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Red Planet is one of those MS-DOS games that sticks with you—mostly because Mars is trying to kill you the whole time. You wake up stranded in this rusty wasteland with nothing but a clunky suit and a dwindling oxygen meter, and suddenly every shadow in those pixelated caves feels like it’s hiding something with too many teeth.

The first thing you’ll do? Panic. Then maybe shoot at a weird alien plant that definitely wasn’t there a second ago. The game’s got this great tension where you’re always low on ammo or air, so every decision matters—do you risk exploring that crumbling outpost, or play it safe and hope your oxygen lasts? The puzzles are just the right kind of frustrating, too—none of that moon logic, just good old-fashioned “why won’t this door open unless I shove a battery into the weird socket” problem-solving.

Honestly, it’s the atmosphere that sells it. The soundtrack’s all eerie synths and distant wind howls, and the terrain looks like someone took a VHS tape of a ’70s sci-fi flick and turned it into a game. If you miss the days when survival meant actually sweating over your choices instead of just crafting another health pack, Red Planet’s got your back. Just watch out for the sandworms.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".