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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.

  • Economy and management
  • Building and crafting
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Deep systems to master

The closest matches for Maia are Stardeus, RimWorld and Surviving Mars. 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

100 %Match

2022PCSteam Deck verified87 % positive29.99 €

  • Economy and management
  • Building and crafting
  • Sci-fi setting

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

Deep systems to master

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.

Surviving Mars

Deep systems to master

A city builder where you found a Mars colony and keep it alive with domes, drones and careful resource management. The appeal lies in planning supply chains and surviving hostile conditions.

Stranded: Alien Dawn

Building and crafting

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.

Oxygen Not Included

Deep systems to master

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.

Planetbase

Economy and management

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.

Factorio

Deep systems to master

Stranded on an alien world, you grow a crude mining operation into a sprawling automated factory, endlessly optimizing belts, production chains and logistics. All the while you must defend it from native creatures angered by your spreading pollution.

Aven Colony

Economy and management

A sci-fi city-builder where you establish humanity's first colony on the alien world of Aven Prime. You must keep colonists fed, employed and happy while surviving hostile environmental hazards and threats.

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