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Build a voxel colony, assign colonists to jobs, automate supplies, and design defenses against monsters that attack each night.
Released 16 Jun 2017
Assign Colony Jobs
Automate Production
Build Night Defenses
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!
Developed by Pipliz · Published by Pipliz
You establish a colony in a voxel world and guide its growth from a small settlement. Recruit colonists and assign them jobs such as farming, mining, building, and guarding; they handle much of the production while you plan and shape the settlement.
Build homes, work areas, and defenses, then manage the resources and production chains that keep the colony supplied. As the population grows, more monsters come at night, so you must prepare guards and design routes, walls, and other defenses to protect the settlement.
Research unlocks new jobs, blocks, upgrades, and weapons as your colony advances through technological eras. Explore the world for scarce resources and establish outposts, or play co-op with friends to share a colony or maintain separate colonies and trade.
In the supplied reviews, players often enjoy designing settlements and watching colonists and production systems develop, with building, job management, and defense planning forming a satisfying long-term loop. Some describe it as a relaxing, absorbing game, while others enjoy building or trading with friends and appreciate continued updates. Opinions differ on the challenge: some find the defenses engaging, while others say attacks become too easy or repetitive, or that later progression can feel grindy or poorly balanced.
Both colonists and monsters can find their way in your world. Build bridges, tunnels, stairs, overpasses and underpasses to make sure your colonists get where they want to go, and monsters don't! Plant a banner to start your colony. As you recruit more colonists, more monsters will try to invade your colony! Build walls, dig moats and construct forts to deal with the increasing threat.
Use an extensive science system to unlock jobs, blocks, upgrades and new weapons! Your colony will start in the Stone Age with just a handful of primitive jobs. Produce new materials, study clay tablets and scrolls, sell luxury items and advance throughout the timeline. Ultimately, you will be able to unlock gunpowder weapons, gliders, printing presses, rails and much more!
Advancing the tech tree requires resources that are only present in special locations. Purchase the resources in the marketplace for a high price, or find those locations using the astrolabe and build your own outposts on mountaintops, in swamps and other places. Use gliders and rails to move quickly from one location to another.
Easily launch a co-op server from the main menu, and invite friends to join your world. Share ownership of a single colony with multiple friends, or build your own colonies and trade items and science. It's also possible to use our advanced server tool to set up a more complex system. Extensive mod support allows players to customize their experience exactly as they want.
We regularly release fixes, improvements, tweaks and content updates. Here a couple of highlights from many, many changelogs:
June 16, 2017: 0.1.15. Public release. Contained a handful of jobs and items.
October 31, 2017: 0.4.0. Lots of new items, new guards and new monsters.
March 23, 2018: 0.6.0. New builder and digger jobs, increased view range, crouching, big performance improvements.
July 26, 2019: 0.7.0. Co-op, new world generation, multiple colonies, trading, the glider and lots of bug fixes and performance improvements.
May 11, 2020: 0.7.3. Added a statistics menu which tracks and displays data from a broad range of categories.
December 21, 2022: 0.9.0. Massive overhaul of the tech tree and world generation, lots of new content like traps and outposts.
October 13, 2023: 0.10.0. Added rails and decorative items like roofs, doors, windows and pillars.
February 16, 2024: 0.10.1. Water transparency, better fog and lighting improvements.
Colony Survival contains everything you'd hope to find in a game -except for proper animations.
Translations: fans from all over the world have translated the game into their native language. Play the game in German, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, French or any other of the many supported languages!
Cheats: bored of playing the way it's intended? Use cheats to quickly recruit more colonists, spawn blocks and unlock research.
Detailed graphics settings: don't like bloom or depth of field? Want to adjust the FOV? Change it quickly in the graphics menu.
Game settings: turn off monsters if you want to build in peace. Or allow them to spawn during the day for a difficult challenge!
Mods: we've developed the game to be as moddable as possible, and we're in close contact with mod developers to help them create awesome mods.
Advanced server tool: every player can use our intuitive server tool to host a private server for friends, or a public server for the entire community.
Transparent development: we explain what we're working on and why in regular Friday Blogs. We're continuously trying to figure out what the community would like to see tweaked and added next by being active on the Steam Forums and the official Discord.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 50 |
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| Players | From 1 (maximum not specified) |
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| Multiplayer | Colony Survival supports single-player and multiplayer. The provided info explicitly states online co-op, LAN co-op, online PvP, LAN PvP, and cross-platform multiplayer. Players can host co-op worlds from the main menu, run private or public servers with an advanced server tool, share one colony, build separate colonies in the same world, and trade items and science. |
| Multiplayer & mods | The game has extensive mod support and Steam Workshop support. Mods can customize multiplayer experiences, and reviews mention server-side mods such as anti-grief or protection systems, but the exact multiplayer mod limitations are not specified. |
| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
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| Website | Official website |
