Colony Survival

Colony-building survival game with workers and nightly monster attacks

Pipliz · Released Jun 16, 2017 · Early Access

Action Adventure Indie Strategy Early Access

Reviews: Very Positive; 92% of 9,010
Recent reviews: Very Positive; 93% of 47 in 30 days
Playing now: 68; right now
Steam Deck: Verified
Last update: 1 week ago; Sep 11, 2026

What is Colony Survival?

An open-world colony-building strategy game where you recruit workers, manage production and research, and construct defenses against growing monster attacks. You can play alone or cooperatively, share a colony, establish outposts, and trade resources and science.

For you if...

+you enjoy building towns and managing production chains
+you prefer relaxed sandbox play interrupted by monster attacks
+you want to share or trade between cooperative colonies

Not for you if...

−you have little patience for repetitive midgame grinding
−you want simple controls and extensive in-game guidance
−you do not want to defend against recurring monster waves

What players say

92% of 9,010 reviews are positive · 93% of 47 in the last 30 days

Players praise creative town building, colony management, and the developers’ continued updates. Common complaints call the current price too high and later progression repetitive or grindy; some players also find the controls, tutorial, and tech tree hard to follow.

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Colony Survival system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

OS: Windows Vista SP1 & newer, 64-bit
Processor: Intel Pentium G620 (2.5 Ghz dual core) or equivalent
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 5000, 1280x720 display
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Storage: 300 MB available space
DirectX: Version 11
Notes: Work in progress: new features may raise the bar, optimizations may lower the bar

OS: Windows 7 SP1 & newer, 64-bit
Processor: Intel i5-2300 (2.8 GHz quad core) or equivalent
Graphics: Nvidia GTX 750 or equivalent, 2 GB VRAM, 1920x1080 display
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 1 GB available space
DirectX: Version 11
Notes: Work in progress: new features may raise the bar, optimizations may lower the bar