Galactic Colonies vs ForFour AR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Galactic Colonies
Explore a vast, procedurally generated galaxy and build thriving colonies on alien worlds. Manage resources, establish production lines, and research new technologies to expand your civilization. Discover diverse planets and ensure your colonists survive in challenging environments.
- Procedurally generated universe exploration
- Alien planet colonization
- Technology research
- Complex production pipelines
- Colony ship upgrades
- Diverse planet types
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Download the game for free and start exploring the galaxy! Galactic Colonies is a game about exploring space and building colonies. Explore a procedurally generated universe with thousands of planets. Every colony starts small. Start by providing housing and food for your colonists before you exploit a planet’s natural resources. Set up factories and create advanced high-tech products to make your colony grow even bigger. Discover tropical, desert and ice planets and help your colonists survive on harsh, alien worlds. FEATURES: - Explore a procedurally generated universe - Find and colonize alien planets - Research new powerful technologies - Set up complex production pipelines - Beautiful 3D graphics - Upgrade and improve your colony ship - Endless hours of fun. How far can you explore?
ForFour AR
A local multiplayer board game for up to 4 players where the goal is to connect four of your stones. Play with friends or AI opponents, and experience the game in augmented reality on supported devices.
- Local multiplayer for up to 4 players
- AI opponents that learn
- Augmented Reality mode
- Simple yet challenging gameplay
- Shared stone sets for strategic depth
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This game is a local MULTIPLAYER game for up to 4 players, so chatting, shouting warnings, reveal hints makes this game even more FUN. The host creates a game and all players in the same wireless network can join it. No worry, if you are less than four, you always can pick an AI PLAYER for the missing opponents, that learns, as you, to get better. The rules are simple, get 4 of your stones connected. But the gameplay still is challenging, since your set of stones is shared with other players. For example, if you play WHITE, you get 8 white spheres and 8 white cubes and that you share with the one´s that play SPHERES and CUBES, because they got 8 white cubes and spheres. Sounds complicated, but it is not. You also can play this game in AUGMENTED REALITY on supported devices, which makes it more easy to get a close look at the game board to reveal all hidden possibilities to win.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ForFour AR at 5.0 against Galactic Colonies's 4.5. ForFour AR also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 70%). Galactic Colonies's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 21 months) and ratings volume (297 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Galactic Colonies sells 11 one-off in-app purchases and ForFour AR sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ForFour AR holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Galactic Colonies has 297 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Galactic Colonies's written reviews are positive against 100% of ForFour AR's.
Galactic Colonies ships an update every 10 days, ForFour AR every 21 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Galactic Colonies | ForFour AR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (297 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 297 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 21 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 196 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MetalPop, LLC | Hansjoerg Mikesch |
Customer experience
Galactic Colonies
ForFour AR
Bugs and requests
Galactic Colonies
Reported bugs
4 issues- Research projects getting stuck or going infinite
- Inability to connect buildings properly
- Inconsistent behavior of video rewards
- Crashes when trying to watch ads
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to relocate or remove buildings
- More varied mission objectives and planet types
- Improved navigation and map UI for accessibility
- Offline mode with background resource production
ForFour AR
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Galactic Colonies
- Small Pack Of Energy Cells$1.99
- Star Racer$1.99
- Welcome Bundle$1.99
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- Cold Steel$2.99
- Medium Pack Of Energy Cells$4.99
- Skyward$4.99
- Weekend Deal$4.99
- Doubled Planet Boost Time$4.99
- Colonizer's Bundle$7.99
- A Large Pack Of Energy Cells$9.99
- Huge Pack Of Energy Cells$19.99
ForFour AR
- + 10 Games$0.99
- Full Version$4.99
Questions
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