How many copies has Colony Survival sold?

indielist estimates Colony Survival has sold between 467,571 and 1,090,999 units (median 779,285), derived from its 8,203 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Colony Survival?

Colony Survival was developed by Pipliz and published by Pipliz.

Who published Colony Survival?

Colony Survival was published by Pipliz, developed by Pipliz. See Pipliz's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Colony Survival released?

Colony Survival was released in 2017.

How many reviews does Colony Survival have on Steam?

Colony Survival has 8,203 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.

Is Colony Survival worth playing?

Steam players rate Colony Survival 92% positive across 8,203 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Colony Survival

Jun 16, 2017 Action $24.95

Developer Pipliz Publisher Pipliz

Profile updated May 2026

Colony Survival, an action-strategy game, launched in 2017. It has accumulated over 8,143 Steam reviews. The game is available in Early Access.

Colony Survival is a 2017 Action game developed by Pipliz and published by Pipliz. On Steam it has gathered 8,203 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Pipliz with publisher Pipliz is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 468,000 to 1.1 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Colony Survival can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

8,203

Positive

92%

Steam appid

366090

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

151

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 13:10 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

468K to 1.1M

units (median: 779K)

≈ $6.7M to $15.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

468K median 1.1M

+ How is this calculated?

8,203 reviews × NB(95) = 779,285 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2017	+30
price_$25	+5
positive_92%	+10
final NB	95

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Colony Survival at roughly 468,000 to 1.1 million copies, with a median around 779,000, derived from its 8,203 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $11.1M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

54 observed days · window low $17.46

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $17.46 to $24.95. The tracked-window low was $17.46 on 2026-06-26.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Colony Survival sold?: indielist estimates Colony Survival has sold between 467,571 and 1,090,999 units (median 779,285), derived from its 8,203 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Colony Survival?: Colony Survival was developed by Pipliz and published by Pipliz.
Who published Colony Survival?: Colony Survival was published by Pipliz, developed by Pipliz. See Pipliz's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Colony Survival released?: Colony Survival was released in 2017.
How many reviews does Colony Survival have on Steam?: Colony Survival has 8,203 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Is Colony Survival worth playing?: Steam players rate Colony Survival 92% positive across 8,203 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Colony Survival can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as ARK: Survival Evolved, Valheim, Scrap Mechanic, Kenshi, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Pipliz's other releases and Pipliz's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Colony Survival sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Colony Survival page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.