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2018 PCPlayStationXbox free 👍 85 % Very positive, 26,570 reviews on Steam

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.

What defines Surviving Mars:

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Lavish presentation
  • Tactical depth

The closest matches for Surviving Mars are Aven Colony, Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis and Anno 2070. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Surviving Mars special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Aven Colony

98 %

2017 PCPlayStationXbox −80 % 29.99 € 5.99 € 13 days left 👍 73 % Mostly positive, 2,638 reviews on Steam

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Lavish presentation
  • Tactical depth

A sci-fi city-builder where you establish humanity's first colony on the alien world of Aven Prime. You must keep colonists fed, employed and happy while surviving hostile environmental hazards and threats.

Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis

Focus on a single character

A park-management sim where you build your own Jurassic Park filled with dinosaurs and visitors. The fun comes from earning stars, keeping enclosures secure and handling the chaos when dinosaurs break loose.

Anno 2070

Sci-fi setting

Anno 2070 is a city-building and economy sim set in the near future, where you build island cities and balance production chains. Choosing between ecological and industrial approaches shapes your economy and playstyle.

Dyson Sphere Program

Sci-fi setting

A space factory-automation game where you build production chains across multiple planets and ultimately wrap a star in a Dyson sphere. The appeal lies in optimizing sprawling logistics networks on a galactic scale.

Planetbase

Gameplay comes before story

A sci-fi colony builder where you balance oxygen, food and power to keep settlers alive on hostile planets. Meteors, storms and tight resources turn every expansion into careful planning.

Imagine Earth

Focus on a single character

A real-time colony-building strategy game where you settle alien planets and balance trade, economy and environmental impact. Managing each planet's ecology feels like a thoughtful planning puzzle.

Ixion

Sci-fi setting

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.

Anno 2205

Sci-fi setting

A city-building and economy strategy game where you grow cities and production chains on Earth, then expand to the Moon and other space sectors. The appeal lies in optimizing logistics in a bright vision of the future.

Defense Grid: The Awakening

Focus on a single character

A classic tower defense game where you protect power cores from waves of alien insectoids. Smart placement and upgrading of ten tower types on fixed build pads, plus a dry-witted AI narrator, define the experience.

Hardspace: Shipbreaker

Focus on a single character

As a debt-laden salvage worker you dismantle huge spaceships in zero gravity with a cutter and grapple, sorting parts for profit. Physics-driven puzzling, the threat of explosions and a meditative work rhythm make it special.

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