Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future, twelve light years from earth. Your colonists make planetfall on the weather-beaten rock that is 3452C[MAIA]. Using the no frills technology and equipment that they've brought with them, they must make a new life for themselves.

As the colony commander, your task is to ensure their safety, to build facilities in which they can live and work and, most importantly, to research and understand this strange new world. The atmosphere on 3452C[MAIA] is somewhat toxic to humans and initial research suggests that it is inhabited by creatures of at least rudimentary intelligence. The planet's crust may also be rich with mineral resources.

Taking inspiration from games as diverse as Dungeon Keeper, Dwarf Fortress, Theme Hospital and The Sims, while drawing on the 1970s sci fi aesthetic, Maia is a game of strategy, management and construction. It's also a game of difficult decisions, of dark humour and harsh realities. Not everyone is up to the task of off-world colony command. Are you?

Features:

• A custom-made game engine with stunning graphics and visual effects.
  
• Detailed water, lava and atmospheric simulation.
  
• An enormous procedurally-generated world, up to 2km x 2km x 2km.
  
• Both a sandbox mode and a single-player campaign.
  
• Advanced colonist AI that models behaviour, needs and even mental health.
  
• An atmospheric and adaptive soundtrack that responds to in-game events.
  
• Meteor strikes and seismic activity
  
• A full 3d sound system.
  
• A first-person hands-on interaction mode.

Also includes:

• A grim vision of a low-tech future.
  
• Bipolar androids.
  
• Fairly reliable technology.
  
• Spaniels.
  
• Unfriendly life forms.
  
• Occasionally sassy computers.
  
• Cats with bee suits.

Praise for Maia:

“A vector-laced eyemelt.”

- Jeremy Peel, PCGamesN (Also PCGN's “Best of 2013”)

“Maia could be a truly extraordinary story generator.”

Tom Senior, PC Gamer

“Right up there in the top branches of indie games to stare at with creepily unblinking desire.”

Alec Meer, RockPaperShotgun

“Promises to invoke the glory days of 1970s space films.”

- Eurogamer Staff

“I can’t wait to see what stories it has to tell.”

- Adam Smith, RockPaperShotgun