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Space Colony: Steam Edition

Firefly Studios · 2015-04-30

Steam

SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 29, 2003 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Space Colony: Steam Edition is a remaster of the real-time base builder and strategy game from Firefly Studios, creators of the Stronghold series. In Space Colony you colonize to survive, designing intergalactic bases that keep your crew productive, happy and defended against hostile alien threats.

11
playing now
80%
positive of 662 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
77/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
65/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.49
steam price (US)

11 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Space Colony is a 2003 real-time strategy video game developed by Firefly Studios and published by Gathering in 2003. Aspyr Media released a Mac OS X port in 2004. The game was re-released as digital HD version on November 8, 2012.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 39% of 6,674 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 17k–40k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 662 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$1.49-90%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.49-90%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2019-07-18) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 30 of 44 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$15.02$1.492015-04-302026-08-302015-04-30 — best price $12.742016-02-05 — best price $7.492016-11-23 — best price $4.942017-08-21 — best price $3.962018-01-05 — best price $3.742018-07-05 — best price $14.992018-12-17 — best price $3.002019-05-06 — best price $14.992019-09-02 — best price $14.992020-01-01 — best price $13.492020-02-10 — best price $3.752020-04-23 — best price $2.812020-07-30 — best price $3.302020-11-06 — best price $14.992021-01-14 — best price $3.742021-04-05 — best price $4.492021-07-08 — best price $14.992021-10-04 — best price $14.992021-12-20 — best price $3.742022-03-23 — best price $14.992022-07-28 — best price $4.492022-11-14 — best price $14.992023-02-07 — best price $14.992023-06-12 — best price $4.492023-09-11 — best price $14.992024-02-05 — best price $4.502024-04-22 — best price $14.992024-09-02 — best price $4.502024-12-11 — best price $4.492025-03-21 — best price $14.992025-07-28 — best price $14.992026-02-09 — best price $14.992026-08-24 — best price $1.492026-08-30 — best price $1.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudIncludes level editorFamily Sharing

7 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish

Player tags

2DSpaceEconomyRomanceSandboxLife SimStrategyIsometricSpace SimColony Sim

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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