The Colonists
Fair · Multiplayer · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 73h
- Value
- $0.34/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1GB DX9 (shader model 3.0), 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
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 $8.49. That was September 2025. It has been discounted 42 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 9 percent on value. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Captain of Industry ($34.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Laysara: Summit Kingdom ($24.99, scores 58).
This site sampled 381 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
69% 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
13 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 22:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
W game. Price is too much and there is a small community. If you loved playing clash of clans then you will love playing the pvp mode on this even more
It's a great and relaxing game, I just wonder when we'll get actual development from the game devs as nothing much has been posted why the progress is so slow.
Game seems very buggy. Goods staying in outgoing queue even though needed else where. When you add boats on top of that you are relegated to sit at x4 speed and watch the bots pickup one item at the time. Maybe the developer just made it too complicated.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Colonists scores 60/100 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/677340/the-colonistsReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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