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2018 PC 24.50 € 39 % positive Mostly negative, 829 reviews on Steam

Maia is a colony-building sim where you keep settlers alive on a hostile alien planet. You manage resources, construction and your colonists' needs inside a living, unpredictable simulation.

What defines Maia:

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Tactical depth
  • Challenging difficulty

The closest matches for Maia are Stellar Settlers, Stardeus and Spacebase DF-9. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Maia special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Stellar Settlers

96 %

2025 PC 11.99 € 69 % positive Mixed, 749 reviews on Steam

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Tactical depth
  • Pure single-player experience

A sci-fi colony sim where you build a base both vertically and horizontally on five hostile planets, carefully managing your settlers and their talents to survive.

Stardeus

Realistic visuals

As an immortal AI you rebuild a wrecked spaceship in a colony-sim style, automating production and deciding how to treat the human survivors. It blends base building, resource management and exploration in space.

New Cycle

Challenging difficulty

A survival city-builder in which you grow a small shelter into an industrial metropolis after a devastating solar flare, managing resources and keeping your people alive.

Stranded: Alien Dawn

Realistic visuals

A colony survival sim where you guide stranded survivors on an alien planet, building bases, managing needs and fending off wildlife and harsh weather. Emergent stories arise from your colonists' personalities and fates.

Planetbase

Challenging difficulty

A sci-fi colony builder where you balance oxygen, food and power to keep settlers alive on hostile planets. Meteors, storms and tight resources turn every expansion into careful planning.

Cepheus Protocol

Realistic visuals

A real-time strategy game where you lead a squad through an alien-virus-stricken San Francisco, rescuing civilians and hunting patient zero before the Cepheus protocol is enacted.

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