The Colony
Short description
The Colony is a city building game where the player must manage their resources in order for the population to survive and thrive. Constructing buildings and assigning jobs to villagers, you can gather resources like wood, food, stone, tin, and copper and use them to grow your village.
- Developer
- Alwin Hill, João Covaes Dos Santos, Rusty Swain
- Publisher
- Rusty Swain
- Release
- Tue, Nov 27, 2018
- Price
- Free
- Reviews
- 0
- Positive
- n/a
- Followers
- 194
- Owners (estimated)
- 0 – 20K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Simulation, Strategy
- Tags
No revenue estimate: this needs both a review count and a launch price, and at least one of them is missing.
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History
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