Games like Surviving Mars: Pioneer
If Surviving Mars: Pioneer is your kind of game, the closest matches are Belt Colony, Outer Space Shack and Surviving Mars — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its addictive base building loop, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Surviving Mars: Pioneer: The Red Planet is vast, desolate, and utterly indifferent to your survival. Surviving Mars: Pioneer is the first made-for-VR entry in the Surviving Mars universe, challenging you to carve out an existence in one of the most hostile environments imaginable.
Players who liked Surviving Mars: Pioneer also play
Steam players who put hours into Surviving Mars: Pioneer 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.
Belt Colony
WHY THIS
Top pick for Surviving Mars: Pioneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
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.
Outer Space Shack
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Surviving Mars: Pioneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Build and manage space outposts on the Moon and Mars in this realistic simulation game. From the first step on the Moon to Mars colonization, launch rockets, take care of your astronauts and expand your base as you explore the cosmos. No grind, just pure management and exploration fun.
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Third-strongest match for Surviving Mars: Pioneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
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.
ExoColony: Planet Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Ranked #4 for Surviving Mars: Pioneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Challenging space-colony sim. Guide generations of colonists, raise and educate them, manage resources, and ensure food supply. Maintain a breathable atmosphere, tackle pollution, and refine materials to build essential structures. Terraform planet and build ecosystem to make it your new home.
Utopia Colony
WHY THIS
Shares resource gathering, base building and a relaxing mood with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Ranked #5 for Surviving Mars: Pioneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
The year is 2033. You, an ex-Marine with little opportunities left, have signed up with Utopia Arura, a large mining corporation on Mars. They have sent you to a location they have proposed but you have chosen for mining. Everything else is up to you.
Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
WHY THIS
Shares base building, resource management, sci fi and an atmospheric mood with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Ranked #6 for Surviving Mars: Pioneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
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.
Star Shelter
WHY THIS
Shares crafting stations, base building and an atmospheric mood with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Ranked #7 for Surviving Mars: Pioneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR. You are stranded in space, you must climb around in Zero-G, explore, scavenge, craft, hack and fight to survive. You have to build, arm and upgrade your own space station in order to escape the cosmic graveyard.
Occupy Mars: The Game
WHY THIS
Shares base building, resource management and an immersive mood with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Ranked #8 for Surviving Mars: Pioneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Surviving Mars: Pioneer
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Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Reviewers of Surviving Mars: Pioneer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
The Planet Crafter
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Surviving Mars: Pioneer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
DMD Mars Mission
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Surviving Mars: Pioneer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
The Martian mining facility FK16 has been invaded by insects and mutated creatures and now the system reports that all human workers have been killed. It's up to you and your assistant Isabel to save the situation.
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Reviewers of Surviving Mars: Pioneer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Wall
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Surviving Mars: Pioneer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
A short narrative adventure about friendship, loneliness, and staring at surfaces for meaning. Join your personal upright companion through an exploration into what it means to be Human, and what it means to be Wall.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares crafting, inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Reviewers of Surviving Mars: Pioneer cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Explore Cyrodiil like never before with stunning new visuals and refined gameplay in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion™ Remastered.
Genotype
WHY THIS
Shares crafting stations, hidden collectibles, sci fi and an atmospheric mood with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Reviewers of Surviving Mars: Pioneer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Your weapons are alive! Print creatures and use them as weapons and tools as you explore this Metroidvania FPS adventure. Morph yourself tiny, upgrade, and locate collectibles to advance to the next boss. Explore large non-linear maps and explore an environment woven together with a complex story.
Oblivion
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Surviving Mars: Pioneer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Oblivion is a short, story-driven first-person horror game. Uncover the truth hidden within an abandoned school — but beware, some memories were never meant to return.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Surviving Mars: Pioneer at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Surviving Mars: Pioneer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Surviving Mars: Pioneer on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Surviving Mars: Pioneer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Surviving Mars: Pioneer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
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.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Surviving Mars: Pioneer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Surviving Mars: Pioneer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Surviving Mars: Pioneer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and Casual with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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More from Bolverk Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Bolverk Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Kittypocalypse
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an immersive mood with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Another title from Bolverk Games, the studio behind Surviving Mars: Pioneer. Shares Action and Casual with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Kittypocalypse is an in-depth, strategic tower defense game built exclusively for VR. Across a diverse range of environments, defeat the hordes of evil alien kitties and salvage what's left of your home planet
Glyph☀️
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Another title from Bolverk Games, the studio behind Surviving Mars: Pioneer. Shares Action and Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Glyph is a cute, physics-based adventure starring a mech-scarab and his trusted guide, Anobi, challenged with rebuilding an ancient civilization buried under the desert sand. Jump, double-jump, smash and glide through the air in this vertical platformer with amazing controls.
Kittypocalypse - Ungoggled
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Another title from Bolverk Games, the studio behind Surviving Mars: Pioneer. Shares Action and Casual with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Kittypocalypse is an in-depth, strategic tower defense game. Across a diverse range of environments, defeat the hordes of evil alien kitties and salvage what's left of your home planet.
Dick Wilde
WHY THIS
Another title from Bolverk Games, the studio behind Surviving Mars: Pioneer. Shares Action and Casual with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Those pesky swamp critters are at it again! Scarin’ off all the good folk who just want to go huntin’ and fishin’ on their lakes and lagoons! We’re talking piranhas, eels, ‘gators - you name it! There’s even been talk of a giant mutated Turtle on the loose!
Dick Wilde 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Bolverk Games, the studio behind Surviving Mars: Pioneer. Shares Action with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
A toxic outbreak has been unleashed, mutating the local wildlife! Pair up with your friends and take on the deadly ooze and its disgusting dwellers. Clear the swamplands with super-powered weapons - from physics-defying beam guns to homemade revolvers. Hold on tight, this ride’s about to get bumpy!
Frequently asked about Surviving Mars: Pioneer
- Does Surviving Mars: Pioneer work on Steam Deck?
- Surviving Mars: Pioneer is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Surviving Mars: Pioneer cost?
- Surviving Mars: Pioneer is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Surviving Mars: Pioneer?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Surviving Mars: Pioneer are Belt Colony, Outer Space Shack, Surviving Mars.
- Who developed Surviving Mars: Pioneer?
- Surviving Mars: Pioneer was developed by Bolverk Games and published by Impact Inked.
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