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Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game
Colony Ship is a turn-based, party-based role-playing game set aboard a generation ship launched to Proxima Centauri. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and branching dialogue trees.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
58 of the 98 reviews raise this.
“+ Streamlining works really well -- you can fast travel almost anywhere + Specialization feels quite good + The player characters are interesting without being tryhard - The combat is a little too crunchy for its own…”
“This is pretty much a straight improvement over The Age of Decadence in almost every way, and that was already a damn fine role-playing game. Now, it has some very nice-looking graphics, unlike the very anachronistic…”
“I'm a huge fan of Iron Tower Studio so I might be biased, but this game deserves a great deal more attention. Colony Ship delivers excellent writing, world building, and exploration. You begin as a nobody living in the…”
40 of the 98 reviews raise this.
“+ Streamlining works really well -- you can fast travel almost anywhere + Specialization feels quite good + The player characters are interesting without being tryhard - The combat is a little too crunchy for its own…”
“This game is pretty good - the story is well-written, the world is fleshed out and feels mostly alive (especially in the early-to-mid game). It does struggle with some pacing issues later on, and the final stage of the…”
“I'm a huge fan of Iron Tower Studio so I might be biased, but this game deserves a great deal more attention. Colony Ship delivers excellent writing, world building, and exploration. You begin as a nobody living in the…”
16 of the 98 reviews raise this.
“Another amazing RPG from Iron Tower, I expected a lot from the game and still got more. World building and overall writing are excellent. Combat is a bit frustrating at first, but it becomes very satisfying once you get…”
“Following Age of Decadence, I had some worries about Colony Ship being similarly "tough to get into". It relieved me to see that it had been streamlined while maintaining most of what made it feel special. These are…”
“Having played Wasteland 2 &3 as other RPGs, I can say that this is a beautifully made RPG that, in my opinion represents a pinnacle of that genre! There are multiple paths to take through the game and some new paths…”
10 of the 98 reviews raise this.
“Highly Recommended! It's a fantastic sci-fi CRPG from the small team at Iron Tower Studio. I loved the immersive generation ship setting and the multiple plot routes that let your choices really matter. The turn-based…”
“An excellent Crpg with a unique setting that's fun to explore. I will say if this is your first Iron Tower game I would highly recommend playing the game on "Hero" difficulty first. The game still gives a very…”
“Interesting story, great writing and fun gameplay. Definitely recommended to any fan of Fallout 1 & 2 and RPG's that pose challenging combat and smart decision making.”
9 of the 98 reviews raise this.
“+ Streamlining works really well -- you can fast travel almost anywhere + Specialization feels quite good + The player characters are interesting without being tryhard - The combat is a little too crunchy for its own…”
“[h2] Positives [/h2] [list] [*]Good graphics, the lighting and texture work surpassed my expectation, I was afraid it was going to be a UE asset flop. The equipment, armor, gun, energy guns, all look good. [*]I don't…”
“Colony Ship is a good sci-fi CRPG and a big step up from Iron Tower's first CRPG (Age of Decadence). AoD was pretty rigid and didn't really let you diversify your build in any way. For example, if you wanted to be…”
22 of the 98 reviews raise this · 10 of them still recommend the game.
“This game is great, in theory, practically it is so frustrating, I hardly found the will to finish it. Let's evaluate different aspects. Interface: - there is no tutorial on what is what, even hovering over some stats…”
“The combat is way too imbalanced. Pretty much all encounters start at point blank range and iniative decides way too much”
“+ Streamlining works really well -- you can fast travel almost anywhere + Specialization feels quite good + The player characters are interesting without being tryhard - The combat is a little too crunchy for its own…”
14 of the 98 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“The combat is way too imbalanced. Pretty much all encounters start at point blank range and iniative decides way too much”
“Essentially, it's not an RPG but a game about finding active points. Activating them will give you experience points, which will allow you to activate more difficult active points, and so on and so forth. Missing some…”
“The balancing is awful, The combat itself is ok but you eat through medkits constantly and enemies seemingly have infinite supplies. A lot of scenes in the game (Chapter 1) will give you no time to prep (Notably the…”
6 of the 98 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Essentially, it's not an RPG but a game about finding active points. Activating them will give you experience points, which will allow you to activate more difficult active points, and so on and so forth. Missing some…”
“This game is pretty good - the story is well-written, the world is fleshed out and feels mostly alive (especially in the early-to-mid game). It does struggle with some pacing issues later on, and the final stage of the…”
“TL;DR - While clearly made with a distinct development vision to separate itself from it's competition, the game simply isn't as enjoyable as other more well known games in the genre and while there are a multitude of…”
4 of the 98 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“This game is great, in theory, practically it is so frustrating, I hardly found the will to finish it. Let's evaluate different aspects. Interface: - there is no tutorial on what is what, even hovering over some stats…”
“[h2] Positives [/h2] [list] [*]Good graphics, the lighting and texture work surpassed my expectation, I was afraid it was going to be a UE asset flop. The equipment, armor, gun, energy guns, all look good. [*]I don't…”
“I really like the theme and story line, and I also very much enjoy the freedom of choices you have in the game. But sadly this is all negated by the terrible navigation this game has. Maybe it just got too big to…”
4 of the 98 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“I absolutely adore this game. I only have three complaints. 1) I wish it was a little longer. 2) I wish there were a couple more companions to choose from especially early on. 3) They chose to go with a skill system…”
“This review is late in coming, but I love this game. I love generational ship concepts. The combat is brutal and unforgiving. It reminds me of older RPGs from my youth, like Fallout 2. It is *very* easy to bite off more…”
“This game is very fun. If you choose the difficulty of underdog, the game will become very challenging, allowing players to really experience the feeling of underdog. There are many choices in the game, and the choices…”
Counted across 98 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 88.0% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“Great RPG, although the learn-by-using stat system is a bit flawed. You will probably reset your character after the first attempt at the game, once you realize how the stats system works”
— a player, Steam review · 43 hrs played“TLDR: Difficult turn based story game that has a gritty and realistically written story. Colony Ship is one of those games where you both are the main character, but are not. You are exactly as strong as everyone else. There is no power scaling, and levels don't give you more…”
— a player, Steam review · 36 hrs played“So I'm going to focus my review on combat because it's the reason why I stopped playing, and I think it's bad in interesting ways. There are other elements that I have opinions on, but they're more ambiguous as to whose at fault. For instance, is it the game's poor writing that…”
— a player, Steam review · 19 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | RPG |
| Player tags | Turn-Based · Tactical RPG · Choices Matter · CRPG · Party-Based RPG · RPG · Turn-Based Tactics · Isometric · Cyberpunk · Turn-Based Strategy · Lore-Rich · Multiple Endings (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Achievements | 70 |
| Official site | http://www.irontowerstudio.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 10 Processor: 2 GHz Processor or better Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GTS 450 / Radeon HD 4870 or better DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 17 GB available space