Space Colony: Steam Edition
Fair · Strategy · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 36h 42.1h to 100%
- Value
- $0.42/hr
- Reviews
- 80% of 665 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 1 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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How to read this
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About the game
Space Colony: Steam Edition is a remaster of the real-time base builder and strategy game from Firefly Studios, creators of the Stronghold series. In Space Colony you colonize to survive, designing intergalactic bases that keep your crew productive, happy and defended against hostile alien threats.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX 9.0c Compatible, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 43 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Stronghold Crusader HD (2012) ($9.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Stronghold: Warlords ($39.99, scores 13).
More about Space Colony: Steam Edition
Of the 291 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 131 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
44% start to <1% 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
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 17, 04:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This was the first ever game i played on pc back in 2003 and is what got me into the sims with that said the game is still very much a game from 2003 with all the limitations and jank from when the game first came out, i'm sure that most people playing this game are like me and are playing it for nostagic reasons and so the jank is a bit less annoying but it's still very much there such as not being able to rotate...
2 more reviews
A classic in people and resource management. Still fun to play in 2025, even if nostalgia does help forgiving the old interface.
Space Colony is a distinctive and character-driven colony management game developed and published by Firefly Studios that blends traditional base-building mechanics with life-simulation elements and a strong sense of humor. Originally released in the early 2000s and later revived for modern systems as the Steam Edition, the game stands out not through cutting-edge visuals or complex combat systems, but through its...
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Cite this score
Space Colony: Steam Edition scores 56/100 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/297920/space-colony-steam-editionReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.