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2020PCSteam Deck playable76 % positive29.99 €

You play an AI managing the terraforming of Mars, building infrastructure, handling resources and research while a story with moral questions unfolds. A calm but demanding base-building strategy game with a scientific bent.

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Tactical depth
  • Lavish presentation
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

The closest matches for Per Aspera are Ixion, Aven Colony and The Pegasus Expedition. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Per Aspera special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Ixion

95 %Match

2022PCPlayStationXboxSteam Deck playable78 % positive33.99 €

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Tactical depth
  • Lavish presentation

As Administrator of the space station Tiqqun, you manage resources, population and construction while leading humanity through dangerous sectors toward a new home. A dark blend of city-building strategy and survival pressure with a strong narrative.

The Pegasus Expedition

Strong, story-driven narrative

A story-driven sci-fi 4X strategy game where you lead humanity's expeditions into the Pegasus Galaxy to find a new home. Exploration, expansion and resource management play out under the pressure of a looming threat.

The Crust

Pure single-player experience

You build and automate a lunar colony that Earth relies on, mining regolith, running conveyor and drone factories, looking after colonists and trading with rival factions. A story campaign with multiple endings adds direction to the sandbox.

Surviving Mars: Relaunched

Lavish presentation

A sci-fi city builder where you establish Mars colonies and balance resources, power, oxygen and colonists to keep them alive. The relaunch brings remastered visuals and expanded content to the original.

Surviving Mars

Lavish presentation

A city builder where you found a Mars colony and keep it alive with domes, drones and careful resource management. The appeal lies in planning supply chains and surviving hostile conditions.

Aquatico

Lavish presentation

A survival city builder where you construct a futuristic underwater city, balancing resources and the needs of your citizens against the dangers of the deep.

Light of Altair

Realistic visuals

A sci-fi colony builder where you grow settlements from a landing pod into metropolises and send ships to claim new worlds. Diplomacy and orbital combat against eight factions, plus a substantial plot, define the experience.

Terra Invicta

Realistic visuals

A deep grand-strategy sim about an alien invasion: you lead one of seven human factions, take over nations on Earth, expand across the Solar System, and fight tactical space battles.

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