Comparison

Chickenstead vs Colony Zero

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Idle farm progression
  • Collect eggs and coins
  • Discover new chicken breeds
  • Complete achievements
  • Farm customization
  • Track statistics
Features
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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.

About

Colony Zero

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Chickenstead4 screens
Colony Zero4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 6 level
Chickenstead versus Colony Zero: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChickensteadColony Zero
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews0.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks โ€” better
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeโ€”
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad โ€” better
Requires iOS16.616.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size22 MB123 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOTTO BACHBenjamin Foster

In-app purchases

None

Chickenstead

No in-app purchases

None

Colony Zero

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chickenstead free?
Chickenstead is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Colony Zero free?
Colony Zero is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Chickenstead or Colony Zero have ads?
Colony Zero shows ads; Chickenstead does not.
Which is updated more often, Chickenstead or Colony Zero?
Chickenstead ships an update every 2 months, and Colony Zero every 3 weeks. Most recently, Chickenstead was updated on October 20, 2026 and Colony Zero on October 10, 2026.

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