Terraforming Mars
Corporations race to make Mars livable: raise the temperature, thicken the atmosphere, fill the lowlands with oceans.
71% of 5,221 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 395$5.99
Games like Tharsis
Remember how tense and replayable Tharsis felt at its best? You will find a few strong contenders among these games.
Terraformers
Terraform Mars in a turn-based colony builder with a card-driven twist. Every run gives you a fresh planet, a hand of project cards and rotating leaders, and it is on you to turn a red rock into a green world. Raise cities in craters and lava tubes, seed life from bacteria to bears, and geo-engineer the whole planet before your colonists' demands catch up with you.
Replayable
88% of 3,044 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 50$19.99Destination Ares
You're the AI of a rickety colony ship, bound for the red planet. You have limited resources, a desperate crew, and an unknown fate awaiting you. Can you survive the journey across the Big Black?
Tense, Replayable, Dark
38% of 21 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$4.99Terraforming Mars
Corporations race to make Mars livable: raise the temperature, thicken the atmosphere, fill the lowlands with oceans. You play project cards, build cities and green areas on a hex map, and chase milestones and awards against rivals. A deep strategy game where every run plays out differently, and the planet keeps score.
Replayable
71% of 5,221 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 395$5.99The Banished Vault
A strategy game of exploration, endurance, and space travel on an interstellar gothic monastery. Explore solar systems, harvest resources, construct outposts, and face hazards in the challenging universe of The Banished Vault.
Replayable, Dark, Atmospheric
79% of 191 Steam reviews are positive$24.99Dee-6: Dice Defenders
Dee-6: Dice Defenders is a game about survival in space travel, about the fight against internal and external threats, about the distribution of the power of the dice-team and, of course, about luck!
Tense, Replayable
73% of 45 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Nemesis: Lockdown
In Nemesis: Lockdown, you're part of a team exploring an alien-infested space base. Craft, hide and fight to make it out of its dark, threat-filled corridors. Fulfill your objective even if it means betraying your allies, but remember - this time, you are not the hunter. You are the PREY.
Tense, Replayable, Dark
67% of 740 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$24.99Per Aspera
You are AMI, an artificial consciousness with one job: turn a dead Mars into a living world. Build a planet-wide network of mines, reactors and greenhouses, steer the atmosphere with real science, and uncover what doomed the humans who tried before. A terraforming sim with a story, a mystery, and a lot of red dirt.
Replayable, Dark, Mysterious
76% of 4,118 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 73$29.9960 Parsecs!
Your space station is about to blow and you have 60 seconds to grab supplies and crew. Then comes the real trip: a dark comedy survival run through space, full of soup shortages, hard choices and endings you will want to see again. Short runs, sharp writing, one more go.
Tense, Replayable, Mysterious
90% of 3,327 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$9.99Mars Colony:Challenger
Mars Colony: Challenger is a 3D first / third person game that offers you the challenge of setting up a remote base on the surface of Mars. At its core, the game was derived from a simulator where everything is interactively tied together.
64% of 114 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Sol 0: Mars Colonization
Sol 0 is a real time strategy game where you establish the first Martian colony. From the first human footprints on Martian soil to a thriving and self-sustaining colony, Sol 0 imagines a near future using technology that could be available within the next few decades.
Replayable
67% of 371 Steam reviews are positive$0.99FTL: Faster Than Light
Command a small starship carrying vital information across a randomly generated galaxy. You route power, aim weapons, vent airlocks, and decide who lives. Losing means starting over, which makes every jump tense and every win feel earned.
Tense, Replayable, Dark
94% of 63,081 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,111$9.99Occupy Mars: The Game
A technical survival sandbox on Mars: build and wire up a base, produce your own water, oxygen and food, fix broken machines with a soldering iron, and drive a rover across an open planet. Play alone or in online co-op, and learn what "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly" means the hard way.
Replayable
68% of 2,745 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 94$29.99
Cheaper than Tharsis
Destination Ares
You're the AI of a rickety colony ship, bound for the red planet. You have limited resources, a desperate crew, and an unknown fate awaiting you.
38% of 21 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$4.99
Dee-6: Dice Defenders
Dee-6: Dice Defenders is a game about survival in space travel, about the fight against internal and external threats, about the distribution of the…
73% of 45 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
60 Parsecs!
Scavenge a doomed station in one frantic minute, then steer your crew through a darkly funny survival run where every choice shapes the ending.
90% of 3,327 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$9.99
FTL: Faster Than Light
Run a starship through a hostile galaxy, where one bad decision can end the flight and every new attempt plays out differently.
94% of 63,081 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,111$9.99
Mars Colony:Challenger
Mars Colony: Challenger is a 3D first / third person game that offers you the challenge of setting up a remote base on the surface of Mars.
64% of 114 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Sol 0: Mars Colonization
Sol 0 is a real time strategy game where you establish the first Martian colony.
67% of 371 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Mars Survivor
After an asteroid catastrophe, your rocket ship crash-lands in the wilderness of Mars.
73% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Wastelander
Wastelander is a turn-based strategy game where you must survive and escape from a desolate planet ravaged by powerful storms.
88% of 34 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$2.49
SYMMETRY
A research spaceship reaches an abandoned planet. Nothing is what it seems here and the situation quickly slips out of control.
53% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Take On Mars
Take On Mars places you right in the middle of mankind’s most exciting undertaking.
55% of 1,754 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99
Silmaris: Dice Kingdom
Unforgiving storytelling adventure with dice rolls and turn-based management.
63% of 75 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Hidden gems like Tharsis
Dead in Antares
Manage a stranded crew of ten survivors on a mysterious alien world, from wrecked ship to functioning outpost.
78% of 196 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$19.99
Farlanders
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder.
89% of 514 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Terraformers
Turn a fresh Mars into a living world, one turn and one project card at a time.
88% of 3,044 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 50$19.99
Subterrain: Mines of Titan
Awaken from an abandoned stasis pod and discover a doomed mining camp on Titan in an uncompromising turn-based survival RPG.
76% of 666 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Tin Can
Keep a battered escape pod breathing in the void, managing every system by hand as the air runs thin.
84% of 1,077 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Terraformers: First Steps on Mars
Terraformers: First Steps on Mars is a free prologue of Terraformers, featuring an exclusive challenge to lead humanity's first attempt at settling…
88% of 704 Steam reviews are positiveFree
The Banished Vault
A strategy game of exploration, endurance, and space travel on an interstellar gothic monastery.
79% of 191 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Occupy Mars: The Game
Fix machines, wire up a base and keep your oxygen flowing on an open, red planet, alone or with friends in co-op.
68% of 2,745 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 94$29.99
Deliver Us Mars
Fly to Mars, climb through the ruins of a lost colony and uncover a story about the family you left behind.
74% of 2,290 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$29.99
1000 days to escape
Only 1000 days left until the end of the world. You have to realize the largest space program ever to save as many people as you can.
84% of 369 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
60 Parsecs!
Scavenge a doomed station in one frantic minute, then steer your crew through a darkly funny survival run where every choice shapes the ending.
90% of 3,327 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$9.99
IXION
Earth is dying, and DOLOS' prototype station Tiqqun is all that's left.
77% of 15,461 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 218$34.99
Newest games like Tharsis
Tenebris: Terra Incognita
Crash-land on a hostile world, grow your squad from survivors into specialists, and hold out against a planet that wants you gone.
80% of 466 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$19.99
Stellar Tactics
A sci-fi RPG where you wake from cryosleep 500 years late, build a squad of mercenaries and set out into a universe of over 160,000 star systems.
77% of 1,694 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$24.99
Dead in Antares
Manage a stranded crew of ten survivors on a mysterious alien world, from wrecked ship to functioning outpost.
78% of 196 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$19.99
Occupy Mars: The Game
Fix machines, wire up a base and keep your oxygen flowing on an open, red planet, alone or with friends in co-op.
68% of 2,745 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 94$29.99
Terra Invicta
Steer one of seven factions through an alien arrival, from covert politics on Earth to fleet battles across the Solar System.
79% of 9,162 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 578$39.99
Void Marauders
Lead a band of space pirates and loot and pillage your way across the stars in this turn based tactical game!
77% of 106 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$13.99
SpaceCorp: 2025-2300AD
Lead mankind's exploration into outer space! Build bases on the Moon and Mars, survey the rings of Saturn, and send generational Colony ships to…
84% of 73 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Anoxia Station
Descend into darkness in Anoxia Station, a turn-based strategy game with puzzle elements.
76% of 183 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Mars Survivor
After an asteroid catastrophe, your rocket ship crash-lands in the wilderness of Mars.
73% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Breachway
Bolt weapons onto a ship, hire a crew with opinions, and survive turn-based card battles across a hostile galaxy.
74% of 1,437 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 27$19.99
Wastelander
Wastelander is a turn-based strategy game where you must survive and escape from a desolate planet ravaged by powerful storms.
88% of 34 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$2.49
The Tribe Must Survive
The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age.
63% of 179 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99