Single-player games like Wild Mars
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Wild 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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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to Wild Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Wild 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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Odyssée Stellaire
Single-player alternative to Wild Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wild Mars.
Board your ship and push the boundaries of space exploration in this contemplative space incremental. Gather resources, develop your technology, and travel from the Moon to the edge of the solar system to answer a mysterious signal from the stars.
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HAS Galactics
Single-player alternative to Wild Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wild Mars.
HAS Galactics is a top-down factory builder. Design your own rocket, automate your production lines, balance your reputation between the Galactic Factions and complete daring missions. Start from a humble beginning… to a thriving galactic mega-factory!
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Ares Inception
Single-player alternative to Wild Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Wild Mars.
You are the eyes and ears of mission control for the ambitious exploration of Mars. Built under the advisement of real astronauts, engineers & planetary scientists, you will choose your mission, design your hab, and manage your crew. Monitor feeds, issue orders, and react when things go sideways.
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Belt Colony
Single-player alternative to Wild Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wild Mars.
The year is 2040. You, an ex-sergeant, have signed a contract with a large mining corporation in the Belt. Mine ore, build out your outpost, travel to nearby asteroids and collaborate with other belters.
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Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
Single-player alternative to Wild Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wild Mars.
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
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ECHIDNA
Single-player alternative to Wild Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wild Mars.
A dead god drifts in the dark. Build a salvage fleet that carves it apart cell by cell, and watch a colossal carcass melt into a storm of flying debris and climbing numbers. Strip it to the bone then evolve and start again on something bigger.
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Return to Planet Zoveka
Single-player alternative to Wild Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wild Mars.
Return to Planet Zoveka is an incremental, physics-driven space-mining and resource-management game. Herd and merge cosmic dust, upgrade a family mining ship, build automation in space, and turn your growing operation into visible healing for a damaged homeworld.