Aven Colony
Aven Colony is a City-building, Strategy and Single-player video game created by Mothership Entertainment and published by Team17. The game takes place in the Science-fiction environment, and the primary storyline of the game centers on the human colonization of an alien planet. You must build a new colony to survive in the strange alien planet using different materials and buildings. It offers a human city named as Aven Prime, a planet light-years far away from the planet Earth. The primary objective is to explore the environment to gather resources, build shelters and invite people to live in the colony to survive. You must build the colony from scratch and a massive variety of buildings ranging from tent-like structures to skyscrapers. These buildings contain different categories such as living quarter, oxygen creation, food cultivation and resource mining. You can use drones to upgrade, manage and recycle everything available in the colony. The game features dynamic day/night cycle, and during the night time, everything freezes and the food will not grow, and the solar panels don’t produce electricity. Aven Colony includes core features such as Build the Future, Discover the Past, Survive your Colonists, meet the Locals, Expedition System, Prepare for winter, and more. Try it out.
#1 Anno 1404 – Dawn of Discovery
Anno 1404 or also known as Dawn of Discovery is a brilliant video game that blends in City-Building, Real-time Strategy, MMO and Economic elements beautifully. The game features both medieval and renaissance era settings and allows you to build your own settlements, explore islands, construct buildings, get into diplomatic ties with neighboring settlements or wage wars against the enemies in order to conquer their lands or to defend your own. The city building element of the game allows you to build massive structures like monuments, research labs, and other facilities and rule over them, maintain them etc. The economic element allows you to set up trade routes and economically grow your settlement, acquire necessary resources and manage them wisely. Just like other games in the Anno Series, Anno 1404 or Dawn of Discovery offers a similar Sandbox style gameplay, wonderful visual details and other great things to make you love this game. Try it out and it’ll amaze you with all of what it has to offer.
#2 Anno: Create a New World
Anno: Create a New World mixes the Real-time Strategy and City Building elements and supports Single-player mode only, developed by Keen Games and published by Ubisoft. The game is set in the historical year 1404, where the land of King named George suffers from famine and drought. Aware of his citizens’ distress, King decides to remedy the situation by sending his two beloved sons named as Edward and William, to manipulate the environment as well as new territories that produce enough goods to make the people happy. Despite being brothers, both characters have different personalities such as William tries to approach peacefully while on another hand his brother Edward suggest conflict to gather resources they require for their people. The game enables the player to join the princes as they struggle to create their empire, explore the exotic orient, find out new inventions, and unearth all manner of nefarious political intrigue. The player can manipulate the idyllic islands as he aims to locate prime real estate to put down roots and build his colonies. During the game, the player is capable of farming land, creating roads, marshal his resources, and more. Try it out, if you love playing RTS games.