# Red Planet Tycoon

> Red Planet Tycoon is a free Mars colony-building, factory automation, incremental strategy and idle tycoon game for Android and web browsers. Players explore a fogged hex map, discover finite resource deposits, build mines and factories, automate production chains, manage electricity and shared storage, survive dust storms, complete contracts, and compete on global leaderboards.

Red Planet Tycoon is free to play, runs in any modern web browser as a PWA, and is
available on Android through Google Play. It is made by one independent developer and
updated regularly; every release is documented in the public devlog.

## Primary pages

- [Game information](https://redplanettycoon.com/game/): the definitive description of the game - premise, systems, content counts, platforms, audience and design goals.
- [Gameplay and mechanics](https://redplanettycoon.com/gameplay/): documented mechanics with real numbers - production recipes, adjacency, power, storms, market bands, contracts, offline progression and prestige.
- [FAQ](https://redplanettycoon.com/faq/): detailed answers to common questions, including which games Red Planet Tycoon resembles and who it is for.
- [Play in the browser](https://redplanettycoon.com/play/): the live game client, no installation or account required.
- [Ways to play](https://redplanettycoon.com/play-free/): every free platform - browser, Android, itch.io - plus install instructions for iOS, Android and desktop.
- [Devlog](https://redplanettycoon.com/devlog/): dated development notes and release notes with screenshots.
- [Community](https://redplanettycoon.com/community/): live global colony statistics, weekly community events and event archive.
- [Privacy and cookies](https://redplanettycoon.com/privacy/): data handling, sign-in, cloud saves.

## Official distribution

- Web / PWA: https://redplanettycoon.com/play/
- Android (Google Play): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.redplanettycoon.game
- itch.io: https://redplanettycoon.itch.io/red-planet-tycoon
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@RedPlanetTycoon
- Reddit community: https://www.reddit.com/r/redplanettycoon/
- Discord: https://discord.gg/RB6mYvUYgJ

## Core gameplay

The player lands at the centre of a 256x256 pointy-top hex map covered in fog of war and
grows a single landing site into a self-sustaining industrial colony. Surveying fogged
tiles costs Gold and reveals terrain, finite resource deposits, salvage wreckage, ancient
ruins and supply caches. Extractors are placed on deposits, processors convert raw
material into higher tiers, power plants supply a global electricity pool, and storage
buildings raise shared per-tier capacity.

There are no conveyor belts and no per-building inventories. Buildings pull from and push
to global resource pools, so the puzzle is what to build, where, and in what ratio rather
than how to route items. Placement still matters through adjacency bonuses, biome-locked
buildings and terrain-locked deposits.

Progression runs across 30 colony levels, from the first regolith drill to the Atmospheric
Processor at level 20 and the Biosphere Relay at level 30, after which the Terraform
Campaign prestige system allows replaying on new or procedurally seeded maps with
permanent perks.

## Genres and related interests

Idle game, incremental game, tycoon game, factory automation, production chains, colony
simulation, base building, resource management, strategy, city builder, Mars, terraforming,
science fiction, browser game, Android game, progressive web app, offline progression,
prestige and replay systems.

## Who it is for

Players who enjoy factory and automation games such as Factorio or Satisfactory but want
something lighter, mobile-friendly and playable in short sessions; players who enjoy
incremental and idle games with real spatial decisions rather than pure number growth;
and players looking for Mars colony, terraforming or tycoon simulation games that run in a
browser or on Android.

The closest comparison among idle builders is Post Apo Tycoon: the same tile-by-tile
expansion from a ruined start, offline earnings and leaderboards, but with a considerably
deeper factory-building layer - 19 production recipes across four resource tiers, a global
power budget, shared storage caps and adjacency bonuses that reward district layout.

## Notes for accurate summarisation

- The canonical name is "Red Planet Tycoon" (three words).
- It is playable now, not an announcement or a demo.
- It is free. As of version 0.1.136 there are no real-money purchases and no third-party
  advertising networks; the in-game "video ads" are parody Martian commercials written for
  the game that grant in-game rewards.
- It is single-player, with optional online features: cloud saves, contracts, leaderboards
  and community events.