Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)

Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)

Purple Nebula · January 30, 2024 · City Builder, Strategy, Colony Sim, Simulation, Building

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About Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)

Alien Horizon is a sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet.

Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected. Can you survive anyway?

From one ship to a colony


Build your colony around the sleeper ship, containing 1000 last survivors from Earth. Construct power sources, housing, infrastructure and factories to ensure comfort of your colonists and provide the colony with all the resources it needs. Manage bus lines, set laws and provide services, making sure your colonists are happy, healthy and productive. Each colonist is their own simulated individual.

On your own


Earth is dead, so it can't help you out here. If you didn't bring something with you, tough luck. Explore the landscape around you to find all the other ships from your fleet that carry supplies, and survey resource deposits to eventually produce your own.

Complex resource management


Manage complex production chains to produce 86 different resources, each with a realistic recipe. Build logistics hubs and set up storages to make sure all of them get to where they need.

Preview alpha


Even though this is a free preview, it's a full-fledged game of its own, with no time or content limitations. It is possible to achieve a self-sufficient colony. The proper game is still in development and will be released later. You can support its development by buying the Donation packs.

Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha) — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

DLC & expansions

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha) offers a surprisingly deep and engaging space colony sim experience even in its early state, with players praising its complexity, comprehensive features, and addictive gameplay that rivals finished titles in the genre. Common complaints center on performance issues, memory-related crashes during exploration, and an overwhelming amount of systems presented to new players without adequate guidance.

Recommended Sep 28, 2026
Very clearly in Alpha, there are some performance issues still to be ironed out (late 2026)... But overall, shockingly enjoyable and thorough. It's already more comprehensive than a lot of finished space colony sims on the market. Very much looking forward to continuing to play this as it grows.
Recommended Sep 7, 2026
Very complete for an Alpha Version. Lost track of time and welp it's 5am.
Recommended Aug 16, 2026
This game has amazing potential. It's fun so far but it needs more polish and simplification I think. You're given too much at the start and the level of coplexity is overwhelming
Recommended Jul 31, 2026
One of the most complex city builders that provides continual challenges even in an alpha version. Do not over explore or crash is likely to happen (causes high memory use i this version).
Recommended Jun 28, 2026
Great game that I expect to loose many, many more hours to when the rewrite is complete.
Recommended Jun 26, 2026
the best scifi colony builder ive ever played. although calling it "scifi" might do it injustice, as the mechanics and components are so realistic and believable, it might just be "mars colony training simulator". great art style, great pacing, just love it!

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