Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game
Fair · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 17.5h
- Value
- $2.29/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 76% over the last 30 days against 88% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce GTS 450 / Radeon HD 4870 or better, 17 GB of storage. Windows only.
Colony Ship is a turn-based, party-based role-playing game set aboard a generation ship launched to Proxima Centauri. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and branching dialogue trees.
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
It has never been cheaper than $15.99. That was May 2026. Its cuts run 35 percent off as a rule. There have been 49 in the 5 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Expeditions: Rome ($44.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats The Age of Decadence ($14.99, scores 44).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 16 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 17.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Players rate it 88 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 76 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 782 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 240 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
17.5 hours to finish it, 81 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
44% start to 16% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
Good game, but the ending feels very abrupt, as if the game is only half finished.
I usually play turn-based fantasy rather than SF, but I'm very glad I tried Colony Ship. This one is a winner. I liked the party-style combat, skill trees, etc of course, but the setting, factions and backstory are so good.
One of my favorite Sci-Fi RPGs. A really unique setting with great world-building and interesting characters. I only wish the latter were more explored but these devs seem to specialize in the-world-as-a-character and want it to be the star of the show. They're making a new game called Heralds of the Third Apocalypse that I am looking forward to but one day I hope they make a sequel to this game :D
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/648410/colony-ship-a-post-earth-role-playing-gameReviews 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.
A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.