Colony Survival

Colony Survival is one of the best games I’ve played! It offers endless hours of gameplay and is a must-have for anyone who enjoys colony survival simulators. The depth of the mechanics, the need for resource management, and the sense of building something from the ground up make it incredibly engaging. Whether you're managing your colony's food, defense, or infrastructure, there's always something to do. The game has a great balance of challenge and freedom, allowing you to play at your own pace. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a satisfying and long-lasting gaming experience!

There are too many griefers, your colony is short lived and you can only advance until another person sees you

The game is well built and very replayable, I played this with my friend multiple times and still love it. This is an amazing building/survival game.

I love this game and it has a small fanbase more people need to play it! The graphics are amazing and the game is too. I would definitely recommend. It's worth it. If you don't know how to play, watch some videos and you will be right on track.

Fantastic game. I love that this has been constantly updated over the years. It runs like butter on my daughters very old laptop. Lots of fun if you like automation and block-based survival games.

I really enjoy this game. I remember the first time playing and how badly I did everything. I really hope this game will expand and grow as the creators have been giving the game love as they do updates often and add new things to the game. I can imagine what the game will be like in the years to come

This is literally just my dream game. Absolutely extremely for sure 100% recommend it

The games just boring and has a lot of bugs still, buy in future.

nice game but recommend it just in sale. the full price is not worth it. hope this helps

its like minecraft with evolution and workers

They don't complain about me giving them the worst living conditions possible



10/10

It's fun game the art stile of the game is masterpiece the research tree is also good made but the progress is little too much slow, but it's good game devs are making good updates for the cost of 25€ it is worth it.

They talk about developing the game infinitely more than they actually spend developing it, if they applied as much effort to the game itself as they did in their blogs (over 250 at this point) then the game would already be done.
Idk if it's any good now, I don't really care, the last time I looked at this was in 2023 and only like 2, minor updates happened. I check back now, to see 1 major lighting update, a graphics update for the colonists and 2 or 3 small QoL updates, so the game itself is still going to play almost the same as it did years ago.. in other words, no real tangible improvement....

I mean just look at it, in early access for almost 10 years. Zero game has an excuse to be this way, this is the definition of being stuck in Early Access limbo, don't get suckered in and waste money like I did. Like, idk how people can glaze this game so hard, it's a glorified tech demo, and has been that way since launch.. sheeple man...

Go play Minecraft with MineColonies instead and some other mods, I guarantee you it's 10x as fun, completely finished (unlike this game), and free to play if you already own Minecraft. Like MineColonies is literally the same thing but better, in a better engine, in a better game.

8 years in Early Access is just an abuse of the Early Access system.

I actually love this game (i played like 7pm to 6am) cause it's can be infinitely producing resources So we can build infinitely like minecraft but actually i think it's pretty good to add more gameplay and jobs or because i got unlocked all for just 5 days!❤️😍

Fun to play if you love to build castles.

Pretty fun, play on easy until u get the hang of it

Beautiful game, you can really tell that the devs have a passion for this project.

its good but new updates suck

Early access for way too long and is overall pretty mediocre.

great game, if you like resource management games, you'll love this, its fun, its not resource heavy, you can take the game at you're own pace, its completely centred around the player, and its just good fun

good game. i've completed all there is, and i'm going back to start from scratch with some new ideas. cant wait to see what they add.

It's a good sandbox with a nice tower defense system. I'm not going into detail, simply because I don't like writing reviews. So yeah, I highly recommend it, just do keep in mind that while it's playable on 4-6 Gb of RAM, but you will find it quite laggy more or less after reaching half way up the technology tree, due to the number of colonists that will be required to both support the population and the defense.

Been playing off and on since initial release and have been tracking the development but I've enjoyed the game since I got it. I love the premise, the mechanics, and the gameplay. Waiting with anticipation for the next update, please don't die like so many other good indie games.

Cool game, nice mechanics, kind of what i always wanted in a more advanced Minecraft however it's sad they don't even have doors in this game. Totally lacking in any ability to add detail to my constructions.

This game is unique and the developer/s seems to have solid ideas for updates. The game consistently gets better year over year in MASSIVE ways.

this game is good, very good, but the fucking piece of shit colonists won't make any fucking ammunition like, NEVER, and therefore i can't play this shit no more since both my towns DIE BECAUSE THEY DON'T MAKE FUCKING AMMO FOR WHICH THEY HAVE THE NECCESSARY RESOURCES! FOR FUCK SAKE!

I love this game. It's a Minecraft/Tower Defense hybrid in the best way. Something is wrong however with the way the game saves files to the steam cloud. Twice now I've lost 2+ hours of gameplay from day to day.

i lava the game BUTTTTTT i want door and stuff but like ya also u might say hat i should get an addon but the addons dont work for me

It's kind of a hesitant thumbs up, but I mean... It got 52 hours out of me, which ain't a small amount.

Imagine the look of Minecraft, but with a colony of unitasking villagers. They can only do one thing at a time - what they are assigned. When they aren't doing that, they are stuffing their gob full of food or going to sleep. This is elegant, if a bit simple. Honestly, for what it is, I enjoy it.

Your colony gets better via research. Get stuff, press the "learn stuff" button, and you learn the relevant thing. Also pretty simple, but has some glaring issues I'll touch on momentarily.

At night, after you've built up a little (either numbers of people, or tech unlocked), zombies show up and you have to balance between having production dudes and protector dudes. Said dudes are all ranged. You can also set up some traps. All of these need ammo, thus fueling more issues on making sure production is good. You've effectively game over'd if you get a ways in, and then your protectors have no ammo.

So produce by day, set up additional colonies, mine and gather and farm with your duders, and defend at night.

Now, some problems:

A fair chunk of the stuff you research is useless. You can make everything out of dirt if you want - the building materials, roofing, and decorations are just there so you can make things pretty. There's no substantive benefit.

There's no drawbridge or any other way to let your people freely move through and zombies not. You can make doors. The doors do nothing.

Your colonists are unitaskers, and they will just work forever. That means that, unless you can find a better kind of output for food than what I found, I just make them subsist on gruel or berries, 'cuz those are easy to make and the supply chain for them is short. The ONLY reason to make the higher level foods is so you can make them magical to get more points for a panic button (that... isn't too great? 10% off all the HP of the horde sounds like a lot but isn't when you're dealing with a 300+ threat). Colonists have no happiness, no joy. They just... exist. Staring at you with their beady little eyes, awaiting their next command.

So I mean... is it fun? Yes, for a bit. Just go in expecting a pretty shallow ride. Pretty easy to turn your brain off and kind of coast on it. I just wish it did... more.

I love this game, you can be creative with your colony and It is well worth the price!

Its fun a bit long and boring sometimes but its a lot of fun
also ik it says 47 hours (at time of post) but i have played it for multiple years it is really good

good game, had a lot of fun in base building and getting a massive farm going. although it felt a bit dead in some places i may just be stuck but doesnt seem to have much going on outside of making beds and recruiting colonists. would be cool if you could actually command the guards and have them follow you, have a wider variety like swordsmen and have wars with other colonies on the map like a friends outpost.

i played this game alot in the earlier stages of development, and really liked it, it was good but also simple and easy for me to grasp back then. however now its way too complicated in the modern betas for me, so i try to go back some versions hoping to restore the game to when i last enjoyed it. trying to find that version and restore it resulted in windows and avg quarantining a file because it was infected with something, so those beta files are not all clean, still gonna keep trying to backtrack versions but i wouldent reccommend doing it that way i am doing it, and i wouldent reccommend the newer versions of the game if complexities isnt what you want, but rather a simple colony survival game

Its absolutely best game which I ever play, there are soooooo much content and its so exciteing. I love this game and its my favourite game

Its minecraft but with slaves and better block textures.
10/10, love the slaves very basic needs

bro i have played three hours on a game the same day i got it! that just shows how good it is. the controls could use a bit of work and the how to play might need a bit more info. other than that, great game!

Pretty fun game so far. It does scratch a certain Minecraft itch when it comes to building. If you like Minecraft for the boss fights, well, there's none of that here, but if you like it for building, wishing villagers were about 100x more useful and light exploring / outpost building, then you'll enjoy this.

Don't worry about the terraforming at the start. Look around for a reasonably flat spot and clear a place to begin. Later on you'll get an ability to have villagers flatten ground for you. Also, you can hit escape -> info and read through the quick start guide whenever. It makes more sense if you basically do it in the order presented and refer back to it after doing the things on one page.

Progression is pretty good. If you want to keep advancing, you'll have to start working on remote outposts for your other materials. Not nearly the same big buildout to make an outpost, but they need a little something. And you need to scout the location and figure out where your materials are going to be.

Gameplay loop is basically build -> expand -> upgrade -> trigger worse monsters.

I played briefly on normal and then started over on hardest difficulty and that's the setting I'd recommend. It's still a far cry from 7 Days to Die level of horror but you'll get spanked if you don't balance your materials correctly. (A night or two of failing to realize you are not processing enough copper to fully refill your arrows and you're in trouble. Initially you can personally kill the monster waves but your contribution to any fight dwindles into near uselessness as things progress. You must rely on your troops and traps.)

16 hours in and I still haven't unlocked iron age. Unlocking bronze nearly killed me. Nearly.
(Edit: I did, finally, actually get wiped. Going to the iron age proved I was not as ready as I thought I was. Interestingly the zombies don't really destroy your base, they just kind of put you in a position where I don't think you can recover. Hmm, but what if I always had a backup outpost that was well defended and dedicated to food..... Welp, time to start a new world!)

I enjoy playing on the highest difficulty and trying to see how far I can get before the zombies end my run. Game gets a lot of updates over the years and is always changing. Fun game, looking forward to the official release.

Fun indy version of Minecraft with a unique and novel twist. Being able to construct a group of mobs that automate and defend their own civilizations is awesome. I have always had a unique fascination with NPCs and this game definitely satiates that more than Minecraft.

Fantastic game. The progression system is really well thought out. The fact that you can play MP and trade with other colonies and progress at different rates is enough to buy this game alone, but with how much there is to this game, you will never get bored, IMO. 10/10

i really do like this game and i think it could be a great game but in its current state i cannot recommend it i think it really needs a system to make preset buildings its so tedious to build even with the builders

This game is really fun to play solo, and with friends. Everything from start to finish is full of content and things to unlock. If your thinking about buying this game, I would highly suggest!

Obviously there definitely are things that could be better, but its simple and fun so who the hell cares

Bugs ruin this game.

I really enjoyed colony survival in the past and decided to try the new update. Everything is going well and I am really enjoying the game. I spend hours crafting a wonderful little village. I tab out to do something for about two minutes. I come back 90% of my colony is dead. My archers are just stood there doing nothing as zombies pour into my village. I had tabbed out before for longer ON THE SAME THREAT LEVEL and it had fine. It's just that this time my archers decided that they didn't care anymore. They had arrows. But they just werent doing nothing. 15-20 archers on 100 threat level- that SHOULD be enough. But i forgot this game is a broken mess. Hours of progress ruined because of this dumb bug. ALL OF MY PROGRESS GONE BECAUSE ONE OF THE GAMES MOST BASIC FEATURES DOESN'T WORK. WHAT?! FIX THE JOBS THAT DEFEND THE VILLAGE MY LORD! THERE ARE LOADS OF BUGS LIKE THIS AND IT IS LITERALLY SOUL CRUSHING. I want to enjoy this game so bad but every play through ends in a bug killing the vibe.
There is also a HUGE AMOUNT of conflicting resources out there. The wiki says about 900 different conflicting things, so does the reddits, guides and youtube videos. You used to be able to get around bugs by enabling cheats, fixing stuff and carrying on. Nope. They made it so cheats disable achievements. I understand why, but now I can't even brute force my way through this bug riddled game.

TLDR; if you want to have hours of your life robbed away by some stupid, perplexing bug PLAY THIS GAME. IT IS SO SOUL CRUSHING TO SEE SOMETHING YOU HAVE POURED HOURS INTO GET KILLED BY RIDICULOUS BUGS AND TERRIBLE OPTIMISATION. IF I COULD REFUND IT, I WOULD! Don't buy until better updates come out!

Great, fun, lots of grind and option to play in multiplayer. Also the devs on discord instantly helped with bugs and super friendly :D 10/10

The fascist action is crazy but lowkey needs a bit more commusim, i like putting my slaves to work.
also: HELP HELP AAHHH HELP THE COLONISTS PUT ME IN A CAGE

Really enjoyed this game and look forward to the updates this game will bring. I found it frustrating how seemingly small the range for every ranged post was, as trying to build something that doesn't feed everything towards a small opening is rendered useless, especially when my kingdom was on a hill. I also didn't enjoy enemies spawning in farmland simply because I couldn't place light sources in the middle; I somewhat expect minecraft rules, but would appreciate something more flexible to a kingdom that might not always have light in every section for aesthetic purposes. Some optimization issues I expect to be rectified as well, but overall, really solid minecraft esque colony sim in the first person, a POV that kinda seems pointless in the long run.

I really enjoy playing this game, me and my family enjoy the inventory management, plus having the colonist doing the work for you, and having to defend your colony/outposts from night attacks. Don't think I'd play minecraft again after this game

genuinely enjoy this game. Been waiting for it to get more updates before i played it and its pretty darn good. only downfall is some items dont tell you where to craft them or how to acquire them after unlocking them in the science, which is a little annoying. but other than that. I love it! great kingdom management sim tbh