Aven Colony Reviews

Aven Colony is ranked in the 48th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Jul 25, 2017

Lack of depth, average story and repetitive mission design makes Aven Colony a great looking, but bland city builder.

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Chris Wray
Top Critic
5 / 10.0
Aug 2, 2017

Aven Colony has the trappings of a good city-building game but simply lacks the depth to make it so. While the game looks great and plays well, the setting of space is underused outside of its aesthetic and the lack of variety or challenge inevitably leaves the game feeling dull.

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5 / 10.0
Jul 25, 2017

I spent the equivalent of a working week playing Aven Colony and it was hard labor. This is a game of relentless concentration and chore-work, with only the briefest flashes of magic and relief, offering almost nothing new to the city building, or resource management genres.

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60%
Aug 24, 2017

Aven Colony tried to combine city-building with tower defense, but the result is too shallow to keep fans of either genres interested.

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60 / 100
Jul 25, 2017

If you're not already a fan of city-building games, this one will not win you over. To me, personally, it still feels more like doing work than playing a video game; I just didn't feel like I had any fun with it. I do see there are area's the developers put a lot of work in and the unique setting could very well be enough of a draw for fans of the genre to check this out.

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6 / 10.0
Jul 25, 2017

Despite its variety and the occasional innovation, Aven's lack of threat and mediocre story make the game feel undercooked. It's a sold city builder that doesn't do enough with its premise to stand out.

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6 / 10.0
Jul 25, 2017

Ultimately, those performance issues are what will stop Aven Colony being a title that you'll put dozens of hours into. Though the campaign is unimaginative and some areas are not fleshed out as well as they could have been, the game is still addictive stuff. But, once you've run through the campaign you're only left with the sandbox mode, which grinds to a halt as soon as you start to do well.

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Destructoid
Robo Panda Z
Top Critic
6 / 10.0
Aug 9, 2017

Despite the time I've spent harping on Aven's issues, it's not necessarily a bad game. Mothership Entertainment has put in a lot of effort to try and create a threatening world for humanity to conquer. It certainly did the former, but the game fluctuates wildly from barely eking out an existence to being devoid of challenge. Humanity can do better on its first settlement among the stars.

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6.5 / 10.0
Jul 28, 2017

Aven Colony is a standard game in this genre. It does not bring anything new and has some issues, but its multiple choices make it a good title for the city-building genre fans.

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6.9 / 10.0
Jul 24, 2017

Aven Colony bravely attempts to bring a PC-style sim to consoles and, for the most part, it succeeds. Controls and user-interface can make or break such a game, but while the controls are on-point, the performance isn't. The campaign isn't all that interesting from a story stand-point, and you'll need to up the difficulty to get a challenge out of it, but if you're a fan of city building sims then you'll find something to enjoy here.

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3.5 / 5.0
Jul 25, 2017

Aven Colony is thoroughly competent but uninspiring colony management game with overly-familiar mechanics. It’s an interesting diversion for fans of the genre but breaks no new ground.

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7 / 10.0
Jul 24, 2017

Technical issues aside, Aven Colony still draws you in for more. With little conversations between characters on missions propelling an intriguing little story forward, there's a lot of potential here. It's an engaging and satisfying experience, and gives you a different experience from the Sim Cities of old.

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3.5 / 5.0
Jul 26, 2017

Watching resources flourish, trades get made between the colony and those in space, and winters get survived through is all satisfying. But it’s satisfying in the way that a 10-hour work day is. It’s satisfying; because you feel like you’ve accomplished something, but not because you’ve actually enjoyed the journey there. You’re satisfied because it’s over, more than anything.

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7 / 10.0
Jul 25, 2017

Aven Colony's biggest problem is it's simplicity, I never once felt challenged while playing the game. It has solid mechanics, looks great, and really doesn't do anything wrong. However, with such a short campaign and missions that, for the most part, all feel very similar to each other, it's hard to say whether or not you will get much satisfaction out of it..."

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Sirus Gaming
Jarren Navarrete
7 / 10.0
Jul 30, 2017

Aven Colony is a good game. But it has a lot to improve on.

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Cubed3
Top Critic
7 / 10
Mar 6, 2018

Aven Colony is an addictive city-building game set on a planet called Aven Prime, with a science-fiction twist. Growing a small colony into a massively sprawling cityscape is a very fulfilling experience, with plenty of hazards and obstacles along the way.

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Cubed3
Top Critic
7 / 10
Jul 25, 2017

Aven Colony is overall a very enjoyable game with a beautiful soundtrack, amazing voice acting, and a constantly evolving world. If you enjoy city building games, it is everything you'd expect.

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GameSkinny
Top Critic
Jul 15, 2017

As players colonize a vastly different alien world with varying difficulties, the tediousness that usually comes with the genre is left behind

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7 / 10.0
Jul 27, 2017

Offering many hours of solid city building gameplay, with the potential to play from your couch and bringing to the table an actual campaign rather than just countless sandboxes, Aven Colony is an excellent little title, which we can particularly recommend for console players.

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Ken McKown
Top Critic
7 / 10.0
Aug 16, 2017

Aven Colony is a unique take on the genre. It is also one that works surprisingly well on consoles. For those with the itch to build some cities and don't mind the alien landscape I definitely recommend it.

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