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2018PC39 % positive24.50 €

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.

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Tactical depth
  • Challenging difficulty

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

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Stardeus

99 %Match

2022PCSteam Deck verified87 % positive29.99 €

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Realistic visuals
  • Tactical depth

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.

RimWorld

Challenging difficulty

A colony sim where an AI storyteller turns raids, famines and your settlers' personal dramas into unique, often darkly funny emergent stories. Its deep simulation and per-colonist management make every run unpredictable.

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.

Spacebase DF-9

Pure single-player experience

A space station colony-management sim in the vein of Dwarf Fortress: you manage crew, resources and disasters while emergent, often darkly funny stories unfold among your inhabitants.

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.

Mercury Fallen

Pure single-player experience

A sci-fi colony management game where you rebuild an underground base on an alien world, manage colonists and robots, and gradually expand out to the surface.

Oxygen Not Included

Challenging difficulty

A deep colony sim inside an asteroid where you keep your Duplicants alive by managing oxygen, heat, food and waste through interlocking physics-like systems. Spectacular failures are part of the fun, often with dark humor.

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.

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