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A turn-based tactical game set on Mars where stress helps manage randomness and suppression is a core mechanic. Your troops develop abilities, personalities and relationships through battle, played out on procedural, destructible maps with realistic bullet physics.

  • Turn-based combat
  • A party of several characters
  • Tactical depth
  • Sci-fi setting

The closest matches for Mars Tactics are Galaxy Squad, XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Menace. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Mars Tactics special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Turn-based combat

Turn-based tactical battles against alien invaders where cover, positioning and class abilities decide the outcome. Between missions you manage your base, research and funding, and fallen soldiers are gone for good.

Menace

Turn-based combat

A turn-based tactical RPG from the Battle Brothers developers: you lead an elite strike force against an alien menace, equipping infantry and fielding tanks and mechs in demanding, carefully planned battles.

Silent Storm

Turn-based combat

Turn-based squad tactics in an alternate World War II where you lead a custom-built team on secret missions, with fully destructible environments that make every turn a tactical puzzle.

Silent Storm: Sentinels

Turn-based combat

A standalone-style expansion to Silent Storm set just after WWII, where an international task force hunts the secret society Thor's Hammer. It offers deep turn-based squad tactics with fully destructible environments and a customizable team of mercenaries.

Incubation: Time Is Running Out

Turn-based combat

Turn-based sci-fi tactics where you lead a small squad of marines against mutated aliens, equipping and growing your soldiers across missions. Part of the Battle Isle series, it rewards careful positioning and ammo management.

Steam Marines

Turn-based combat

A turn-based tactical roguelike where you lead a squad of marines through the decks of a besieged steampunk spaceship. Smart positioning and careful resource use decide whether you reach each level's elevator.

BattleTech

Turn-based combat

Tactical turn-based combat with giant mechs where armor, heat and positioning decide battles. As a mercenary commander you manage pilots, mechs and finances through a campaign set in 3025.

Shardpunk

Turn-based combat

A turn-based tactics game set in a grim steampunk world overrun by rats, blending XCOM-style squad combat with Darkest Dungeon-like stress and resource pressure. You lead a small squad through dangerous missions where every decision counts.

Xenonauts

Turn-based combat

A turn-based tactics and strategy game set in the Cold War, where you run a multinational military force against an alien invasion, command squads on the ground, intercept UFOs and research captured tech. A modern homage to classic X-COM.

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