Colonies.io vs Building Colonies
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Colonies.io
Command your queen to collect food blocks and outrank opponents. Spawn workers and attackers, but manage your food resources carefully. Steal food from other players to secure the top rank and earn coin rewards.
- Collect food blocks
- Spawn workers and attackers
- Steal food from opponents
- Rank-based coin rewards
- Finger-based queen movement
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Goal: - Collect as many food blocks as you can to get 1st rank. - Spawn workers/attackers as needed, be aware that they cost food. - Steel food from other queen as well. - Only 1st rank gives coin reward equal to food blocks collected. Controls: - Move queen with your finger. - Workers / Attackers automatically moved with queen.
Building Colonies
Engage in a unique strategy game focused on land colonization. Explore unknown territories, establish and defend your settlements, manage resources, and interact with local tribes. Develop your colonies and expand your empire.
- Land colonization
- Map exploration
- Colony development
- Resource management
- Colony defense and attack
- Tribal interaction
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Building Colonies is a cool, simple and unique strategy with land colonization. Founding a colony on unknown islands and continents, protecting colonies and extracting resources and much more awaits you in this strategy. How to play? Press start, select a type of terrain such as forests, deserts and winter lands. You must buy a ship to send to unknown lands to build colonies. Bring the ship closer to the ground and build a colony, but be careful, local tribes may live on the lands and will try to destroy your weak colony. Having enough resources, you can sell them in the capital and get money for them, for which you can improve the colony to protect against local tribes, and you can also gather an army in the colony and send it to destroy the settlement of the natives. Game Features: - Simple strategy - Three levels of forest, desert and snowy lands - Map exploration - Colony development - Resource sales - Hostile tribes - Colony defense and attack - Statistics
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Colonies.io at 50% against Building Colonies's 0%. Colonies.io also leads on rating (4.0 vs 1.0) and ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Colonies.io holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Colonies.io's written reviews are positive against 0% of Building Colonies's.
| Parameter | Colonies.io | Building Colonies |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better | 1.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Rocketship Studios LLP | Maxim Rudyi |
Customer experience
Colonies.io
Building Colonies
In-app purchases
Colonies.io
No in-app purchases
Building Colonies
No in-app purchases
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