Mars Sandbox
Build and simulate a colony on Mars.
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Mars Sandbox started as a fun experiment: what if I could build a little colony on Mars and then mess with it? Build Olympic City, change the time of day, throw dust storms, solar flares, meteorites and extreme cold at it, then try to recover. This is just V1. There’s a lot I want to improve, expand and polish from here. The goal is to slowly turn this little experiment into a beautiful, detailed Mars simulation.
PH · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 7%) · 1 view
Niche: management and simulation games · 82 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -58% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Simulation Games
- Space
- Games
- OpenAI Day
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Could you build this?
Yes A lightweight sandbox simulation game on Mars can be vibe-coded using Three.js, React Three Fiber, or Babylon.js with basic state-based disaster events and resource counters.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 141 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #17 of 142 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 289 days after the earliest competitor.
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- The Galaxy We Made · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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- NYC Survive · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Sandboxels.cc Independent Guide · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Termcraft · hn · 2026-03-21 · 136 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- mars-2100 · github · 2026-10-30 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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