Single-player games like Take On Mars
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Take On Mars, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Occupy Mars: The Game
Single-player alternative to Take On Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Take On Mars.
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
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Mars Horizon
Single-player alternative to Take On Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Take On Mars.
Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.
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Kerbal Space Program
Single-player alternative to Take On Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Take On Mars.
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.
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Rover Mechanic Simulator
Single-player alternative to Take On Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Take On Mars.
As an Engineer - crew member of one of the first Mars colonies - you are responsible for repairing and maintaining Mars Rovers. In this advanced simulator you will learn the internal details of various Mars Rovers and their components.
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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to Take On Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Take On 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.
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Stationeers
Single-player alternative to Take On Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Take On Mars.
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
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Rocket Science
Single-player alternative to Take On Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Take On Mars.
Take part in a space program. Design spacecrafts and send them off to explore the vast expanses of space. Experience the real scale of the Solar system and the size of its celestial bodies.
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Archean
Single-player alternative to Take On Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Take On Mars.
Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.
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Space Engineers
Single-player alternative to Take On Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Take On Mars.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
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Arma 3
Single-player alternative to Take On Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Take On Mars.
Experience true combat gameplay in a massive military sandbox. Deploy with a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content, a massive arsenal of modern weapons and vehicles, and limitless opportunities for content creation. Authentic, diverse, open - Arma 3 sends you to war.
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Arma Reforger
Single-player alternative to Take On Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Take On Mars.
Engage in massive combined arms battles, create and curate combat missions in real time, and shape your experience with endless community mods. Deploy into the Cold War and experience the most authentic and immersive military sandbox ever created.
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Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead
Single-player alternative to Take On Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Take On Mars.
Three years after the conflict in Chernarus, portrayed in the original Arma 2, a new flashpoint explodes in the Green Sea Region. Coalition forces led by the US Army are deployed to Takistan to quickly restore peace and prevent further civilian casualties.
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Ylands
Single-player alternative to Take On Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!
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ARMA: Cold War Assault
Single-player alternative to Take On Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Take On Mars.
Bohemia Interactive's debut game published by Codemasters as Operation Flashpoint in 2001, became genre-defining combat military simulation and the No. 1 bestselling PC game around the world and has won many international awards, including “Game of The Year” and “Best Action Game”. Over 2 million copies have been sold since its release.
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Arma 2
Single-player alternative to Take On Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Take On Mars.
Building on 10 years of constant engine development, ARMA II boasts the most realistic combat environment in the world. It models real world ballistics & round deflection, materials penetration, features a realtime day/night cycle and dynamic wind, weather and environmental effects.