Colony Survival
Worth it · Action · 2017 · Early Access
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.95. Typically $17.46 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.66/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 9,024
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Action
Holding it back: Early access, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 15h
- To 100%
- 51.8h 3.5x the story
- Achievements
- 50
Price and sales
- Sales
- 27 on record
- Typical cut
- 25% off
- Steam low
- $12.47 January 2025
- Sale every
- 83d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 104 now
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
56% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
27 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 25 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Space Haven ($24.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Sapiens ($24.99, scores 33).
More about Colony Survival
Of the 650 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 17 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 384 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
15 hours to finish it, 52 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.5 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 15 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $18.71 (25% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
its fun enough but it REALLLLYY shouldnt be 25 dollars, this is like a 15 dollar game max.
1 more review, not recommended
Go perma 50% off please, the price makes me refund this. I will probably buy and play it again in january when it goes cheaper
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 5000, 1280x720 display, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Colony Survival scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/366090/colony-survivalReviews 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 Oct 20, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.