The Mars Zone

Games set on or around Mars, colonization, exploration, survival, or science fiction.

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Procelio - Procelio is a multiplayer vehicle builder/shooter set amidst a proxy war on the red planet. Build and refine your custom machines from orbit, then pilot them in a distant war against CPU and enemy players.

Jun 30, 2026

84% 👍

of 211

Free on Steam More Detail

Occupy Mars: The Game - Players say: Survive alone or in co-op on Mars by exploring, mining, repairing machinery, and building a powered, life-supporting base. Players like: Survival Systems · Mars Setting · Base Building ·

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Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.

Jan 30, 2026

70% 👍

of 3.2k

Open World Survival Craft · Base Building · Survival · Crafting · Online Co-Op · Open World · Resource Management · Exploration · Sandbox · PvE · First-Person · Mars · Building · Mining · Co-op

$29.99 on Steam More Detail

Calyx - A strategy game with a new kind of enemy, Calyx puts you in charge of a space mining outpost, locked in battle against powerful plant-aliens. Build your base, gather resources, assemble your forces, and take on the Calyx. With only an out-of-date AI for company, can you survive?

Jan 29, 2026

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of 467

Early Access · RTS · Base Building · Strategy · Sci-fi · Management · Resource Management · Tower Defense · Action RTS · Colony Sim · Outbreak Sim · PvE · Economy · Real Time Tactics · Space

$24.99 on Steam More Detail

Solargene - Players say: Run a private space corporation, building colonies and stations while managing crews, resources, production, and interplanetary logistics. Players like: Deep Colony Management · Solar-System Expansion · Production And Logistics ·

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Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions

Jan 19, 2026

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Colony Sim · Base Building · City Builder · Space Sim · Resource Management · Sandbox · Management · Building · Economy · Strategy · Space · 4X · Moddable · Mod · Sci-fi

$34.99 on Steam More Detail

Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder - Players say: Build vertical colonies on hostile alien planets, manage settlers and resources, then assemble a physics-based ship to escape. Players like: Relaxing Colony Building · Vertical Base Layouts · Simple Resource Planning ·

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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.

Feb 22, 2025

70% 👍

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City Builder · Base Building · Colony Sim · Resource Management · Strategy · Simulation · Building · Survival · Mars · Space · Spaceships · Automation · Space Sim · Sandbox · Management

$11.99 on Steam More Detail

Diluvian Ultra: Awakening - Diluvian Ultra: Awakening shows a never-before seen part of Diluvian Ultra's story, preceding the events of the main game. As a young Diluvian Knight, stage a heroic defense against insurmountable odds, in this single-player FPS with a retro aesthetic and fast-paced, strategic combat.

Sep 16, 2024

73% 👍

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Action · Shooter · Boomer Shooter · Sci-fi · Gothic · Action-Adventure · Mars · Pixel Graphics · Exploration · FPS · 3D · First-Person · Stylized · Dystopian · Lore-Rich

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DemonStar - The shareware legend DemonStar comes soaring back with new game modes and revised gameplay. Originally published in 1997, DemonStar has earned the Computer Gaming World's "Shareware Game of the Year 1999" award..

Dec 11, 2023

94% 👍

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Bullet Hell · Action · Shooter · Flight · 2D · Top-Down · Mars · Pixel Graphics · 1990's · Space · Old School · Destruction · Indie · Combat · Local Co-Op

$2.99 on Steam More Detail

Outpost - this is a tower defence game,we need upgrade our weapons to fight waves of enemies,robots can mining diamonds,and we need spent those in many aspect，features of this game: 1 return back before dager comes,2tempory upgrade are important but permanent upgrade are better

May 11, 2023

73% 👍

of 190

Casual · Tower Defense · Shoot 'Em Up · 2.5D · Cartoony · Hand-drawn · Space · Building · Base Building · Mining · Mars · Resource Management · Singleplayer

$3.99 on Steam More Detail

Well-liked but under-played: strong scores, small review counts.

Pinball FX Classic VR - Creating a brand new way to play pinball that deftly combines the look and feel of digital pinball with the sensation of a real-world experience, Pinball FX Classic VR is the premier place for pinball action in VR!

Nov 29, 2016

84% 👍

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Pinball · VR · Simulation · Arcade · Family Friendly · Physics · Retro · Casual · Sports · 3D · Anime · Top-Down · 1990's · Score Attack · Relaxing

$14.99 on Steam More Detail

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. Explore planets, colonize them, help people find a new home.

Jul 25, 2019

84% 👍

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Casual · Indie · Space · Arcade · Simulation · Space Sim · Aliens · 2D · Singleplayer · Funny · Sci-fi · Beautiful · Science · Mars

$4.99 on Steam More Detail

Gaia Project - Gaia Project is the digital adaptation of the boardgame Gaia Project created by Helge Ostertag and Jens Drögemüller and published by "Feuerland Verlag". It is a 1-4 player strategy game. It plays in the same universe as Terra Mystica and continues the adventure in the far future.

May 31, 2021

80% 👍

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Strategy · Casual · Board Game · Turn-Based Strategy · PvP · Family Friendly · Space · Aliens · Tutorial · Singleplayer · Futuristic · Sci-fi · 2D · Hand-drawn · Resource Management

$24.99 on Steam More Detail

MarZ: Tactical Base Defense - Players say: Build and staff a Martian defense base, manage power and research, and hold off undead cosmonauts across tactical missions. Players like: Crew-Based Defense · Base Management · Campaign Missions ·

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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.

Apr 4, 2019

78% 👍

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Strategy · Tower Defense · RTS · Tactical · Indie · Zombies · Gore · Base Building · Management · Sci-fi · Difficult · Mars · Building · Resource Management · Atmospheric

$21.99 on Steam More Detail

Rover Mechanic Simulator - Players say: Work as a mechanic in a Mars colony, diagnosing rover faults, dismantling components, repairing parts, and printing replacements. Players like: Detailed Rover Models · Hands-On Repairs · Calm, Methodical Pace ·

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As an Engineer - crew member of one of the first Mars colonies - you are responsible for repairing and maintaining Mars Rovers. In this advanced simulator you will learn the internal details of various Mars Rovers and their components.

Nov 12, 2020

76% 👍

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Simulation · Indie · Relaxing · Singleplayer · Minimalist · Education · Space · Realistic · Mars · Sci-fi · Science · Space Sim · Immersive Sim · Replay Value · Family Friendly

$11.99 on Steam More Detail

Gaia Beyond - Gaia Beyond is a handcrafted 2D Action-RPG, an exploration mix built around the core features fighting, mining and trading. Your decisions are footprints within a vast non-linear solar system. Forge alliances among numerous factions and develop relations with hundreds of NPCs.

Aug 20, 2020

75% 👍

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Sci-fi · Space Sim · Open World · Space · Top-Down · Mining · Choices Matter · RPG · Action RPG · Trading · Exploration · Physics · 2D · Adventure · Conspiracy

$14.99 on Steam More Detail

Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.

Red Faction Guerrilla Steam Edition - Players say: Lead a Martian rebellion in an open-world action game where you raid EDF forces and demolish buildings to reshape fights. Players like: Building-Collapse Physics · Flexible Demolition Tactics · Lasting World Damage ·

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Set 50 years after the climactic events of the original Red Faction, Red Faction: Guerrilla allows players to take the role of an insurgent fighter with the newly re-established Red Faction movement as they battle for liberation from the oppressive Earth Defense Force.

Sep 15, 2009

90% 👍

of 7.7k

Open World · Destruction · Action · Physics · Sci-fi · Third Person · Mars · Third-Person Shooter · Multiplayer · Singleplayer · Sandbox · Shooter · Adventure · Atmospheric · Great Soundtrack

Free on Steam More Detail

Waking Mars - Players say: Trapped in Mars’s caverns after first contact goes wrong, use a jetpack and cultivate alien ecosystems to uncover the planet’s secrets. Players like: Living Ecosystem · Cavern Exploration · Organism Interactions ·

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In 2097, life is discovered on Mars. When your mission of first contact becomes trapped by a cave-in, you must master the alien ecosystem to survive. Soon you stumble upon more than anyone expected, and with time running out, you will make a decision that determines the fate of a lost planet.