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Maize cover art

Maize

Finish Line Games · 2016-12-01

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 12, 2017 (Xbox One), Dec 01, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 12, 2017 (PlayStation 4)

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.

3
playing now
82%
positive of 2.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
71/100
critic score (9 outlets, IGDB)
61/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Maize is a video game by Finish Line Games in Toronto. It was released on December 1, 2016.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 21% of 11,486 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 54k–128k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,141 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$9.99
lowest across shops (ITAD)$9.99
Microsoft Store$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.99 at GOG (2025-08-26) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 13 of 26 observed days · $8.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

402026-08-06 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$1.992016-11-252026-08-302016-11-25 — best price $16.992017-02-07 — best price $14.992017-06-06 — best price $9.992017-11-16 — best price $4.992018-02-15 — best price $4.992018-05-10 — best price $7.992018-11-21 — best price $4.992019-01-10 — best price $4.992019-07-09 — best price $19.992019-11-18 — best price $19.992019-12-19 — best price $4.992020-01-23 — best price $4.992020-04-07 — best price $3.992020-05-27 — best price $3.992020-10-29 — best price $3.992020-12-11 — best price $3.992021-02-11 — best price $3.992021-06-24 — best price $4.992021-10-22 — best price $19.992021-12-04 — best price $19.992022-02-03 — best price $19.992022-06-23 — best price $3.992023-01-05 — best price $19.992023-06-30 — best price $3.992023-11-28 — best price $19.992024-03-21 — best price $19.992024-08-14 — best price $19.992024-11-26 — best price $3.992025-01-03 — best price $19.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-06-18 — best price $3.992025-09-25 — best price $1.992025-10-20 — best price $1.992026-03-19 — best price $2.002026-06-17 — best price $9.992026-08-30 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing1 DLC

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox One (Xbox)1,49739%14
PS4 (PlayStation)55319%14
Steam (Steam)0—67

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

FunnyIndieComedyPuzzleSci-fiSurrealAdventureStory RichAtmosphericExploration

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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