Colony Survival
Worth it · Action · 2017 · Early Access
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.95.
- Length
- 15h
- Value
- $1.66/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 5000, 1280x720 display, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $12.47. That was January 2025. 26 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 25 percent off, roughly 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 11 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kingdoms Reborn ($19.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Stationeers ($34.99, scores 65).
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.
The drop-off
56% 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
Players
171 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
its fun enough but it REALLLLYY shouldnt be 25 dollars, this is like a 15 dollar game max.
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
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Colony Survival scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/366090/colony-survivalThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 23, price as of Sep 24.
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