Random Space vs Mars
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Random Space
Embark on a survival adventure in uncharted space after a spacecraft failure. As an engineer, upgrade your module, build robots, gather resources, and construct a new ship to return home. Manage your basic needs while exploring diverse, procedurally generated planets.
- Space survival gameplay
- Base and spacecraft construction
- Resource gathering and management
- Robot assistance
- Procedurally generated star systems
- Planet exploration
Read full descriptionHide full description
Random Space is a game of survival in the wild space. You suffered a wreck in an unknown system due to spacecraft failure. Everything you have is an emergency accommodation module and a heap of scrap. But by good fortune, you are an engineer and you have a clever pair of hands. Upgrade your habitation, build assisting robots, collect enough resources and build a spacecraft. To come home, you will have to visit all planets to determine your current location. In addition, you need to breathe, sleep and eat – remember about it! Design your spacecraft, save every drop of fuel, every tomato sprout and every gulp of air. Nobody knows for how long you will have to stay here. Follow planet movement to make a flight at the right moment when they move closer. Build and again build, upgrade, get and remember about your own needs. It will be a unique experience for every player – the star system is generated in an unpredictable manner, starting with visual parameters up to physical peculiarities of planets. Methods to survive on every planet differ – required resources available, amount of luminous energy, atmosphere availability, force of gravity, and surface area. Tune in the beat of the atmosphere of unknown planets and loneliness. I hope you will like this story. However, it depends on you whether the wild space will be friendly with you...
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
Read full descriptionHide full description
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!
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Random Space at 4.7 against Mars's 4.1. Random Space also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 66%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Mars's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 8 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Random Space sells 4 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.
Random Space holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 55 and 26 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Random Space's written reviews are positive against 66% of Mars's.
Random Space ships an update every 8 months, Mars every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Random Space | Mars |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (55 ratings) — better | 4.1 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better | 65.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 55 — better | 26 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 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 | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 239 MB | 2.6 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Tavintsev | Stefan Nyul |
Customer experience
Random Space
Mars
In-app purchases
Random Space
- Thank the author (1)$0.99
- Thank the author (2)$1.99
- Thank the author (3)$3.99
Show 1 moreShow fewer
- Thank the author (4)$6.99
Mars
- Logistics contract$0.99
- MAA Gold Membership$1.99
- Sponsors contract$2.99








