Aven Colony is a sci-fi city building game. The visuals are nice, the game mechanics are simple enough... But nothing you do feels like it has any purpose. The game feels the need to constantly hold your hand during the course of playing. Each mission reduces to a series of trivial and pointless tasks, which you have to fulfill; otherwise, you can't proceed. For example: upgrade a farm (even though you have replaced the farms with greenhouses, so you effectively have to build a new farm, upgrade it, and then deconstruct it). Increase the food production to X (even though you don't need that much food; as soon as you fulfill the goal, you're going to reduce the food production to what it was before). Build Y amount of power plants (even though you have a power surplus anyway). The same goes for the special trade deals. You get a special deal - and you have to take it (regardless of whether or not you need the goods), because if you don't, it will stay active indefinitely and you won't get another. (Why doesn't the deal expire/get fulfilled by somebody else after a while if you don't take it?) Compare this with the old game 'Space Colony'. There each mission has one specific objective, the goal does feel to have a real purpose, and there is a series of missions with the same colony so that there is a real sense of achievement. (On occasion, some areas of the map only get opened after finishing the previous mission.)
