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Maia

Simon Roth · Machine Studios · 2018-11-23

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 23, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 23, 2018 (Linux), Nov 23, 2018 (Mac)

Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.

0
playing now
44%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
$24.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Maia is a sci-fi strategy simulation video game developed by Simon Roth. The game has been described as "Dungeon Keeper meets Dwarf Fortress on a primordial alien world". Roth also cites Theme Hospital, The Sims, Black & White and Space Station 13 amongst its influences.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 24% of 18,104 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 27k–64k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,065 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2024-03-14) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$2.992015-01-012025-10-062015-01-01 — best price $19.492015-04-26 — best price $24.992015-10-22 — best price $13.992016-01-04 — best price $24.992016-03-08 — best price $13.992016-05-09 — best price $13.992016-06-23 — best price $12.492016-10-17 — best price $24.992016-12-15 — best price $13.992017-01-02 — best price $24.992017-04-21 — best price $12.492017-07-05 — best price $24.992017-10-18 — best price $13.992017-11-01 — best price $24.992017-12-21 — best price $12.492018-02-19 — best price $24.992018-06-21 — best price $12.492018-11-01 — best price $24.992018-12-25 — best price $16.742019-02-11 — best price $24.992019-10-28 — best price $16.742019-12-03 — best price $24.992020-06-25 — best price $3.742021-01-26 — best price $24.992021-03-09 — best price $13.992021-06-07 — best price $24.992021-11-24 — best price $13.992022-01-05 — best price $24.992022-12-22 — best price $7.492023-01-30 — best price $24.992023-06-05 — best price $12.492023-07-13 — best price $24.992023-12-21 — best price $8.492024-03-21 — best price $24.992024-07-29 — best price $7.742024-12-04 — best price $24.992025-03-13 — best price $7.742025-03-31 — best price $24.992025-09-29 — best price $11.492025-10-06 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2102026-05-30 — 6 pageviews2026-06-02 — 3 pageviews2026-06-05 — 2 pageviews2026-06-08 — 4 pageviews2026-06-11 — 4 pageviews2026-06-14 — 11 pageviews2026-06-17 — 4 pageviews2026-06-20 — 1 pageviews2026-06-23 — 7 pageviews2026-06-26 — 8 pageviews2026-06-29 — 1 pageviews2026-07-02 — 4 pageviews2026-07-05 — 3 pageviews2026-07-08 — 2 pageviews2026-07-11 — 1 pageviews2026-07-14 — 6 pageviews2026-07-17 — 5 pageviews2026-07-20 — 3 pageviews2026-07-23 — 21 pageviews2026-07-26 — 3 pageviews2026-07-29 — 3 pageviews2026-08-01 — 5 pageviews2026-08-05 — 1 pageviews2026-08-08 — 5 pageviews2026-08-11 — 5 pageviews2026-08-14 — 4 pageviews2026-08-17 — 1 pageviews2026-08-20 — 3 pageviews2026-08-23 — 5 pageviews2026-08-26 — 8 pageviews2026-08-27 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

Player tags

IndieSpaceSci-fiSandboxBuildingCraftingStrategySurvivalColony SimManagement

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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