60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Base Building, Simulation, Survival.
Welcome to the Red Planet! Mars Colonization Survival Simulator offers you the opportunity to take on the role of the first pioneers of Mars. You will find yourself in extreme conditions with limited resources and your mission is to build, develop, sustain and explore the mysterious Martian terrain.
Outer Space Shack
Build and manage space outposts on the Moon and Mars in this realistic simulation game. From the first step on the Moon to Mars colonization, launch rockets, take care of your astronauts and expand your base as you explore the cosmos. No grind, just pure management and exploration fun.
ARUS-1
ARUS-1 combines first-person survival with building a Mars colony. Play solo or in online co-op with up to 4 players. Explore on foot and by rover, secure power, water and oxygen, connect production facilities and research technologies for your orbital programme.
Build and manage space outposts on the Moon and Mars in this realistic simulation game. From the first step on the Moon to Mars colonization, launch rockets, take care of your astronauts and expand your base as you explore the cosmos. No grind, just pure management and exploration fun.
Why similar: Mars 25.9% ★, Colony Sim 20.4%, Space 9%, Base Building 8.1%, Immersive Sim 7.8%
ARUS-1 combines first-person survival with building a Mars colony. Play solo or in online co-op with up to 4 players. Explore on foot and by rover, secure power, water and oxygen, connect production facilities and research technologies for your orbital programme.
Why similar: Mars 26.7% ★, Colony Sim 26.3%, Sandbox 12.7%, Exploration 8%, Space 6.8%
Build humanity’s first home on Mars. Mine resources in first person, construct life-sustaining domes, grow lush vegetation, and launch rockets to reconnect with Earth in this immersive colony-building simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6%, Mars 18.7% ★, Immersive Sim 16.1%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.1%
Build a living colony on Mars. Manage oxygen, power and food, care for your colonists, trade with five alien species, and uncover buried ruins with scanners and mining rovers. Defend your settlement and research a future beyond survival.
Why similar: Mars 32.9% ★, Colony Sim 28.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 7.8%, Survival 7.5%
The spirit of the space race lives on in this Mars based colony sim. Mine, craft and research in order to build up your initial lander into a self sustaining colony. Keep oxygen levels high and CO₂ levels low. Discover and grow a variety of plants to balance out colonist nutrition.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, Mars 23.5% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Building 8.7%, Survival 8.4%
Embark on a Colony in Space. Build a base to ensure your colonists survive. Explore, mine resources, craft items, and thrive in a realistic atmospheric and electrical simulation. Watch out for potential dangers before it’s too late!
Why similar: Mars 25.5% ★, Colony Sim 21%, Sandbox 9.3%, Space 9.1%, Base Building 8.3%
The Red Planet is vast, desolate, and utterly indifferent to your survival. Surviving Mars: Pioneer is the first made-for-VR entry in the Surviving Mars universe, challenging you to carve out an existence in one of the most hostile environments imaginable.
Why similar: Mars 27.9% ★, Colony Sim 20.4%, Immersive Sim 11.2%, Space 9.3%, Base Building 8.1%
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.6%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 9.9%, Crafting 8.6%
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.
Why similar: Mars 28.8% ★, Colony Sim 24.3%, Immersive Sim 11.2%, Building 8.4%, Space 8.3%
687 Days on Mars is a survival game where you are stranded alone on Mars - your task is to manage resources, build a base from scratch, grow food, and explore the red planet in search of supplies and other hidden challenges. Every breath and decision counts - can you survive on the Red Planet?
Why similar: Mars 30.6% ★, Colony Sim 17.9%, Immersive Sim 10%, Base Building 9.2%, Sandbox 9.1%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 10.8%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 7.8%
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, Building 15%, Crafting 12.4%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.1%
You're the intelligent electronics of a Mars mission. Four capable crew members. You are not one of them. Your job: keep them alive and happy, they're the only ones who can succeed. Built under the advice of real astronauts, engineers & planetary scientists, the big decisions are yours to make.
Why similar: Mars 33.9% ★, Colony Sim 29.2%, Space 10.8%, Exploration 7.7%, Survival 7.6%
Manage your parcel, build, collect and expend. Research to unlock new possibility. Explore to increase profitability. Dive under the surface to discover secrets. Is this planet hiding treasures or threats?
Why similar: Mars 40.6% ★, Colony Sim 23.1%, Base Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.7%, Building 8%
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, Sandbox 12.4%, Building 11.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.5%
In the distant Milky Way galaxy, there hides a mysterious planet named Mozi Planet. This planet has a vast and boundless ocean, and every drop of seawater is shining with a mysterious light, as if telling the ancient interstellar secrets.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, 3D Platformer 12%, Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 10.2%
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, Mars 17.8% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Base Building 10%, Survival 7.9%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Mars 21.6% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10%, Survival 9.8%
Come face to face with the dangers that await your crew on a distant planet with extreme temperature conditions. Gather resources, explore, defend against aggressive flora and fauna, develop technologies to survive and leave the planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 13.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Space 9.6%
A grounded open-world survival crafting game where you're stranded alone on Mars. Explore the red planet, extract resources, build a pressurized base, manage oxygen, power, and food, and construct the rocket that's your only way home.
Why similar: Mars 31.9% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Base Building 10.1%, Space 8.5%, Immersive Sim 8.3%
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
Why similar: Immersive Sim 16.8%, Sandbox 14.1%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Space 9.3%
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, Sandbox 12.4%, Survival 9.8%, Building 8.4%, Base Building 7.8%
A survival management simulator on the red planet. Make sure your astronauts survive on Mars. Manage and expand your habitat. Produce enough resources, build facilities, explore the environment and brave the harsh weather until you are rescued.
Why similar: Mars 32.3% ★, Colony Sim 24%, Crafting 10.2%, Immersive Sim 9.1%, Base Building 8.6%
Build systems, sustain life, and transform a barren moon into a living world. In this 2D survival-crafting RPG, preparation and infrastructure matter more than reflexes... because when the winter eclipse comes, only what you’ve built will keep you alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 13.6%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 9.4%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.4%, Building 13.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 10.8%, Survival 10.3%
First-person colony simulation where strategy meets survival in a demanding, medieval wilderness. Construct gridless settlements, establish production chains, and manage the needs, desires, and work morale of your villagers to ensure their survival through the harsh realities of nature and disease.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Immersive Sim 10.2%, Sandbox 9.3%
Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.
Why similar: Mars 27.5% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 9.9%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 8.7%
Explore this life sim on a new planet. Create your new home on the rugged surface of Mars during the early days of colonization inside the safety of your new Dome. Everyday life on a new planet has new challenges and more difficulties of surviving out on the Domestead.
Why similar: Mars 28.4% ★, Colony Sim 27.5%, Space 12%, Base Building 7.7%, Immersive Sim 7.2%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Space 12.1%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 8.9%
Launch from a familiar world into a 1:1 scale solar system of beautiful, unforgiving planets. Colonise, mine, and explore real places that people may walk upon within your lifetime. Project Longshot hands you a space program and asks only one question. How far can your program go?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, Immersive Sim 11.5%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 10.5%, Space 10.5%
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 28.1% ★, Colony Sim 26.5%, Building 10.5%, Base Building 10.2%, Space 7.9%
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.9%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 10.1%, Crafting 6.4%
Explore space and build on other worlds in Star Rangers! Star Rangers is a space exploration and construction game that allows players to build habitats and spacecraft, acquire gear and explore the solar system.
Why similar: Mars 33.5% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 12.5%, Space 10.1%, Crafting 9.6%
Build and manage a thriving mountain colony. Mine, craft, defend your people, and delve deep as you seek the riches buried below. But beware: the mountain is as abundant in threats as it is in resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6%, Building 18.3%, Sandbox 15.2%, Crafting 14.4%, Base Building 6.5%
Welcome to Cutthroat Cove. Get ready to pillage and plunder, or be prepared to walk the plank. In this open world pirate thriller you can craft, engage in combat with the nasty locals, and follow clues to unlock the secrets of the Old World.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, Immersive Sim 14.2%, Sandbox 12.3%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 8.6%
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Mars 30.1% ★, Colony Sim 26.8%, Sandbox 12%, Building 10.4%, Space 9.7%
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.
Why similar: Mars 31.3% ★, Colony Sim 24.6%, Sandbox 10.3%, Base Building 8.9%, Space 7.9%
TimbrianGuard is a voxel-based sandbox colony management sim. Lead colonists to a new home, guide their survival, expand your colony's influence, establish outposts, and attract new settlers as your community grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 8.8%
Play as a fennec fox in a survival adventure on an island packed with food! Keep your belly full as you explore the island, build defensive structures, and fend off relentless attacks from monsters of the deep.
Why similar: Building 17.9%, Crafting 16.8%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 14.4%, Survival 12.8%
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, Sandbox 12.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 12%, Crafting 9.1%
A survival platformer where you, a young warrior monk from the tribe of the mouse people, must ensure the prosperity of your home village and its inhabitants. Explore the forest, collect resources, fight monsters and uncover the secrets of the ancient civilization that came before.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8%, 3D Platformer 16.6%, Sandbox 14.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Exploration 7.3%
Outpost Surge is a society survival game on Mars, where players balance resource management, city growth, and settler health to turn a barren landscape into a thriving, vibrant city.
Why similar: Mars 39.4% ★, Colony Sim 17.7%, Base Building 10.2%, Space 9.1%, Survival 8.1%
A simulator where you catch wild gnomes and turn them into slaves to build a grand statue.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, Building 14.5%, Immersive Sim 13.3%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 10.7%
Build, launch, and survive. Design your own rover and automated robot workforce to conquer the harsh Martian climate, fulfill Mission Control directives, and uncover the secrets of the red planet in Heng Mar Mission.
Why similar: Mars 31% ★, Building 16%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Exploration 9.8%
Nyric is a third-person survivalcraft where your words shape the world. Type a phrase—“A storm-haunted wasteland”—and step into a procedurally generated realm built from your imagination. Survive harsh climates and strange hazards using Faebots— AI companions with unique powers tied to their moods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, Building 13.1%, Sandbox 12.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.9%
Take On Mars places you right in the middle of mankind’s most exciting undertaking. Start out in the seat of a rover operator, finish as the first human to have ever set foot on the Red Planet.
Why similar: Mars 44.2% ★, Space 15%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 8.6%, Exploration 7.7%
Stranded in a world that never stops growing. Gather, craft, build and survive in an infinite procedurally generated wilderness where no two worlds are ever the same.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.7%, Building 19.6%, Crafting 17.7%, Exploration 13.1%, Base Building 11.4%
A retro-future sandbox RPG set in a frontier era galaxy with procedurally-generated elements. Create, explore, trade, and battle to stake your claim among the stars of a wild galaxy!
Why similar: Immersive Sim 14.5%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 12.6%, Crafting 11.6%, Base Building 10.1%
Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 14.4%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 12.5%
A sci-fi turn-based strategy, station building game where you need to manage resources and protect the station and human inside from the danger of space, and your own action.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Immersive Sim 14.8%, Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.6%, Space 9.7%
Design, build, and manage a college campus. Become an architect of a prestigious university that only accepts the most elite students, or a community college that allows for normal everyday folks to pursue an education regardless of their academic background. What will you build, Architect?
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.1%, Sandbox 19.4%, Building 16.6%, Base Building 10.4%, Simulation 7.3%
SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 11.8%
You are deployed to the desolate red planet to reforge humanity's hope. With no hospitable atmosphere, no nurturing water sources, only relentless storms, unknown alien creatures, you must use wit and determination to survive on this alien land and build a Mars base of your own.
Why similar: Mars 35.4% ★, Colony Sim 20.3%, Building 12%, Space 10.5%, Immersive Sim 10%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.8%, Survival 10.3%, Space 9.5%, Base Building 9.4%, Sandbox 7.1%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 11.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Space 10.8%
Build an automated factory on a true-scale Mars streamed from real NASA terrain. Mine, smelt and belt resources, run trains between outposts, master chemistry, and grow from a lone lander into a planet-spanning industry while the real Martian weather does its worst.
Why similar: Mars 36.4% ★, Sandbox 10.6%, Base Building 10.4%, Space 10.2%, Crafting 9.2%
SCAVENGERS OF MARS is an exploration-survival adventure set on the cold, desolate surface of Mars. Guide a Mars Rover to aid survivors of a catastrophic disaster as they await rescue from Earth. Explore, gather resources, craft and ensure their survival against the planet's harsh conditions.
Why similar: Mars 33.7% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Building 9.3%, Immersive Sim 8.8%, Survival 7.6%
A sci-fi survival colony sim. Mine ore, craft equipment, and build a base. Recruit and provide for humans, robots, and aliens to grow your colony. Raise oxygen, heat, and pressure in order to turn a dead planet into a living one. Defend against enemy attacks and keep the base running.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Base Building 9.4%, Exploration 8.3%
