Games like Destination Ares
If Destination Ares is your kind of game, the closest matches are Astro Mining, Surviving Mars and Citizens: On Mars — 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 Destination Ares: You're the AI of a rickety colony ship, bound for the red planet. You have limited resources, a desperate crew, and an unknown fate awaiting you. Can you survive the journey across the Big Black?
Players who liked Destination Ares also play
Steam players who put hours into Destination Ares 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.
Astro Mining
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Top pick for Destination Ares fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Destination Ares.
Build a small mining colony in deep space and defend it from alien invaders as you extract precious minerals from asteroids in Astro Mining.
Surviving Mars
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Second-strongest match for Destination Ares fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Destination Ares.
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.
Citizens: On Mars
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Destination Ares fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Destination Ares.
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.
Outer Space Shack
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Ranked #4 for Destination Ares fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Destination Ares.
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.
Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
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Ranked #5 for Destination Ares fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Destination Ares.
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.
Ares Inception
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Ranked #6 for Destination Ares fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Destination Ares.
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.
HAS Galactics
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Ranked #7 for Destination Ares fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Destination Ares.
HAS Galactics is a top-down factory builder. Design your own rocket, automate your production lines, balance your reputation between the Galactic Factions and complete daring missions. Start from a humble beginning… to a thriving galactic mega-factory!
No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape
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Ranked #8 for Destination Ares fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Destination Ares.
As the brave crew sets course for the Red Planet, their mission takes a terrifying turn. In the vast emptiness of space, their once-proud vessel becomes a haunted nightmare. Can they survive the horrors that await them in the darkness and escape or will they succumb before completing their mission?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Destination Ares at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Destination Ares on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Destination Ares.
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.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Destination Ares on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Destination Ares.
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!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under Destination Ares on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Destination Ares.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under Destination Ares on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Destination Ares.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Destination Ares on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Destination Ares.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~50% under Destination Ares on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Destination Ares.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Destination Ares on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Destination Ares.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Destination Ares on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Destination Ares.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Destination Ares.
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 and Simulation with Destination Ares.
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?
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Destination Ares.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
A Date with Death
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Destination Ares.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Destination Ares.
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.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Destination Ares.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Destination Ares.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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Frequently asked about Destination Ares
- How much does Destination Ares cost?
- Destination Ares is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Destination Ares?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Destination Ares are Astro Mining, Surviving Mars, Citizens: On Mars.
- Who developed Destination Ares?
- Destination Ares was developed by Pat Scott.
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