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Lead humanity’s first settlement on Aven Prime, building cities while balancing resources and surviving alien hazards.
Released 25 Jul 2017
Explore Alien Ruins
Survive Seasonal Freezes
Contain Spore Infestations
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Developed by Mothership Entertainment LLC · Published by Team17 Digital Ltd









As governor of humanity’s first settlement on Aven Prime, you build a small outpost into a city. Place housing and infrastructure, expand across the planet, and bring new colonists to your settlement.
Keep citizens supplied with food, water, oxygen, power, jobs, and services while monitoring their happiness and other needs. Different biomes and seasonal changes affect what your colony can produce, and storms, toxic gas, and alien infestations can disrupt its plans.
A single-player campaign links mission objectives with a story about Aven Prime, introducing challenges that call for different approaches. Research and building upgrades expand your options, while expeditions send pioneers to explore ruins, recover artifacts, and address threats beyond the colony.
Players who enjoy Aven Colony often describe it as an approachable, visually appealing sci-fi city builder, with varied campaign objectives that make missions feel different and a relaxed pace that suits shorter play sessions. Some also enjoy adapting to the planet’s hazards and resource limits. Other reviews find the systems shallow or repetitive, and many report startup crashes on their PCs.
Build a new home for humanity with Aven Colony.
Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and jungles light years from earth. Aven Colony puts you in charge of humanity's first extrasolar settlement, where you build and expand your small colonies into massive, sprawling cities while dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Build your colony's infrastructure, look after the well-being of your citizens, manage your resources, and guide your colony to prosperity against the backdrop of the harsh and often dangerous realities of the exotic world of Aven Prime.
COLONIZE AN ALIEN WORLD: Build a new home for humanity on a world with a low-oxygen atmosphere, extreme electrical storms, shard storms, dust devils, deadly toxic gas eruptions from geothermal vents, and days so long they have their own seasons. Explore a variety of biomes, from the lush wetlands environment to the much less habitable desert and arctic.
MEET THE LOCALS: Encounter a variety of alien life forms, including giant sandworms, deadly plague spores, and a vicious fungal infection known as “The Creep.”
SUPERVISE YOUR COLONISTS: Settling a new world can be stressful. As a new Colony Governor, you’ll need to work overtime to help your colonists deal with their new environment. Using the 12 distinct "overlay" modes, you can mange your colony's Crops, Citizens, Happiness, Crime, Air, Electricity, Employment, Resources, Commute, Structures, Drones, and Water. Earn the respect of your colonists, and rise in rank from Colony Governor to Expedition President!
DISCOVER THE PAST: The world of Aven Prime holds many secrets. Play through a full single-player campaign and participate in a story that reveals some of the many secrets of this brave new world.
BUILD THE FUTURE: Use construction drones to build dozens of types of structures to house your colonists, establish trading routes, welcome immigrants and much more! Enhance your existing buildings through several upgrade tiers to push your colony to new heights!
EXPEDITION SYSTEM: Deploy your crack team of pioneers to explore alien ruins, recover artifacts, repair crashed vessels and rescue lost explorers. Get ready to take on plague and creep spore nests whilst fending off splinter groups, rebels and Aven Prime's remaining robot guardians which threaten your new civilisation.
PREPARE FOR WINTER: A fully functional day/night and seasonal cycle. During the winter Aven Prime freezes over - farms will not grow food and solar panels will generate far less electricity. Take measures to survive this harsh climate!

| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 48 |
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| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 65/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |