Games like Mars Attracts
If Mars Attracts is your kind of game, the closest matches are Icetwine, Fata Deum - The God Sim and Whiskerwood — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, comedic and dark. 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 Attracts: Mars Attracts is a park management sim set in the iconic universe of Mars Attacks™. Play as the devious Martians as you construct detailed enclosures, manage staff, and most importantly - abduct and experiment on humans for the entertainment of your Martian guests!
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Icetwine
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Top pick for Mars Attracts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mars Attracts.
Icetwine is an ice-age city builder where you combine raw materials to craft tools, weapons, machines, and structures. Build cozy huts, thriving farms, and tame dodos and mammoths. Defend your village from enemies and strike back to help your people survive and thrive.
Fata Deum - The God Sim
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Mars Attracts.
Second-strongest match for Mars Attracts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mars Attracts.
Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.
Whiskerwood
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Shares tech tree progression, base building and an atmospheric mood with Mars Attracts.
Third-strongest match for Mars Attracts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mars Attracts.
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Surviving Mars
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Ranked #4 for Mars Attracts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mars Attracts.
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.
Ground of Aces
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Shares base building, upgrade system, management and an atmospheric mood with Mars Attracts.
Ranked #5 for Mars Attracts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mars Attracts.
Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!
Nova Roma
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Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Mars Attracts.
Ranked #6 for Mars Attracts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mars Attracts.
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
STARIO: Haven Tower
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Shares upgrade system, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Mars Attracts.
Ranked #7 for Mars Attracts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mars Attracts.
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
Space Haven
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Shares resource management with Mars Attracts.
Ranked #8 for Mars Attracts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mars Attracts.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
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The Last Hospital
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Reviewers of Mars Attracts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Mars Attracts.
Every decision made influences humanity's fate, with USMLE level medical questions woven into patient care, revealing the mysteries of a dying world.
Planet Coaster
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Shares park management and a whimsical mood with Mars Attracts.
Reviewers of Mars Attracts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Mars Attracts.
Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.
Two Point Hospital
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Shares staff management and a comedic mood with Mars Attracts.
Reviewers of Mars Attracts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Mars Attracts.
Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.
Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection
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Reviewers of Mars Attracts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Mars Attracts.
The wildly popular Zoo Tycoon series gets set to crank up the excitement, challenge, and fun of building the ultimate zoo. Let your imagination run wild with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection. Build, manage, and maintain your dream zoo alone or with up to four players.
RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic
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Shares park management and a nostalgic mood with Mars Attracts.
Reviewers of Mars Attracts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mars Attracts.
Create incredible parks in the original rollercoaster sim from Chris Sawyer.
Planet Zoo
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Reviewers of Mars Attracts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mars Attracts.
Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.
Two Point Museum
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Shares staff management and a whimsical mood with Mars Attracts.
Reviewers of Mars Attracts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mars Attracts.
Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits
Dungeon Keeper™ 2
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Shares economy management, base building, retro and a comedic mood with Mars Attracts.
Reviewers of Mars Attracts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Mars Attracts.
Bad guys have all the fun. Discover your dark side as you build an evil underground kingdom and defend it against the forces of good.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mars Attracts at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~80% under Mars Attracts on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Mars Attracts.
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
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Priced ~60% under Mars Attracts on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Mars Attracts.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~60% under Mars Attracts on Steam right now. Shares Action with Mars Attracts.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~44% under Mars Attracts on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mars Attracts.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
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Priced ~60% under Mars Attracts on Steam right now. Shares Action and Simulation with Mars Attracts.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~60% under Mars Attracts on Steam right now. Shares Action with Mars Attracts.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Mars Attracts.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Mars Attracts.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Mars Attracts.
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.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with Mars Attracts.
『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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Mars Attracts.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Mars Attracts.
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!
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Frequently asked about Mars Attracts
- Does Mars Attracts run on Steam Deck?
- Mars Attracts 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 Attracts cost?
- Mars Attracts is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Mars Attracts?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mars Attracts are Icetwine, Fata Deum - The God Sim, Whiskerwood.
- Who developed Mars Attracts?
- Mars Attracts was developed by Outlier.
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