Action · June 16, 2017

Colony Survival (2017)

trophy50 achievementslocal_offer-25% current discountgroup100k–1M ownerstrending_up171 peak concurrentrecommend7.9k recommendations
Dynamic 3D Pathfinding 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. Advance from Slingers to Grenade Launchers 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! Explore and Settle a Large, Diverse world 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. Co-op: Play with Friends without Problems 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. Regular Updates 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. The Complete Package: Lots of Settings, Fan Translations, Mods, Cheats and More! 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.

Action releases from 2017

180 Action titles launched in 2017 — top 6 by review volume.

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Colony Sim · 418
  • Survival · 377
  • Base-Building · 352
  • Building · 304
  • Multiplayer · 296
  • Strategy · 257
  • Sandbox · 255
  • Open World · 237
  • Early Access · 184
  • City Builder · 182
  • Adventure · 178
  • Crafting · 177
  • Zombies · 174
  • Management · 151
  • Co-op · 140

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Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (10)

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Full audio (10)

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Czech
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Polish
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese

Position in Action

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume8.4k Steam reviewsTop 44% in Action
Positive rating92% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 28%
Concurrent peak171 playersTop 27% in Action by live player count
Engagement hours34 h averageTop 13% for session depth among Action

Features & Capabilities

Multiplayer

  • Multi-player
  • PvP
  • Online PvP
  • LAN PvP
  • Co-op
  • Online Co-op
  • LAN Co-op
  • Cross-Platform Multiplayer

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player

Reception Metrics

Steam community

92%Very Positive · 8.4k reviews

7.7k positive · 672 negative

Curator recommendations

7.9k

Peak concurrent players

171

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

34h

moderate (15–40 hours)

Median

18h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

8h

Current engagement

Achievements

50

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateJun 16, 2017
DeveloperPipliz
Base price$18.71 -25%
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Estimated owners100k–1M
External links[email protected]

Editions & Packages

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