Chickenstead vs Colony Zero
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Chickenstead
Build a cozy chicken farm in this cheerful idle game. Collect eggs, discover new breeds, and expand your coop. The farm progresses even when you're offline, allowing for relaxed, casual play sessions.
- Idle farm progression
- Collect eggs and coins
- Discover new chicken breeds
- Complete achievements
- Farm customization
- Track statistics
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Chickenstead is a cheerful idle farm game where you grow your coop one chicken at a time. Collect eggs from your chickens and turn them into in-game coins. Add more chickens, discover new breeds, and increase egg production as your farm grows. Your coop continues making progress while you are away, so you can return, collect what your chickens produced, and keep expanding. Unlock new chicken breeds, complete achievements, and track your progress through statistics for chickens owned, eggs collected, coins earned, and production rate. Customize your farm with different coop skins and decorative items. Place decorations around the yard and unlock new looks as you progress. Chickenstead combines simple idle gameplay, collecting, farm progression, and customization in a relaxed experience suited for short and casual play sessions. Grow your flock, collect eggs, and build your own cozy chicken farm.
Colony Zero
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Colony Zero is a colony simulation where you never issue direct orders. You set priorities, policies, and conditions โ 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 โ mines, greenhouses, solar panels, storage, and quarters for workers, engineers, and scientists โ 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: Chickenstead at none against Colony Zero's shown. Colony Zero's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Chickenstead ships an update every 2 months, Colony Zero every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chickenstead | Colony Zero |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | โ |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks โ better |
| Ads | No โ better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | โ |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad โ better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 123 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | OTTO BACH | Benjamin Foster |
In-app purchases
Chickenstead
No in-app purchases
Colony Zero
No in-app purchases
Questions
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Do Chickenstead or Colony Zero have ads?
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