Games like Desktop Mars
If Desktop Mars is your kind of game, the closest matches are Desktop Farm, nStations and Nova Patria — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, contemplative and cozy. 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 Desktop Mars: Colonize Mars on your wallpaper. A relaxing and interactive game that takes place in the background. It's perfect if you want to change your boring wallpaper.
Players who liked Desktop Mars also play
Steam players who put hours into Desktop 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.
Desktop Farm
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Desktop Mars.
Top pick for Desktop Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desktop Mars.
Relaxing game where you can build your farm on your desktop. Your farm will be your interactive live wallpaper. Perfect to play in the background doing other things.
Nova Patria
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Desktop Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desktop Mars.
Nova Patria is a Roman Steampunk Colony Sim. In this alternate history, the empire never fell and lived on to discover the New World and steam power. Manage intricate supply chains, expanding cities, and innovations in a hopeful, procedurally generated, isometric simulation of industrial antiquity.
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Desktop Mars.
Ranked #4 for Desktop Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desktop Mars.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Space Colony: Steam Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Desktop Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Desktop Mars.
Space Colony: Steam Edition is a remaster of the real-time base builder and strategy game from Firefly Studios, creators of the Stronghold series. In Space Colony you colonize to survive, designing intergalactic bases that keep your crew productive, happy and defended against hostile alien threats.
My Little Life
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Desktop Mars.
Ranked #6 for Desktop Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desktop Mars.
A relaxing life-sim that lives on the bottom of your screen while you do other things.
Dream Town Island
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Desktop Mars.
Ranked #7 for Desktop Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desktop Mars.
A town sim where you raise generations of residents. Unlock new stores and facilities, help your residents find love, or cash in on the stock market!
Forest Camp Story
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Desktop Mars.
Ranked #8 for Desktop Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desktop Mars.
Create and customize your own campground in this charming pixel art sim game.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Desktop Mars at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~49% under Desktop Mars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desktop 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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~49% under Desktop Mars on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Desktop Mars.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~49% under Desktop Mars on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Desktop Mars.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~49% under Desktop Mars on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desktop Mars.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~49% under Desktop Mars on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desktop Mars.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~49% under Desktop Mars on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Desktop Mars.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~49% under Desktop Mars on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with Desktop Mars.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desktop Mars.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desktop 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.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Desktop 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.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desktop 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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desktop 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!
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 Desktop 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.
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Desktop 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!
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Desktop Mars.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
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Other recommendable Steam games by 3dm_live_wallpapers, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Desktop Farm
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Desktop Mars.
Another title from 3dm_live_wallpapers, the studio behind Desktop Mars. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desktop Mars.
Relaxing game where you can build your farm on your desktop. Your farm will be your interactive live wallpaper. Perfect to play in the background doing other things.
MY FOX - Desktop Wild Pet
WHY THIS
Another title from 3dm_live_wallpapers, the studio behind Desktop Mars. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desktop Mars.
A relaxing game displayed as wallpaper. Adopt a little fox with whom you will explore the new wild world.
DESKTOP MONKEY
WHY THIS
Another title from 3dm_live_wallpapers, the studio behind Desktop Mars. Shares Casual with Desktop Mars.
A challenging game where you fight for the best places on Steam Leaderboards. A funny little Monkey living on your screen will prepare you for everything.
Desktop Farm Remastered
WHY THIS
Another title from 3dm_live_wallpapers, the studio behind Desktop Mars. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desktop Mars.
A remastered version of our bestseller DESKTOP FARM working as a normal game, it's not 3D live wallpaper. Build your farm in voxel style and make money to expand.
Frequently asked about Desktop Mars
- How much does Desktop Mars cost?
- Desktop Mars is listed on Steam at 1.94 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Desktop Mars?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Desktop Mars are Desktop Farm, nStations, Nova Patria.
- Who developed Desktop Mars?
- Desktop Mars was developed by 3dm_live_wallpapers.
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 Desktop Mars.
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