Developer Tiger Style have followed up their batch of teasing screenshots with some gameplay footage from their upcoming iPhone side-scroller Lost Mars, which reveals some new and exciting tidbits of information about the game's action.

Your mission is to traverse a series of outer space caves using a handy jetpack, collect seeds, and use them to spread alien life throughout the game's many underground caverns.

You'll navigate the perilous caves using a simple one-touch control scheme that elevates the game's protagonist in the direction of your taps.

"One part METROID, one part 1970s-era sci-fi film, and one part ...gardening?!" finally makes a little sense.

Check out the footage (gleaned from TouchArcade) for yourself by having a beady at the video below.