The Colonists

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 1,144 reviews of which 978 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.

The Steam community has classified The Colonists into these genres:

City Builder Colony Sim Automation Building Economy Management Robots Survival Base-Building Sandbox PvP Strategy 3D Cute Relaxing Simulation Family Friendly Co-op Resource Management Multiplayer

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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

Reviews

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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.

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.

July 2024

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☑ 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 ☑ 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 ☑ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☑ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☑ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ 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 ☑ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

March 2024

Played this game for years, and I always come back to this cute robot game. Wonderful to se how it developed. Resource management, shipping, priorities, and cute robots who want to act like humans and build a city. Hard enough to master shipping if you really want a good score, but relaxing enough to play when your hungover. With probably 800h active play in this game, i can absolutely recommend it.

Jan. 2024

A solid base builder. Not a must-have to experience something new in the genre, but worth playing if you're interested in it. The road system is quite different than most games. One bot moves one item at a time per road segment. I found learning how to use this system efficiently to be an unexpected but fun challenge. The game is loaded with tons of charts and statistics which should make you happy if you love maximizing efficiency of a system. The lack of road bridges was a bit frustrating especially since you can make train bridges. I also didn't like exploring the map - you have to turret creep the entire map since robots can't explore on their own. The military missions involve rushing to put down as many towers as you can while rushing tower weaponry tech. I wasn't a fan but if you like tower rushing vs AI then you may enjoy it more than I did. The early campaign does a good job of introducing concepts, but got repetitive in later missions. I wish I'd just done a random map after about 3-4 missions. I found the train and boat systems to be very satisfying. I also really liked the ability to precisely control the flow of each building's inputs and outputs. I played a huge map and moving batches of goods between outposts was a lot of fun.

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22.99€

8.1

978

166

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Developer

Codebyfire

Publisher

Mode 7

Release 24 Oct 2018

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