Idle Colony
Fair · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $3.59, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Dec 2024. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 8h 69.5h to 100%
- Value
- $0.45/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 578 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
It is 40% off today.
Discounted in 6 of its last 7 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 1060 GTX, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 9 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 25 percent, about 14 weeks apart. Today's $3.59 at 40 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Value puts it in the top 49 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 79 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, (the) Gnorp Apologue ($6.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Sixty Four ($2.99, scores 41).
More about Idle Colony
This site sampled 395 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to July 2026.
HowLongToBeat players log 8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 70, 8.7 times as much.
The drop-off
64% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
A visually interesting take on the idle/incremental game. Instead of very long-running continuous game improvement, Idle Colony is more about the individual "sessions" with different playstyle tactics to achieve the various goals of the game. Once reaching all the permanent upgrades, you basically get to chose various improvement options at will to try out various styles of gameplay for the each session. Instead of...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Idle Colony scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2843640/idle-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 28, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.