Developer posts and news about this game.
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 refinements. Interface The "middle click" build menu has now been expanded to add quick r
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 past it for less life-threatening needs and situations. The flashpoints of clothing
A name I've not heard for a while that I seemed to miss some emails on recently. Colony building sim Maia, from developer Simon Roth, had a rather big upgrade. Read the full article here:
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 your base quickly, track colonists and robots, spot threats and fires and to mov
I always have a soft spot for Maia, a colony building sim from Simon Roth of Machine Studios with its very different take on building up a space colony on a distant world. Read the full article here:
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 voxelised shadow system allowing every light in your base to cast accurate dynamic
About time for an update! Wildfires. Raging infernos can now spread through the game world mercilessly incinerating everything in their path. Keep your base clear of ground cover or risk being caught up in conflagration. These “rapid oxidation” events can be triggered by faulty e
It is the holidays and so you know what that means! Yep, it’s time to curl up into a ball and enjoy the cold sweats of some intense mental trauma! Affliction The drama and disasters around your base will now have a more complex effect on your colonists, with individual traumas em
It's finally time to launch the game! The 0.69 update has hundreds of changes, fixes and a space shuttle's worth of new content. It's live now so give it a go! This won't be Maia's final update, we're got a lot more coming very shortly! The Campaign The full seven mission narrati
Maia was one of the first Early Access games I covered, appearing on Steam way back in 2013. My brief, disastrous playthrough of the colony management sim stuck with me for a long time, mostly because my colonists kept sending me haiku. Maia hits 1.0 today , and the haiku are sti
Maia launches proper on Steam tonight after five years spent in early access. The colony-building game leaves early access at 6pm UK time, 23rd November 2018. It launched on Steam as an early access title on 3rd December 2013, having raised 140,480 on Kickstarter. Here's the offi
Simon Roth’s space colony sim Maia is just about ready to launch off into the void beyond early access. After a long and eventful six years of solo development, the game is just about ready to be labelled ‘complete’. As of the latest update, the current early access version is ef
After a several month mission Maia 0.68 has touched down! Watch my video below to see a quick overview of some of the new features and fixes. This is the penultimate development version of Maia. The next update, 0.69 will take the game out of the early access program. This of cou
Maia 0.67 is here! This huge update is all about polish. Check out this quick video of me showing off the major changes: Polished.. floors. Fine dust in a humid underground base quickly turns to sticky, sticky dirt. Colonists will inevitably traipse it all around the base, making
Maia 0.66 is here! This build brings hundreds of changes focusing on balancing, emergent behaviours, performance and the user interface. Here's a short video of me showing off a small handful of the new features: “Do you want me to sit in a corner and rust, or just fall apart whe
Maia 0.66 is here! This build brings hundreds of changes focusing on balancing, emergent behaviours, performance and the user interface. Here's a short video of me showing off a small handful of the new features: “Do you want me to sit in a corner and rust, or just fall apart whe
It's that time of year again! For a holiday? No! What's a Holiday?! It's time for another Maia update of course. Hands-On. Colonists are now able to hold items whilst walking around the base allowing them to telegraph what task they are hoping to do next. A colonist with a hammer
It's that time of year again! For a holiday? No! What's a Holiday?! It's time for another Maia update of course. Hands-On. Colonists are now able to hold items whilst walking around the base allowing them to telegraph what task they are hoping to do next. A colonist with a hammer
Maia 0.64 is here! Cats, Dogs, Hurricanes, GUI, detailed new AI and lots of optimisations and fixes. Here's a quick video showing off some of the cool new things. MEOW Firstly we have the cats. Based off the pets of our Kickstarter backers, our feline friends have travelled acros
Maia 0.64 is here! Cats, Dogs, Hurricanes, GUI, detailed new AI and lots of optimisations and fixes. Here's a quick video showing off some of the cool new things. MEOW Firstly we have the cats. Based off the pets of our Kickstarter backers, our feline friends have travelled acros