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Games like Mars Tactics

If Mars Tactics is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mewgenics, Pathbreakers: Roaming Blades and Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden — 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.

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About Mars Tactics: The Red Planet is at war. Lead either Capital’s corporate army or Labor’s worker revolutionaries and wage war across a vast strategic map, then assume direct control in turn-based tactical battles featuring artillery, vehicles, and fully-destructible environments.

2026StrategySimulationRPGWindowsby Takibi Games
Mars Tactics — Steam game cover

Players who liked Mars Tactics also play

Steam players who put hours into Mars Tactics 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. Mewgenics

    WHY THIS

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

    Build the ultimate cat army through tactical breeding and send them into deep, challenging turn-based adventures. Draft abilities, collect items, and manipulate genetics across generations in this roguelike tactics game from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Pathbreakers: Roaming Blades

    WHY THIS

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

    Pathbreakers: Roaming Blades is a turn-based tactical RPG where you lead a company of mercenaries in a medieval fantasy world. Try your hand at mercenary work, trading, or exploring, and keep your crew well stocked for brutal combat in a procedurally-generated open-world campaign.

    2026StrategyAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  3. Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

    WHY THIS

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

    A tactical game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with story, exploration, stealth, and strategy. Take control of a team of Mutants navigating a post-human Earth. Created by a team including former HITMAN leads and the designer of PAYDAY.

    2018StrategyRPG34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. XCOM® 2

    WHY THIS

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

    XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.

    2016Strategy2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Into the Breach

    WHY THIS

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

    Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Battle Brothers

    WHY THIS

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

    Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.

    2017StrategySimulationRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Hard West

    WHY THIS

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

    When a tragic turn of events sets one man down a path of supernatural chaos and revenge, he must brutally hunt down all those who wronged him. Fight and survive through 8 unique story-based scenarios, and try your hand at 40 individually designed turn-based combat missions

    2015StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Gears Tactics

    WHY THIS

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

    Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters.

    2020Strategy29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Awaria

    WHY THIS

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

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

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

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

    WHY THIS

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

    Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.

    2021IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Saihate Station

    WHY THIS

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

    An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.

    2025IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Hello Neighbor Alpha 2

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.

    2019StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  8. of the Devil

    WHY THIS

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

    Immerse yourself in neon, smoke, and high-stakes legal gambles as a Defense Attorney with uniquely Killer insights in this episodic, diabolically stylish visual novel adventure game.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Mars Tactics

What games are most similar to Mars Tactics?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mars Tactics are Mewgenics, Pathbreakers: Roaming Blades, Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
Who developed Mars Tactics?
Mars Tactics was developed by Takibi Games and published by Hooded Horse.

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 Tactics.

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