My Colony

I’ve been looking for a simulation game like this for a long time. One where you can manage resources and build a colony without having to constantly click a building to collect resources or wait hours/days for a building to finish. You can play at your own pace even play effectively for free if you want. I want to love this game, but keep running into the same roadblock: not knowing what I’m missing to move to the next tier. I’ll unlock a research, but the buildings it says it unlocks don’t show up. I usually spend 15 minutes for every hour of play trying to find out what I missed in order to unlock the new buildings. It starts to get frustrating after a while. Would be nice if all buildings unlocked would show up and show the building/research requirements they are lacking, similar to how they do with mission resources. We definitely need more games like this out there!

This game is a wonderful reminder of the games I used to watch my brother play on the SNES as a kid (I was waaayy too young to figure it out lol). Hours of fun strategizing and resource management, which is something I’ve been looking for in a game for a long time. True, I have had one issue, but after reading other reviews I figured it out: When I switch between the My Colony app to another app and then come back, the app will not let me place anything, telling me that the location is blocked. I was frustrated but read some reviews about people having other issues and realized that closing the app and re-opening fixes most bugs, including this one! This may be an issue that the developer is aware of and working on, I dunno. Either way, with such a small issue vs. the amount of fun I get from the game, it definitely deserves the full five stars. Excited to see what develops from this start!

I’m pretty new to the game but so far it’s really good. This game is a lot deeper than I thought it would be. It’s free, with a little ad at the bottom. Because of that I thought it would be fairly simple. But no, there is a lot of strategy and planning that goes into building and managing resources. There are some visual bugs occasionally, but nothing bad. There is a bit of a learning curve, seems all online stuff is geared more toward desktop versions. There is an online community presence with good info to get you started though. The concept is awesome, you can play online under other people’s charters or play offline by yourself. If you play with other people you still control your building and colony but there are more resources available because of the networking. And you’re not actually playing with other people, think of it more like a guild. However, to play online you must have an account on the developer’s site. To play offline you don’t need one. What I like most is the lack of a push to get you to spend money. There is premium content that you can see but not build. There is that small ad at the bottom. And you get to a point where messages start coming through to watch an ad for a gift, but it isn’t in your face or necessary to play the game. You can’t spend money to upgrade things faster or buy extra resources. The premium content isn’t anything that gives you an advantage, it’s just aesthetics. This was almost reverse psychology for me and I actually ended up upgrading to the premium version because I wanted to support the developer. This game is definitely worth checking out!