Games like Bots to Mars
If Bots to Mars is your kind of game, the closest matches are Miner Vidis, Mars Inc 98 and Subject F-011 — 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 Bots to Mars: Idle empire parody: hire Optimax bots, launch rockets, and terraform whole solar systems. Multi-world campaign, hidden synergies, secret machine-world path, living 3D planets, and cozy-chaotic Cookie Clicker energy.
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Steam players who put hours into Bots to 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.
Miner Vidis
WHY THIS
Top pick for Bots to Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Bots to Mars.
Robot Miner Vidis. Return to Earth with a mysterious gemstone on Mars, where asteroids crashed. A classic color-based puzzle where simple rules, different strategies, and order matter.
Mars Inc 98
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Bots to Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Bots to Mars.
A retro Win98 styled incremental game about terraforming Mars. Manage power, build your systems, and clear the atmosphere to make the planet livable.
Subject F-011
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Bots to Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Bots to Mars.
Trapped in Area 51 on planet Earth, you must solve calculated puzzles to escape this strange planet. Puzzles consist of using enemies' mechanics to your advantage, moving objects to block enemies, and using items that alter parts of the rooms. A spiritual successor to Adventures of Lolo.
Idle Roboto
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Bots to Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Bots to Mars.
Build levels to collect scrap metal. Unlock more blocks with different purposes! New robots with different reactions to them!
Mrs.Cat In Mars
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Bots to Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Bots to Mars.
Help Mrs.Cat to complete a mission: Explore Mars and collect the energy gems.In this 2d precision platformer, you'll have to memorize and face the invisible and visible deadly objects, running, jumping and meowing!
Project Neon
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Bots to Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Bots to Mars.
Blast through enemy defenses in this intense 16-bit shoot ‘em up (or shmup), dismantling interplanetary shields to bring humanity’s last hope back from Mars and save Earth from ecological collapse.
Ash Battle
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Bots to Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Bots to Mars.
Ash Battle is a Sci-Fi minimalist survival game with a Bullet Hell style. Ash is on an unknown planet and has found many enemies who didn't like his visit. Prepare yourself and be ready for battle, because they come in huge numbers.
Planet Doctor
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Bots to Mars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Bots to Mars.
Meet a small planet on your desktop. Your everyday keystrokes and mouse clicks generate energy to heal desolate world. Work or study while watching your planet slowly come back to life.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Bots to Mars at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~77% under Bots to Mars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bots to Mars.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Bots to Mars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bots to Mars.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Bots to Mars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bots to Mars.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~77% under Bots to Mars on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Bots to Mars.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Bots to Mars on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Bots to Mars.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~77% under Bots to Mars on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Bots to Mars.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~77% under Bots to Mars on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Bots to Mars.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Bots to Mars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bots to Mars.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Bots to Mars.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Indie with Bots to Mars.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bots to Mars.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Bots to Mars.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bots to Mars.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Bots to Mars.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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Frequently asked about Bots to Mars
- How much does Bots to Mars cost?
- Bots to Mars is listed on Steam at 4.24 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Bots to Mars?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bots to Mars are Miner Vidis, Mars Inc 98, Subject F-011.
- Who developed Bots to Mars?
- Bots to Mars was developed by Benybob.
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 Bots to Mars.
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