Breaking Away vs Colony Zero
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Breaking Away
Experience a fast-paced bike racing game inspired by a famous university event. Draft, attack, and manage your health to avoid crashes and achieve victory. Choose your rider and difficulty for a challenging race.
- Physics-based gameplay
- AI Competitors
- Simple Slide & Tap controls
- Health management
- Drafting mechanic
- Crash avoidance
- Rider selection
- Difficulty and lap selection
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Avoid wrecks and ride your way through the pack as you seek victory in this fast-paced bike racing game. Based off Indiana University’s iconic bike race, the Breaking Away game is a fun yet challenging racer celebrating this annual spring event. Draft off other riders and time your attack but watch out because your chance at glory could end in a cloud of dust. GAME FEATURES - Physics-based gameplay - A.I. Competitors - Simple Controls - Slide to steer, Tap to pedal - Manage health to avoid bonking. - Draft off other riders to recover. - Avoid crashing and other gnarly wrecks. - Pick your rider to fit your style. - Select level of difficulty and number of laps. - Beat the field and your personal best. “The race is won by the rider who can suffer the most.” – Eddy Merckx “Cycling isn’t a game, it’s a sport. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling.” – Jean de Gribaldy
Colony Zero
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Colony Zero is a colony simulation where you never issue direct orders. You set priorities, policies, and conditions — then ten colonists decide who mines, builds, farms, and explores. You land on an unknown world with a landing module, a generator, and a thirty-day survival goal. Keep food, water, energy, metal, minerals, electronics, plastic, and medicine in balance while health, happiness, and loyalty shift with every cycle. Propose buildings — mines, greenhouses, solar panels, storage, and quarters for workers, engineers, and scientists — then assign work on the colony map. Scan, repair, and trade from the action wheel as Outpost Alpha grows. People carry professions, traits, values, and ambitions. Friendships and rivalries form, factions appear, and autonomy requests can split districts from your control. Choose a governance model: Colony Council, Administrator, Corporate Colony, Military Command, or Free Settlement. Research new projects, manage the economy, and push into new biomes as days pass: Red Desert, Alien Forest, Frozen Zone, Volcanic Region, Ocean, and Crystal Caves. Daily events force hard choices. Survive the first thirty days, or watch the colony fail.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Breaking Away at none against Colony Zero's shown. Breaking Away also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 16.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Breaking Away ships an update every 8 days, Colony Zero every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Breaking Away | Colony Zero |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 317 MB | 123 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | modulR LLC | Benjamin Foster |
In-app purchases
Breaking Away
No in-app purchases
Colony Zero
No in-app purchases
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