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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.

Mars Horizon is a management, space and strategy game developed and published by Auroch Digital.
Released on November 17th 2020 is available on Windows and MacOS in 8 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Portuguese - Brazil.

It has received 2,974 reviews of which 2,497 were positive and 477 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 17.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 9.30€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Mars Horizon into these genres:

Management Space Strategy Education Mars Space Sim Science Historical Choices Matter Building Alternate History Turn-Based Exploration Simulation Stylized Logic Singleplayer Resource Management Immersive Sim Physics

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7 / 8 / 10
Processor: 2.0GHz Dual Core Processor
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GT 740 (2048 MB) / Radeon HD 5770 (1024 MB) or equivalent
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 4 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX compatible

MacOS

OS: 10.15 (macOS Catalina)
Processor: 3.2 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 630
Storage: 4 GB available space
Additional Notes: A dedicated graphics card is strongly recommended for the best experience.

User reviews & Ratings

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Nov. 2025

It's a pretty good game, and is a great example of what I'd consider a modern educational game. I certainly learned a lot about astronomy and the Space Race, despite already being a fan of the subject. While giving you as much freedom as possible, it also strives for accuracy by giving you only those rockets or shuttles your chosen space agency had access to in real life. It does get repetitive after a while, as the missions themselves are essentially just puzzles. They thankfully include an "auto resolve" feature that prevents it from getting too monotonous, but I was definitely ready to move on by the endgame. I'll definitely be returning to it later, though.

Aug. 2025

Great game, fun to play, very informational and historical. - Fun and enjoyable to play. - Easy to understand. - Very educational about real space race history. - Included (somewhat) real-life countries agency. - Cool spaceship building system. - Cool cut-scenes. - Quite grindy. - Gameplay becomes repetitive pretty fast. - Very frustrating % rates, my rocket blew up at 1% more than 70% of failure rate a lot of time.

Aug. 2025

Mars Horizon – The game that proves going to Mars isn’t just about heroic astronauts and epic landings, but mostly about budget meetings, exploding rockets, and watching progress bars creep forward. Aspect Review Space Agency Simulator Lead your own space program – finally live your Elon Musk fantasy without the Twitter meltdowns. Realistic Management Plan rocket launches, research tech, and assign staff – basically space bureaucracy with cooler stationery. Educational Value Learn real space history so you can annoy your friends with NASA trivia later. Progress Feels Rewarding From your first satellite to a manned Mars landing – every step feels like a mini victory against gravity. Tense Launches Every rocket launch is a heart attack in game form – will it soar to glory or become a very expensive firework? Clean Interface Simple, clear menus that don’t make you feel like you’re piloting Excel – rare for a management sim. Negative Patience Required Research and missions take forever – welcome to the thrilling reality of waiting in space. Repetitive Loop Plan, click, wait, panic, repeat – you’ll feel like a very stressed intern at NASA. Visually Modest If you expected cinematic sci-fi, you’re really just watching PowerPoint with rockets. Rocket Explosions Funny the first time, heartbreaking the third time your “reliable” booster becomes modern art. | Why You Should Buy It | Because it’s the only game where you can feel like a space agency director constantly teetering between triumph and flaming debris – and somehow still smiling. |

July 2025

It was a good game, but the missions were somewhat predictable.

March 2025

Worth getting on sale if you're a space enthusiast. Your goal is to be the first space agency to complete a manned Mars mission. The game has a basic loop of completing missions for support/research/cash and get extra rewards for being among the first to complete milestone missions. Support increases your budget, research allows you to advance the tech tree, and cash is needed for mission payloads, launch vehicles, astronauts, buildings, etc. That said, there are a couple of things that hold this back from being an unqualified recommendation: The space agency bonuses aren't really balanced, some are clearly more useful than the others. Their tech trees are also basically the same, just renamed. Strategic choices are limited. Sure, you can cut some corners to hit certain milestones faster, but the nature of the game means you'll probably end up researching all the same stuff, albeit in different order. Buildings are probably underpowered by mid-late game, because researching and building them takes you off the critical path. There are various mini-game elements that get repetitive. Missions involve succeeding various dice rolls to convert resources into other resources in order to hit a certain target amount, given constraints. It got boring so about halfway through I started just autoresolving all of them. There's another mini-game in optimizing building placement for bonuses, but that takes money. Researching a certain level of building research allows you to move buildings around for free, but again, that takes you off the critical path so it's just not worth doing.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Mars Horizon is currently priced at 17.99€ on Steam.

Mars Horizon is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 17.99€ on Steam.

Mars Horizon received 2,497 positive votes out of a total of 2,974 achieving a rating of 8.09.

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Mars Horizon was developed and published by Auroch Digital.

Mars Horizon is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Mars Horizon is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Mars Horizon is not playable on Linux.

Mars Horizon is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for Mars Horizon. Explore additional content available for Mars Horizon on Steam.

Mars Horizon does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Mars Horizon does not support Steam Remote Play.

Mars Horizon is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Mars Horizon.

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