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Colony Survival
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
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 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
68 of the 101 reviews raise this.
“I really wanted to like this game. Colony Survival has a lot of potential and can actually be quite enjoyable at times. The core idea is interesting, and there are moments where the gameplay loop feels satisfying.…”
“Minecraft but with a science tree, and most importantly, you have slaves”
“Do not be fooled by its apperance. This is not a minecraft clone. While it IS a voxel game where everything is buildable or destructable, it's far more about base building, recruiting, and strategic resource planning…”
5 of the 101 reviews raise this.
“this game is amazing for being a hidden gem and im playing on a cheap $300 laptop”
“testing for new PC config GAME IS AWESOME THO”
3 of the 101 reviews raise this.
3 of the 101 reviews raise this.
6 of the 101 reviews raise this.
“I really wanted to like this game. Colony Survival has a lot of potential and can actually be quite enjoyable at times. The core idea is interesting, and there are moments where the gameplay loop feels satisfying.…”
“Attention span destroyer. no immersion. 1$ graphic presets. MC can barely do anything besides give orders incredibly useless. minecraft but a child tried copying it and failed to comprehend programming. By all the gods…”
“boring. complicated.”
4 of the 101 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“its very fun a little hard to understand at the start, but its very fun!”
“ITS fun but starting is hard”
“it was fun at the start but then it got a bit hard to understand I will give it 7,50/10”
4 of the 101 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“using AI generated images That don't look anything like the game. I mean, please take more pride in your work. the last thing we need in this world is more false and untrust worthy information.”
“this i a good game to build in, could use a greater variety of building blocks, but there's plenty of workshop mods to supplement the experience with new decorations and block, there's a few ways to play, building to…”
“Attention span destroyer. no immersion. 1$ graphic presets. MC can barely do anything besides give orders incredibly useless. minecraft but a child tried copying it and failed to comprehend programming. By all the gods…”
3 of the 101 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“The game is pretty cool but it pisses me off that I can't create a new colony without getting to the final tech. I really don't want to spend all this time just grinding for some stupid chests when i just want to make a…”
“Fun game but frustrating at times. I hate having to google basic game mechanics. There is no fast travel and no mini map. After playing and getting most achievements I had to turn them off to use a flying cheat. That…”
3 of the 101 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“using AI generated images That don't look anything like the game. I mean, please take more pride in your work. the last thing we need in this world is more false and untrust worthy information.”
“Very cool unique experience. Could do with reaching some 1.0 release point or something.”
Counted across 101 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 92.1% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“Almost 8 years ago I relentlessly nagged my mum to install steam just so I could play this game soon after it came out. The game has changed and grown a lot since then. For the past few years I have stepped away from video games alot, but every now and again I come back to this…”
— a player, Steam review · 337 hrs played“You know, I am a very lenient person and would be a great leader, as long as everyone does what they are supposed to do y'know. But if I catch someone slacking off and EATING supplies of my entire colony, they are gonna see what's lying behind those wooden walls. Other than that…”
— a player, Steam review · 40 hrs played“[h3]"A chill, base-building game disguised as a zombie survival game."[/h3] [i]TLDR: The zombies aren't actually difficult because of the way they scale and the gameplay never evolves. It's fun to build cool-looking bases, but it doesn't actually matter and why would you do that…”
— a player, Steam review · 33 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
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-04). Relative comparison only.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Friday Blog 270 - The Split Screen Update, 0.18.0, is Live Right Now!
This update does exactly what it says on the cover. Plug in a controller, divide your monitor in two and play the game with a friend right next to you! Enabling Split Screen will generate a second cha
Friday Blog 269 - Blueprint Builders' Contest Ends in August + Splitscreen
The Blueprint Builders' Contest ends next month, on Sunday August 23, at 23:59 Amsterdam time! All players are allowed to put one post in #Blueprint-Contest-Entries on our Discord . This post can cont
Update 0.17: “Quests & Counters” is Available Right Now!
A big new update is live on Steam right now! It should make the game a lot more accessible to new players, and it should speed up some of the slowest days of starting a new colony. There is a new tab
Friday Blog 268 - The Shape of the Next Update: QoL Improvements
The next update is 0.16.1, not 0.17. This means: no major changes to content, but a whole bunch of improvements to Quality of Life. Tweaks that make playing the game more convenient. The ugliest menu
Friday Blog 267 - Oddity Press Update & Blueprint Builder’s Contest
Update 0.16 is live right now! It adds the Oddity Press, a new automatic crafter that produces mainly decorative items, and new beds. Its content largely matches the content of the Beta, so we’ll refe
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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 | Action, Adventure, Indie, Strategy, Early Access |
| Player tags | Colony Sim · Survival · Base-Building · Building · Multiplayer · Strategy · Sandbox · Open World · Early Access · City Builder · Adventure · Crafting (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · LAN PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · LAN Co-op |
| Languages | English * , French * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Czech * , Japanese * , Korean * , Polish * , Russian * , Simplified Chinese * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 50 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows Vista SP1 & newer, 64-bit Processor: Intel Pentium G620 (2.5 Ghz dual core) or equivalent Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 5000, 1280x720 display DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 300 MB available space Additional Notes: Work in progress: new features may raise the bar, optimizations may lower the bar