I saw that there is an alternative ending for Waking Mars. What do I need to do differently during the course of the game to get it? I haven't found a particularly good guide online.
How to get the alternative/special ending in Waking Mars
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It's the whole game, but not with the highest-quality art and sound assets available, though that is set to change.
I bought the Humble Android Bundle and own both.
The PC Version has higher-res graphics, so you could say it takes full advantage of the bigger screen.
There's some direct info in this entry on Tiger Style's blog
You can also buy Waking Mars for Windows, Mac, and Linux directly from us on the Waking Mars website! We’ve said it before, but the game surprised even us with how natural it feels on PC. Kicking back on the couch holding a gamepad watching it on the HDTV was a proud moment!
In addition to the regular technical and controls type work that goes into a port, we massively upgraded the story presentation. Check out the improved character portraits, below. We also added professional voice acting which we’re really pleased with and we’re glad to see the critics and fans digging it too!
We don’t like to be stingy with our iOS roots, so we ported over all this voice acting and art goodness as a major update to the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch versions. It’s almost like a whole new game, and as always App Store updates are free, so download and enjoy today!
Additional to that, this tweet, Waking Mars on Android does not have voice acting yet. It's in progress but no ETA yet. Watch for updates here., indicates that the higher-quality assets will ultimately become available on Android too, but you might have to wait a wee bit.
There is no way to view your achievements from in the game, not even if you are playing the PC/Linux/OSX builds.
The only way to view achievements (and I believe the only reason the achievements even exist in the game) is by running the game through Steam, and listing them there.
However, if it is important to you, you can get a fairly good estimate of how many achievements you have completed.
There are 17 total achievements in the game, and 13 of them are "Research Achievements":
- Research: Hazards
- Research: Cerebranes
- Research: Fertile Terrain
- Research: Halid Zoa
- Research: Hydron Zoa
- Research: Phyta
- Research: Prax Zoa
- Research: Cycot
- Research: MegaZoa
- Research: Larian
- Research: Ledon Zoa
- Research: Cephad Zoa
- Research: Feran Zoa
These are completed once you have completely researched a species. If you flip through the pages in the "Research" area, you will be able to see which ones still need to be researched further before you can "get" the achievement.
The remaining 4 achievements are unlocked progressively as you go through the game, and if you have explored every cave and finished the game with the "ideal ending", you should have gotten all of them along the way:
- Finding 0CT0 - Determine the fate of 0CT0.
- Mars Awake - Complete the game.
- A Light Into Space - Activate Core illumination.
- The Journey Begins - Complete the game, unlocking the special ending.
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Once you've seen the first ending, you should be able to simply reload your save and try to get the alternate endings.
If you don't have enough biomass/core power, you need to get more before you can get the alternate endings.