Martian Gothic: Unification falls squarely into the increasingly popular "survival horror" genre, where players must guide characters through a creepy environment populated with zombies, ghosts, and other enemies that just won't die. The environment in this case is a spooky base on Mars where something has gone very wrong. The three characters sent to investigate the problem enter the base through separate airlocks, in accordance with the last order they received: "Stay alone, stay alive." The use of three characters is Martian Gothic 's hook. Since they can't get near one another, puzzles revolve around using one character to help the progress of their colleagues from afar. This is accomplished by using vacuum tubes to send items to distant locations, accessing computer systems that disable security in other areas, and radioing important information to the others. If one character dies the game ends, so you must shepherd each character through the various traps and monsters scattered throughout
