The Colonists on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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.

The Colonists is a city builder, colony sim and automation game developed by Codebyfire and published by Mode 7.
Released on October 24th 2018 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 13 languages: English, French, German, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Czech, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Traditional Chinese and Turkish.

It has received 1,154 reviews of which 988 were positive and 166 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 22.99€ on Steam.


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System requirements

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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: 64 bit Windows
  • Processor: Multicore with SSE2 instruction set support
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 1GB DX9 (shader model 3.0)
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
MacOS
  • OS: OSX 10.10 or higher (64bit)
  • Processor: 2x 6-Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz (Mac book pro circa 2016)
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
Linux
  • OS: 64bit operating system
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-4690 or AMD Ryzen 7 2700U
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GeForce GTX 560 or AMD Radeon HD 7770
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

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Jan. 2025
This game is adorable and wholesome in the best ways. The levels are quite the challenge as well. :)
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Dec. 2024
I have enjoyed this game immensely. I like the difficulty, it is more difficult to manage the growth of your base versus the amount of resources than I was expecting. It is a fun puzzle. I dislike how long it takes to get to combat.
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Nov. 2024
This game is ok, it is much more of an idle game then I thought it would be. There is a lot of waiting to build up resources and waiting for research to complete to be able to do some of the more advanced things. There are some annoyances (like not being able to upgrade a harbour to the larger one, or the whole train system being absolute dog shit), but to be honest you can get around those by not using them. Overall it is an ok game, glad I did not buy the DLC, but was ok as a casual idle background game.
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Nov. 2024
If I was to say I was obsessed with this game.. It wouldn't describe it. I am craving more and more content. I can't get enough! It's amazing that I can play multiplayer with my husband too. If you like building your 'colony/city' games, this is the game for you. The developers are also super helpful and interactive. 10/10 would recommend.
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July 2024
---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good β˜‘ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Donβ€˜t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good β˜‘ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good β˜‘ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- β˜‘ Kids β˜‘ Teens β˜‘ Adults β˜‘ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint β˜‘ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- β˜‘ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master β˜‘ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level β˜‘ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story β˜‘ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average β˜‘ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left β˜‘ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- β˜‘ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 β˜‘ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10
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The Colonists
8.1
988
166
Online players
36
Developer
Codebyfire
Publisher
Mode 7
Release 24 Oct 2018
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