Games like MARS
If MARS is your kind of game, the closest matches are Surviving Mars, Here Comes The Swarm and Corsair Cove — 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 MARS: Survival is temporary. Legacy is forever. Rule the last colony on Mars in this RTS x Colony Sim. Build domes for colonists as they harvest crops to survive, and command Mech armies against endless Marsect swarms. With hostile enemies and climate threatening your expedition, every choice matters.
Players who liked MARS also play
Steam players who put hours into MARS also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Surviving Mars
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Top pick for MARS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 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.
Here Comes The Swarm
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Second-strongest match for MARS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with MARS.
Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?
Corsair Cove
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for MARS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with MARS.
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
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Ranked #4 for MARS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 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.
Gold Gold Adventure Gold
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Ranked #5 for MARS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with MARS.
In this world, it’s all about the gold! Use it to build up a fantasy town, recruit heroes, give quests, raise a Godbeast, cast powerful spells, and expand your influence—all one gold coin at a time.
Ground of Aces
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Ranked #6 for MARS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with MARS.
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!
After Long Night
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Ranked #7 for MARS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with MARS.
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
DarkSwitch
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Ranked #8 for MARS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with MARS.
DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with 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
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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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with MARS.
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!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with 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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with 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.
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More from Cyborg Dreams
Other recommendable Steam games by Cyborg Dreams, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Cyborg City
WHY THIS
Another title from Cyborg Dreams, the studio behind MARS.
Year 2225. Step into Cyborg City, a cyborg-apocalyptic world where Jax fights to survive from the Scrapyard up to Cyborg City. Using Bullet Time, Jetpack, and Upgrades to destroy enemies, he is avenging his family and saving the girl he loves in this third-person shooter.
The Phone Game
WHY THIS
Another title from Cyborg Dreams, the studio behind MARS. Shares Simulation with MARS.
The Phone Game is a chaotic physics game where you play an old phone, smash through playful levels, trigger chain reactions, use wild powerups, and launch revenge at Bobby who threw you away. Crazy combos, unlock APPs, collect cosmetics, and turn every world into a playground of chaotic destruction.
Puke and Seek
WHY THIS
Another title from Cyborg Dreams, the studio behind MARS.
You and your friends are playing HIDE-AND-SEEK after drinking WAY too much. Pukers can puke and turn anywhere into a hiding spot, while Cleaners powerwash the place trying to find you.
Frequently asked about MARS
- What games are most similar to MARS?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside MARS are Surviving Mars, Here Comes The Swarm, Corsair Cove.
- Who developed MARS?
- MARS was developed by Cyborg Dreams.
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 MARS.
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