Games Like Maia

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, Base Building 10%, Survival 9.5%, Management 9%, Space 8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar gritty, modular approach to building and managing a space-faring colony under constant threat.

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.3%, Base Building 12%, Survival 10%, Space 9.5%, Strategy 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A direct peer that focuses on the logistical challenges of establishing a self-sustaining base on a hostile planet.

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 44.4%, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 12.2%, Management 6.1%, Space 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the deep, technical simulation of life support systems and resource management in a sci-fi setting.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40%, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 11%, Management 8.4%, Sci-fi 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive colony simulator that mirrors Maia's focus on individual colonist needs and emergent storytelling.

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, Base Building 16.8%, Survival 16.5%, Management 7.9%, Strategy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a 3D, high-fidelity survival experience on an alien world that feels like a modern evolution of Maia's premise.

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, Space 13.8%, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Strategy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the high-stakes management of a space station where every decision impacts the survival of the crew.

Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 10.1%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Space 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features a deep simulation of ship systems and AI management that resonates with Maia's technical base-building.

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, Base Building 11.7%, Space 9.3%, Management 8%, Survival 7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the industrial and logistical side of building a base on a hostile moon.

Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.4%, Base Building 16.5%, Space 12.1%, Simulation 6.8%, Strategy 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines space exploration with complex automation and base-building mechanics.

From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, Management 10.5%, Sci-fi 9.1%, Survival 8.6%, Space 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to manage a space station with a focus on colonist AI and atmospheric storytelling.

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11.9%, Management 11.7%, Strategy 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for complex, emergent simulation that inspired the entire colony-sim genre.

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.3%, Survival 10.9%, Management 9.4%, Space 7.6%, Sandbox 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a god-game perspective on guiding a civilization through planetary survival challenges.

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 51.1%, Sci-fi 10%, Base Building 8.8%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a structured approach to building a colony on a vibrant, yet dangerous, alien world.

In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.

Why similar: Base Building 17.5%, Space 16.9%, Sci-fi 15.2%, Simulation 12.3%, Strategy 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic space-station management sim that shares the same genre DNA as Maia.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.3%, Survival 18.8%, Strategy 10%, Base Building 7.7%, Management 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: While set on Earth, it matches Maia's brutal focus on survival against an unforgiving, lethal environment.

Design, build and control your own space station. Mission command and control is in your hands and only careful planning and vigilant supervision will keep your crew and space station safe.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, Management 11.5%, Space 10.5%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Simulation 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses specifically on the technical aspects of constructing and maintaining a functional space station.

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.7%, Survival 15.3%, Strategy 12%, Base Building 11%, Simulation 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with exploration and survival in a harsh, ruined world.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.6%, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 11.8%, Management 11.3%, Strategy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Translates the colony-sim formula to a survival-focused medieval setting with deep building mechanics.

Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 48.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 7.8%, Strategy 6.2%, Simulation 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A deep colony simulation that emphasizes building and managing a community in a challenging environment.

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.2%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Management 11.2%, Base Building 9.7%, Strategy 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges players to manage multiple colonies in a post-apocalyptic world with limited resources.

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, Base Building 11.3%, Management 10.8%, Sci-fi 8.8%, Space 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management of a sci-fi base dedicated to space exploration and portal technology.

Sol 0 is a real time strategy game where you establish the first Martian colony. From the first human footprints on Martian soil to a thriving and self-sustaining colony, Sol 0 imagines a near future using technology that could be available within the next few decades.

Why similar: Base Building 25.6%, Strategy 24.6%, Space 22.5%, Simulation 20.3%, Indie 7%

Why You'll Like It: A realistic take on the early stages of establishing a Martian base.

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1%, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 10.9%, Management 9.1%, Sci-fi 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that emphasizes resource management in a post-apocalyptic setting.

A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 10.4%, Management 10.4%, Sci-fi 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a sci-fi colony management experience with a focus on underground base expansion.

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: Colony Sim 56.5%, Survival 11.9%, Strategy 7.1%, Sandbox 6.6%, Building 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A charming yet challenging colony-sim that focuses on building and defending a settlement.

Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.

Why similar: Base Building 21.2%, Survival 20.6%, Sci-fi 15.3%, Simulation 9.9%, Sandbox 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A highly detailed survival game that focuses on the technical realities of living on Mars.

Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 10.7%, Management 9.8%, Strategy 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the early stages of human development and colony building in a prehistoric setting.

ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.5%, Base Building 12%, Survival 11.5%, Management 10.6%, Strategy 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony sim that emphasizes survival and base defense.

Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Management 9.6%, Space 9.4%, Survival 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based approach to the classic Mars colonization and base-building formula.

Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.4%, Base Building 12.8%, Management 10.4%, Space 7.9%, Sci-fi 6.1%

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5%, Survival 12.9%, Base Building 10.9%, Management 9.8%, Simulation 7.9%

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.2%, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 5.7%, Strategy 5.2%

Starship Theory is a ship building survival game. Mine and trade to gather resources. Plan and construct new upgrades. Train and manage crew. Fight to survive.

Why similar: Base Building 20.5%, Space 14.5%, Survival 14.5%, Management 11.9%, Simulation 10.7%

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.5%, Base Building 14%, Management 8.5%, Simulation 7.6%, Strategy 6.7%

Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.9%, Survival 17.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Sci-fi 9.1%, Strategy 6.6%

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Why similar: Colony Sim 48.1%, Survival 13.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Strategy 5.5%, Management 5.4%

Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.

Why similar: Management 18%, Sci-fi 16%, Strategy 15.8%, Simulation 14.5%, Base Building 9.5%

In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet. Build a multi-level vertical structure to produce and manage your resources and staff, in order to dominate the competition!

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5%, Base Building 11.5%, Management 10.5%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Space 8.6%

Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6%, Base Building 10.4%, Management 9.8%, Survival 9.6%, Sci-fi 8.1%

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.3%, Survival 13.2%, Management 12.4%, Base Building 7.2%, Simulation 6.2%

Sphere – Flying Cities is a sci-fi citybuilder which combines strategy, simulation, and survival elements in an extraordinary and immersive scenario. Rebuild and protect a society in a unique and hostile environment. Pay the price for your decisions and be prepared to lose everything.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, Survival 11.9%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Space 9.2%, Management 9%

It's the year 5781 -- and you have been chosen to build and lead a space station in a wild corner of the galaxy! Attract visitors and explore hundreds of planets to fund your station.

Why similar: Colony Sim 15.1%, Management 13.4%, Base Building 12.4%, Space 11.3%, Sci-fi 10.2%

Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 11.7%, Management 7.4%, Strategy 7.4%

Explore the Solar System. Mine and drop asteroids. Colonize and terraform. Lead the space race and compete with other corporations on your way to profit. Watch the expansion of human race over the centuries.

Why similar: Space 19.3%, Management 16.6%, Sci-fi 15.5%, Simulation 12%, Sandbox 10.3%

Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Why similar: Colony Sim 49.2%, Survival 10.2%, Strategy 8.3%, Sandbox 7.6%, Simulation 7.5%

「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2%, Base Building 13.3%, Management 8.9%, Space 8.8%, Simulation 8%

Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 11.6%, Sci-fi 8.5%, Management 8.2%

Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Management 10.9%, Survival 10.4%, Simulation 6.5%

Manage interstellar pioneers and their descendants in this detailed sci-fi colony sim. Centuries after planetfall, colonists are still struggling to gain foothold on their lush and alien planet. You settle on the frontier by carefully managing resources, production and different personalities.

Why similar: Simulation 30.4%, Strategy 28.9%, Survival 17.4%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Indie 8.5%

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 11.2%, Management 10%, Sci-fi 9.3%

A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.5%, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 11.3%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 8.1%

The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.6%, Management 10.6%, Base Building 9.9%, Space 9.3%, Sci-fi 8%

The Spatials are back with Galactology! Design, build and protect your colony station from the many enemies you will make while exploring the galaxy and exploding their homeworlds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 11.8%, Space 9.2%, Sandbox 5.9%

Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder. Expand your city, manage limited resources and optimize production chains as you navigate difficult choices about humanity’s future among the stars.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.7%, Management 11.3%, Base Building 10%, Survival 10%, Space 8.6%

Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 9.9%, Space 8%, Strategy 7%

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.5%, Survival 11.5%, Management 9.5%, Base Building 9.4%, Strategy 7.5%

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: Colony Sim 62%, Survival 10.2%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 5.9%, Building 3.7%

Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…

Why similar: Colony Sim 51.3%, Base Building 16.1%, Space 9%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 5.1%

Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 73.6%, Simulation 11.5%, Strategy 10.9%, Indie 4%