Single-player games like Mars or Die!
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Mars or Die!, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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HAS Galactics
Single-player alternative to Mars or Die! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Mars or Die!.
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!
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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to Mars or Die! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Mars or Die!.
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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MarZ: Tactical Base Defense
Single-player alternative to Mars or Die! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mars or Die!.
Build your defense base to fight back the undead hordes of Mars and secure the future of the red planet. MarZ is a game of strategy and tactical defense where you must carefully manage your crew and resources as you try to uncover the terrible secrets of the undead.
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Reshaping Mars
Single-player alternative to Mars or Die! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mars or Die!.
「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.
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Space Company Simulator
Single-player alternative to Mars or Die! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Mars or Die!.
Take the position of a CEO of a space transport company and become a new major player in the industry. Space Company Simulator is a realistic management sim game that will challenge your planning skills as you strive to launch the first manned mission to Mars.
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Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
Single-player alternative to Mars or Die! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mars or Die!.
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.
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The Riftbreaker
Single-player alternative to Mars or Die! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Mars or Die!.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
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Farlanders
Single-player alternative to Mars or Die! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mars or Die!.
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
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Redout: Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Mars or Die! — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Redout is a tribute to the old racing monsters such as F-Zero, WipeOut, Rollcage, and POD. It is designed to be an uncompromising, fast, tough and satisfying driving experience, soaked in that vertigo that stands at the core of the arcade racing genre.
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Redout 2
Single-player alternative to Mars or Die! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Mars or Die!.
The fastest racing game in the universe. Redout 2 is a tribute to classic arcade racing games and the sequel to the critically acclaimed Redout. Reach impossible speeds in exhilarating futuristic races across an extensive single-player campaign and competitive multiplayer.
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Carmageddon: Rogue Shift
Single-player alternative to Mars or Die! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Mars or Die!.
Carmageddon smashes back with brutal roguelite vehicular‑combat mayhem. Adapt, upgrade, and unleash destruction on post‑apocalyptic zombie hordes. The legacy lives on, reinvented and unforgiving.
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Hyperdrive Massacre
Single-player alternative to Mars or Die! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mars or Die!.
Hyperdrive Massacre is an 80s inspired arcade fragfest in Spacewar sauce designed around local multiplayer, focused on kinestetics, tactical and shooting skills at a frenzied pace.
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Super Inefficient Golf
Single-player alternative to Mars or Die! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Mars or Die!.
Super Inefficient Golf builds on top of the most inefficient game ever conceived by making it even LESS efficient. Drop your silly golf stick and start using exploding mines to guide your ball! Place them, choose the right timing, and BOOM - Birdie!
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Redout: Space Assault
Single-player alternative to Mars or Die! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mars or Die!.
Redout: Space Assault is arcade space battle, coupling the trademark Redout adrenaline with the thrill of combat. Outsmart, outmaneuver, overpower, outclass your opponents in lightning-fast, adrenaline-inducing single-player space combat.