Mars Race vs Mars
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mars Race
Build a Martian city by harvesting solar power and extracting water. Expand your territory by constructing drones to visit and compete with other players for resources, while defending your own colony.
- Martian city building
- Resource harvesting (solar power, water)
- Drone construction for exploration and combat
- Player versus player resource battles
- Territory occupation on Mars
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Occupy Mars. You will be assigned one of the nomenclature NASA locations and stake your ground on the red planet. Here you need to harvest solar power and extract water to build your Martian city. Speed up progress by building drones to visit other colonizers and fight for resources. And the same will be done onto you. The race is on!!
Mars
Engage in a scientific simulation of establishing a Mars colony. Manage a small group of settlers, research technologies, and build a thriving settlement from a single module. Compete with other human-controlled colonies for success on the Red Planet.
- Scientific Mars settlement simulation
- Research and development of technologies
- Exploration of the Red Planet
- Building and managing specialized structures
- Managing settler types and life cycles
- 3D view of settlement and Mars surface
- Offline playability
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Settle on MARS in a mixture of game and scientific simulation. Take control over a tiny group of 10 settlers and choose a landing site on the barren Mars. Develop your venture from one single landing module into a thriving settlement with hundreds of specialized buildings and even more inhabitants. Research & development of new technologies as well as exploration of the Red Planet are key for establishing a permanent presence in this hostile environment. And you are not alone. Other settlements, each one controlled by a real human somewhere on Earth, are starting to grow everywhere and a competition for being the most successful Mars colony has already begun. Features: - Scientific orientated building & simulation of a Mars settlement - Background story in 6 phases with according phase goals - Mars simulation in 30x real time (even running when app is not active) - Choosing one of 7 Earth organizations providing (dis-)advantages - Research & development of 152 individual technologies - Construction, maintenance & repair of 51 individual building - 35 individual building enhancements (no level 1,2,3...) - Sending Mars exploration teams and analyzing found soil samples - Production & dispatching of 23 different resource/module types - Assignment of 5 settler types to all activities in the settlement - Settler life cycle including children and elders - 3D view of own settlement in authentic Mars topography - Panning & zooming of the Mars surface in high resolution 3D - 100% usable without Internet connection - Optional online: ranking list & other settlements on Mars surface - Unlocking of advanced app functionalities step by step - Tutorial explaining all app functionalities - Contains some Ads but only after 15 Minutes of game and very decent - Contains In-App-Purchases but NO PAY TO WIN! - This is a peaceful app! NO FIGHTING, NO KILLING, NO WAR!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Mars Race at 100% against Mars's 66%. Mars Race also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Mars's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (26 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Mars Race sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Mars sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Mars Race holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mars has 26 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Mars Race's written reviews are positive against 66% of Mars's.
Mars Race ships an update every 6 months, Mars every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mars Race | Mars |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better | 4.1 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 65.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 26 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 249 MB | 2.6 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | aGame Company | Stefan Nyul |
Customer experience
Mars Race
Mars
In-app purchases
Mars Race
- Few$3.99
- Pile$9.99
- Bag$18.99
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- Box$48.99
- Vault$94.99
Mars
- Logistics contract$0.99
- MAA Gold Membership$1.99
- Sponsors contract$2.99









