Games like Sol 0: Mars Colonization
If Sol 0: Mars Colonization is your kind of game, the closest matches are Surviving Mars, Space Haven and Planetbase — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its building feels satisfyingly tactile, atmospheric and contemplative. 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 Sol 0: Mars Colonization: Sol 0 is a real time strategy game where you establish the first Martian colony. From the first human footprints on Martian soil to a thriving and self-sustaining colony, Sol 0 imagines a near future using technology that could be available within the next few decades.
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Steam players who put hours into Sol 0: Mars Colonization 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 contemplative mood with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Top pick for Sol 0: Mars Colonization fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
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.
Space Haven
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Second-strongest match for Sol 0: Mars Colonization fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Planetbase
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Third-strongest match for Sol 0: Mars Colonization fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Aven Colony
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Ranked #4 for Sol 0: Mars Colonization fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Spacebase DF-9
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Ranked #5 for Sol 0: Mars Colonization fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.
The Crust
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Ranked #6 for Sol 0: Mars Colonization fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Ranked #7 for Sol 0: Mars Colonization fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Mars Horizon
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Ranked #8 for Sol 0: Mars Colonization fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.
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Planetbase
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Reviewers of Sol 0: Mars Colonization cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Reviewers of Sol 0: Mars Colonization cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
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.
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Reviewers of Sol 0: Mars Colonization cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Outpost
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Reviewers of Sol 0: Mars Colonization cross-mention this title as a similar play.
this is a tower defence game,we need upgrade our weapons to fight waves of enemies,robots can mining diamonds,and we need spent those in many aspect，features of this game: 1 return back before dager comes,2tempory upgrade are important but permanent upgrade are better
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Sol 0: Mars Colonization at current Steam store prices.
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Sol 0: Mars Colonization on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Sol 0: Mars Colonization on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Sol 0: Mars Colonization on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Sol 0: Mars Colonization on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Shotgun Legend
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Sol 0: Mars Colonization on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Eugene must battle aliens and the undead in search of a truck rim, as it seems to be his ticket home.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
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.
Fallout Shelter
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
Clicker Heroes
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
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Frequently asked about Sol 0: Mars Colonization
- How much does Sol 0: Mars Colonization cost?
- Sol 0: Mars Colonization is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Sol 0: Mars Colonization?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sol 0: Mars Colonization are Surviving Mars, Space Haven, Planetbase.
- Who developed Sol 0: Mars Colonization?
- Sol 0: Mars Colonization was developed by Chondrite Games.
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