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Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

Reviews: Very Positive — 90% — of 598 reviews
Released: 2023-01-17
Developer: Andrii Bychkovskyi
Publisher: Crytivo
Genres: Indie, Strategy
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Median playtime: 2.1 hrs
Mean playtime: 7.6 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 60%

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    Dev: Asteroid LabPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Terraform Mars in this turn-based colony builder and resource management game with roguelike elements. Explore the planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and turn the Red Planet into a green one!

    Why similar: Mars 30.7% ★, Procedural Generation 11.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%, Resource Management 9.3%, Survival 8.8%

  2. #2 Space Haven
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    Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
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  3. #3 Per Aspera
    96% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,783 reviews2020
    Dev: Tlön IndustriesPub: Raw Fury
    Windows
    Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

    Why similar: Mars 21.2% ★, Colony Sim 15.3%, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 9%, Resource Management 7.1%

  4. #4 Farlanders: Prologue
    95% matchVery Positive93% of 289 reviews2021
    Dev: Andrii Bychkovskyi
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 57%

    Prepare for your journey to Mars by building and managing a colony within the safety of Earth’s atmosphere. Hone your abilities to create a thriving community, terraform the land to suit your needs, and prove your capability for a larger mission. Get ready to launch in this prologue to Farlanders.

    Why similar: Mars 21.9% ★, Colony Sim 14.1%, City Builder 10.6%, Base Building 8.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.2%

  5. #5 Planetbase
    94% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,466 reviews2015
    Dev: Madruga Works
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

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  6. #6 Plan B: Terraform
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    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%

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  7. #7 The Crust
    91% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,355 reviews2026
    Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.

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  8. #8 Aven Colony
    93% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,789 reviews2017
    Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

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  9. #9 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
    91% matchMixed70% of 834 reviews2025
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

    Why similar: Mars 21% ★, Colony Sim 17.4%, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 9.9%, Resource Management 7.9%

  10. #10 Surviving Mars: Relaunched
    90% matchMixed56% of 2,513 reviews2025
    Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 33.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.

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  11. #11 IXION
    89% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,853 reviews2022
    Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
    Windows
    Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 30.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

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  12. #12 Terraformers: First Steps on Mars
    89% matchVery Positive88% of 703 reviews2021
    Dev: Asteroid LabPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    Terraformers: First Steps on Mars is a free prologue of Terraformers, featuring an exclusive challenge to lead humanity's first attempt at settling the Red Planet.

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  13. #13 Citizens: Far Lands
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    Dev: RedKar DevsPub: CreativeForge Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%

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  14. #14 Lords and Villeins
    87% matchMostly Positive71% of 979 reviews2022
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    Windows
    Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 53%

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  15. #15 Citizens: On Mars - Prologue
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    Windows

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    Windows
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  23. #23 Surviving the Aftermath
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    Windows
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    Windows

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  32. #32 Flotsam
    74% matchVery Positive81% of 4,643 reviews2025
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    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%

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  33. #33 The Final Earth 2
    76% matchVery Positive97% of 437 reviews2022
    Dev: Florian van Strien
    Windows

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  34. #34 Settler's Domain
    75% matchMixed66% of 87 reviews2026
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    Windows

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  35. #35 Oxygen Not Included
    73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 144,026 reviews2019
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  36. #36 Scorchlands
    73% matchVery Positive89% of 140 reviews2024
    Dev: RinglabPub: Star Drifters
    Windows · Linux

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  37. #37 Terra Nil
    73% matchVery Positive87% of 8,852 reviews2023
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    72% matchVery Positive83% of 11,546 reviews2023
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    Windows
    Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%

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    75% matchMixed57% of 956 reviews2020
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    Median: 30 minMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 39%

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    76% matchMixed44% of 1,065 reviews2018
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    71% matchVery Positive89% of 3,544 reviews2023
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    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%

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    70% matchMixed62% of 91 reviews2026
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    69% matchVery Positive85% of 2,285 reviews2023
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  48. #48 ISLANDERS
    69% matchVery Positive94% of 16,788 reviews2019
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    Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%

    ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.

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  49. #49 Banished
    70% matchVery Positive90% of 43,352 reviews2014
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    67% matchVery Positive89% of 2,250 reviews2024
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    72% matchMixed69% of 410 reviews2016
    Dev: Chondrite Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%

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    66% matchVery Positive86% of 92 reviews2026
    Dev: XinZhiPub: Xinzhi
    Windows

    CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, Base Building 16.3%, Management 11.7%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 9.2%

  54. #54 Oxygen
    68% matchMostly Positive71% of 915 reviews2023
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 10.4%, Sandbox 9.3%

  55. #55 Mars Horizon
    68% matchVery Positive84% of 3,099 reviews2020
    Dev: Auroch Digital
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.

    Why similar: Mars 44% ★, Space 12.7%, Management 11.9%, Resource Management 9.9%, Turn-Based 8.2%

  56. #56 Timberborn
    62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 41,938 reviews2026
    Dev: Mechanistry
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 44.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 23.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 9.1%, Management 8%

  57. #57 Endzone - A World Apart
    67% matchMostly Positive77% of 10,043 reviews2021
    Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

    Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Colony Sim 14.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 12.4%, Strategy 6.4%

  58. #58 Land of the Vikings
    67% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,266 reviews2023
    Dev: Laps GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.3%, Survival 7.9%

  59. #59 Starmancer
    68% matchMixed62% of 1,053 reviews2021
    Dev: Ominux GamesPub: Chucklefish
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%

    From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, Sandbox 11.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Management 10.2%, Space 10%

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