Games like Race To Mars
If Race To Mars is your kind of game, the closest matches are Space Company Simulator, Mars Horizon and Surviving Mars — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its bleak, stressful and early access development. 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 Race To Mars: Race To Mars is a turn-based, space company simulation game. Become the head of the newly established “New Space” company whose goal would be to establish a colony on Mars. You begin as a startup - develop cutting edge aerospace technologies and use them to achieve orbit and fly beyond Earth vicinity, blazing the trail of a space pioneer...
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Space Company Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Race To Mars.
Top pick for Race To Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Race To Mars.
Take the position of a CEO of a space transport company and become a new major player in the industry. Space Company Simulator is a realistic management sim game that will challenge your planning skills as you strive to launch the first manned mission to Mars.
Mars Horizon
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Race To Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Race To 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.
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Race To Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Race To 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.
Farlanders
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a stressful mood with Race To Mars.
Ranked #4 for Race To Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Race To Mars.
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Xenonauts
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Race To Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Race To Mars.
Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Race To Mars.
Ranked #6 for Race To Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Race To Mars.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling.
StarDrive 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Race To Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Race To Mars.
StarDrive 2 is an exciting and evolutionary step forward for the StarDrive franchise. In this eagerly anticipated sequel, the core mechanics have evolved to incorporate a turn-based strategic layer, featuring spectacular realtime battles.
The Last Federation
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Race To Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Race To Mars.
From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Race To Mars.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Race To Mars.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Clicker Heroes
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Race To Mars.
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Race To Mars.
Start your own Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria with Freddy Fazbear Pizzeria Simulator!
Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Race To Mars.
The epic story of evolution, technology, humanity, and dinosaurs is yours to tap.
Toribash
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Race To Mars.
Toribash is an innovative free-to-play online turn-based fighting game where you’re able to design your own moves. Complete control over character's body, hundreds of game mods and bloody mess with full body dismemberment - you've never been able to annihilate your enemies like that before!
Kingdom: Classic
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Race To Mars.
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Learn to Fly 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Race To Mars.
Build your spaceship from scratch, earn funds and invest them into building a bigger, better spaceship as you try and fly your way up to space!
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Farlanders
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a stressful mood with Race To Mars.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Race To Mars.
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Race To Mars.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Race To Mars.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling.
The Last Federation
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Race To Mars.
From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.
Frequently asked about Race To Mars
- What games are most similar to Race To Mars?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Race To Mars are Space Company Simulator, Mars Horizon, Surviving Mars.
- Who developed Race To Mars?
- Race To Mars was developed by INTERMARUM, ONE MORE LEVEL and published by ONE MORE LEVEL.
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 Race To Mars.
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