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The closest matches to Aven Colony: Surviving Mars, Planetbase, Endzone - A World Apart, Against the Storm, and Per Aspera. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
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Shares resource management with Aven Colony.
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Against the Storm
Why this: Shares procedural generation and resource management with Aven Colony.
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Why this: Shares procedural generation with Aven Colony.
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Shares procedural generation and resource management with Aven Colony.
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- Released: 2017
- Developer: Mothership Entertainment LLC
- Price: $5.99−80%checked Nov 5
- Steam Deck: Deck Playable
- 73% of 1,201 reviews
- Genres: Strategy, Indie, Simulation
- Metacritic 65
- Platforms: Windows
Players highlight
- Balance of challenge and satisfaction
- Beautiful graphics and alien environments
- Fast loading times
- Atmospheric
- Immersive
- Peaceful
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Against the Storm
Why this: Shares procedural generation and resource management with Aven Colony.
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Why this: Shares resource management with Aven Colony.
About Aven Colony
The closest matches to Aven Colony: Surviving Mars, Planetbase, Endzone - A World Apart, Against the Storm, and Per Aspera. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
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 describe it as atmospheric, immersive and peaceful, and single out its campaign storyline and environmental challenges. 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.
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.
Is Aven Colony worth buying?
Mostly recommended
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 73% of 1,201 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- On sale: 80% off, now $5.99 (checked Nov 9).
- People who recommend it had played a median of 27 h when they wrote their review.
- Critics had played a median of 9 h before their negative review.
- Steam Deck Playable: works, with some rough edges.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Balance of challenge and satisfaction
- Beautiful graphics and alien environments
- Fast loading times
- Flexible difficulty levels
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“I enjoy playing this game, honestly, I do. But would I recommend this game to my friends? Definitely not. It has interesting ideas, but they feel not fully implemented. This game is mostly superficial, it does not really engage me into…”
“Update: It still crashes for a lot of users. I would really like to get my money back. I will by ignoring future products of that developer and publisher. For some reason it crashes starting the campaign. Nobody wants to fix this? In…”
People who play it also play: Surviving Mars, Planetbase, Endzone - A World Apart
Frequently asked about Aven Colony
Can I run it?
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 5.99 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.