Games like Mars Base
If Mars Base is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Farmer's Story of Slow Life, Hero Planter and STORY OF SEASONS: Pioneers of Olive Town — 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 Mars Base: Welcome to Mars Base, humanity’s foothold on the Red Planet! Join the expedition as an interstellar botanist and make history: turn barren soil into fertile farmland, grow food for colonists’ tables, and unearth the secrets of Mars! Are you ready to science the “crop” out of everything?
Players who liked Mars Base also play
Steam players who put hours into Mars Base 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.
The Farmer's Story of Slow Life
WHY THIS
Top pick for Mars Base fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Mars Base.
The sisters inherited the ranch and the mountains from their father's estate. But the island is no longer vibrant. You set out to rebuild the ranch and the town. When you have gathered enough assets, you can visit remote islands far away. You will surely find unknown items waiting for you.
Hero Planter
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Mars Base fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Mars Base.
Hero Planter is a new game experience in the farm simulation genre. Forget about that quiet corner in the back yard! In the dark dungeons, alone with cunning pests you will have to make every effort to grow crops and stay alive. One hero, one life, 100 unpredictable floors!
STORY OF SEASONS: Pioneers of Olive Town
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Mars Base fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Mars Base.
Welcome to Olive Town, a peaceful community established by your trailblazing grandfather and his friends. Now that you've taken over his farm, it's your job to carry on his legacy. Plant crops, raise animals, build relationships, and get to know the residents of your new home!
Homestead Arcana
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Mars Base fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Mars Base.
Become a farming Witch and pioneer the range that has been mysteriously corrupted with Miasma. Discover the secret behind its appearance, grow plants to power up your spells, and use nature’s magic to heal the land.
SunnySide
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Mars Base fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Mars Base.
Find harmony in the Japanese countryside as you help Sparky uncover lost memories in this modern take on the farming and life simulator. Build a thriving homestead, cultivate new relationships, and chase your own happiness in SunnySide.
Ooblets
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Mars Base fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Mars Base.
Ooblets is a relaxing and offbeat farming, town life, and creature collection game. Manage your farm, grow and train your ooblets, explore strange lands, and have dance-offs!
Disney Dreamlight Valley
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Mars Base fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Mars Base.
Explore a world filled with the magic of Disney as you discover rich stories and build the perfect neighborhood alongside Disney and Pixar heroes and villains in this new life-sim adventure game. Welcome to Disney Dreamlight Valley.
Dragon Song Tavern: Cozy & Adventurous
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Mars Base fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Mars Base.
Ready to run a tavern with a Dragon companion? On this charming island, you can live out your tavern-keeping dreams. Along the way, you'll meet all kinds of guests, Encounter unicorns, battle Giant Elementals, and embrace adventures! Begin your journey as the Dragon Song calls!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mars Base at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Mars Base on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Mars Base.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Mars Base on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Mars Base.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Mars Base on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Mars Base.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Mars Base on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Mars Base.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Mars Base on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Mars Base.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Mars Base on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Mars Base.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Mars Base.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Mars Base.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Mars Base.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Mars Base.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Mars Base.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Mars Base.
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.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about Mars Base
- Does Mars Base run on Steam Deck?
- Mars Base 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 Mars Base cost?
- Mars Base is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Mars Base?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mars Base are The Farmer's Story of Slow Life, Hero Planter, STORY OF SEASONS: Pioneers of Olive Town.
- Who developed Mars Base?
- Mars Base was developed by Khuong Le and published by indie.io.
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 Mars Base.
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