What is this?
It's 2035 and Earth is running out of water, energy and food. The ARES PROGRAM is sending ordinary people to build the first city on Mars, and every follower is a colonist.
How to join
Follow us on TikTok, Instagram or YouTube. That's it. You're assigned a seat on the ship that's boarding when you follow, and you get a home once your ship lands.
How decisions are made
Every big decision (where to build, the city's name, laws, crises) is voted in the comments of our videos on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. We count the votes from all three networks together, one vote per person.
For open questions (like naming the city), the proposals with the most likes across all three networks go to a final vote.
Controls
- Phone: drag with one finger to move around · two fingers to rotate and zoom · tap a module to see who lives there · drag the bar at the top of this panel to open or close it.
- Computer: W A S D or arrow keys to move · Q / E to rotate · R / F to zoom in and out · left-drag to move · right-drag to rotate · mouse wheel to zoom.
Ships
Ships leave in waves. The first class, ARK, carries 5,000 colonists. If a ship launches full, the next one is upgraded to a bigger, faster class: TITAN (25,000), then LEVIATHAN (100,000).
How the registry is updated
- Instagram & TikTok: we import our follower list (username and follow date) from each platform's official data export. That's who you'll find in Find me.
- YouTube: every subscriber counts toward the colony's population and every comment counts as a vote. YouTube keeps subscriber names private, so they don't appear in Find me.
- Population numbers update every few hours. New colonists usually show up in Find me within a day.
Privacy
- There's no public list of colonists. You can only find a colonist by searching their exact username.
- Colonist profiles (role, age, hometown, story) are fictional and part of the game.
- Don't want to appear? Send us a DM with REMOVE and we'll take your username out at the next update.
Followers to Mars is a community story game. The ARES PROGRAM is fictional and not affiliated with any space agency.
