Games Like Surviving Mars: Relaunched

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?

Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Space 13.1%, Resource Management 7.8%, Base Building 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game masterfully combines city-building with space survival as you manage a massive space station while navigating the dangers of the void.

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.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31% ★, City Builder 23.5%, Space 11.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Strategy 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic colony-sim that focuses on the core challenge of keeping a small group of settlers alive on isolated, inhospitable planets.

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 20.6% ★, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, City Builder 13.3%, Moddable 11.7% ★, Base Building 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the grand scale of planetary terraforming, allowing you to transform the entire surface of Mars into a habitable world.

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 23.7% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Space 9.2%, Base Building 8.6%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a detailed, grid-based approach to building and managing a space-faring colony ship with a focus on crew needs and survival.

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.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39% ★, City Builder 29.2%, Base Building 7.7%, Strategy 7.4%, Space 6%

Why You'll Like It: Set on an alien world, this game mirrors the Martian colonization experience by requiring you to manage oxygen, power, and atmospheric hazards.

「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.

Why similar: Mars 23.6% ★, Colony Sim 19% ★, Base Building 8.5%, Building 8%, Space 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated Mars-themed simulation that focuses heavily on the logistical challenges of building a self-sustaining colony on the Red Planet.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3% ★, Moddable 15.1% ★, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony-sims, offering deep emergent storytelling and complex survival mechanics that test your management skills.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 30.1%, Colony Sim 26.8% ★, Resource Management 11%, Strategy 7.2%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game pushes the survival city-builder genre to its limits by forcing you to make brutal moral choices to keep your society alive in a frozen wasteland.

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 21.5% ★, Colony Sim 19.9% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 7.4%, Building 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the tactical aspects of building and expanding a space base while managing limited resources in a harsh environment.

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: City Builder 29.1%, Colony Sim 27.3% ★, Strategy 9.5%, Base Building 8.5%, Simulation 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Sharing the 'Surviving' series DNA, this game applies similar survival and city-building mechanics to a post-apocalyptic Earth setting.

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 24.9% ★, Colony Sim 18.8% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Space 8.1%, Base Building 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A unique, turn-based city-builder set on Mars that emphasizes strategic placement and terraforming to make the planet habitable.

Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.

Why similar: Mars 29% ★, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Space 9.5%, Base Building 8.6%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title leans into the technical and survival aspects of Mars colonization, including detailed crafting and base-building mechanics.

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 22.1% ★, City Builder 19%, Base Building 9%, Economy 8.9%, Resource Management 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder where managing the atmosphere and life-support systems is the primary challenge for your growing population.

Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.

Why similar: City Builder 60.6%, Strategy 20.9%, Resource Management 16.4%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: While it focuses on ecological restoration rather than colonization, it shares the satisfying 'reclaiming the land' loop found in terraforming games.

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Building 8.7%, Base Building 7.9%, Realistic 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that emphasizes the struggle to rebuild society after a global catastrophe.

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Economy 11%, Building 8.2%, Base Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic city-builder requires you to manage resources and population health while dealing with unpredictable environmental disasters.

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Space 18.1%, Base Building 15.5%, City Builder 15.3%, Building 12.2%, Resource Management 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an incredible sense of scale and resource management as you build an industrial empire across multiple star systems.

Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.

Why similar: City Builder 32.3%, Economy 11.8%, Building 11.4%, Moddable 10% ★, Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: While less focused on survival, it remains the premier choice for players who enjoy deep, large-scale city planning and management.

In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.

Why similar: City Builder 36.5%, Economy 13%, Strategy 10.2%, Space 9.4%, Simulation 7%

Why You'll Like It: It brings the classic Anno city-building formula to the future, including moon colonization and complex supply chain management.

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 30.4% ★, City Builder 29.4%, Building 10.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that introduces unique water management mechanics, forcing you to adapt your colony to survive recurring droughts.

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Moddable 10.4% ★, Economy 10.3%, Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the most complex and realistic resource management and logistics simulation in the city-builder genre.

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3% ★, City Builder 22.8%, Economy 10.9%, Building 8.2%, Base Building 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game applies the colony-sim and city-builder formula to an underwater environment, requiring you to manage pressure and aquatic resources.

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Economy 12.5%, Building 7.6%, Resource Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A unique city-builder that challenges you to manage multiple small colonies on cliff tops while balancing trade and survival resources.

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8% ★, City Builder 19%, Immersive Sim 9.2%, Economy 9%, Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It introduces verticality and avalanche management to the city-builder genre, requiring careful planning to survive in mountainous terrain.

Sol 0 is a real time strategy game where you establish the first Martian colony. From the first human footprints on Martian soil to a thriving and self-sustaining colony, Sol 0 imagines a near future using technology that could be available within the next few decades.

Why similar: Mars 43.5% ★, Space 17.1%, Base Building 14%, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A focused simulation that emphasizes the early stages of establishing a Martian base with realistic technology constraints.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Moddable 12.5% ★, Economy 9.6%, Base Building 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite city-builder that forces you to adapt to constantly changing environmental conditions and resource scarcity.

Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Immersive Sim 9.9%, Economy 9%, Building 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A modern city-builder that focuses on the intersection of complex economic management and large-scale urban development.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Base Building 22.2%, Resource Management 17.1%, City Builder 12.8%, Moddable 12.7% ★, Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate test of automation and resource management, essential for any player who enjoys the logistical depth of colony builders.

Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Mars 12.1% ★, Moddable 8.2% ★, Economy 8%

Space Colony: Steam Edition is a remaster of the real-time base builder and strategy game from Firefly Studios, creators of the Stronghold series. In Space Colony you colonize to survive, designing intergalactic bases that keep your crew productive, happy and defended against hostile alien threats.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Immersive Sim 9.9%, Economy 9.2%, Base Building 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic title that blends colony management with life-sim elements as you keep your crew happy and productive in space.

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, City Builder 24.8%, Building 10.3%, Management 8.2%, Economy 7.7%

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5% ★, City Builder 24%, Building 10.1%, Space 8.7%, Management 7.4%

Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Economy 12.4%, Space 8.2%, Resource Management 7.8%

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

Why similar: City Builder 21%, Colony Sim 17.7% ★, Economy 13.3%, Space 9.8%, Building 8.7%

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Moddable 12.3% ★, Economy 9%, Base Building 7.1%

Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! 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: Colony Sim 31.6% ★, City Builder 25.2%, Simulation 12.9%, Strategy 12.1%, Space 6.5%

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 45.9% ★, Space 14.7%, Resource Management 11%, Management 10.9%, Simulation 9.4%

In Memoriapolis, you're not just building a city, you're shaping a living, evolving civilization. Travel through five major eras, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Leave your mark on history by navigating the power struggles between rival factions.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7% ★, City Builder 22.6%, Immersive Sim 10%, Building 8.4%, Base Building 7.4%

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Moddable 12.3% ★, Economy 9.9%, Base Building 7.5%

Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!

Why similar: City Builder 20.6%, Colony Sim 13.4% ★, Moddable 11.7% ★, Immersive Sim 7.9%, Economy 7.5%

Build your way to success! Trade your way to the top! Explore your way to infamy! Do it all your way!

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8% ★, City Builder 13.1%, Moddable 12.3% ★, Space 9.7%, Base Building 7.7%

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Moddable 9.7% ★, Economy 8.2%, Building 5.8%

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Space 11.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 8.4%

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 24.6% ★, Colony Sim 17.7% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Economy 6.9%, Base Building 6.7%

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5% ★, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 8.9%, Management 8.5%

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 37.1% ★, Space 12.2%, Management 9.7%, Building 9%, Immersive Sim 8.9%

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7% ★, Base Building 21%, Strategy 10%, Simulation 9.9%, Management 9.8%

Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, Moddable 14.3% ★, Space 11%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 8.2%

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Resource Management 7.6%, Building 7.6%, Base Building 6.6%

The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Moddable 12.3% ★, Economy 10.1%, Base Building 7.6%

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 27.3% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Economy 9.9%, Building 7.7%, Base Building 6.8%

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Colony Sim 15.5% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Economy 13.7%, Resource Management 13.3%, City Builder 12.6%

A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

Why similar: City Builder 29.3%, Colony Sim 23.8% ★, Economy 8.8%, Base Building 8.7%, Management 7.4%

Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Moddable 10.6% ★, Base Building 7.5%, Economy 7.4%

Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Economy 11.1%, Building 8.9%, Base Building 8.3%

The time has finally come when we can enjoy a new stage in human development!

Why similar: Mars 30.5% ★, Colony Sim 20.8% ★, Strategy 13%, City Builder 11%, Simulation 10.6%

Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.

Why similar: Mars 29.9% ★, Colony Sim 26.2% ★, Resource Management 9.7%, Base Building 9.1%, Management 7.6%

Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.

Why similar: City Builder 21.8%, Moddable 13.2% ★, Economy 12.4%, Space 11.2%, Building 9.1%

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 29.2% ★, Colony Sim 21% ★, Space 10.3%, Immersive Sim 10.1%, Base Building 8.1%