Games Like Surviving Mars: Relaunched

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 30.9%, City Builder 23.9%, Space 11.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Strategy 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic space colony builder that mirrors the core survival and infrastructure challenges of establishing a remote base.

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 22.8%, Colony Sim 21.1%, Space 13.6%, Resource Management 7.1%, Base Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines city-building with high-stakes space survival and narrative-driven resource management in a mobile station.

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 21.3% ★, Colony Sim 16.5%, City Builder 13.6%, Moddable 11.8%, Space 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features planetary-scale terraforming and complex resource management on the surface of Mars.

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 32.2%, Moddable 15.3%, City Builder 12.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Management 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is the gold standard for colony-sims, offering deep character management and emergent storytelling in a hostile environment.

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 42.3%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 9.3%, Building 9.2%, Management 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It features complex space-based colony management with a heavy emphasis on physics, gas, and liquid resource loops.

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.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, City Builder 16.6%, Space 12.1%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on industrial automation and base-building on the Moon, capturing the technical feel of Martian colonization.

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 16.3%, Space 10.1%, Base Building 8.8%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides deep, modular ship and colony management with a focus on survival and individual crew needs.

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 14.3%, Mars 12.6% ★, Moddable 8.3%, Economy 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A space colony simulation that emphasizes realistic resource management and detailed base construction.

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 47.3% ★, Space 15.1%, Management 10.3%, Resource Management 9.9%, Simulation 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic game centered on the specific goal of making Mars habitable through exploration and technological development.

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 22.3% ★, Colony Sim 19.8%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 7.4%, Space 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated space colony builder that emphasizes base expansion and resource gathering in dangerous planetary environments.

Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.

Why similar: City Builder 46.1%, Resource Management 13.4%, Strategy 12%, Colony Sim 11%, Base Building 6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an intense, survival-focused city-building experience where every decision is critical to colony stability.

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 38.6%, City Builder 29.7%, Base Building 7.6%, Strategy 7.2%, Space 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi city builder that captures the feeling of establishing a new home on a hostile alien world.

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: City Builder 17.5%, Colony Sim 15.2%, Moddable 10.4%, Economy 9.1%, Diplomacy 8.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: Provides the deep, complex logistics and infrastructure management that fans of Surviving Mars often enjoy.

「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 24.4% ★, Colony Sim 18.9%, Base Building 8.4%, Building 8.1%, Space 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A colony simulation specifically focused on the logistical challenges of developing a Martian settlement.

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 23%, City Builder 18.3%, Economy 11.7%, Space 8.7%, Resource Management 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the economic and competitive side of colonizing Mars, emphasizing market manipulation and resource control.

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 26.2% ★, Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 15.4%, Space 7.1%, Base Building 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A Mars-themed city builder that emphasizes strategic tile placement and resource logistics.

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 27.4%, City Builder 21.5%, Economy 10.3%, Building 8.4%, Base Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city builder that forces players to manage resources in a harsh, post-apocalyptic 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 29.9%, Colony Sim 27.3%, Strategy 9.3%, Base Building 8.4%, Simulation 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the same survival-focused DNA, tasking players with managing a colony in a dangerous, changing world.

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 28.6%, City Builder 28.4%, Building 9.7%, Base Building 9.3%, Management 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A unique colony-sim that requires careful water and resource management to survive recurring environmental cycles.

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 22.3%, City Builder 20.1%, Building 8.9%, Base Building 7.9%, Realistic 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city builder that emphasizes long-term stability and infrastructure development after a global catastrophe.

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 36.2% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Building 9%, Resource Management 8.9%, Space 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a more granular, technical perspective on the survival and engineering challenges of Mars colonization.

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 27.2%, City Builder 26.8%, Building 10.9%, Management 8.3%, Base Building 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic colony-sim that emphasizes population management and adapting to environmental challenges.

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 30.4%, City Builder 24.6%, Building 10.2%, Space 9%, Management 7%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game style colony builder that lets you guide a civilization from the stone age to space exploration.

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 21.8%, Colony Sim 17.8%, Economy 12.4%, Space 10.3%, Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, non-violent colony builder focused on expanding a civilization across multiple planets.

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 18.9%, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 15.5%, Building 12.4%, Resource Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on large-scale industrial automation and space-faring logistics across multiple star systems.

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 37.8%, Economy 12.1%, Strategy 10%, Space 9.9%, Simulation 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A futuristic city builder that expands from Earth into space and moon colonization.

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 17.2%, City Builder 15.8%, Moddable 10.7%, Economy 8.6%, Diplomacy 8.5% ★

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 22.4%, City Builder 22.3%, Economy 11.6%, Building 7.8%, Management 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging city builder that requires managing resources across multiple isolated platforms in a post-apocalyptic world.

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 18.3%, City Builder 14.8%, Moddable 11.4%, Diplomacy 9.1% ★, Economy 8.4%

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 33.2%, Building 11.6%, Economy 11%, Moddable 10.3%, Management 8.2%

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 13.4%, Moddable 12.6%, Space 10.1%, Base Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A space station colony sim that emphasizes crew management and survival in the void.

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 22.2%, City Builder 17.8%, Immersive Sim 9.8%, Economy 8.5%, Space 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic title that blends base building with character-driven management in space.

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 22.1%, City Builder 19.8%, Immersive Sim 9.1%, Building 8.5%, Economy 8.4%

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 21.9%, City Builder 20%, Diplomacy 9.5% ★, Immersive Sim 8.9%, Economy 7.5%

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 22.2%, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 9.1%, Economy 8.3%, Building 7.6%

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 38.3% ★, Space 12.6%, Management 9.1%, Building 9%, Immersive Sim 8.6%

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 44.3% ★, Space 17.4%, Base Building 13.7%, Strategy 13.4%, Simulation 11.1%

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 31.3%, City Builder 25.7%, Simulation 12.7%, Strategy 11.8%, Space 6.7%

In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet. Build a multi-level vertical structure to produce and manage your resources and staff, in order to dominate the competition!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 13.9%, Economy 9.7%, Space 9.2%, Base Building 8.6%

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 17.8%, Moddable 13.8%, Colony Sim 13.2%, Immersive Sim 8.9%, Economy 7.5%

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 25.6% ★, Colony Sim 17.6%, City Builder 13.2%, Base Building 6.7%, Economy 6.4%

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 18.6%, City Builder 15.2%, Moddable 12.2%, Economy 8.6%, Building 7.1%

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 23.6%, Economy 10.2%, Building 8.4%, Base Building 7.5%

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 30.4%, Colony Sim 24%, Base Building 8.8%, Economy 8.2%, Management 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 26.3%, City Builder 22%, Moddable 9.9%, Economy 7.6%, Building 5.9%

Stake your claim in the first realistic lunar colony management game! Use proven, real-world technologies to plan and grow your colony, mine resources, ship them to Earth, and keep the board of directors happy in this science-based colony sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, City Builder 17.9%, Economy 8.4%, Space 7.1%, Building 6.8%

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 43.8%, Space 10.3%, Management 9.7%, Strategy 8.8%, Base Building 8.7%

Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8%, City Builder 16.7%, Moddable 9.5%, Economy 9.1%, Base Building 7.6%

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 34.3%, Base Building 21.4%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 9.7%, Management 9.3%

Explore the Solar System. Mine and drop asteroids. Colonize and terraform. Lead the space race and compete with other corporations on your way to profit. Watch the expansion of human race over the centuries.

Why similar: Space 24.6%, Realistic 15.1%, Management 13.3%, Simulation 10.8%, Resource Management 10.6%

You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.3%, City Builder 14.5%, Moddable 12%, Diplomacy 10% ★, Economy 8.4%

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 14.6%, Space 11.6%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 7.5%

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 19.2%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 9.1%, Space 8.7%

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 26.3%, City Builder 22.9%, Building 7.7%, Resource Management 7%, Base Building 6.7%

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 19.6%, City Builder 16.8%, Moddable 10.8%, Base Building 7.6%, Building 6.9%

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 31.2% ★, Colony Sim 26.4%, Base Building 8.9%, Resource Management 8.8%, Building 7.4%

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 17.4%, City Builder 14.5%, Moddable 11.9%, Diplomacy 9.8% ★, Economy 8.1%

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 22.6%, Moddable 13.4%, Space 11.8%, Economy 11.6%, Building 9.3%

Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 23.4%, Immersive Sim 9.8%, Building 8.6%, Base Building 7.4%