Games like Surviving Mars: Relaunched
by Haemimont Games
Surviving Mars and Planetbase play most like Surviving Mars: Relaunched. Of the 18 closest games below, most share its city builder and colony sim; 3 came out in the last year and 10 are free or under $10. The best known is Cities: Skylines II, with 65,457 Steam reviews.
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Closest matches
Surviving Mars
Mar 15, 2018 · Haemimont Games, Abstraction
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Space
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Colony SimCity BuilderStrategySpaceSurvivalBase BuildingMarsSimulationSci-fiResource Management👍 17,417Planetbase
Oct 15, 2015 · Madruga Works
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Space
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.
Colony SimCity BuilderBase BuildingSpaceStrategySurvivalSimulationResource ManagementSci-fiSingleplayer👍 9,568Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
Feb 22, 2025 · Tinymice Entertainment
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Mars
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.
City BuilderBase BuildingColony SimResource ManagementStrategySimulationBuildingSurvivalMarsSpace👍 745MEMORIAPOLIS
Apr 30, 2025 · 5PM Studio
Both: City Builder · Exploration · Colony Sim
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.
City BuilderExplorationColony SimPolitical SimStrategyBuildingImmersive SimManagementBase BuildingHistorical👍 1,754Settlement Survival
Oct 24, 2022 · Gleamer Studio
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Exploration
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.
City BuilderBuildingColony SimSurvivalManagementSimulationSandboxExplorationStrategyResource Management👍 7,712Highrise City
Sep 4, 2023 · Fourexo Entertainment
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Immersive Sim
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.
SimulationStrategyCity BuilderColony SimSandboxImmersive Sim3DCinematicColorfulBuilding👍 1,239IXION
Dec 7, 2022 · Bulwark Studios
Both: Space · City Builder · Colony Sim
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?
SpaceCity BuilderStrategySurvivalResource ManagementColony SimBase BuildingBuildingSimulationExploration👍 15,322Cities: Skylines II
Oct 24, 2023 · Iceflake Studios, Colossal Order
Both: City Builder · Realistic
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.
City BuilderSimulationBuildingSandboxManagementSingleplayerEconomyStrategyRealisticModdable👍 65,457Million on Mars: Space to Venture
Sep 21, 2021 · Million on Mars Inc.
Both: Mars · Colony Sim · City Builder
Million on Mars delivers the most realistic Mars city-building MMO experience. Granted 40 acres of real Martian terrain, shop for rovers, energy systems, & factories to begin production on Mars. Leverage your skills and rovers, prepare your settlement for the arrival of the initial 20 Martians.
Early AccessSimulationMassively MultiplayerStrategyMarsColony SimBase BuildingCity BuilderBuildingExplorationDawn of Man
Mar 1, 2019 · Madruga Works
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
City BuilderColony SimSurvivalStrategySimulationHistoricalSandboxSingleplayerOpen WorldEconomy👍 17,107New Cycle
Jan 18, 2024 · Core Engage
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Realistic
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.
City BuilderStrategySurvivalBuildingColony SimPost-apocalypticRealisticSimulationBase BuildingTop-Down👍 2,607The Spatials: Galactology
Apr 18, 2018 · Weird and Wry
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Exploration
The Spatials are back with Galactology! Design, build and protect your colony station from the many enemies you will make while exploring the galaxy and exploding their homeworlds.
City BuilderColony SimBase BuildingManagementSandboxExplorationBuildingSpaceSpace SimStrategy👍 232Solargene
Jan 19 · Alexander Semenov
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder
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
Colony SimBase BuildingCity BuilderSpace SimResource ManagementSandboxManagementBuildingEconomyStrategy👍 778Banished
Feb 18, 2014 · Shining Rock Software LLC
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
City BuilderColony SimStrategySimulationSurvivalIndieSingleplayerSandboxMedievalResource Management👍 37,903Colonize
Feb 4 · Rembrosoft
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Exploration
Build and manage a peaceful 17th-century colony. Gather resources, create production chains, trade with the Old World, and survive without combat or warfare.
StrategyCity BuilderRTSColony SimLife SimAction RTSExplorationChoose Your Own Adventure3DRealistic👍 193Space Haven
May 13 · Bugbyte Ltd.
Both: Colony Sim · Space · City Builder
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.
Colony SimBase BuildingSurvivalStrategySpaceManagementSandboxSimulationBuildingCity Builder👍 10,280Aven Colony
Jul 25, 2017 · Mothership Entertainment LLC
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Space
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.
Colony SimCity BuilderStrategySimulationSci-fiBase BuildingIndieSpaceSingleplayerSurvival👍 2,011Hexfactory
Aug 24, 2025 · Aquila Industrial
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Exploration
Build cities and factories in an infinite Hex World. Explore more tiles. Balance your city's production and consumption, attract more citizens of different classes, research new technologies and build more factories and cities.
SimulationCity BuilderColony SimSpace SimExploration3D Platformer3DAutomationBuildingSpace
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