Games like Surviving Mars
by Haemimont Games, Abstraction
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.
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$14.99Planetbase
Oct 15 · Madruga Works
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Base Building
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👍 9,562
-60%$4.79Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
Feb 22 · Tinymice Entertainment
Both: City Builder · Base Building · Colony Sim
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👍 744
$34.99Solargene
Jan 19 · Alexander Semenov
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · 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👍 777
$24.99Oxygen Not Included
Jul 30 · Klei Entertainment
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Survival
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.
Colony SimBase BuildingSurvivalResource ManagementBuildingSingleplayerManagement2DSandboxSimulation👍 135,357
-90%$2.99Aven Colony
Jul 25 · Mothership Entertainment LLC
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Sci-fi
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👍 2,008
$34.99IXION
Dec 7 · Bulwark Studios
Both: Space · City Builder · Survival
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👍 15,288
$24.99Space Haven
May 13 · Bugbyte Ltd.
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Survival
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 BuildingSurvivalStrategySpaceManagementSandboxSimulationBuildingSci-fi👍 10,267
-75%$5.37Settlement Survival
Oct 24 · Gleamer Studio
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Survival
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👍 7,708
$19.99Banished
Feb 18 · Shining Rock Software LLC
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Survival
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👍 37,899
$14.99Farlanders
Jan 17 · Andrii Bychkovskyi
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Resource Management
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.
Turn-Based StrategyPixel GraphicsColony SimCity BuilderResource ManagementProcedural GenerationPuzzleStrategyBase BuildingSandbox👍 510
$24.95Colony Survival
Jun 16 · Pipliz
Both: Colony Sim · Survival · Base Building
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!
Colony SimSurvivalBase BuildingBuildingMultiplayerSandboxStrategyOpen WorldCity BuilderEarly Access👍 8,263
$14.99Oxygen
Apr 7 · Turquoise Revival Games
Both: City Builder · Base Building · Survival
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!
StrategyCity BuilderBase BuildingSimulationSurvivalResource ManagementColony SimSandbox3DRealistic👍 830
$21.99Founders' Fortune
Dec 18 · Dionic Software
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · City Builder
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Colony SimBase BuildingCity BuilderSimulationBuildingStrategySurvivalSandboxIndieManagement👍 1,862
$24.99The Colonists
Oct 24 · Codebyfire
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Survival
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
City BuilderColony SimAutomationBuildingEconomyManagementRobotsSurvivalBase BuildingSandbox👍 1,052
$19.99Surviving the Abyss
Nov 5 · Rocket Flair Studios
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Base Building
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.
City BuilderColony SimExplorationUnderwaterBuildingManagementBase BuildingSurvivalDifficultEconomy👍 1,045
$24.99Sapiens
Jul 26 · Majic Jungle
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Base Building
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Early AccessColony SimCity BuilderGod GameBase BuildingBuildingSurvivalCraftingManagementLife Sim👍 2,054
-35%$20.79The Crust
11 days ago · VEOM Studio
Both: Base Building · Space · Colony Sim
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.
Base BuildingSpaceAutomationColony SimResource ManagementSandboxStrategyCity BuilderBuildingManagement👍 3,556
-30%$8.39From Glory To Goo
Apr 2 · Stratagem Blue
Both: Base Building · Resource Management · Colony Sim
From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.
Base BuildingRTSTower DefenseReal-Time with PauseAction RTSResource ManagementColony SimCity BuilderStrategySandbox👍 1,796
$29.99New Cycle
Jan 18 · Core Engage
Both: City Builder · Survival · Colony Sim
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👍 2,602
-80%$2.79Seeds of Resilience
Jun 13 · Subtle Games
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Survival
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
City BuilderColony SimBuildingSurvivalSandboxBase BuildingManagementEconomyNatureStrategy👍 257
$29.99Surviving the Aftermath
Nov 16 · Iceflake Studios
Both: City Builder · Survival · Colony Sim
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.
StrategySimulationPost-apocalypticCity BuilderSurvivalColony SimBase BuildingBuildingSingleplayerManagement👍 3,145
$24.99Dawn of Man
Mar 1 · Madruga Works
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Survival
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👍 17,093
FreeFarlanders: Prologue
May 18 · Andrii Bychkovskyi
Both: Base Building · Colony Sim · Mars
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.
Base BuildingColony SimMarsStrategyProcedural GenerationTurn-Based StrategyBuildingCity BuilderPixel GraphicsSimulation
$12.99Buoyancy
Aug 30 · Devs on a Boat
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Base Building
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Colony SimStrategyIndieEarly AccessCity BuilderBase BuildingSurvivalPost-apocalypticResource ManagementOpen World👍 808
-20%$27.99RimWorld
Oct 17 · Ludeon Studios
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Survival
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.
Colony SimBase BuildingSurvivalStrategyManagementSandboxSingleplayerModdableSimulationSci-fi👍 208,795
$29.99Going Medieval
Mar 17 · Foxy Voxel
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Survival
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Colony SimBase BuildingStrategyVoxelSurvivalManagementCity BuilderSingleplayerSandboxNature👍 17,036
FreeOxygen: First Breath
Oct 7 · Turquoise Revival Games
Both: Base Building · City Builder · Survival
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. 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 keep the Oxygen Center running!
StrategyBase BuildingCity BuilderSimulationSurvivalResource ManagementColony SimBuildingEconomyManagement
-90%$1.99Floodland
Nov 15 · Vile Monarch
Both: Colony Sim · Survival · City Builder
A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?
StrategyPost-apocalypticColony SimSurvivalCity BuilderExplorationResource ManagementChoices MatterPolitical SimCrafting👍 922
$29.99Stardeus
Oct 12 · Kodo Linija
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Survival
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.
Early AccessExplorationColony SimBase BuildingSurvivalSpaceStrategySci-fiResource ManagementSingleplayer👍 1,431
$34.99Timberborn
Mar 12 · Mechanistry
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Base Building
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.
City BuilderColony SimVoxelSandboxAutomationBuildingNatureManagementBase BuildingSurvival👍 38,783
-65%$12.24Stranded: Alien Dawn
Apr 25 · Haemimont Games
Both: Base Building · Survival · Colony Sim
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.
Base BuildingSurvivalSimulationStrategyCraftingColony Sim3DCombatManagementHunting👍 9,720
$29.99The Universim
Jan 22 · Crytivo
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Survival
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.
City BuilderColony SimGod GameSandboxBuildingSurvivalManagementSpaceStrategySimulation👍 8,464
$19.99Odd Realm
Aug 16 · Unknown Origin Games Inc
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Resource Management
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Colony SimBase BuildingSimulationManagementResource ManagementStrategySandboxSurvivalProcedural GenerationBuilding👍 955
$17.99Cliff Empire
Aug 6 · Lion's Shade
Both: City Builder · Sci-fi · Colony Sim
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!
City BuilderStrategySimulationFuturisticSci-fiEconomySingleplayerColony SimResource ManagementManagement👍 4,195
$0.99Sol 0: Mars Colonization
Jan 15 · Chondrite Games
Both: Space · Base Building · Mars
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.
StrategySimulationIndieSpaceBase BuildingMarsSingleplayerSci-fiCity Builder👍 369
$24.99InfraSpace
Sep 22 · Dionic Software
Both: City Builder · Space · Resource Management
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.
City BuilderAutomationTransportationSpaceResource ManagementSandboxBuildingEconomyManagementSci-fi👍 1,638