Games like Maui
If Maui is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Forest, Block Story™ and Lay of the Land — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its free and short experience, atmospheric and contemplative. 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 Maui: Maui is a free action-adventure game based on Hawaiian mythology. The game features an innovative "stat grid" that lets you switch stats on the fly to face any situation.
Players who liked Maui also play
Steam players who put hours into Maui 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.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Maui.
Top pick for Maui fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Maui.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Block Story™
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Maui.
Second-strongest match for Maui fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Maui.
There isn’t much better than a wide open game world in which you have essentially no limits and can alter the very landscape in which you play – that is, unless you add dragons, of course…
Lay of the Land
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Maui.
Third-strongest match for Maui fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Maui.
Lay of the Land is a sandbox adventure game set in a fantasy world where everything is physically simulated. Use the environment to your advantage and Explore, Fight, Loot and Build your way through mysterious lands.
PixARK
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Maui.
Ranked #4 for Maui fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Maui.
Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!
Portal Knights
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Maui.
Ranked #5 for Maui fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Maui.
The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!
Survival Machine
WHY THIS
Shares resource gathering, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Maui.
Ranked #6 for Maui fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Maui.
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Last Oasis
WHY THIS
Shares resource gathering with Maui.
Ranked #7 for Maui fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Maui.
Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.
Planet Explorers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Maui.
Ranked #8 for Maui fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Maui.
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Head-to-head comparisons
Frequently asked about Maui
- Is Maui free to play?
- Yes — Maui is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Maui?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Maui are The Forest, Block Story™, Lay of the Land.
- Who developed Maui?
- Maui was developed by Kokua 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 Maui.
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