Maia overview

Overview

Maia comes from Simon Roth and is published by Machine Studios. It arrived on Steam on Nov 23, 2018, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Partial Controller Support, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Maia's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 1 players at 6 October 2026 - 16:41:59 UTC, with a tracked peak near 8. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 44% positive across 1,065 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Maia is available in 1 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Maia has sold up to 41,995 units and has 828 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $709,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Maia overview details

Maia combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

About This Game Maia is a strange and hostile alien world, toxic to humans, yet lush with new life. Your mission is to colonise this poison eden, survive it's dangers and establish humanity's first foothold in the stars. Created by independent developer Simon Roth, Maia is a space colony simulation game about surviving and thriving on another world. Build your Base Burrow into Maia's mineral rich crust to build and manage a complex base that fulfills your colonist's needs. They'll need somewhere to sleep, somewhere to build and a steady supply of food, water and energy. An Enormous Procedurally-Generated World Twelve light years from earth, the planet Maia circles Tau Ceti. Its atmosphere is toxic, its surface is ravaged by solar flares, super storms, and meteor blasts and its unstable crust is constantly shifted by catastrophic earthquakes. Nevertheless, it is theoretically habitable. Explore Maia through a series of vast procedurally generated and fully simulated mission areas, each one several kilometres in size. Challenge Yourself With a fully fledged narrative campaign, stand alone missions and several custom sandbox modes, Maia has many, many ways to test your management skill and creativity. Research and Learn from the Planet to Survive Maia is a hard science fiction game based on real or extrapolated technology. Some of the colonist's tools have been brought with them, but others must be fabricated from what they can find. Once your base is up and running colonists can begin to study the native environment researching new ways to use the flora and fauna of Maia to…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Maia is listed as a game with $6.24 (75% off from $24.99). It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, belongs to Single-player, Partial Controller Support, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Indie, Simulation, and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 1 players at 6 October 2026 - 16:41:59 UTC, a tracked peak of 8, and 44% positive reviews.

Overview tags

Colony SimStrategySimulationSci-fiIndieSurvivalManagementBase-BuildingSpaceSingleplayerEarly AccessSandboxKickstarterBuildingCrafting

Support and legal notes

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