The strategic, story-driven city builder Per Aspera finally has a release date: December 3. We first saw Per Aspera at the 2019 PC Gaming show and thought it was adorable and promising at the time. Now we can confirm that it is indeed adorable and promising. The game stars voice actor Lila Berzins as the artificial intelligence AMI and Troy Baker as Nathan Foster, the doctor who created AMI and sent it off to terraform Mars.

Per Aspera is a city-building game, but the setting is a full-scale map of Mars based on satellite images. The player is an artificial intelligence named AMI, who has overall control over the terraforming and colonization efforts on Mars after decades of failed colonization efforts. The game is advertised as narrative from the start, and from the last sequence in the trailer, the big surprise is going to be bigger than expected: the Martian sky goes dark and thousands of mysterious spaceships descend.

For more information on Per Aspera, please wait a little longer for its release. The game has been out on Steam for a little while now, but there is a free demo if you want to try it out in the pre-release window Per Aspera is developed by Tlön Industries and published by Raw Fury, and will be available on Steam December 3.