Monuments of Mars
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| Monuments of Mars | |
|---|---|
 Episode 2, level 4 | |
| Developer | Scenario Software |
| Publisher | Apogee Software |
| Designer | Todd Replogle |
| Programmer | Todd Replogle |
| Artist | Todd Replogle |
| Engine | FAST |
| Platform | MS-DOS |
| Release | 1991 |
| Genre | Puzzle-platform |
| Mode | Single-player |
Monuments of Mars is a third-person puzzle-platform game developed by Scenario Software for MS-DOS and compatible systems. It was published by Apogee Software. The game consists of four 20-level episodes, the first episode being shareware, the rest being commercial software. It is similar to the games Arctic Adventure and Pharaoh's Tomb (developed by George Broussard and also published by Apogee) but uses an unrelated engine.[1]
The game was discontinued, and was released as freeware on March 20, 2009.[2] It was re-released in 2015 on Steam with support for Windows and macOS.
The player is tasked with rescuing NASA astronauts that have gone missing in the fictional "monuments of Mars". Toward the end of each episode, groups of captured astronauts can be released from "energy rings". At the end of the final episode, markings on a "face" object reveal that some aliens were using Mars as a base to study humans from afar, but abandoned it and left their automatic intruder capture system switched on, hence the capture of the astronauts.