-chain planning and skips the logistics. No belts, no inserters, no per-building inventories - buildings share global resource pools, so the puzzle is ratios, power and placement. The longer answer.
Yes. The first ten ticks on return run at full speed, then each tick represents 100 seconds of real time, up to a cap you can extend with upgrades and prestige perks.
Yes. Sign in with Google for cloud saves and the same colony syncs between the Android app and any browser.
No - your colony is single-player and nobody can attack it. Leaderboards, server-generated contracts and weekly community events are the optional social layer.
Build with the community
Weekly community events pool every player's progress into one planetary total. Bug reports and balance arguments are welcome and frequently win.