First Colony

First Colony is a turn-based 4X strategy game inspired by classic colony-building games.Establish a foothold on a newly discovered continent, explore the wilderness, build settlements, gather resources, and defend your people against hostile barbarians and dangerous wildlife.Unlike traditional colony-building games, production is not confined to settlement screens. All production sites are built directly on the world map, creating a growing network of settlements that expands across the frontier.

Features

• Explore a large continent covered by fog of war.
• Found and expand settlements across a hex-based world map.
• Build production settlements directly on the map and develop regional economies.
• Gather resources and train new units.
• Upgrade settlements into more productive and specialized forms.
• Hunt wildlife for food and survival.
• Defend your colony against barbarian raids.
• Discover strategic terrain and resource opportunities.
• Collect various victory points to win.

A Solo Developer Project

First Colony was developed primarily during nights and weekends over more than six years by a solo developer. Currently, it represents a focused vertical slice of a much larger dream project and aims to capture the spirit of classic 4X strategy games while introducing a unique approach to settlement expansion.