Colony Simulator

Colony Simulator

Indie Marc · February 8, 2022 · Simulation, City Builder, Colony Sim, Free to Play, 3D

Colony Simulator is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Colony Simulator price

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About Colony Simulator

✦ AI summary

Colony Simulator tasks you with keeping a desert settlement alive for at least 10 days by gathering resources, constructing buildings, recruiting workers, and researching technologies. It's a management template for Unity that emphasizes survival strategy with automated colonist scheduling, crafting systems, and dynamic events across day-night cycles.

Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert?
Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!

Colony Simulator is a Template for the Unity Game Engine.
This is just a preview of that asset, so not a full game in itself.

Gameplay:
-Player controls (mouse and keyboard).
-Building and Crafting
-Resource gathering
-Inventory system
-Selection system
-Automated colonist work schedules
-Equipment
-Character attributes (health, hunger, happiness...)
-Attacking and HP
-Factories for item production.
-Resources regeneration
-Tech Tree
-Event system
-Game clock, day/night cycle
-Save/Load system

Colony Simulator — game info

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

What Steam players say

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

✦ AI summary

Colony Simulator is an engaging sandbox simulation that can be surprisingly addictive with charming art and an appealing core concept, though players note it needs significant polish including better UI clarity, more intuitive job assignment controls, and deeper mechanics like individual character equipment. Common frustrations include unclear menus, unintuitive colonist management, resource management issues like characters eating harvested food immediately, and missing or non-functional features like zones and scrolling in windows.

Recommended Dec 22, 2025
A fun sandbox simulation game. I planned to play for just an hour but ended up spending much more time because it was genuinely enjoyable, despite some bugs and a few tedious tasks like feeding characters one by one. I like the art style and the core idea, but it still needs more polish, clearer explanations, better player control, and deeper character customization.
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Not recommended Sep 21, 2026
I only have the Demo, but trying to keep these colonists alive is almost impossible! As soon as they harvest food, they eat it, leaving nothing for the rest of the colony. Trying to assign them to a job is nonexistent, you can add how many to do a certain task, but not what each individual does. The game is not intuitive at all.
Recommended Apr 6, 2026
I enjoy this so far, though I've only progressed a little bit. Seeing as you've stated in the game that it's a demo, I have a note or two. Mostly accessibility. The menu items are really hard to see on the right side and in the build menu. The dimness makes it nearly impossible to see what items are what.
Recommended Mar 24, 2026
oddly fun
Recommended Jan 1, 2026
I like it
Recommended Aug 17, 2025
Played it. I get that it's a demo to test the platform, not a real game. Wish it was more. For instance: - wish i could equip the axe/gun/crossbow to the colinists. - the "zone" functionality doesn't seem to do anything - scrolling in the different windows doesn't work. e.g. character window. still mindless entertainment which is always good. :)

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