Games like MARS
Games like MARS include They Are Billions, Frostpunk, Oxygen Not Included, RimWorld, and Manor Lords. We matched them by the tags players give MARS on Steam (Strategy, Base Building, Colony Sim, RTS, and Mars): closest matches first, and among equally close ones the better-known games.

They Are Billions
Shared: Base Building · Strategy · Colony Sim

Frostpunk
Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Survival

Oxygen Not Included
Shared: Base Building · Colony Sim · Survival

RimWorld
Shared: Base Building · Colony Sim · Strategy

Manor Lords
Shared: Strategy · Base Building · City Builder

Kingdoms and Castles
Shared: Colony Sim · Strategy · Base Building

Against the Storm
Shared: Strategy · Base Building · Colony Sim

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Shared: Strategy · Base Building · City Builder

Prison Architect
Shared: Base Building · Strategy · Colony Sim

Empires of the Undergrowth
Shared: Strategy · Base Building · Colony Sim

IXION
Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Base Building

Going Medieval
Shared: Base Building · Strategy · Colony Sim

Space Haven
Shared: Base Building · Colony Sim · Strategy

Dwarf Fortress
Shared: Base Building · Colony Sim · Strategy

Farthest Frontier
Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · City Builder

Planetbase
Shared: Colony Sim · Base Building · Strategy

Norland
Shared: Strategy · Base Building · Colony Sim

Banished
Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · City Builder

Infection Free Zone
Shared: Base Building · Strategy · RTS

Factorio
Shared: Base Building · Strategy · Resource Management

Kingdom Two Crowns
Shared: Base Building · Tower Defense · Strategy

Mindustry
Shared: Base Building · Strategy · RTS

Frostpunk 2
Shared: Strategy · Survival · City Builder

Ostriv
Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Base Building