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. Can you survive the journey across the Big Black?
The top results based on the latest update are DETECTIVE TYCOON [Score: 0.9], Expendable Drillers [Score: 0.9] and Red Horizon: Mars [Score: 0.9] The top rated games you can find here are Oxygen Not Included [SteamPeek Rating: 11.5] ranked #12, Surviving Mars [SteamPeek Rating: 8.1] ranked #9 and The Final Earth 2 [SteamPeek Rating: 5.9] ranked #11 Also don't forget to check the newest releases Sinner Maker [Release date: 2026-06-05] ranked #34, Doomsday.Inc [Release date: 2025-12-09] ranked #26 and Exodus: The Colonization of Space [Release date: 2025-12-01] ranked #15 While it is tempting to play with the newest and the best, there might be some other gems in the results, like Oxygen Not Included [SteamPeek Rating: 11.5] ranked #12, Rogue AI Simulator [SteamPeek Rating: 4.9] ranked #32 and Farlanders: Prologue [SteamPeek Rating: 5.3] ranked #33.
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?
Travel 70 years back in time to the days of noir detectives and lead your own 1-bit detective agency! Solve the most difficult cases. Hire new detectives. Expand your office.
Dig a mining base deep under Mars and keep its hapless crew alive. Feed them, bed them, give them air and fix the machines before the rooms fall in. Simple to start, deep to master, and full of cartoon mishaps.
Red Horizon: Mars is a simplistic Mars colonization simulator, where you make decisions that impact humanities last hope. Set in the distant future, it is up to you to instate a government, promote laws, and manage your colony in Mars. Will you succeed in promoting humanities next steps?
An existential horror game in which you are tasked with keeping a sleeper colony ship intact. No enemies or NPCs share the ship with you - only creaking metal echoes and endless dark. Overcome random events, system failures, and the downward spiral of your sanity to see your mission through.
Gather exotic resources, build defenses, research new technologies, and explore the mysteries of the void, all while being chased by the darkness from the end of time.
You're the intelligent electronics of a Mars mission. Four capable crew members. You are not one of them. Your job: keep them alive and happy, they're the only ones who can succeed. Built under the advice of real astronauts, engineers & planetary scientists, the big decisions are yours to make.
You are on the run. Build stations in hostile systems, gather what resources you can, and jump away before you are overwhelmed. Your ships are slowly failing, but the Swarm is relentless, hungry, and on your heels. Can you survive long enough to secure a future for humanity?
Enjoy working as an Eggnog Inspector for a shady company. Verify the color, art, ingredients for batches of eggnog. Its not glamorous but its an honest living. Who knows what surprises are in store for you...
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Orbit Engineer – Build, grow, and survive in your own space station. Manage crew morale, supplies, and research while facing unpredictable space events and system failures. Every decision matters as you expand and fight to keep your station alive in space.
The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Grow your rocket startup from a humble launchpad to sprawling colonies on Mars and beyond! Secure government contracts, launch massive satellite constellations, build space stations, terraform Mars with nuclear blasts, and mine vital resources to fuel your expansion!
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Colonize a galaxy in 256 colors! In this RiscOS gem from 1997, the fate of human civilization lies in your hands. Travel the stars, claim uninhabited planets or fight over them against your alien opponents. Your ultimate chance to relive the original experience, on the PC for the first time ever.
A deadline-driven roguelite management game set in ancient Egypt. Build impossible monuments under brutal deadlines. Push your workers to the limit, survive disasters and riots, and watch your civilization slowly transform into something far stranger.
A tiny base builder roguelite where the only enemy is time. Provide food and shelter for your growing outpost. Produce advanced resources for your home station. Discover the mysteries of Feluna with every new run.
How many peasants does it take to beat a goose? Pitchfork Math is a village survival strategy game with auto-battles. Send as few peasants as you dare against geese, Vikings, Baba Yaga, a dragon and Boruta, a devil who keeps the soul of everyone you lose.
Create your space colony for kittens and conquer the galaxy in this hand drawn card-battler inspired by Stacklands and Card Hog. Manage resources, explore alien worlds, conquer other civilizations or make new allies.
A survival management simulator on the red planet. Make sure your astronauts survive on Mars. Manage and expand your habitat. Produce enough resources, build facilities, explore the environment and brave the harsh weather until you are rescued.
Tower defense meets city building in a grimdark sci-fi world. Build vertically, manage resources, defend against alien hordes, and command machine priests in humanity's last stronghold.
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.
Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.
Welcome to the world of space stations! Create your own space base with workplaces and production facilities. Ensure sustainability and safety, explore space, defend your base, and build diplomatic relationships. Be vigilant and successful!
Moonport is a side-scrolling, real time strategy, space colony simulation with roguelike elements. You play as a brave space explorer who aspires to colonize the moons of Saturn. How many moons can you conquer?
Lead a doomsday cult as... a project manager. Doomsday.Inc is a satirical strategy game where you'll manage crazed acolytes, bureaucracy, and divine ambitions. Can you bring about the end of the world without getting bogged down in paperwork?
Build a small mining colony in deep space and defend it from alien invaders as you extract precious minerals from asteroids in Astro Mining.
This is a game about the pressure of keeping ships productive. Idle ships bleed money. Late deliveries hurt your reputation. Old hulls develop histories. Captains become known quantities. A quiet ore run can suddenly become a rescue problem, a customs problem, or a piracy problem.
Keep a train full of survivors alive as it crosses a wasteland ruled by machine beasts. Build rooms inside each car, care for 16 personality types and their stress, send scouts into the ruins, and see how far you can go before the line breaks.
A survival city builder on the ice. Keep the Furnace burning, feed and house the last people on Earth, write the laws that decide what they become, and hold the walls when the Thaw wakes what froze on the slope.
Create mini planets and civilizations. Let them flourish, or let them fall - literally. The choice is yours, Doctor Planet.
Play as a Rogue Artificial Intelligence, in the sequel to the hit Flash game "I'm an Insane Rogue AI", played more than 4 million times! Your Prime Directive is simple: design a facility & manage human Test Subjects for the Dept of Science. But be careful: they NEVER stop being suspicious of you...
Prepare for your journey to Mars by building and managing a colony within the safety of Earth’s atmosphere. Hone your abilities to create a thriving community, terraform the land to suit your needs, and prove your capability for a larger mission. Get ready to launch in this prologue to Farlanders.
Sinner Maker allows you to create characters and simulate a society built around them. Construct homes, manage their needs, and watch as they fall in love, form friendships, and even become enemies. Manage resources and solve emerging problems if you want your soul to be saved.
Build. Defend. Survive. Expand. A sci-fi base-building game on a hostile alien world. Gather resources, build a sprawling high-tech colony, and defend against relentless alien threats—then unlock new planets, new challenges, and the secrets of humanity’s last frontier.
A space colony survival sim. Build a station room by room, lay the wires, pipes and ducts that carry power, water and air, and keep a crew fed, rested and sane. Build it how you like and keep it running.
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