The Maw
Short description
The pinnacle of alien evolution, Maw is a cowardly fat blob concerned mostly with snacking and lounging. He can, however, absorb the traits of anything he eats, is virtually indestructible, and can grow to unlimited size. If he wasn't a danger to all life in the universe, he'd make the perfect pet.
- Developer
- Twisted Pixel Games
- Publisher
- Twisted Pixel Games, Xbox Game Studios
- Release
- Mon, Mar 09, 2009
- Price
- $9.99
- Reviews
- 330
- Positive
- 83%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 50K – 100K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Action, Indie
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by $8.62, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $9.99 launch price. That is 14% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
Waiting for The Maw to get cheaper? Name your price and we will email you when it gets there.
Media
History
6 data points since Aug 10, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
The blurred area is the rest of the history. 287 further data points reach back to Dec 1, 2010 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.
Lowest recorded price: $0.99 on Jun 23, 2016.
Similar games that found an audience
Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with The Maw. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.
| Image | Name | Studio | Shared | Tag difference | Price | Reviews | Positive | Released | Revenue (estimated) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Woodle Tree Adventures | Fabio Ferrara 12 titles | 6 | same tags | $3.99 | 1,375 | 71% | Wed, Mar 02, 2016 | $166k $74k – $5.4m |
|
TY the Tasmanian Tiger | Krome Studios 5 titles | 5 | − Cute + Collectathon | $14.99 | 2,530 | 98% | Mon, Dec 12, 2016 | $1.6m $1.4m – $2.7m |
|
Woolfe - The Red Hood Diaries | GRIN first game | 5 | − Cute + Female Protagonist | $9.99 | 982 | 59% | Tue, Mar 17, 2015 | $405k $180k – $4.6m |
|
Super Panda Adventures | BlueEagle Productions 8 titles | 5 | − 3D Platformer + Metroidvania | $4.99 | 715 | 94% | Mon, Jul 14, 2014 | $114k $71k – $177k |
|
Super Lucky's Tale | Playful Corp. 4 titles | 5 | − Indie + Family Friendly | $29.99 | 561 | 84% | Fri, Sep 14, 2018 | $636k $504k – $1.1m |
There are more like this. Your plan shows the 5 closest neighbours; Plus and Pro show up to 100 — enough to see the shape of a niche instead of a sample of it.