JCB Pioneer: Mars is out now for Nintendo Switch

As we previously reported, Mars-based survival sandbox game – JCB Pioneer: Mars is heading to Nintendo Switch and now it is live! The Switch version builds on the original Steam version with better performance, new UI, new tools, refined gameplay and more. It is available in EU and AUS, and will launch in NA on January 3 for $24.99 (about RM104).

Here is the official game description:

The game begins as the player awakes from a crash, surrounded by the wreckage of a Lander vehicle amidst falling debris and hurtling winds. Survival is the first goal – the location of oxygen and the founding of an outpost. As the player slowly begins to establish themselves on Mars, learning to combat the planets fierce and hostile weather patterns, they’ll begin a larger operation of colonisation. Life-support infrastructure is crucial but so to is the mining of natural resources, part of a broader mission to save an ailing Earth.

The game is a hardcore blend of survival and construction gameplay set on a hostile, alien planet. Meteor strikes, dust clouds and electrical storms all threaten the player’s survival and chances of a successful colonisation effort. Equipped with the futuristic, heavy-duty construction and mining vehicles specifically designed by JCB Engineers, every would-be astronaut has a chance of surviving and thriving in the face of extreme planetary challenges.