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Games like Terraformers

Enjoyed Terraformers? Here are 6 games that play in a similar way – such as Farlanders, Aven Colony, Surviving Mars: Relaunched. Each shows the cheapest key price from the stores we compare.

About Terraformers: Terraformers is a turn-based strategy game about colony building and resource management, in which the player turns Mars into a green planet. Leaders explore mysterious locations with rich resource depots, giant crystal caves and natural wonders, founding cities in craters and lava tubes. At the start of each turn the player picks buildings from randomly offered project cards and plans city layouts to create synergies between them. The planet is procedurally generated, so every playthrough differs; geoengineering options include restarting a volcano, building giant space mirrors or nuking the poles.

Updated 12 Nov 2026, 00:00 UTC · similar games are picked by AI from our catalogue based on game content (play style, setting, co-op) · descriptions based on official publisher information on Steam

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Farlanders

Farlanders is a turn-based strategy city builder with a retro-inspired look, in which you establish a colony on Mars. Terraforming kits reshape the landscape: a water drop tile placed in a canyon turns the surrounding flatland fertile, while placing it on flat ground may produce ice. Residential areas, water pumps, farms, solar and wind power and factories all gain bonuses depending on their position in the terrain. When the surface runs out of room, you can expand underground to uncover artifacts and rare minerals. Each playthrough generates a new procedural map.

Aven Colony

Aven Colony is a strategy simulation in which you lead humanity's first extrasolar settlement on the alien planet Aven Prime. You expand small colonies into sprawling cities while managing infrastructure, citizens' well-being and resources, and withstanding dangers such as storms, toxic gas eruptions from geothermal vents and giant sandworms. Expeditions explore alien ruins, recover artifacts and fend off splinter groups, rebels and the planet's remaining robot guardians. The game includes a story-driven single-player campaign and a day, night and seasonal cycle in which Aven Prime freezes over in winter.

Surviving Mars: Relaunched

Surviving Mars: Relaunched is a remastered and expanded sci-fi city builder about colonizing Mars, in the simulation and strategy genres. Players move from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists, working toward long-term stability for their settlement. They balance oxygen, water, power and food, build life-support systems and power grids, while drones construct and maintain infrastructure. The game includes improved and reworked expansions, the new Martian Assembly update where players shape society through laws, and rival colonies from the Space Race expansion.

Planetbase

A strategy game in which you lead a group of space settlers establishing a base on a remote planet. As the base architect and manager, you decide where structures are built and keep colonists supplied with oxygen, food and water. You harness energy, mine and process resources, grow hydroponic vegetables, synthesize Vitromeat and build production chains. You must also manage colonist immigration, survive disasters such as meteors, sandstorms or solar flares, and defend the base against intruders.

Before We Leave

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. You look after your Peeps and their surroundings, rebuilding a lost civilisation and settling new lands and planets, gathering and managing resources, pollution and happiness on hexagonal lands. Goods are moved between settlements by sea and by space, ancient technologies are researched, and six unique biomes are there to explore. Hungry Space Whales and other ancient guardians of the galaxy get in the way, yet there are no weapons and no battles over resources – just you and a solar system full of opportunities.

Pax Nova

Pax Nova is a sci-fi turn-based 4X strategy game. After a century of political tension and countless armed conflicts Earth is close to being uninhabitable, so humanity uses a message from deep space to start over on Eos, opening the era of ‘Pax Nova’. You choose one of 15 factions split between three races, each with its own playstyle, and build cities, expand your influence through diplomacy or prepare for battles on land and in space. Planets are procedurally generated with different biomes and hide secrets, creatures, characters and other factions, space brings pirates and space creatures, and the game also offers unique victory conditions plus unit and ship customization.