Aven Colony
Skip · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 34, under the fair line, at $2.99.
- Length
- 26h
- Value
- $0.12/hr
- Reviews
- 72% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 470 or AMD Radeon HD 7850, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
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
November 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 89 in the 9 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 40 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Planetbase ($14.99, scores 49) beats it on value, while it beats The Crust ($31.99, scores 28).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 26-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 5 of the 643 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 30 percent of the 266 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
37% start to 2% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 26-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
7 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 01:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Enough gameplay to keep me engaged for a while, with different campaigns being slightly different. I was discouraged by the reviews and didn't expect much, but it was a nice surprise. Would recommend
This plays with no problems on my Linux Mint with Proton-GE. I'm sad that according to several reviews below it has quit working under Win11, but is that the fault of the 9 year old game or Windows? The game itself is quite fun and chill; I still go back about once a year to play through the campaign.
Crashes - the crash is well known and devs didn't fix it - crashes to desktop in 2 minutes.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Aven Colony scores 34/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/484900/aven-colonyReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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