Games like Terraformers
If Terraformers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tharsis, Mars Horizon and Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its community tips enhance replayability, challenging and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Terraformers is a turn-based strategy game released in 2023 by Asteroid Lab, where players work to transform Mars into a habitable planet across long, challenging sessions. The gameplay combines resource management with procedural elements, tasking players with leader selection, priority management, and balancing random events while allocating resources toward scenario-based progression. Reviewers highlight that leaders add meaningful narrative depth to the experience. Players describe each run feeling fresh due to new combinations of elements, and community-shared tips enhance replayability. Achievements provide long-term goals beyond individual sessions. The game costs $19.99 and runs verified on Steam Deck, earning a 90% positive rating from over 1,700 Steam reviews alongside a Metacritic score of 80.
About Terraformers: 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!
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Steam players who put hours into Terraformers also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Tharsis
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Top pick for Terraformers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Terraformers.
Succeeding in Tharsis requires you to make the best of what you have, even if it happens to be a pair of snake eyes. Certain factors may be outside of your control, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be overcome. Tharsis is not a game about facing the odds. It’s a game about changing them.
Mars Horizon
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Terraformers.
Second-strongest match for Terraformers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Terraformers.
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.
Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Terraformers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Terraformers.
Lead your space agency in The Search for Life in this authentic strategy simulation game. Investigate the solar system and collect evidence of life. Manage base building, rocket designing, launches, and mission planning to Mars and beyond, leading the way in the future of space exploration.
Terraforming Mars
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Terraformers.
Ranked #4 for Terraformers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Terraformers.
The taming of the Red Planet has begun! Corporations are competing to transform Mars into a habitable planet by spending vast resources and using innovative technology to raise temperature, create a breathable atmosphere, and make oceans of water.
Planetiles
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Terraformers.
Ranked #5 for Terraformers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Terraformers.
Dive into Planetiles, where strategy and creativity converge. Build and transform barren planets into flourishing worlds. Outwit natural disasters, develop vibrant habitats, and navigate complex challenges. Embrace a boardgame-like depth with thoughtful planning and strategic decision-making.
Solar Settlers
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Shares a contemplative mood with Terraformers.
Ranked #6 for Terraformers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Terraformers.
Solar Settlers is a card-driven space exploration strategy game set in the far future. Our sun is on the verge of collapse and so mankind has taken to the stars aboard colony ships to seek out a new home.
Deep Sky Derelicts
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Shares a contemplative mood with Terraformers.
Ranked #7 for Terraformers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Terraformers.
Deep Sky Derelicts is an original combination of turn-based strategy and RPG, enriched with tactical card combat and popular roguelike elements. Explore derelict alien ships, fight, loot and upgrade your gear, all in distinctive retro-futuristic comic book aesthetic style.
Tainted Grail: Conquest
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Ranked #8 for Terraformers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A unique, infinitely replayable, story-driven hybrid between a deck-building Roguelike and an RPG game. Explore the ever-changing maps, fight with deadly enemies, and learn what happened to the cursed island of Avalon.
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Terraforming Mars
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Terraformers.
Reviewers of Terraformers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Terraformers.
The taming of the Red Planet has begun! Corporations are competing to transform Mars into a habitable planet by spending vast resources and using innovative technology to raise temperature, create a breathable atmosphere, and make oceans of water.
Slipways
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Terraformers.
Reviewers of Terraformers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Terraformers.
Weave isolated planets into a vast trade empire. Hatch plans. Research game-breaking technologies. Still be done in time for lunch. Enjoy the endless possibilities of a space grand strategy game in 60 minutes flat.
Terra Nil
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Terraformers.
Reviewers of Terraformers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Terraformers.
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.
Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
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Shares an epic mood with Terraformers.
Reviewers of Terraformers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Terraformers.
Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award winning Civilization series. As part of an expedition sent to find a home beyond Earth, lead your people into a new frontier, explore and colonize an alien planet and create a new civilization in space.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Terraformers at current Steam store prices.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~63% under Terraformers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Terraformers.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Shares a challenging mood with Terraformers.
Priced ~69% under Terraformers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Terraformers.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
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Priced ~60% under Terraformers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Terraformers.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~75% under Terraformers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Terraformers.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
FTL: Faster Than Light
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Priced ~50% under Terraformers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Terraformers.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~75% under Terraformers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Terraformers.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~75% under Terraformers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Terraformers.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack
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Priced ~75% under Terraformers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Terraformers.
Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Tharsis
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Terraformers.
Succeeding in Tharsis requires you to make the best of what you have, even if it happens to be a pair of snake eyes. Certain factors may be outside of your control, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be overcome. Tharsis is not a game about facing the odds. It’s a game about changing them.
Terraforming Mars
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Terraformers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Terraformers.
The taming of the Red Planet has begun! Corporations are competing to transform Mars into a habitable planet by spending vast resources and using innovative technology to raise temperature, create a breathable atmosphere, and make oceans of water.
Planetiles
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Terraformers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Terraformers.
Dive into Planetiles, where strategy and creativity converge. Build and transform barren planets into flourishing worlds. Outwit natural disasters, develop vibrant habitats, and navigate complex challenges. Embrace a boardgame-like depth with thoughtful planning and strategic decision-making.
Tainted Grail: Conquest
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
A unique, infinitely replayable, story-driven hybrid between a deck-building Roguelike and an RPG game. Explore the ever-changing maps, fight with deadly enemies, and learn what happened to the cursed island of Avalon.
Frequently asked about Terraformers
- Is Terraformers verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Terraformers is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Terraformers cost?
- Terraformers is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Terraformers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Terraformers are Tharsis, Mars Horizon, Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life.
- Who developed Terraformers?
- Terraformers was developed by Asteroid Lab and published by Goblinz Publishing, IndieArk.
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