The Best Mars Games for Mac OS

Update : Planetiles added at rank #12.
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Terraformers (2022)

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Transform Mars into a habitable planet in Terraformers. With challenging strategizing and resource management, explore the planet and expand population, all while watching the stunning new natural wonders build up before your eyes. Take on different scenarios and bonuses and create a thriving utopia. Get lost in the addictive puzzle-like game with unique replayability and rewarding graphics and UI.


What we like:
  • Focus on strategy
  • Various difficulty levels
  • Unique victory conditions
  • Nice graphics and UI
  • Rich soundtrack
What could be improved:
  • Only one way to lose the game
  • Some bugs present
  • Game can become repetitive

  • turn-based
  • mars
  • space
  • resource-management
  • science
  • rogue-like
  • nonlinear
  • card
  • procedural
  • board-game
  • colony
  • sci-fi
  • choices
  • simulation
  • management

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Caverns of Mars: Recharged (2023)

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Race through caverns while blasting away enemies and terrain to reach the depths of Mars in this reimagining of the 1981 classic.

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  • rogue-like
  • mars
  • shooter
  • vertical-scrolling
  • scrolling
  • cooperative
  • arcade
  • attack
  • score
  • futuristic
  • space
  • action
  • colourful
  • aliens
  • sci-fi

3

Farlanders (2023)

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Farlanders is a turn-based city builder set on Mars, with a puzzle game mentality and an engaging story that challenges you to think about the right you have to change the face of a planet. You play as Marco, an architect who discovers that all is not what it seems. Balance resources, build structures and manage colony happiness in this demanding but rewarding space colony simulator.


What we like:
  • Vibrant visuals
  • Realistic environments
  • Dynamic building system
  • Strategic choices
  • Challenging gameplay
  • Turn-based city builder
  • Procedurally generated maps
What could be improved:
  • Complexity can be overwhelming for some players
  • Steep learning curve
  • Requires careful resource management

  • city-building
  • turn-based
  • mars
  • colony
  • resource-management
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • building
  • strategy
  • space
  • procedural
  • pixel
  • management
  • survival

4

Mars Horizon (2020)

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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.


  • simulation
  • space
  • mars
  • turn-based
  • historical
  • exploration
  • management
  • historically
  • science
  • alternate
  • education
  • logic
  • choices
  • immersive
  • building

5

Mars Power Industries Deluxe (2019)

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Linux Mac OS Xbox One PC Windows

Mysterious puzzle inspired by 2001:Space Odyssey. Manage resources, solve challenging puzzles and uncover what lies beneath the surface! Year after year, strange happenings plague our tiny colony, darkness devours Mars. Your job as an Electrician? Bring light where darkness reigns!

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  • mars
  • logic
  • turn-based
  • space
  • minimalist
  • building
  • stylized
  • relaxing
  • abstract
  • atmospheric
  • 2d
  • pixel
  • management
  • puzzle
  • cute

6

Terraforming Mars (2018)

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Android IOS iPhone PC Windows Mac OS

The game now doesn't reset the page when zooming in and out of a card. A card counter indicating how many cards are left in the deck. Multiple UI improvements for mobile and PC.


  • mars
  • tabletop
  • board-game
  • turn-based
  • space
  • hex
  • card
  • base-building
  • strategy
  • multiplayer
  • grand-strategy
  • pvp
  • sci-fi
  • beautiful
  • management

7

Golf On Mars (2020)

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For centuries, philosophers and mathematicians have gazed up at the night sky and wondered: "Is there Golf On Mars?

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  • golf
  • mars
  • procedural
  • minimalist
  • sport
  • realistic
  • relaxing
  • physics

8

Terraformers: First Steps on Mars (2021)

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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.

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  • colony
  • mars
  • simulation
  • 4x
  • nature
  • resource-management
  • city-building
  • tabletop
  • space
  • stylized
  • strategy
  • family-friendly
  • futuristic
  • atmospheric
  • sci-fi

9

Mars 2055 (2022)

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You wake up, alone, on a planet that appears to be Mars. There is not much else I can tell you.

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  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • action-adventure
  • mars
  • 3d
  • dark
  • strategy
  • adventure
  • exploration
  • controller-support
  • open-world
  • sandbox

10

Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder (2024)

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Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 5 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

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  • colony
  • city-building
  • mars
  • space
  • spaceships
  • simulation
  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • automation
  • building
  • survival
  • strategy
  • sandbox
  • physics
  • replay-value

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