Video games are often based on real life situations. Games can let you drive trucks, fight alongside the allied forces in World War 2 or be the game changer in a sports match. But adventures can also be a little different from the real thing. You might go on an outer space adventure to fight aliens, be a wizard in a medieval world full of sword wielding bandits or chase a witch as a bear with a bird in his backpack. How does Mario Kart 8 stack up to reality?

Since the earliest days of virtual chess and solitaire, video games have been a playing field for developing artificial intelligence (AI). 

It’s the classic Sci-fi story of pirates like Han Solo and Starlord that speak to the imagination of many space age fans. In Ancient Frontier Steel Shadows, YOU can play as space pirate Rogan Harker and feel what it’s like to earn fame and fortune while running from other space scum and the Federation.

Life on a space station can be stressful, especially when someone is launching nuclear missiles at it. You have 60 seconds to grab as much supplies and or crewmembers to take with you on the escape pod. Oh, and make sure you bring enough soup…

Surviving Mars boasts to offer you the feeling of being a real space pioneer but is it any good? We bought the game and had a look for you.