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Maia
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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-10-22 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“Brilliant concept and engaging mechanics. Absolutely horrific UI. "Make sure that the system communicates what’s happening. Always inform your users of location, actions, changes in state, or errors. The use of various UI elements to communicate status and, if necessary, next…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“Maia is a poster child of 'style over substance', a colony sim game where basic information is hidden away from the player behind cheeky poetry and a ghastly UI. Between chunky performance and stability issues you'll also wrestle with overly suicidal AI and scripting issues may…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“This game breaks my heart about once a month or once every other month. I have followed this game for a while now and i visit the blog every so often ( whenever i remember to ) and in all that time I have never in my life been able to have a colony that doesn't completely…”
— a player, Steam review · 79 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players, self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Phthinoporon
This update brings a series of interface improvements to enhance readability and add more options for those playing with mouse and touchpad as well as a whole series of bug fixes and general refinemen
Burn Baby
This update brings a host of new fixes and features! I Can Feel The Fire Colonists now have more natural reactions to fire. They will take notice of it sooner, run from it and try to avoid running pas
Maia Update: All Hands On Deck
It's Maia update time! This build brings features, fixes, interface, optimisations and Steam Deck and controller support to the game. Cartographics! The new map pop up allows you to see the layout of
Surface Detail
Greetings from the tier 5 exclusion zone! I hope this update finds you well, or at least alive. Drop in on the Discord and let us know how you are doing. MAIA now features a brand new ray-marched voxe
Firestorm
About time for an update! Wildfires. Raging infernos can now spread through the game world mercilessly incinerating everything in their path. https://i.imgur.com/Cosc83N.gif Keep your base clear of gr
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Colony Sim · Strategy · Simulation · Sci-fi · Indie · Survival · Management · Base-Building · Space · Singleplayer · Early Access · Sandbox (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Official site | http://www.MaiaGame.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Intel Core i3-10100 or AMD Ryzen 3 3100 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia 970 or ATI RX 570 - or equivilent with 4GB VRAM Storage: 4 GB available space