Games like Maize
If Maize is your kind of game, the closest matches are Holidays, Still Here and Paradigm — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its clever writing and references, atmospheric and mysterious. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Maize: Maize is a first-person adventure game about what happens when two scientists misinterpret a memo from the U.S. Government and create sentient corn. And that last sentence is pretty much the least ridiculous thing about the game.
Players who liked Maize also play
Steam players who put hours into Maize also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Holidays
WHY THIS
Top pick for Maize fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
In this interactive adventure, you play as a teacher suffering from delirium tremens. A world will open before you where every choice you make matters. Explore different locations, engage in battles, make decisions that will correspond to your desires and moral principles.
Still Here
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Maize fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
Investigate a disturbing murder case in a world shaped by guilt, trauma and fractured memories. Explore unsettling locations, solve puzzles and uncover a truth your mind desperately tried to bury.
Paradigm
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Maize.
Third-strongest match for Maize fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
Paradigm is a surreal adventure game set in the strange and post apocalyptic Eastern European country of Krusz. Play as the handsome mutant, Paradigm, whose past comes back to haunt him in the form of a genetically engineered sloth that vomits candy.
Obduction
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Maize.
Ranked #4 for Maize fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.
Discolored
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Maize.
Ranked #5 for Maize fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
Locals whisper of a roadside diner that’s lost its color. You are sent to investigate.
Oneiros
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Maize.
Ranked #6 for Maize fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
Will you be able to break the vicious circle? Can you regain control? Experience the surreal adventure filled with many puzzles and psychedelic visions.
Mr. Pumpkin Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Maize.
Ranked #7 for Maize fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
Mr. Pumpkin's Adventure is a point-and-click puzzle game. The main character of this game is Mr. Pumpkin who lost his memories. During the adventure, you will help him solve all the puzzles, which will eventually unveil an evil plot.
MirrorMoon EP
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Maize.
Ranked #8 for Maize fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
MirrorMoon EP is a game about mystery and exploration set in outer space. These space travels begin on a red planet and its unique moon and extend across galaxies. The single player part of MirrorMoon EP blends adventure and exploration with navigation-based puzzle solving.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Maize
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Portal
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Maize cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
Team Fortress 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Maize cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Nine distinct classes provide a broad range of tactical abilities and personalities. Constantly updated with new game modes, maps, equipment and, most importantly, hats!
Portal 2
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Maize.
Reviewers of Maize cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Maize.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Maize.
Reviewers of Maize cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
The Stanley Parable
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Maize.
Reviewers of Maize cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
The Beginner's Guide
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Maize.
Reviewers of Maize cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.
Pony Island
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Maize.
Reviewers of Maize cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Maize.
Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.
Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Maize.
Reviewers of Maize cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality smashes together the absolute VR chaos of the award-winning Job Simulator with the ridiculous, all-out, take-no-prisoners comedy of Rick and Morty.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Maize at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Maize on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Maize.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Maize on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Maize.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Maize on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Maize.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Maize on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Maize.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Maize on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Maize on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Maize.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Maize on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Maize.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Maize on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Maize.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Maize.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Maize.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Maize.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Maize.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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More from Finish Line Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Finish Line Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Skully
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Maize.
Another title from Finish Line Games, the studio behind Maize. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
On a mysterious remote island, a skull washes up on shore and is reawakened by an enigmatic deity. Dubbed Skully, the newly reanimated being has been summoned to intervene in a war between the deity’s three siblings, whose quarrel jeopardizes the island they call home.
DeadRoot
WHY THIS
Another title from Finish Line Games, the studio behind Maize. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
DeadRoot is a barbaric medieval action-adventure set in a bug-sized world of underground dungeons and towering ruins. Splatter bug guts and slay colossal bosses as Kitt, a lone snail warrior, who must draw his sword against overwhelming odds.
Robots at Midnight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Maize.
Another title from Finish Line Games, the studio behind Maize. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maize.
Bash through gangs of hostile robots and corrupt bosses in this stylish & punchy Action-RPG. As Zoe, a scrappy agile hero, you’ll search for your past while fighting for the future.
Frequently asked about Maize
- How much does Maize cost?
- Maize is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Maize?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Maize are Holidays, Still Here, Paradigm.
- Who developed Maize?
- Maize was developed by Finish Line Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Maize.
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