# The Colonists

Summer DB entity ID: 27ab24ea\-cf77\-4f27\-9cbb\-b1401d0dc26e

Steam App ID: 677340

The Colonists is a relaxing settlement building game inspired by classic titles like The Settlers and the Anno series\.     Take on a series of individual campaign missions, play randomly generated maps, compete on player\-designed creations or build your colony unfettered by any constraints in the  sandbox mode \.             You take control of a team of self\-replicating robots built to simulate human civilisation\.  After escaping Earth, The Colonists are now free to roam the galaxy in search of a new home and construct their dream settlement\.              You'll advance through three different Ages as you build infrastructure for your colony by constructing road, boat and train transport systems\.   Harvest natural resources, set up farming and food production, create expeditions to discover new lands and research new technologies\.               With two separate mission tracks, The Colonists lets either you create sprawling settlements in peace or race to compete against AI colonies in military winner\-takes\-all scenarios\.   Explore, research, manage, tweak and refine to your heart's content\.              An extensive map editor and Steam Workshop support is included, so you can create, share and play custom maps\.   Features     Campaign : 14 missions split into separate peaceful and military tracks     Random Maps : Play on a near\-infinite amount of procedurally generated maps     Sandbox Mode : Customize various game settings to play the game how you like      Multiplayer:  Join forces with your friends to play the co\-op campaign or battle against them in PvP mode     Map Editor : Create, play and share your own custom maps with your own victory conditions      Steam Workshop : Play hundreds of player\-generated custom maps     Frontiers : Play and compete for the best time in a brand new map every month     Challenge Trophies : Special speed\-run challenges which test the most expert colony builders     Mod Support : Play with new buildings, new resources, new research and more with Steam Workshop mod integration

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Codebyfire

- Publisher: Mode 7

- Release date: Oct 24, 2018

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Indie, Strategy

- Categories: Single\-player, Multi\-player, PvP, Online PvP, Co\-op, Online Co\-op, Cross\-Platform Multiplayer, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, Steam Cloud, Includes level editor, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

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- Price: 2499 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 21

- Steam review count: 1242

- Steam positive reviews: 1063

- Steam negative reviews: 179

- Steam positive percentage: 85.5877616747182%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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## Player history

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Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-23T01:20:16\.373364\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-23T01:20:18\.987808\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-23T01:20:18\.779962\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

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