Games like Aven Colony
If Aven Colony is your kind of game, the closest matches are Surviving Mars, Planetbase and Endzone - A World Apart — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its fast loading times, atmospheric and immersive. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Aven Colony, developed by Mothership Entertainment and published by Team17 in 2017, is a science-fiction city builder about establishing humanity's first colony on an alien world. Players manage resources, weather environmental challenges and follow a campaign storyline across procedurally varied maps, with multi-level zoom to oversee their settlements. Reviewers praise the alien environments and graphics, the fast loading times and the flexible difficulty that balances challenge with satisfaction. Carrying a 65 Metacritic score, it spans strategy, indie and simulation genres and holds a 73% positive rating across 1,201 Steam reviews. The game sells for 29.99 USD and is rated Playable on Steam Deck. A normal-difficulty, atmospheric single-player colony builder for players who enjoy raising and sustaining a settlement against the hazards of an unfamiliar planet.
About Aven Colony: Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
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Steam players who put hours into Aven Colony also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Surviving Mars
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Top pick for Aven Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Aven Colony.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Planetbase
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aven Colony.
Second-strongest match for Aven Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Aven Colony.
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Endzone - A World Apart
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Aven Colony.
Third-strongest match for Aven Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Aven Colony.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Space Haven
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Shares resource management and an immersive mood with Aven Colony.
Ranked #4 for Aven Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Aven Colony.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
The Crust
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Shares resource management and an immersive mood with Aven Colony.
Ranked #5 for Aven Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Aven Colony.
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Aven Colony.
Ranked #6 for Aven Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Aven Colony.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Dwarf Fortress
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Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Aven Colony.
Ranked #7 for Aven Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Aven Colony.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Aven Colony.
Ranked #8 for Aven Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Aven Colony.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
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Reviewers of Aven Colony cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Aven Colony.
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.
Frostpunk
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Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Aven Colony.
Reviewers of Aven Colony cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Aven Colony.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Aven Colony cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Aven Colony.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Tiny Civilization
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Reviewers of Aven Colony cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Aven Colony.
This is a historical simulation game that promotes the development of civilization based on the match-3 Game. You'll need to gather resources, use skills, discover new technology, and lead humanbeing through a 10,000-year journey to the cosmos.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Aven Colony at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~83% under Aven Colony on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Aven Colony.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~50% under Aven Colony on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Aven Colony.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
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Priced ~67% under Aven Colony on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Aven Colony.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~53% under Aven Colony on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Aven Colony.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Aven Colony on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Aven Colony.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
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Priced ~67% under Aven Colony on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Aven Colony.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Aven Colony.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Aven Colony.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Aven Colony.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Aven Colony.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Aven Colony.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Aven Colony.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Aven Colony.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Space Haven
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an immersive mood with Aven Colony.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Aven Colony.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Aven Colony.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Aven Colony.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Aven Colony.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Aven Colony.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Frequently asked about Aven Colony
- Does Aven Colony run on Steam Deck?
- Aven Colony is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Aven Colony cost?
- Aven Colony is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Aven Colony?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Aven Colony are Surviving Mars, Planetbase, Endzone - A World Apart.
- Who developed Aven Colony?
- Aven Colony was developed by Mothership Entertainment LLC and published by Team17 Digital Ltd.
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