Aven Colony — Steam Gift

Aven Colony: humanity's foothold on an alien world

Aven Colony is a sci-fi city-building simulator from Mothership Entertainment, published by Team17 and released on Steam on 25 July 2017. You take the role of governor of humanity's first colony on Aven Prime — a distant world of toxic air, sandstorms, poisonous spores and hostile native wildlife. The goal sounds simple and plays hard: land your settlers, build a livable city under domes and tunnels, and grow it from a tent camp into a gleaming city of the future. Here you buy the game as a Steam gift — the bot sends it straight to your library, and Aven Colony stays yours for good.

What kind of game it is and why it grabs you

If you enjoy city-builders about colonizing Mars, surviving the ice or running a tropical island, Aven Colony speaks a familiar language in a setting of its own. This isn't just placing houses: Aven Prime lives by its own rules. The outside atmosphere is unbreathable, so colonists live in sealed structures linked by covered walkways. You juggle oxygen, food, water, jobs and citizen morale while fending off whatever the hostile world throws at you.

Play splits into a story campaign across several regions and a free-build sandbox. In the campaign you gradually settle different corners of the planet, each with its own climate and threats, while unravelling the story of what happened on Aven Prime before humans arrived. The sandbox is pure creativity and management with no narrative pressure: build however you like and see how large and stable a colony you can hold together.

How Aven Prime fights back

The heart of Aven Colony is environmental pressure. Seasons sweep over the colony: a long summer gives way to a harsh winter when solar panels yield less power and crops grow poorly. Sandstorms and toxic fogs roll across the plains and can cover buildings in spores you must shoot down and clear. Alien creatures emerge from the ground, far from happy about the newcomers. And a mysterious presence watches over the colony, its motives revealed as the story unfolds. All of it turns a calm builder into a constant balance of growth and defense.

• Seasons and climate — summer and winter shift your access to power and food, so plan ahead.
• Spores and storms — weather hazards attack structures; you need defense drones and protective systems.
• Native wildlife — alien creatures approach the colony, so defenses are a must.
• Morale — unhappy colonists can call an election and vote you out of office.

Which edition you get as a gift

As a gift you get the base Aven Colony (Standard) edition — the full game with the entire campaign and sandbox mode. It's a standalone version: you need no separate base game on top of it, the gift unlocks the whole title. There is also an expanded Deluxe edition that additionally bundles the original soundtrack by composer Alexander Brandon (sound for Unreal and Deus Ex) and the Cerulean Vale map add-on — the harshest sandbox region with the greatest rewards. The base version doesn't include those extras, but it gives you the entire core experience: both the story and free-build play.

How the Steam gift arrives

Delivery here is a Steam gift via the FazerCards (FZR) bot, not an activation code. After payment the bot adds you as a friend on Steam, sends Aven Colony as a gift and then leaves your friends list once it's done. You don't need to send anything back and you don't accept any trade offers — a real gift arrives exactly as a Steam gift, through the usual «Accept Gift» window. A few important points: Steam Guard is not required to receive the gift; your Steam account region must match the gift's region; and this game must not already be in your Steam library, or the gift won't go through. Delivery usually takes a couple of minutes. Once you accept it, Aven Colony stays in your library forever — it's a purchase you own, not a subscription.

Where to play: PC, Steam Deck, Linux

The gift is the Steam PC version on Windows. Aven Colony is single-player; after install it runs offline with no multiplayer, so you only need a stable connection for the download. On Steam Deck or Linux the game runs through the Proton compatibility layer; it's worth checking the current compatibility rating right on the game's Steam page before buying, since Valve updates those marks from time to time.

Who Aven Colony is for

This game is for players who love thoughtful management with a sci-fi backdrop and don't mind a world that pushes back. You'll get gorgeous futuristic domes, neon tunnels and alien skylines — but behind that view sits a real survival strategy: misallocate resources and the colony suffocates before its first winter. If you're at home with the Martian survival of Surviving Mars or the frozen city of Frostpunk, and the good old management of Tropico 6 brings a smile, Aven Colony is a natural next step for your builder collection.

The bottom line

You're buying the full base version of Aven Colony as a Steam gift. The bot adds you as a friend and sends the game as a gift — usually a couple of minutes. The important things are that your account region matches the gift's region and that the game isn't already in your library. Once you accept it, the game is yours forever. After that it's just you, an alien planet, and the question of whether you can turn a handful of settlers into a thriving colony under the domes of Aven Prime.

💚 Same game — another format

Nearby in the catalog: Aven Colony as a Steam key.