Surviving Mars is Haemimont Games and Paradox Interactive's 2018 colony-building sim — a retro-futurist take on terraforming the red planet, modeled on the bright optimism of 1960s science fiction. White geodesic domes and teal life-support lines glow out of deep Martian night, while rust-orange regolith dust gives every surface its warm, hopeful temperature.

The design system distills that aesthetic into rounded forms, dome-grid geometry, and pill buttons. Nothing is sharp; everything is soft, friendly, and confident — the look of a future people once believed in.