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The official game from The Martian movie is free for the first time on iOS

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The official game from The Martian movie is free for the first time on iOS

If you wanted to quickly describe The Martian: Official Game to anyone, here's how you would do it:

"You see, it's the official game based on Lifeline based on the movie based on the book."

The Martian: Official Game is an interactive fiction in which you need to bring astronaut Mark Whitney home. Just like in Lifeline, every interaction is done in real time and gives the impression that you are chatting with a real person at the other end of your phone.

You'll need to make choices that will influence the story too.

It may sound like a rip-off but it's actually not that bad. It helps that the original material is quite good too.

In any case, you can get it free right now on the App Store for the first time, in celebration of the movie's nomination at the Oscars.

It's not yet free on Google's Play Store.