Brave New Colony
A downloadable game for Windows
An immersive sci-fi city builder where you build your space colony and deal with good resource management to advance.
Explore New Worlds
9 scenarios to choose where to build your colony, based on actual locations:
- The moon
- Mars
- Gliese 581d
- Enceladus
- 55 Cancri
- K2-18b
- Ross 128b
- Phobos
- Wolf 1061c
Each scenario has different challenges. In some, there is no surface water so you have to research tech to bore underground. In others, sunlight is scarce so you cannot rely on solar panels and have to invest in other power alternatives.
Manage resources
You have 10 resources to work with, from providing food to your colonists to extract crude oil and refine it into fuel for sale.
There is also other resources you have to manage such as educate colonists to become workers for your buildings, maintain O2 levels and improve morale.
With enough resources you can build more advanced buildings and the surplus you can sell to Earth for credits.
Research your tech tree
The Research Complex allows you to research new technologies such as Mining, Schools and Hospitals, create a Tourism economy or advanced housing - you decide what to research.
Do you want to build a mining colony and bare all resources, or a tourist spot with hotels and cruise liners landing every week?
Avoid disasters
From solar flares to earthquakes to asteroid impacts, your colony has some challenges that have to be overcome. Some can be mitigated with the appropriate technologies that you can research, others depend on your performance - if you cannot feed or make your colonists happy, revolts and terrorist attacks will happen.
Buildings
You start with the bare minimum structures, but can research and expand into a full list of 45 buildings ranging from housing and apartment complexes, parks, plazas, hotels, stadiums, hospitals, missile launchers, solar and wind and fusion power plants, and a plenthora of resource extraction and transformation industries.
More than just surface
Besides the surface aspect of the colony, you can also tap additional underground resources with specialized buildings. If you are on a moon with no athmosphere you cannot use atmospheric condensators to extract water from the air, so best action would be to drill into the ground and extract water from underground wells.
All kinds of statistics
Get all the relevant knowledge you need with information panels revealing the amount of resources being produced and consumed.
Historic data for each resource is present and easily viewable.
Use overlay layers to check coverage of your buildings for things like power, food or storage (important near industries), so you never build out of range.
Cargo Contracts
Once you build a Starport, you start receiving notifications from other existing colonies requesting delivery of materials. You can accept those contracts and have a set time to deliver the goods.
The faster you fulfill the order, the biggest reward you got and also get better contracts as the rating with that colony grows.
Expeditions
Your colony map is not the whole world! You can now organize expeditions on a regional area around your base in search of knowledge, lost parts or new resources.
Aliens
Each new game offers the chance to find new aliens, no two games are equal. You will have to research technologies and construct buildings and bombers to end the alien threat to your colony.
System Requirements:
- i5 processor or similar
- 8 Gb Ram
- 1.5 Gb Hdd
- Dx11 compatible Graphics Card
Updated | 23 minutes ago |
Status | Released |
Platforms | Windows |
Release date | Nov 11, 2023 |
Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 total ratings) |
Author | Active Dog Studio |
Genre | Simulation |
Made with | Unity |
Tags | 3D, Atmospheric, City Builder, Farming, Indie, Sci-fi, Singleplayer, Space, Space Sim, Tycoon |
Average session | A few hours |
Languages | English |
Inputs | Keyboard, Mouse |
Links | Homepage, Twitter, YouTube |
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $9.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Download demo
Development log
- Update 3.1 - New Planet, Bugfixes and Sirenhead23 minutes ago
- Update 3 - Beyond the Colony64 days ago
- Update 2 - Living PlanetsFeb 27, 2024
Comments
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The game is fun but there are times when I am unsure why my colony is failing when I have more than enough workers to work the factories, moisture extractor and farm.
I can have the same amount of greenhouses on one planet and be okay with the 1 per second and then on another planet, I just get destroyed because I am not getting the food it says I should be.
This game is fun at first but then it becomes extremely fustrating why stuff is not working and not producing what the tooltip says it should be and I just hate that. Please provide better tooltips or something to show that rate it says it should produce is based on other dealios or something.
This game has a lot of potential but its just too unforgiving and becomes unfun after 5 or so failed runs where even following the tutorial does not help you get into a decent state to survive.
This is an amazing game and I really love it. I wish the tutorial also delved into the life support side and how to manage it effectively.