Mars Horizon similar games & best alternatives

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Mars Horizon

PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2020

Should you play it?

Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.

What works

  • Engaging space race competition
  • Educational and historically grounded
  • Accessible yet strategic gameplay
  • Good replay value with multiple agencies
  • Polished and bug-free experience

Things to keep in mind

  • Repetitive mission minigames
  • Late game can feel grindy
  • Limited rocket design creativity
  • Some ui and information scattered
  • Ai can feel unfair or cheat

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager

  • Game Dev Studio

  • City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins

  • Esports Manager 2026

  • Puffin Planes

  • NITE Team 4 - Military Hacking Division

More violent

Games that feels like Mars Horizon but with more combat and destruction

  • Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition

  • Imperium Galactica II

  • Particle Fleet: Emergence

  • Star Ruler

  • Battle Fleet 2

  • Battlevoid: Harbinger

Less competitive

Games that feels like Mars Horizon but with less competition against others

  • Space Architect

  • Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager

  • EarthX

  • Shortest Trip to Earth

  • Spinnortality | cyberpunk management sim

  • FTL: Faster Than Light

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like Mars Horizon but with less leadership over others

  • Juno: New Origins

  • Solar Settlers

  • SimpleRockets

  • Terraforming Mars

  • Kerbal Space Program

  • The Last Starship

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From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • The Colonists

  • Megaquarium

  • Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!

  • Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun

  • Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun - Words of Vengeance

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  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Mars Horizon. These titles are not in What to play next.

Mars Horizon: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence, Fantasy, Intimacy.

Last update: 21/08/2026