Games like The Echoes of Mars
If The Echoes of Mars is your kind of game, the closest matches are CHAOTIC ERA, Nexus Defenders and Anomaly: Warzone Earth — picked from the ranked list below. 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 The Echoes of Mars: The Echoes of Mars is a voxel-style tower defence game. Defend your research base on Mars from ancient creatures by strategically placing towers and using advanced tech.
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CHAOTIC ERA
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Top pick for The Echoes of Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Echoes of Mars.
AT THE LIMITS OF EARTH, AT THE EXTREMITY OF HEAVEN. A REAL-TIME STRATEGY NIGHTMARE.
Nexus Defenders
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Second-strongest match for The Echoes of Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Echoes of Mars.
Tower Defense meets a Visual Novel narrative. Place an arsenal of towers to halt the invading enemy. Use special abilities such as napalm strikes, EMP blasts, and orbital lasers. A sci-fi space drama, filled with dialogue choices.
Anomaly: Warzone Earth
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Echoes of Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Echoes of Mars.
Lead an armored squad through the perils of this reversed tower defense action-strategy game!
Revenge of the Titans
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Ranked #4 for The Echoes of Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Echoes of Mars.
The ultimate mash-up of Real-time Strategy and Tower Defense!
CARNAGE OFFERING Tower Defense
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Ranked #5 for The Echoes of Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Echoes of Mars.
The replicator robots are back! It's 2528. The machines are increasingly infecting the planets with genetically modified monsters. Challenge them and try to stop the onslaught. Upgrade buildings and heroes, mine resources, discover technology and fight to save humanity!
DG2: Defense Grid 2
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Ranked #6 for The Echoes of Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Echoes of Mars.
Great strategy is timeless. Build, adapt, and defend across dynamic maps, solo or online - every session brings new strategies, new solutions, and new surprises. Now is the perfect time to enter the grid.
Infested Planet
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Ranked #7 for The Echoes of Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Echoes of Mars.
Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.
Super Sanctum TD
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Ranked #8 for The Echoes of Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Echoes of Mars.
Super Sanctum TD is a retro-styled Tower Defense game that focuses on strategy, customization and replayability. Build advanced mazes and construct powerful towers to prevent alien hordes from reaching the Core!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Echoes of Mars at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~75% under The Echoes of Mars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Echoes of 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?
The Test
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Priced ~50% under The Echoes of Mars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Echoes of Mars.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~63% under The Echoes of Mars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Echoes of Mars.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Echoes of Mars on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Echoes of 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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~50% under The Echoes of Mars on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Echoes of Mars.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Echoes of Mars on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Echoes of 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 ~75% under The Echoes of Mars on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Echoes of 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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Echoes of Mars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Echoes of Mars.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Echoes of Mars.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Echoes of Mars.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Echoes of Mars.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Echoes of 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.
The Lab
WHY THIS
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!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Echoes of Mars.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
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Frequently asked about The Echoes of Mars
- How much does The Echoes of Mars cost?
- The Echoes of Mars is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Echoes of Mars?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Echoes of Mars are CHAOTIC ERA, Nexus Defenders, Anomaly: Warzone Earth.
- Who developed The Echoes of Mars?
- The Echoes of Mars was developed by Georgii Antipin.
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