New Sci-Fi City-Builder, ‘Aven Colony’ announced

City building and management sims may never dominate the headlines like most other AAA games, but there's no arguing against the genre's incredible staying power. When most have grown tired of the latest shooter, city builder fans are just getting started, and Aven Colony is looking to be the next genre fans' next great addiction.

Aven Colony tells the story of humanity's journey to the stars, and the first settlement on a brand new planet. Aven Prime is set to be mankind's new home, and it's up to the player to build and maintain the colony's infrastructure as well as maintain the mood of the denizens during even the harshest of times.

In order to keep your people going, players will have to provide enough food, jobs, and entertainment all while protecting them from hostile alien life beyond the walls. Players can also enact various social policies to create a variety of different social orders, creating more opportunities for replayability.

Here are the game's primary features via an official press release:

• A rich simulation of an extraterrestrial colony, with resource gathering and management, technological research, food cultivation and manufacturing, trade, morale, social policies, and more.
• Dozens of different buildings with unique functions and impacts.
• A fully functional day/night cycle tied into Aven Prime’s seasons.
• The world of Aven Prime fights back against human colonization with The Creep, an alien infection that can destroy your colony over time.
• Environmental challenges including lightning storms, dust devils, giant sandworms, plague spores, deadly toxic gas emissions from geothermal vents, and shard storms.
• Acquire alien artifacts and use their powers while learning the story of the civilization that once inhabited Aven Prime.

Aven Colony will release on PC sometime in 2017.