Mars Space Quest

Unless I am missing something, the creator of this game is severely overestimating how long people are going to want to grind. Takes several attempts just o buy the first set of upgrades?

This is a situation where this game should be pulled rom sites like Kongregate. And quite frankly, the designer should be sued by the people who made Into Space. This is not a game that sort of borrowed some ideas from another game and made a similar one. This game is EXACTLY the same as the Into Space games. Right down to the 3, 2 ,1 countdown sound byte! The ONLY difference is they didn't copy the speed boost gates (which I admit is good to not have to deal with.) But everything else is a very poorly copied ripoff. Kongregate should not support such blatant plagiarism.

Even copied the aliens around mars (if not identical... pretty close to it)... nice little game but way too much like a poor man's ''into space''. 2/5 is the most you'll get from me... and that's because i'm feeling generous.

Second rate copy of http://www.kongregate.com/games/BarbarianGames/intospace

You even kept most of the same sounds

If you've played Into Space, which this is... based on, you'll easily get the hang of it. The part i didn't like is that it's stripped of almost all stats/data. You don't see how upgrades affect your performance, though it seems a linear progression rather than specialized parts for certain kinds of builds. Boost has a cooldown/overheat phase, but again there is no indicator. I also somehow unlocked a 5% price reduction (after my 3rd launch/1st big sack of money), but am not sure why and how, since there are no visible ingame achievements.