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Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2023

Should you play it?

Colony Ship is a turn-based, party-based role-playing game set aboard a generation ship launched to Proxima Centauri. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and branching dialogue trees.

What works

  • Deep narrative and meaningful choices
  • Challenging and tactical combat
  • Multiple viable playstyles
  • Immersive sci-fi setting
  • High replayability

Things to keep in mind

  • Steep learning curve
  • Some ui and camera limitations
  • Combat can be punishing and rng-dependent
  • Limited exploration scope
  • Minor bugs and early access polish needed

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Subterrain: Mines of Titan

  • Cyber Knights: Flashpoint

  • Wasteland 3

  • Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG

  • Wasteland 2: Director's Cut

  • Invisible, Inc.

Less social

Games that feels like Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • UnderRail

  • Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus

  • Transistor

  • Hard West

  • Sword of Convallaria

  • Dice Gambit

More intimate

Games that feels like Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game but with more focus on close relationships

  • Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut

  • Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition

  • Gloomhaven

  • Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition

  • The Red Solstice

  • Divinity: Original Sin (Classic)

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Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation, Intimacy.

Last update: 04/08/2026