Mars Horizon similar games & best alternatives

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

Choose your own criteria ->

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

Similarity map

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

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).

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. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence.

Last update: 03/08/2026