SimulationStrategy
Space Colony: Steam Edition
Hooks you right away
Gets good instantly from the first hour
Started playing 44% of owners
Steam reviews 80% positive of 672
What the data shows
- 45% of first-hour reviews are positive — about the same as players with 5+ hours (45%).
- The opening is criticised more than in 77% of games we track.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- Only 44% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 673 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 9.1h for positive, 2.6h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (43.5% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (26)
- Beginner's Luck Complete the tutorial 100%
- Landing Party Complete the 'Catherwood' mission set 60%
- Neat Freak Cleaned up 500 pieces of litter 50%
- Disco Fever Disco used 100 times 39%
- Factorum 100 repairs carried out by engineers 32%
- Balanced Diet 300 units of nutrients processed 31%
- Silicon Heaven 1000 units of silicon extracted 28%
- Welcome to the Family Join our mailing list 26%
- Space Chicken Tonight 1000 space chickens produced 21%
- Black Gold 500 units of argon gas extracted 18%
- Geek 100 units of electronics fabricated 17%
- Thriving Community Complete all civilian missions 16%
- Gregor Was Here 500 units of titanium mined 14%
- Clean Living 300 showers taken 12%
- Iron Man 500 units of iron mined 9.9%
- Full-Scale Invasion Complete all military missions 7.6%
- Scorched Earth 1000 lupulus plants incinerated 6.2%
- Stone Cold Killer 20 Orox killed 4.1%
- Iridescent 300 units of iridium gathered 3.4%
- Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto 100 androids created in the cybernetics lab 3.0%
- You Got a Friend in Me Tami friends with everyone 2.3%
- Academia Nut Train all skills to 4 stars 2.1%
- Pod Collector 300 protoraptor pods collected 1.8%
- Galactic Overlord Complete all campaigns in Galaxy Mode 1.6%
- Silent Cartographer Publish a mission to the workshop 1.6%
- Back From the Dead 100 colonists revived 1.6%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.