Games like Ares Inception
If Ares Inception is your kind of game, the closest matches are Surviving Mars, ExoColony: Planet Survival and Outer Space Shack — 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 Ares Inception: You are the eyes and ears of mission control for the ambitious exploration of Mars. Built under the advisement of real astronauts, engineers & planetary scientists, you will choose your mission, design your hab, and manage your crew. Monitor feeds, issue orders, and react when things go sideways.
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Surviving Mars
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Top pick for Ares Inception fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ares Inception.
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
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Second-strongest match for Ares Inception fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ares Inception.
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.
Outer Space Shack
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Third-strongest match for Ares Inception fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ares Inception.
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.
Worlds Explorers
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Ranked #4 for Ares Inception fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ares Inception.
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Surviving Mars: Relaunched
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Ranked #5 for Ares Inception fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ares Inception.
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.
Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
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Ranked #6 for Ares Inception fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ares Inception.
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.
Mars Horizon
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Ranked #7 for Ares Inception fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ares Inception.
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.
Space Haven
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Ranked #8 for Ares Inception fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ares Inception.
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.
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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!
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Ares Inception.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Ares Inception.
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!
93, Kuindzhi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Ares Inception.
『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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Ares Inception.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Ares Inception.
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!
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- What games are most similar to Ares Inception?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ares Inception are Surviving Mars, ExoColony: Planet Survival, Outer Space Shack.
- Who developed Ares Inception?
- Ares Inception was developed by Spacehabs Studios Inc..
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