Fit check
Is Earth Space Colonies worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Strategy players who want to manage several space colonies at once
- Simulation fans interested in terraforming and resource balancing
- Players who prefer multi-campaign games with exploration, defense, and construction
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a narrowly focused campaign may find the simultaneous multi-world structure demanding
- Those looking for a relaxed colony builder may not want disasters, combat, and hostile environments
- Players seeking a character-driven RPG may find colony systems and strategic management take priority
Our take on Earth Space Colonies
Managing several worlds at once trades a single, tightly focused colony for broader strategic demands. The game divides attention between terraforming, defense, exploration, research, trade, crafting, and environmental hazards rather than concentrating on one management loop.
What is Earth Space Colonies?
Build space colonies across several worlds while managing resources, infrastructure, research, crafting, and interplanetary trade.
The game presents three campaigns with separate objectives: terraforming Mars, defending a mining colony on Ceres, and exploring Ganymede’s subsurface ocean. Astronauts can be trained for roles such as building, mining, and science, while astronauts and rovers investigate hostile environments. Sandstorms, solar flares, quakes, meteor showers, combat, and weather effects affect colony operations. Construction options include factories, hotels, military bases, space elevators, and terraformers. Produced goods can be combined with raw materials to craft items, and goods can move between worlds through launchers and space elevators.
How Earth Space Colonies plays
- 01Three Campaigns
- The scenarios focus on Mars terraforming, Ceres defense, and Ganymede exploration.
- 02Colony Management
- Resource balancing supports expansion with factories, hotels, military bases, space elevators, and terraformers.
- 03Specialized Astronauts
- Training covers roles including builders, miners, and scientists.
- 04Environmental Hazards
- Colonies face sandstorms, solar flares, quakes, meteor showers, and other disasters.
- 05Research And Crafting
- Research opens advanced structures and units, while raw materials and produced goods combine into crafted items.
- 06Interplanetary Commerce
- Goods can be built and traded between worlds using rockers, maglev launchers, and space elevators.
Earth Space Colonies compared to similar games
Xenonauts focuses on turn-based squad operations against an alien invasion, while Earth Space Colonies combines colony construction, terraforming, exploration, and trade across multiple worlds. Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation centers on managing vast armies across a world, whereas Earth Space Colonies gives equal attention to infrastructure, astronaut roles, crafting, and planetary campaigns. Old World follows an empire across generations with political and family management, unlike Earth Space Colonies’ space-colony and environmental systems.
Earth Space Colonies: platforms & release
Is Earth Space Colonies worth it?
It is worth it if: strategy players who want to manage several space colonies at once. Skip it if: players seeking a narrowly focused campaign may find the simultaneous multi-world structure demanding.
Where can I download Earth Space Colonies?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Earth Space Colonies's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Earth Space Colonies on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
