In the race to colonize planet Mars, everything is up for grabs.

Offworld Trading Company’s quick and intensely competitive matches pit up to 8 players against each other on randomly generated maps. Players must quickly determine the best path toward building a self-sufficient colony that can extract the abundant Martian resources while maintaining profitability – and surviving the “talents” of shady black-market characters who are all too happy to raid any player’s shipments or smuggle a paralyzing EMP device into any colony for the right price.

The all-new addition to the Offworld series will take players to the frozen moon of Europa, where numerous cracks on the surface make building and sustaining new structures a challenge.

Offworld Trading Company is a real-time strategy game in which money, not military force, is the weapon. Stake claims to resources, extract and develop them into goods and upgrades, all while buying and selling in the real-time, player driven marketplace.

Some of the highlights in The Europa Wager include:

• New planet: Europa
• New resources: Methane, Magnesium
• New buildings: Methane Extractor, Gas and Hydrothermal Plants
• New scenarios

The Europa Wager's scenarios provide a host of new challenges to overcome as you try to establish a new colony that will stand against the frozen elements. Like the rest of the Offworld series, the expansion brings real-world elements into its gameplay. For example, although water will not be hard to find on the frozen moon, aluminum is non-existent.

Offworld Trading Company: The Europa Wager will retail for $14.99 and is coming soon to PC (Steam).

Unlike traditional RTS games, there are no military units and what you need to win can change at a moment’s notice because on Mars, there are no rules in the free market. None of the 13 resources is more powerful than any other, and everything is for sale. Players gain cash by selling excess resources like carbon, fuel, and silicon on the open market, and spend it buying the resources they’re short on. Prices fluctuate in real time forcing players to adapt their strategy; dump a bunch of iron on the market and its price will crater, making other players’ stockpiles worth much less in the near term.

The game is won when the ultimate cutthroat capitalist completes buys out the stock of all their rivals, thereby seizing control of the entire planet’s economy.

In Offworld Trading Company, the marketplace is the battlefield.

Offworld Trading Company is currently available on Steam or through Stardock.