Games like Per Aspera
If Per Aspera is your kind of game, the closest matches are Endzone - A World Apart, Stronghold: Warlords and Hammerting — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its replayability through branching narratives, atmospheric and chill. 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 →Per Aspera is a 2020 strategy, indie, and simulation game developed by Tlön Industries in which players terraform Mars to build a functioning colony. The experience combines colony expansion with resource chain management, research-and-development systems, and a procedural ecology where ecosystems evolve over time. Multiplier speed controls allow players to manage the pace of progression while navigating the terraforming systems. The game supports online co-op and is playable on Steam Deck. Reviewers highlight the atmospheric and contemplative mood, while players describe the hard-science foundation as appealing to sci-fi fans. Branching narratives provide replayability, and the deep resource chains require strategic planning. With a 77% positive rating from 2488 Steam reviews, the game offers a challenging medium-length experience.
About Per Aspera: Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
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Endzone - A World Apart
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Per Aspera.
Top pick for Per Aspera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Per Aspera.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Stronghold: Warlords
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Per Aspera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Per Aspera.
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
Hammerting
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Per Aspera.
Third-strongest match for Per Aspera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Per Aspera.
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
The Colonists
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Per Aspera.
Ranked #4 for Per Aspera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Per Aspera.
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Per Aspera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Per Aspera.
The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
Mini Settlers
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Per Aspera.
Ranked #6 for Per Aspera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Per Aspera.
Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
The Crust
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Per Aspera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Per Aspera.
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.
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Per Aspera.
Ranked #8 for Per Aspera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Per Aspera.
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.
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Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Per Aspera.
Reviewers of Per Aspera cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Per Aspera.
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.
Terra Nil
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Per Aspera.
Reviewers of Per Aspera cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Per Aspera.
Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.
Plan B: Terraform
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Per Aspera.
Reviewers of Per Aspera cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Per Aspera.
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Planetbase
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Per Aspera.
Reviewers of Per Aspera cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Per Aspera.
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.
Synergy
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Per Aspera.
Reviewers of Per Aspera cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Per Aspera.
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Wildmender
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Per Aspera.
Reviewers of Per Aspera cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Per Aspera.
A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?
Pioneers of Pagonia
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Per Aspera.
Reviewers of Per Aspera cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Per Aspera.
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Per Aspera at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Per Aspera on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Per Aspera.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Per Aspera on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Per Aspera.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Per Aspera on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Per Aspera.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Per Aspera on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Per Aspera.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Per Aspera on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Per Aspera.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Per Aspera on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Per Aspera.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
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 Per Aspera.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Per Aspera.
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!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Per Aspera.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Per Aspera.
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.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Per Aspera.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
Counter-Strike 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Per Aspera.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
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Frequently asked about Per Aspera
- Does Per Aspera run on Steam Deck?
- Per Aspera is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Per Aspera cost?
- Per Aspera is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Per Aspera have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Per Aspera supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Per Aspera?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Per Aspera are Endzone - A World Apart, Stronghold: Warlords, Hammerting.
- Who developed Per Aspera?
- Per Aspera was developed by Tlön Industries and published by Raw Fury.
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