Aven Colony

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Build a new home for humanity with Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and jungles light years from earth.

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Developer:
Mothership Entertainment
Publisher:
Team17
Engine:
Unreal Engine 4
Release date:
25 July 2017
Recent Steam reviews:
Not specified
All Steam reviews:
Mostly Positive (1994)

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Description

Build a new home for humanity with Aven Colony.

Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and jungles light years from earth. Aven Colony puts you in charge of humanity's first extrasolar settlement, where you build and expand your small colonies into massive, sprawling cities while dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Build your colony's infrastructure, look after the well-being of your citizens, manage your resources, and guide your colony to prosperity against the backdrop of the harsh and often dangerous realities of the exotic world of Aven Prime.

KEY FEATURES:

COLONIZE AN ALIEN WORLD: Build a new home for humanity on a world with a low-oxygen atmosphere, extreme electrical storms, shard storms, dust devils, deadly toxic gas eruptions from geothermal vents, and days so long they have their own seasons. Explore a variety of biomes, from the lush wetlands environment to the much less habitable desert and arctic.

MEET THE LOCALS: Encounter a variety of alien life forms, including giant sandworms, deadly plague spores, and a vicious fungal infection known as “The Creep.”

SUPERVISE YOUR COLONISTS: Settling a new world can be stressful. As a new Colony Governor, you’ll need to work overtime to help your colonists deal with their new environment. Using the 12 distinct "overlay" modes, you can mange your colony's Crops, Citizens, Happiness, Crime, Air, Electricity, Employment, Resources, Commute, Structures, Drones, and Water. Earn the respect of your colonists, and rise in rank from Colony Governor to Expedition President!

DISCOVER THE PAST: The world of Aven Prime holds many secrets. Play through a full single-player campaign and participate in a story that reveals some of the many secrets of this brave new world.

BUILD THE FUTURE: Use construction drones to build dozens of types of structures to house your colonists, establish trading routes, welcome immigrants and much more! Enhance your existing buildings through several upgrade tiers to push your colony to new heights!

EXPEDITION SYSTEM: Deploy your crack team of pioneers to explore alien ruins, recover artifacts, repair crashed vessels and rescue lost explorers. Get ready to take on plague and creep spore nests whilst fending off splinter groups, rebels and Aven Prime's remaining robot guardians which threaten your new civilisation.

PREPARE FOR WINTER: A fully functional day/night and seasonal cycle. During the winter Aven Prime freezes over - farms will not grow food and solar panels will generate far less electricity. Take measures to survive this harsh climate!

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *:
Windows 7 64-bit
Processor:
Intel Core i3-3220 3.3 GHz
Memory:
4 GB RAM
Graphics:
GeForce GTX 470 or AMD Radeon HD 7850
DirectX:
Version 11
Storage:
25 GB available space
Sound Card:
DirectX 11 Supported
Additional Notes:
Mouse and keyboard only. Min screen resolution 1280 x 720

recommended*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:
Windows 10 64-bit
Processor:
Intel Core i5-4670 or AMD A10-7850k
Memory:
8 GB RAM
Graphics:
GeForce GTX 980 VRAM 4GB or AMD Radeon R9 390X
DirectX:
Version 11
Storage:
25 GB available space
Sound Card:
DirectX 11 Supported
Additional Notes:
Mouse and keyboard only. Screen resolution: 1920 x 1080. Supports 4K resolution

User reviews

funfurrywolf
Not recommended | 24 Apr 2026
98.1h played

I feel like the game devs have abandoned this game entirely. I have played the entire game through til the end and although it is a weird cross that cannot decide if it is a city building sim or a management sim (and

Helpful: 8
VivaVii
Not recommended | 29 Jun 2026
51.4h played

I'm a huge fan of Banished and Cities Skylines, but after playing the demo for Star Trek Outposts Unknown, i realized i've never seen a sci-fi colony builder at this scale, so i did some hunting, and came across Aven

Helpful: 7
Missiesan
Not recommended | 08 Jun 2026
12.7h played

Game closes after couple minutes. its been like this for years and no sulotion. blocking internet by firewall waas a sulotion first find but that doens't work anymore. useless game can't even get in a game anymore or it

Helpful: 1
Unity's Helm
Not recommended | 02 May 2026
10h played

Does not work on modern pcs Aven Colony does not seem to work on modern pcs. I tried coming back today after a few years on my windows 11 pc. The game crashes within minutes of starting. The furthest I got was one

Helpful: 4
GoatusBoutus
Recommended | 10 Mar 2026
15.9h played

Needs more development and more building options/strategy paths. I think it could benefit from more early game resource gathering methods. Trade could also use work, but a really cool mechanic over all. It has okay

Helpful: 6
BlestMartian
Not recommended | 18 Jun 2026
13.1h played

Loved playing this game before it was available on steam, spent over 100 hours playing. Game crashes after start up and after looking at other reviews it seems other people are having the same issue. Devs need to update

Helpful: 4