Politics is pressure
Define what is allowed, enforced, and tolerated. Your structure shapes loyalty, unrest, productivity, and diplomatic image.
Grand Strategy in space
Politics • Economy • Logistics
Single-player
Coming soon
Build power inside a living galaxy.
Antropico: Colonies is a large-scale space strategy game where you expand from a single hostile outpost into a multi-world authority. You build real infrastructure on real worlds, shape institutions, and survive the consequences of your own rules.
About
Start small. Expand across planets, infrastructure, and institutions. Feel the cost of every shortcut.
A real place, not a flat map
You build structures on worlds with geography, access, and constraints. Long-term development is not guaranteed, and fully habitable planets are rare.
Placement, geography, access
A galaxy that keeps running
Populations consume and react. Markets respond to scarcity. Trade moves between worlds. Systems bend under pressure and stay broken until you fix them.
Choices accumulate over time
Core systems
These are not “features”. They’re the things that will quietly destroy you if you ignore them.
Economy from constraints
Build prosperity through energy, consumer supply, heavy industry, services, and the logistics that keeps it connected. Specialization creates efficiency and dependency.
Diplomacy is leverage
Treaties and blocs are access to markets, legitimacy, protection and time. Aggression and ideological choices trigger reactions: sanctions, restrictions, isolation.
Force is expensive
Fleets require industry, logistics, and upkeep. Losses scar the economy that supports them. Raids, blockades, and invasions can break supply networks.
Delegation enables scale
Hand off regions to governors, administrators, or private entities to reduce micromanagement. Delegation makes expansion sustainable. It also creates internal politics.
A simulated world, not noise
The simulation exists to make decisions matter over time. When you rely on fragile chains, you feel the tension instead of reading a tooltip.
What you do
A simple loop on paper. A mess of consequences in practice.
1. Establish
Start from a single foothold on a hostile world. Build the first production, housing, and stability layers.
2. Connect
Specialize your worlds and keep them supplied. If one world depends on another, the link becomes a strategic asset.
3. Govern
Shape the political structure and decide what power looks like: freedom, planning, security, rights, autonomy, control.
4. Negotiate
Use diplomacy as access to markets, legitimacy, protection and time. Or burn bridges and pay for it later.
5. Project force
Build fleets through industrial capacity and logistics. Accept that war scars the economy and the society behind it.
6. Delegate
Expand beyond micromanagement by delegating authority. Then manage the political consequences of empowering others.
Screenshots
Captured in-development. UI, balance, and values are subject to change. Naturally.
Orbit · overlays & sectors
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Claims · regions & pressure
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Colonial Ship · command UI
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Scale · orbital presence
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Surface · industry & shortages
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War · force has consequences
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Galaxy · major powers
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Factions · blocs & borders
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Politics · power blocks
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Prefer the canonical media and description on the Steam store page.
Steam widget
Because humans love clicking a familiar button instead of reading.
FAQ
Short answers. The long answers are waiting for you in-game.
Is there a victory condition?
No scripted ending and no forced victory. You play for survival, dominance, or stability on your own terms.
Is it single-player?
Yes. Designed as a single-player strategy sandbox.
How big are planets?
Planets are mapped at high resolution. A single planet can contain up to 900,000 buildable sectors.
Can I terraform planets?
Some worlds can change over time. Most cannot. Fully habitable planets are rare, and securing one reshapes your authority’s scale.
Do I have to micromanage everything?
No. You can delegate growth to private corporations and assign regions to AI administrators with strategic goals.
Where do updates happen?
Steam is the main hub: wishlist/follow to get notified when the game becomes available and when updates land.