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Asteroid Lab · 2021 · Windows, macOS, Linux

Steam: 88 % positive of 703 reviews, as of Oct 28

Terraformers: First Steps on Mars is a free prologue of Terraformers, featuring an exclusive challenge to lead humanity's first attempt at settling the Red Planet.

24 games that play like Terraformers: First Steps on Mars and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Surviving Mars, Terraformers and Reshaping Mars.

Player tags

  • Strategy
  • Simulation
  • Colony Sim
  • Resource Management
  • Sci-fi
  • Atmospheric
  • 4X
  • Space Sim
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Plays and looks like Terraformers: First Steps on Mars

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Terraformers: First Steps on Mars

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Mars Horizon83 % positive of 2,762Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Resource Management
  2. Red Planet Farming95 % positive of 888Shared: Strategy · Sci-fi · Mars
  3. Oxygen Not Included96 % positive of 136,132Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Colony Sim
  4. Aven Colony71 % positive of 2,022Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Colony Sim
  5. The Planet Crafter96 % positive of 69,754Shared: Resource Management · Sci-fi · Singleplayer
  6. The Colonists85 % positive of 1,056Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Colony Sim
  7. Solargene76 % positive of 782Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Colony Sim
  8. The Crust73 % positive of 3,929Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Colony Sim
  9. Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder68 % positive of 747Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Colony Sim
  10. EarthX92 % positive of 543Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Colony Sim
  11. Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™60 % positive of 14,066Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Sci-fi
  12. Offworld Trading Company76 % positive of 3,604Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Colony Sim

By look

Looks like Terraformers: First Steps on Mars

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Starcom: Unknown Space91 % positive of 4,497
  2. Nexus 5X90 % positive of 890
  3. The Alters90 % positive of 15,621
  4. Starcom: Nexus90 % positive of 2,284
  5. Terraforming Mars70 % positive of 5,219
  6. Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes75 % positive of 1,079
  7. Terra Invicta79 % positive of 9,144
  8. Star Dynasties69 % positive of 423
  9. Prismata80 % positive of 1,226
  10. Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition84 % positive of 557
  11. Phoenix Point72 % positive of 5,413
  12. Galactic Civilizations III77 % positive of 8,340

At a glance

What games like Terraformers: First Steps on Mars have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Terraformers: First Steps on Mars: Strategy (21 of 24), Simulation (20) and Colony Sim (16).
  • They came out between 2014 and 2026, 10 of them after Terraformers: First Steps on Mars (2021).
  • Best rated by Steam players: The Planet Crafter (96 % positive of 69,754).

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Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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