Maia

Maia

Skip · Strategy · 2018

The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 5 of 8 sales

It scores 0, under the fair line, at $24.99.

Reviews▼
44% of 1,066
Genre rank
Top 100% Strategy

Holding it back: Reviews, Length unknown

Why
Set a watch below. One alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
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Price and sales

Sales
64 on record
Typical cut
44% off
Steam low
$2.99 March 2024
Sale every
54d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $2.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
1 now
Cheaper than
5% of its genre
Better reviewed
1% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 64 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 44 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. Starmancer ($14.99, scores 6) outscores it, and so does Space Haven ($24.99, scores 71). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

More about Maia

Inside the two-hour refund window, 33 percent of the 303 reviews written there were positive, against 44 percent overall, and those are 37 percent of everything written about it.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

What we assumed
  • How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 45% after the small-sample adjustment
Length unknownNo verified $/hr
No length in our data yet, so the biggest driver can't be verified. A heavy dock until it is
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 108 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia 970 or ATI RX 570 - or equivilent with 4GB VRAM, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Maia scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/252250/maia
Embed the live badge

Reviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperSimon Roth
PublisherMachine Studios
GenreStrategy
Released2018
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate