MarZ: Tactical Base Defense on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Build your defense base to fight back the undead hordes of Mars and secure the future of the red planet. MarZ is a game of strategy and tactical defense where you must carefully manage your crew and resources as you try to uncover the terrible secrets of the undead.

MarZ: Tactical Base Defense is a strategy, tower defense and rts game developed and published by Giant Grey.
Released on April 04th 2019 is available only on Windows in 8 languages: English, German, French, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Polish, Russian and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 866 reviews of which 680 were positive and 186 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.5 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified MarZ: Tactical Base Defense into these genres:

Strategy Tower Defense RTS Tactical Indie Zombies Gore Base-Building Management Sci-fi Difficult Mars Resource Management Building Atmospheric Singleplayer Futuristic Space

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: 64-bit Windows 7/8/10
  • Processor: Intel Core i5
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: DirectX 10 compliant graphics card with 2GB dedicated memory
  • DirectX: Version 10
  • Storage: 3 GB available space
  • Sound Card: any

User reviews & Ratings

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May 2025
An enjoyable, if a little simple, tower defense that focuses on "tower management" rather than huge sprawling mazes. The core concept here, that separates it from normal TD games is that you have a limited number of soldiers and every building requires a soldier to man it. So you have to juggle your soldiers between resource gathering, technology advancement and manning towers....... At least you would if the combination of rocket tower and laser towers didn't defeat absolute everything the campaign has to throw at you. You can also pay to recruit more soldiers so you can ,theoretically, have a sprawling tower network. Don't mistake me, this game is really enjoyable and I would encourage you not to listen to the reviews screaming about how hard it is; the game adds a unique twist to TD so as to set itself out from the huge number of copy-paste TD games on the market. Oh, the prism upgrade for the laser tower WILL eventually bug out and become an indestructible blocker; it will stop shooting but the enemies will still hit it, only they don't do any damage to it and it will either make your mission really easy or it will kill you there and then.
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March 2025
Very good tower defense. Unfortunately it's too short and too expensive for launch for the content. Two achievements are really dumb. One is to get all the others... and the other is to complete all levels on normal difficulty. I've played all the levels on hardest and didn't get this... so now I have to play them all again on easier difficulty?
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Dec. 2024
Fun little game that you can enjoy if you get it on sale but I can't recommend this for the full price.
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Nov. 2024
Yeah I guess it's ok for a tower defense. TD games aren't particularly inventive; they all do the same thing, for the most part. Fast firing tower, AOE tower, hyper focused DOT tower. But this one is free form with its base building which helps give it a little freshness. And like all TD games, they're a hint rogue lite (or whatever the genre is called) because you have to lose a few times before you can figure out what your strategy should be. This game is no different here. so, yeah, I don't particularly care for the TD genre anyway, but this one is probably one of the better ones I've played.
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June 2024
It's a fun blend of Tower Defense with light RTS elements. There is limited economy, tech tree, infrastructure, and units to manage in addition to towers. Towers aren't particularly complex - there is no mazing, and once you find a set-up you like, that's more or less what you'll be building most of the time. The challenge lies in how frantic and hectic in can be managing all the various elements you need to manage based on changing mission needs. It's somewhere between StarCraft and a traditional single-builder Tower Defense, in that regard. You'll be scrambling troops back and forth to provide coverage as needed while trying to figure out where to prioritize investments between economy, research, and actual base defense. Adding to the fun are 20 or so 'Perks' that are unlocked by Perfecting missions - these change the game quite a bit and need to be selected carefully for each mission based on playstyle and mission design. The game ran relatively smoothly and bug free for me. The initial 5 or so tutorial missions are a bit boring and feel more like set piece puzzles to solve, but then the game really comes into its own for the remaining 15 missions. All in all it's a simple, clean 20-hour experience that was enjoyable overall.
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Frequently Asked Questions

MarZ: Tactical Base Defense is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

MarZ: Tactical Base Defense is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.

MarZ: Tactical Base Defense received 680 positive votes out of a total of 866 achieving a rating of 7.48.
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MarZ: Tactical Base Defense was developed and published by Giant Grey.

MarZ: Tactical Base Defense is playable and fully supported on Windows.

MarZ: Tactical Base Defense is not playable on MacOS.

MarZ: Tactical Base Defense is not playable on Linux.

MarZ: Tactical Base Defense is a single-player game.

MarZ: Tactical Base Defense does not currently offer any DLC.

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MarZ: Tactical Base Defense does not support Steam Remote Play.

MarZ: Tactical Base Defense is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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MarZ: Tactical Base Defense
19.99€
7.5
680
186
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Developer
Giant Grey
Publisher
Giant Grey
Release 04 Apr 2019
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