After Mars.

Short overview

"After Mars." is a literary narrative RPG with no combat, set in a fading town on Mars. Play as a junior Commissioner sent to investigate local cases through dialogue, evidence, disputes, and official reports. Decide what becomes truth in a place where history never fully ended.

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Not the Mars you expect

This is not a world of clean domes, heroic pioneers, and shiny sci-fi certainty.

Jazin is a Martian town built from extraction, patronage, revolution, and compromise. Its air is held by old infrastructure. Its politics are local, bitter, and unfinished. Its children draw history on the ground because there is no paper to waste. Above it all looms the Mammoth — a colossal burned machine that still decides too much.

Mars is not a frontier here. It is already lived in.

What you do

As a Commissioner, you are sent to review three local cases:

a conflict over the fate of the Mammoth
a dangerous contraction of the town’s safe zone
a set of breathing complaints that official science dismisses

To resolve them, you will:

speak with citizens, officials, workers, believers, and local eccentrics
gather testimony, samples, records, and conflicting documents
use disputes, warrants, and requests to the capital to make progress
solve practical local problems, not just abstract mysteries
decide what conclusions can be formally filed

Each case begins small. None of them stays that way.

A document-driven RPG

"After Mars." is built around narrative systems instead of combat systems.

You do not clear dungeons or chase loot. You read, compare, inspect, argue, classify, and report.

Core interactions include:

Dialogue with branching responses and skill-gated options
Disputes, where evidence and social leverage matter
Warrants, used for practical interactions with the world
Requests to the capital, which may return delayed answers
Cases, which collect evidence and eventually become formal reports
Conditions, time passage, and local routines that shape how the town is navigated

Your companion, CAR-TER, is not a voice in your head or a comic sidekick. It is a field terminal: part witness, part machine bureaucracy, always present when the town needs to be read, recorded, or argued with.

Key features

A literary narrative RPG focused on writing, tone, and human contradiction
No combat — progress comes through observation, dialogue, evidence, and choice
Three interconnected main cases that unfold into a larger local crisis
A distinctive Martian setting shaped by air cores, old infrastructure, and post-revolutionary culture
A document-based structure where reports and classifications matter as much as discoveries
A diegetic interface built around your terminal companion, CAR-TER
Meaningful local politics without simple heroes or villains
Exploration through atmosphere and detail, from counterfeit bird-sound devices to named town trees, regolith drawings, and shrinking district borders
Choices that shape official truth, not just private morality