Aven Colony

Aven Colony has now launched!  The current version should be 1.0.20155 or later.

Please be aware that if you have Steam installed, the game will first launch Steam and request permission to launch.  Also, please be aware that you can claim a Steam key; see the stickied posts below for instructions on claiming your Steam key.

Aven Colony

Aven Colony puts you in charge of humanity's first extrasolar settlement on Aven Prime, an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and jungles light years from earth.

Build the infrastructure, look after the well-being of your citizens, manage your resources, and guide your colony to prosperity -- all while dealing with the harsh and often dangerous realities of an alien world.

Watch the debut trailer for Aven Colony here:

Here's an excellent preview of the game by Smash Look:

Features include:

• A rich simulation of an extraterrestrial colony, including oxygen propagation, habitation, employment, electricity and power generation, mining, crime, food cultivation, limited inventory, water, and much more.
• Dozens of different buildings, from simple inflatable-tent "modules" to massive skyscrapers created from carbon nano-cubes ("nanites"). Most of these buildings support 2-3 upgrade tiers.
• A fully functional day/night cycle, which is tied to a "sol" on Aven Prime (a "sol" is equivalent to one earth week, and "night" is essentially a brief winter season). During the "winter" season, Aven Prime freezes over, and farms will not grow food and solar panels will generate far less electricity.
• Use 3 different types of advanced flying drones (construction drones, police drones, and scrubber drones) to build, upgrade, and manage your colony.
• Fully player-controllable game speed; pause the game at any time or play at 1x, 2x, 4x, or 8x game speed.
• An alien infection called "the creep," which can glom onto buildings and cover them in alien tentacles. Build special "Scrubber Drones" to clear the creep from infected buildings and stop it from taking over the entire colony.
• Additional environmental challenges including lightning storms, dust devils, deadly toxic gas emissions from geothermal vents, and shard storms.
• Research, grow, and process various alien plant species and foodstuffs and decide on the best locations to place farms and greenhouses for roughly a dozen different crops, derived from both Earth-based and native plant species.
• 12 distinct "overlay" modes give more information about the colony: Crops, Citizens, Happiness, Crime, Air, Electricity, Employment, Resources, Commute, Structures, Drones, and Water.
• Manufacture dozens of types of foods, beverages, and "enhancement substances" that will alter your citizens' morale and productivity.
• A rich morale system based on over a dozen different morale factors, and regular referendum elections that will give your citizens the opportunity to kick you out of office if morale gets too low.
• Over a dozen social policies to influence your colonists.
• Discover, analyze, and use ancient alien artifacts as you learn more about the civilization that once inhabited the world of Aven Prime.
• A robust mission objective system that gently guides the player to build a viable colony at the start of the campaign mode, then expands to give broader objectives toward the endgame and keep the player moving. This system includes construction objectives, trade objectives, population / morale objectives, total colony size objectives, and much more. Up to three objectives are available to the player at a time.
• A unique narrative that reveals the secrets of the civilization that once lived on Aven Prime.

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Please be aware that Aven Colony is not yet completed; this game is in beta.

Purchasing this beta does buy the full game upon release via itch.io, but please be aware that it does not grant a Steam key.

NOTE: Aven Colony has been temporarily removed from sale as we work toward our simultaneous launch on PC, Xbox One, and Playstation 4 on July 25 of this year. Our current beta is already large enough, and we've decided the best course of action is to temporarily halt further sales so that additional customers wait for the full game launch.

We will continue to support players who have already bought the game with regular updates between now and launch.

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Please see this post on our updates page for a list of features not currently implemented and a list of known bugs you should be aware of.

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System Requirements:

Operating System: Windows 7/8 64-bit
Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD, 2.5 GHz or faster
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Video Card/DirectX Version: DirectX 11 compatible graphics card

Recommended spec:

• Intel Core i5-4430S 2.73 GHz or higher
• GeForce GTX 580 or higher

Minimum spec:

• Intel Core i3-3220 3.3 GHz or higher
• AMD Athlon II X3 455 or higher

Note that you may need to reduce the graphics options (in particular, turning off shadows) if your system is closer to the minimum spec than the recommended spec.