Games like Hostile Mars
If Hostile Mars is your kind of game, the closest matches are Moose Builders, Railborn and Galaxy Scavengers — picked from the ranked list below. 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 →About Hostile Mars: Hostile Mars is a factory-building game focused on combat! Explore an open world and discover new tech to unlock powerful weapons and structures. Create efficient supply chains using delivery bots. Salvage destroyed enemies for resources. Design your base to withstand increasing waves of enemies!
Players who liked Hostile Mars also play
Steam players who put hours into Hostile 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.
Moose Builders
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Top pick for Hostile Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Hostile Mars.
Dig sand with a shovel and process into iron, silicon and more. Craft and merge better tools and machines to build solar panels to power them. Research new machines to automate everything in multi-story factories. Play alone or with friends to survive in the desert and turn it into a solar farm.
Railborn
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Second-strongest match for Hostile Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Hostile Mars.
Railborn is a survival game where you build your train piece by piece. Navigate a world entangled by branching tracks. Find rare plants to cultivate on your farms. Upgrade your train - manage its power systems, direct resource flow, and distribute water. Designed for 1 to 4 players.
Galaxy Scavengers
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Third-strongest match for Hostile Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Hostile Mars.
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.
Settletopia
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Ranked #4 for Hostile Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hostile Mars.
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Ecliptica
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Ranked #5 for Hostile Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hostile Mars.
Ecliptica is a first-person open-world colony survival simulator with a fully dynamic economy. Set on a hostile alien planet, you'll found corporations, fight for resources, and build a sustainable future—or be wiped out by ruthless nature, politics, and competition.
Beyond These Stars
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Ranked #6 for Hostile Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hostile Mars.
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Terra Taker
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Ranked #7 for Hostile Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Hostile Mars.
Terra Taker is an open-world survival crafting game where you build megastructures to terraform a fantasy planet. Gather resources, build automated bases, and transform floating islands, tornadoes, snowfields, lava zones, and lightning-scorched lands into a new paradise for humanity.
Autonomica
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Ranked #8 for Hostile Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Hostile Mars.
A survival automation game set in an alternate 1980s. Build supply chains where farming fuels chemistry and mining drives manufacturing. Rebuild a world fractured by failed time experiments - solo or co-op. Launch time-jump extractions into unstable futures for tech that shouldn't exist yet.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hostile Mars.
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Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
The Lab
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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!
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Hostile 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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Hostile 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!
Outpath: First Journey
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Hostile 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!
South Scrimshaw, Part One
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.
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Frequently asked about Hostile Mars
- Does Hostile Mars have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Hostile Mars supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Hostile Mars?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hostile Mars are Moose Builders, Railborn, Galaxy Scavengers.
- Who developed Hostile Mars?
- Hostile Mars was developed by Big Rook Games.
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 Hostile Mars.
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