Games like Surviving Mars: Relaunched
If Surviving Mars: Relaunched is your kind of game, the closest matches are Surviving Mars, Cloudlings and Corsair Cove — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and immersive. 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 →Haemimont Games' 2025 release, published by Paradox Interactive, remasters its science-fiction city builder, bundling previous content and adding dynamic weather, better dome customization, and improved graphics. The colony-management loop covers base-building, resource management, tech-tree progression, dynamic planetary systems, and survival management on Mars. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, immersive, and relaxing, and several highlight the customizable dome districts, the buried pipes and power lines that cut clutter, and the weather that forces constant adaptation. It holds a 52% positive rating across 1,274 Steam reviews, is rated Playable on Steam Deck, and costs 39.99 USD. The massive, sit-down structure suits players who want a deep, long-haul colony sim with hundreds of hours of meaningful progression on the Red Planet.
About Surviving Mars: Relaunched: The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.
Players who liked Surviving Mars: Relaunched also play
Steam players who put hours into Surviving Mars: Relaunched 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
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
Top pick for Surviving Mars: Relaunched fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
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.
Cloudlings
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Surviving Mars: Relaunched fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
Cloudlings is a cute colony sim set amongst the clouds. Guide a small tribe of curious creatures as they build a floating village, merge drifting islands, manage resources, unlock upgrades, and uncover the mysteries hiding beyond the clouds.
Corsair Cove
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Surviving Mars: Relaunched fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
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!
Pioneers of Pagonia
WHY THIS
Shares city building and a relaxing mood with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
Ranked #4 for Surviving Mars: Relaunched fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Captain of Industry
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
Ranked #5 for Surviving Mars: Relaunched fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Solargene
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
Ranked #6 for Surviving Mars: Relaunched fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions
Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
WHY THIS
Shares city building, base building, building and an atmospheric mood with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
Ranked #7 for Surviving Mars: Relaunched fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
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.
Whiskerwood
WHY THIS
Shares city building, tech tree progression, simulation and an atmospheric mood with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
Ranked #8 for Surviving Mars: Relaunched fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Surviving Mars: Relaunched at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Surviving Mars: Relaunched on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Surviving Mars: Relaunched on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Surviving Mars: Relaunched on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
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.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Surviving Mars: Relaunched on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Surviving Mars: Relaunched on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Surviving Mars: Relaunched on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Euro Truck Simulator 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Surviving Mars: Relaunched on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Surviving Mars: Relaunched on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
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.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
『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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
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!
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
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!
Lily's Well
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
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.
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More from Haemimont Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Haemimont Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
Another title from Haemimont Games, the studio behind Surviving Mars: Relaunched. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
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.
Jagged Alliance 3
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
Another title from Haemimont Games, the studio behind Surviving Mars: Relaunched. Shares Strategy with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.
Tropico 5
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
Another title from Haemimont Games, the studio behind Surviving Mars: Relaunched. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.
Stranded: Alien Dawn
WHY THIS
Shares resource scarcity and an atmospheric mood with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
Another title from Haemimont Games, the studio behind Surviving Mars: Relaunched. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Tropico 4
WHY THIS
Another title from Haemimont Games, the studio behind Surviving Mars: Relaunched. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.
Victor Vran ARPG
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
Another title from Haemimont Games, the studio behind Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
Victor Vran is the isometric action-RPG where your skill is just as essential as your character build and gear. Experience intense combat action: dodge, jump and unleash powerful skills to finish off your enemies!
Omerta - City of Gangsters
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
Another title from Haemimont Games, the studio behind Surviving Mars: Relaunched. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
Omerta - City of Gangsters is a simulation game with tactical turn-based combat. Taking the role of a fresh-from-the-boat immigrant, with dreams of the big life, the player will work his way up the criminal hierarchy of 1920’s Atlantic City.
Tropico 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
Another title from Haemimont Games, the studio behind Surviving Mars: Relaunched. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
Become the dictator of a remote island during the Cold War. Charm, persuade, intimidate, oppress, or cheat your people to stay in power! Are you a kind and generous leader? A corrupt and ruthless tyrant ruling with an iron fist?
Frequently asked about Surviving Mars: Relaunched
- Does Surviving Mars: Relaunched run on Steam Deck?
- Surviving Mars: Relaunched 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 Surviving Mars: Relaunched cost?
- Surviving Mars: Relaunched is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Surviving Mars: Relaunched?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Surviving Mars: Relaunched are Surviving Mars, Cloudlings, Corsair Cove.
- Who developed Surviving Mars: Relaunched?
- Surviving Mars: Relaunched was developed by Haemimont Games and published by Paradox Interactive.
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 Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
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