Astro Colony
Fair · Multiplayer · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 37.3h
- Value
- $0.54/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, ATi 7770, Nvidia GeForce GTX 660, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $9.99, set in June 2024. 42 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 16 percent on value. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Eden Crafters ($19.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats The Crust ($31.99, scores 28).
This site sampled 768 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 243 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
89% start to 2% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
74 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 15:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I played this years ago when it was in EA. And I enjoyed it but I could tell that it needed a little more time. When it hit 1.0, I tried it again. I pretty much forgot everything and started from scratch. I hit a snag and didn't realise something was wrong with my instance. So I tried again on a new seed and I am having a GREAT time. It scratches that factory/survival itch that I need. Controls great and I love the...
I haven't gotten deep yet, but I'm happy enough with my "investment" with this indie EA title 3ish years ago, EA games are like gambling, win some lose some, this one is a win for me. UI/Interface/keybinds work well for me. Controls take some learning, but once I got my binds to what suited me, it all flows well when your materials are coming in, and your expanding. No hardcoded key binds either, thank you for that...
I wish I could give it a positive. I love these types of games. Satisfactory is a personal favorite. The issue I have with this one, is the tedium. Certain things like deconstructing is just straight up deleting. Combine it with the fact you don't see what you're deleting until it's deleted. So you go to click on something and you might click the expensive machine behind it and basically you're SOL and just wiped...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Astro Colony scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1614550/astro-colonyReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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