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Games like Reshaping Mars

If Reshaping Mars is your kind of game, the closest matches are Surviving Mars, Advisors at the End of the Universe and Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, 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.

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About Reshaping Mars: 「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.

2023StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Tholus
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Androids eliminate most population needsDeep production chains feel rewardingMassive warehouse system via modsAtmosphericChallengingContemplative

Players who liked Reshaping Mars also play

Steam players who put hours into Reshaping Mars 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.

  1. Surviving Mars

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource allocation and a contemplative mood with Reshaping Mars.

    Top pick for Reshaping Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Reshaping Mars.

    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.

    2018StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  2. Advisors at the End of the Universe

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Reshaping Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Reshaping Mars.

    AEU is a fast paced realtime strategy and 4x hybrid. Players influence their empire to grow, fight, forge alliances or engage in trade. Players are given control over the empire's traits, research and a set of three types of abilities(Construction, Plagues and Agents) to accomplish their goals.

    2023StrategyIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Reshaping Mars.

    Third-strongest match for Reshaping Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Reshaping Mars.

    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.

    2024StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Farthest Frontier

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Reshaping Mars.

    Ranked #4 for Reshaping Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Reshaping Mars.

    Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Empires of the Undergrowth

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Reshaping Mars.

    Ranked #5 for Reshaping Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Reshaping Mars.

    Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

    2024StrategySimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Northgard: Definitive Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Reshaping Mars.

    Ranked #6 for Reshaping Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Reshaping Mars.

    Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!

    2018StrategyIndieAdventure34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Reshaping Mars.

    Ranked #7 for Reshaping Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Reshaping 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.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation4.79 USDSteam ↗
  8. Farlanders

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Reshaping Mars.

    Ranked #8 for Reshaping Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Reshaping Mars.

    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.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Reshaping Mars

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Surviving Mars

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource allocation and a contemplative mood with Reshaping Mars.

    Reviewers of Reshaping Mars cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Reshaping Mars.

    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.

    2018StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  2. SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Reshaping Mars.

    Reviewers of Reshaping Mars cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Reshaping Mars.

    SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.

    2010StrategySimulation3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. RimWorld

    WHY THIS

    Shares mod support and a challenging mood with Reshaping Mars.

    Reviewers of Reshaping Mars cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Reshaping 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.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Factorio

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Reshaping Mars.

    Reviewers of Reshaping Mars cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Reshaping Mars.

    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.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation35.00 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Reshaping Mars at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Reshaping Mars on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Reshaping Mars.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Reshaping Mars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Reshaping Mars.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Reshaping Mars on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Reshaping Mars.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Reshaping Mars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Reshaping Mars.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Reshaping Mars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Reshaping Mars.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Reshaping Mars on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Reshaping Mars.

    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.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Reshaping Mars on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Reshaping Mars.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Reshaping Mars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Reshaping Mars.

    Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Reshaping Mars.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Reshaping Mars.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Reshaping Mars.

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Reshaping Mars.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  6. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Reshaping Mars.

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Control, I'm Not Coming Back

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Reshaping Mars.

    Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. Outpath: First Journey

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Reshaping Mars.

    Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

    2022IndieAdventureCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Tholus

Other recommendable Steam games by Tholus, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. MECHIEVAL

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Tholus, the studio behind Reshaping Mars.

    The twilight of the plague-ravaged Middle Ages. Pilot a five-story-high mech, unleashing torrents of ammunition, dancing with magic, and hunting the demons spreading pestilence in this frenzied top-down shooter.

    ActionAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  2. Typing Break

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Tholus, the studio behind Reshaping Mars. Shares Indie with Reshaping Mars.

    If you can type, you can fire a gun.

    2026ActionIndie8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Rock Diver

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Tholus, the studio behind Reshaping Mars.

    Land, mine, fill your pack, and head back to your ship. Become a Rock Diver in this incremental adventure as you travel across alien worlds, extract valuable minerals, upgrade your gear, and greet the locals along the way.

    2026AdventureCasualSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Reshaping Mars

Does Reshaping Mars run on Steam Deck?
Reshaping Mars is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Reshaping Mars cost?
Reshaping Mars is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Reshaping Mars?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Reshaping Mars are Surviving Mars, Advisors at the End of the Universe, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic.
Who developed Reshaping Mars?
Reshaping Mars was developed by Tholus and published by Yooreka Studio.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Reshaping Mars.

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