The game features nine scenarios with numerous specific, helpful objectives to complete on the way towards ultimate victory; the same nine areas are used for the sandbox mode, as there are no randomized maps. The interface has a lot of information to display, and it does so through its plentiful overlays and data tables (with keyboard shortcuts to access specific screens). It can be difficult to tell the difference between minable resource locations and simple decorations.

The basic resources to gather are food (grown at farms), water (extracted from the ground), electricity (made at power plants), and nanites (used to build stuff, converted from mined minerals). You’ll also have to keep an eye on the air quality (improved by placing filters), storage space, housing, and citizen happiness (place bars to get them drunk!). Structures must be placed within the range of a construction drone (other drones can fight alien infections or provide police protection), and tunnels connect all the buildings. Excess resources can be traded, additional technologies can be researched, and elections occur every so often (so you must keep happiness up). You can also explore the area outside the colony, although it’s simply ordering a ship on a static map to different waypoints.

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Aven Colony strikes a pleasing balance of difficulty, providing the user with enough tasks to keep busy and requiring constant supervision to maintain the delicate balance of the colony. The result is a compelling management game that only needs additional maps to further replay value.

The city building genre, or city sim if you would prefer, has been on something of a revival. After a good few years in the wilderness, the re-emergence, and subsequent success of Sim City a few years back has ensured a steady trickle of games from the same genre have emerged to compete for the attention of gamers. Cities Skylines is quite possibly the most well known console release of recent times, giving gamers the chance to build the city of their dreams.But if the basic Earth based scenarios it brings aren’t enough to take your fancy, or test your planning skills, there is now a much more exciting proposition heading off to the stars to help both build, and establish, a colony on a planet found in the furthest reaches of space.Aven Prime is an alien planet full of mystery.

It is up to you to harness that mystery so you can build and expand small preset colonies into sprawling cities, in order to keep the citizens happy, well fed and above all else, safe. Oh, and you’ll have to prove your worth as a colony planner and space explorer to your elders at the same time.With deserts, tundras, jungles and more all present across different areas of Aven Prime, you’ll need to utilise and protect your infrastructures from the harsh, dangerous realities that come from being light years from Earth.Days, weeks, months and years have been replaced by Sols, and it is these with which you’ll need to work with in order for your success to be proven.