Posted on: June 13, 2023
blakeps
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Excellent Game
Bought this on steam then bought it herer to play offline. Excellent graphics.
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Aven Colony
Description
The Cerulean Vale DLC is included in this version.
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!
Aven Colony. Developed by Mothership Entertainment LLC © 2017. Published by Team17 Digital Ltd. Team17 is a trademarks or registered trademarks of Team17 Digital Limited. All other trademarks, copyrights and logos are property of their respective owners
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26.5 hMain
35.5 h Main + Sides
43.5 h Completionist
29.5 h All Styles
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Critics reviews
TheSixthAxis
7/10
The first impressions of Aven Colony are great, as you build your first colony, finding your way on this alien world. It doesn't take too long before you start to see the limitations, whether by design or by mistake, leaving this as a city builder that's easy to pick up and play, but one that could do with a little more depth.
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80/100
It's as absorbing as it is relaxing, and it does a good job at bringing its own to the table whilst still retaining what makes city builders fun and challenging.
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3.5/5 stars
Aven Colony is a capable sci-fi city-builder with great visuals and satisfying gameplay systems.
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Posted on: April 26, 2025
SeanWilliamKP
Verified ownerGames: 213 Reviews: 3
One of the best city builder
The game is amazing, especially because there are always objectives to follow. Very good city builder game.
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Posted on: August 1, 2025
chrlpolk
Verified ownerGames: 640 Reviews: 30
Decent City Builder
Coming off the cluter-F that is SimCity 4, the last city management game I played, this game was refreshing by comparison. Not nearly as busy, and that's a good thing! Initially, I was planning on giving it 5 stars. It's a cautionary tale to wait until you've finished a game to leave a review. As you get into later missions, it relies more on gimmickry - depriving you of a certain resource, for instance, and you have to use your own gimmickry to get around it. Higher difficulties are just an exercise in memorizing what/when scripted events will take place and therefore leaves less and less room for choice. Still, it's better than SimCity 4, and the wraparound story is decent enough, the sappy preaching twist reveal ending notwithstanding. Buy on sale and hope for a sequel!
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Posted on: August 2, 2025
ToscoLosco
Verified ownerGames: 13 Reviews: 1
very nice game
very good game,if you like that ttype of gameplay
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Posted on: August 30, 2025
Gyeig
Verified ownerGames: 6 Reviews: 3
Game crashes within 1-2 minutes
I've tried to play this game several times. Each and every time, it crashes within 1-2 minutes of starting. This game has been out for years and this is apparently a common problem that still hasn't been fixed. Tried to turn the internet off (apparently the crash is related to the game trying to connect to something...), restart my PC, nothing works. if the devs can't be bothered to solve such a critical problem, why should anyone bother to play this game?
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