Rank 01Why this
Shares base building and crafting with Gaia.
- $19.99 (Price checked Oct 31)
- 2019
Games like Gaia
- 19 games
- Updated May 5, 2026
Players who liked Gaia also play
The closest matches to Gaia: Outpost Zero, Road to Eden, Satisfactory, Planetaries, and Journey Of Life. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
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Also Open World Survival Craft and Base-Building, like Gaia.
- $19.99 (Price checked Oct 31)
- 2019
Rank 03Why this
Shares base building with Gaia.
- $39.99 (Price checked Nov 4)
- Deck Verified
- 2024
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Planetaries
Why this: Shares tower defense and base building with Gaia.
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Journey Of Life
Why this: Shares survival and crafting with Gaia.
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- Released: 2020
- Developer: Eternal Stardust Studios
- Price: $19.99checked Oct 31
- 56% of 55 reviews
- Genres: Action, Strategy, Indie, Adventure, Simulation, RPG
- Platforms: Windows
Players highlight
- Build and customize vehicles for land air and sea
- Craft complex items from assembler recipes
- Defend bases against waves of raiders
- Atmospheric
- Challenging
- Contemplative
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Reviewers mention these as similar to Gaia
Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.
RimWorld
Why this: Also Base-Building and Procedural Generation, like Gaia.
GRAV
Why this: Shares base building and crafting with Gaia.
Empyrion - Galactic Survival
Why this: Same atmospheric mood as Gaia.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Gaia at current Steam store prices.
The Riftbreaker
Why this: Shares tower defense and base building with Gaia.
Mechanica
Why this: Shares vehicle construction with Gaia.
Surviving Ceres
Why this: Shares base building and crafting with Gaia.
Remains
Why this: Shares base building with Gaia.
Taora : Survival
Why this: Also Open World Survival Craft and Base-Building, like Gaia.
ARK: Survival Ascended
Why this: Shares survival and base building with Gaia.
About Gaia
The closest matches to Gaia: Outpost Zero, Road to Eden, Satisfactory, Planetaries, and Journey Of Life. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Gaia is your kind of game, the closest matches are Outpost Zero, Road to Eden and Satisfactory — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, challenging and contemplative, and single out its ancient structure restoration and base building. 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.
About Gaia: A sci-fi base building survival game, featuring raids, agriculture, intelligent AI, natural disasters and more.
Is Gaia worth buying?
Players are split
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 56% of 55 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- Price: $19.99 (checked Nov 7).
- People who recommend it had played a median of 5 h when they wrote their review.
- Critics usually quit early: a median of 1.4 h played before their negative review.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Build and customize vehicles for land air and sea
- Craft complex items from assembler recipes
- Defend bases against waves of raiders
- Explore diverse biomes and uncover lore
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“It tries to be many things by borrowing ideas from other games such as Subnautica and RimWorld, but fails to be a good at anything and the sum of all parts don't come together to form something better. The graphics are mediocre at best…”
“This game's gameplay elements do not make up for its amateur visual, audio and UI design. Gameplay is clumsy and reliant on the long-ago codified gameplay of run-really-far-to-look-for-a-green-flower-with-red-thorns that you inexplicably…”
People who play it also play: Outpost Zero, Road to Eden, Satisfactory
Frequently asked about Gaia
Can I run it?
How much does Gaia cost?
Gaia is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Gaia?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gaia are Outpost Zero, Road to Eden, Satisfactory.
Who developed Gaia?
Gaia was developed by Eternal Stardust Studios.