Colony Attack vs Mars Tomorrow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Colony Attack
Build and command your own space colony, construct a powerful fleet, and engage in epic interstellar warfare. Explore a vast universe, battle pirates or other players, and forge alliances to achieve galactic dominance.
- Build spaceships
- Develop colony buildings
- Attack player and AI planets
- Research new technologies
- Explore the universe
- Form alliances
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Colony Attack is a space mmo where you create your planet, build your fleet, explore the universe and engage in epic space battles! As the commander of your own space colony you must prepare to fight for supremacy or simply fight for survival. This massively multiplayer space game allows you to create everything you need to grow your space colony, build a powerful fleet of spaceships and attack other planets. As you battle for dominance you can choose to fight space pirates, attack player planets or explore asteroids, stars and other deep space wonders looking for treasure. - Build spaceships including Fighters, Corvettes, Battleships, and the awesome Dreadnaught are ready to command. - Develop buildings such as Sensor Arrays, Plasma Facilities, Research Centers and Armory's. - Attack other player planets or AI planets including the Empire and Pirates, it's space warfare! - Research to unlock powerful Shields, Armor and new ships through the tech tree. - The Universe is populated with Planets, Asteroid fields, Debris, Nebula's and Stars to explore using specialist ships such as the mighty Freighter. - One Universe containing every player amongst millions of stars, no more server selection. - Play with your friends, create alliances, and top the leaderboard. Colony Attack is one of those classic space games you will just want to keep on playing. PLEASE NOTE! Colony Attack is free to play, however some game items can also be purchased for real money. If you don't want to use this feature, please disable in-app purchases in your device's settings. A network connection is required to play Colony Attack. Terms of Use: http://www.colonyattack.com/termsofuse Privacy Policy: http://www.colonyattack.com/privacypolicy Geek Beach Website: http://www.geekbeach.com
Mars Tomorrow
Transform Mars from a hostile planet into a habitable home by building a sustainable economy and a vast transportation network. Join millions of players in a challenging settlement project, making crucial decisions to overcome obstacles and deliver resources. Experience real-time logistics and a deep tech tree in this expansive space simulation.
- Terraform Mars into a habitable planet
- Build a complex logistic and transport network
- Collaborate with millions of real players
- Explore a huge tech tree with over 100 researches
- Manage a complex resource system
- Participate in regular content updates
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Mars is known as the Red Planet but this is going to change in Mars Tomorrow. You inhabit the hostile planet and start turning it into a green and habitable place. Terraforming allows you to grow a sustainable economy and create a new place for living - soon called home. You take the role of a brave space pioneer – joining millions of real players. Together you become the last hope for humanity and build a massive transportation network on Mars. Can you overcome all obstacles, make crucial decisions and deliver all required resources on time? FEATURES - Up to thousands of real players per server - Build a complex logistic and transport network - Transporters move in real-time - 8 different terraforming phases - Huge Tech tree with over 100 different researches - Legendary vehicles and plugins - Complex resource system - Regular updates with new content - Growing guilds in a huge community Try your luck as a Martian and lead the challenging settlement project called Mars Tomorrow today! Enjoy Mars Tomorrow? Learn more about Mars Tomorrow and share your experiences with us! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marstomorrow/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/marstomorrow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mars_tomorrow/ Mars Tomorrow is free to download and play. Some game items can also be purchased for real money. If you do not want to use this feature, please set up password protection for purchases in the settings of your App Store app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Colony Attack at 79% against Mars Tomorrow's 31%. Colony Attack also leads on rating (4.4 vs 3.9) and ads (none vs shown). Mars Tomorrow's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). 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. Colony Attack sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Mars Tomorrow sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Colony Attack holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 208 and 69 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Colony Attack's written reviews are positive against 31% of Mars Tomorrow's.
Colony Attack ships an update every 3 months, Mars Tomorrow weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Colony Attack | Mars Tomorrow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (208 ratings) — better | 3.9 (69 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 79.1% of reviews — better | 30.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 208 — better | 69 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 96 MB | 152 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Geek Beach | gamefabrik GmbH |
Customer experience
Colony Attack
Mars Tomorrow
User reviews
Colony Attack
From 208 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great gameplay
- 👍 Addictive and fun
- 🚀 Excellent graphics
- 👍 Nostalgic feel
- 🚀 Engaging battles
Room to improve
- 🐛 Pay-to-win mechanics
- 🐛 Lack of updates and new content
- 🐛 Imbalanced gameplay
- 🐛 Difficult for new players to progress
- 🐛 Repetitive and grindy
Mars Tomorrow
From 69 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✨ Great concept and design
- ✨ Amazing graphics
- ✨ Detailed menus
- ✨ Cooperative gameplay
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes constantly
- 🐛 Won't load or open
- 🐛 Login/account issues
- 🐛 Confusing interface/tutorial
- 💰 Greedy monetization
Bugs and requests
Colony Attack
Reported bugs
2 issues- Inconsistent chat functionality
- Incorrect resource/time calculations
Requested features
5 requests- More ship variety and customization
- Improved battle mechanics and tactics
- Ability to protect/bank ships
- Expanded galaxy and exploration
- Better balancing between players
Mars Tomorrow
Reported bugs
37 issues- Crashes instantly on startup
- App won't load
- Cannot login
- Menus open and won't close
- Fails to open on iPhone
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- Game won't even load
- Crashes even after reinstalling
- Keeps logging out
- Goes to a black screen
- No confirmation for resource usage
- Tutorial is overly confusing and tedious
- Registration area was buggy
- Internal error pop ups
- Cannot get more than 5 mins play before it crashes
- Unable to create an account
- Won't let me log in with Facebook
- Game won't even load on iPhone
- Stuck on loading additional files
- Gets stuck at eleven percent and then crashes
- Stuck on tutorial
- Fails to load game files from a server
- Cannot play the game without a Facebook account
- Tutorial is minimal
- Locked out of account
- Auto save progress didn't work
- Bug with prototype equipment purchase chance
- App update needed for server updates
- Username taken glitch
- App keeps crashing once loading screen is about to finish
- Cannot connect to server
- Doesn't recognise password
- Reset function shows '_ entity not found _'
- Login interface over-engineered
- Cannot log in using Game Center
- Tiny text on iPhone
- Doesn't load past opening screen
- Crashes when loading game
Requested features
7 requests- Make game playable offline
- Add more information/manual
- Improve tutorial clarity
- Add more phase/guild features
- Fix text size for mobile
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- Add survival element
- Allow fresh start on Mars
In-app purchases
Colony Attack
- Small Nanites$0.99
- Medium Nanites$2.99
- Elite$4.99
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- Large Nanites$9.99
- Huge Nanites$19.99
- Speed Bundle$28.99
- Massive Nanites$39.99
Mars Tomorrow
- Tiny Tritium Package$1.99
- A bit of tritium$2.99
- Small Tritium package$3.99
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- Medium Tritium Package$8.99
- Big Tritium package$13.99
- Huge Tritium Package$26.99
- Giant Tritium Package$54.99









