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Starbound Settlers: Build, Explore, and Protect Your Own Space Colony!

Ever dreamed of building your own civilization on a distant planet?

Welcome to Starbound Settlers, a colorful 3D space-colony building and strategy game where you get to create an amazing futuristic settlement, manage its resources, care for its residents, and defend it against hostile robots!

From your first small habitat dome to a sprawling, neon-lit colony filled with homes, schools, factories, and hardworking robots, every decision helps shape the future of your settlement.

Whether you love building games, management simulations, or defending your creations against waves of enemies, Starbound Settlers brings these experiences together in one exciting adventure.

Build Your Dream Space Colony

Start with a small base on an alien world and transform it into a thriving futuristic community!

Construct housing, research laboratories, mining facilities, greenhouses, schools, medical centers, restaurants, parks, and powerful defensive towers.

As your colony grows, unlock more land and upgrade your structures. Certain buildings and habitat domes can expand physically, growing larger and providing more space and services for your population.

Want a beautiful residential neighborhood surrounded by gardens? A massive industrial district filled with robot factories? Or a futuristic research center connected to a network of glowing tunnels?

The choice is yours!

Create Safe Habitats With Oxygen and Transit Tubes

Living on an alien planet isn’t quite like living on Earth!

Your colonists need breathable oxygen and safe places to live.

Build transparent habitat domes and connect them using futuristic pressurized transit tubes. Every occupied building must have a safe connection to an operating Oxygen Generator.

Plan carefully! A disconnected home, farm, or school cannot provide its normal services to your colonists.

Expand your oxygen network as your community grows, creating an impressive connected settlement across the alien landscape.

Meet Your Colonists and Watch Families Grow

Your colony isn’t just buildings and machines. It’s home to people with their own lives!

Each colonist has a name, age, occupation, family relationships, happiness level, energy level, and personal thoughts.

Give your residents jobs, provide homes, keep them fed, and help them stay healthy and happy.

As your settlement becomes more successful, rockets may arrive carrying new colonists hoping to begin a life on your planet.

Adults can also develop relationships and start families. Children grow older and can eventually become part of your colony’s workforce.

Your little outpost could eventually become home to generations of space settlers!

Build Schools and Train the Next Generation

Education matters, even on a distant planet!

Construct schools and other learning facilities to help residents develop valuable skills.

Students can study subjects such as engineering, mining, farming, science, and medicine.

Assign teachers, manage classroom capacity, and improve your educational facilities as your population increases.

A well-educated colony is better prepared for the challenges of life among the stars.

Mine Resources and Build a Powerful Economy

A growing colony needs plenty of supplies!

Construct mining facilities to collect materials such as titanium, iron, copper, silicon, and special crystals.

Generate power, produce food, manage water supplies, and manufacture the resources needed for more advanced structures.

Balance production with your population’s needs and plan for future expansion.

The larger your settlement becomes, the more important thoughtful resource management will be.

Build Your Own Robot Workforce

Robots are an important part of your colony!

Create worker robots, combat units, repair bots, and advanced mechanical helpers.

Your robots can assist with resource gathering, construction, repairs, and protecting your settlement.

Develop new technologies, upgrade your machines, and build a robotic workforce that helps keep your growing civilization running.

Defend Your Colony Against Hostile Robots!

Life on your new planet isn’t always peaceful.

Hostile robotic forces periodically approach your settlement, threatening your buildings and the people living inside them.

Build powerful defensive structures, including:

  • Rapid-fire laser towers
  • Long-range rail lasers
  • Tesla and electrical defenses
  • Cryo towers that slow enemies
  • Plasma cannons
  • Missile launchers
  • Shield generators
  • Advanced orbital laser defenses

And here’s the exciting part: you don’t have to stand by and watch!

Click directly on hostile robots to fire your own Commander Laser and help defend your colony.

Upgrade your weapon, strengthen your defensive towers, and prepare for increasingly difficult enemy waves and powerful bosses.

Protect your residents, oxygen generators, and connected habitat network to keep your civilization safe!

Expand Beyond Your First Settlement

There’s always something new to work toward in Starbound Settlers.

Research advanced technologies, unlock larger construction territories, develop your civilization through new eras, and complete colony objectives.

Launch expeditions, work on enormous megaprojects, and continue developing your futuristic settlement.

With plenty of building types, upgrades, resources, and colony-management systems, there’s always another project waiting.

A Bright Neon World Filled With Possibilities

Starbound Settlers features a futuristic 3D world with glowing cyan and purple lights, colorful structures, transparent habitat domes, illuminated transportation tubes, and adorable robotic helpers.

The dark alien landscape makes your growing colony stand out as you fill it with lights, buildings, and activity.

Customize the layout of your settlement, move buildings when needed, expand your favorite structures, and watch your small outpost transform into a sprawling space civilization.

Ready to Become a Space Colony Commander?

In Starbound Settlers, you’re responsible for more than building structures.

You’ll create homes, help families grow, educate children, manage valuable resources, develop advanced robots, and keep everyone safe from the dangers of an unfamiliar world.

Will you build a peaceful community full of happy families? A technology-focused civilization powered by advanced robotics? Or a heavily defended space metropolis?

Your colony. Your people. Your adventure.

Play Starbound Settlers!

Begin your adventure, build your first habitat, connect your oxygen supply, and see how far your civilization can grow!

Start building your future among the stars today!

Starbound Settlers is an evolving browser-based 3D colony simulation game. Features and gameplay may change as development continues.