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Robot Colony – Simulation Game Review
Robot Colony is a Simulation/Strategy game from Ivan Khokhlenkov, first launched in 7th November 2020.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 599+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Robot Colony Stand Out
Robot colony is a mix of strategy and simulation. Your goal is to manage the production and upgrades of autonomous robots that will gather resources, scout the area, build and repair bases, and protect the colony against giant bugs. The game is offline and is designed for simple one-hand operation.
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Robot Colony is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th June 2023
Recent improvements include:
minor bug fixes
Download & Availability
Robot Colony is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Good game. Some minor bugs but very fun to play.
So good looking game it is so hard we can not beat the first lvl can you make everything cheaper and add a tutorial that makes you upgrade stuff also please add more bases and robots and fix the robots so Thanks.
We noticed that after like wave 30 or 40, the wave appears 3 or 4 seconds late according to the timer we see. Our assumption is the visible timer is a bit faster than the actual timer used in the code. Try and sync them, thats all we want.
Wish there was like some kind of sandbox mode with like inf ore and energy and you can place turrets anywhere.
First, we love this game, it has plenty of modes and it has multiple strategies. Second we have a few suggestions, first a bug health bar(optional please),Second a boss maybe when you get 1800 points or something, lastly it would be cool to have a bigger map or like caves. Love game bye! Add-on: In our opinion as some tips for new players first, you dont want multiple bases because its easier to defend one base and not three, two if a bug is currently attacking a base spam scouts not defenders,three dont spend lots on scout spend on defenders. Again we Love the game bye.
We absolutely adore this game, its both idle and rts making it perfect for all players! We personally would add the ability to have specific units target specific enemies, like having a scout loop around the entire attacking force and picking at the self-destructing bugs so they dont hurt the mass of your bots. This isnt necessary but would be really neat and add more strategy to the game.
Oddly enough, this robot game is the best ant simulator game Ive found to play.
This is is super fun! Especially when your bored without WiFi. Simple, yet so fun.
Just a good simple fun challenging game a short one though.
We really appreciate this games straight to the point design. This is what it is, here are the levels, enjoy. The difficulty levels are hard to find for some, other than that we have no other glaring issues. Overall, a really great game with a definite curve in survivability. Also oh god just corrupted our 100kplus score level and we have no idea what we have done. Green screen baby.
Love love love love this game.
It was a 10 out of 10 but it only has five levels we wish there is more level so we can play more.
We really like it but obviously there are things we would love maybe a ranged unit that would be like 30 energy and we would enjoy maybe buying the turret stations for like 100 energy. Other than that, props to developer(s).
We rely like your game and to make it a bit cooler we wish that there is a bot that can open the boxes for you.
This game is a very high quality little mobile game. The gameplay is active and enticing, we easily find ourselves spending 30 minutes playing (without one ad interrupting). Just an overall amazing mobile experience.
The simplicity and strategic depth are in a good balance for a mobile game. Game Concepts are good and hilarious.
We think this game is great and has a lot of potential. However, there are some quirks. For example, the path finding on the loader bots can be extremely bad. We had 40 on level 3 and most of them had trouble picking an energy source to go grab, despite there being plenty that were not even being mined by other loaders. We didnt look at the path finding for the miner bot, but if the same code is being used, we recommend tweaking that as well. Also, the only real preventative measure against the wasps are turrets. Maybe a scout unit with a rifle would help balance this? Then again, you do get lots of energy from them so we suppose this could be left alone. Great game! Would recommend.
This is amazing we wish it had multiplayer though.
Really cool details in the game such as when the a collector robot finds a resource it attracts other robots to it like ants. This game also offers a few strategies to fight bugs for its simplistic but entertaining gameplay. You get the hang of it after a few games which means the tutorial is quick and easy. We like the multiple game modes, definitely a great addition. However the energy generators while they are decent when maxed out, dont leave much to be desired maybe add another upgrade option to decrease the production speed. And maybe a ranged robot to offer another defense against more explosive bugs. Otherwise we really love the game keep up the good work! AND NO ADS.
We really like it, although the medium difficulty is way to hard.
Nice and balanced difficulty scaling too. Just started, but Im likely to get the $2 no ads and speed boost.
So this will be a long one so developers get comfy we love your game and it is absolutely amazing but we wish there was like a sandbox mode where you could have infinite supply sent you for materials and then Spohn in the enemies as you wanted to or there could be like a wall function so that the enemies we have to destroy the wall when you make it. This could leave this game open to being a really big success and we really like it and Im glad that you guys decided to sit down and make a game it is very addictive its very fun we wish theres a way where we can watch an advertisement to support you and it was just beautiful lovely so we can support you in some other way because we dont feel like theres really any ads or anything that we can do to support you and we would love to see that thank you.
Nice relaxing game trying to balance production, exploration and defense. Definitely the start to something great.
It has so much potential and is fun as is. Im really looking forward to what you do with it.
Ive been playing this game for hours and we dont think Ive watched a single advertisement the entire time, in terms of gameplay its simple and fun, it has a clicker type feel to it but keeps you on your toes with constant attacks, the only thing we really want added is a counter to show you how much of each type of bot you have, it tells you the total but not the specifics, we would also love to see a bug healthbar, other than that this game is amazing all around, also little too for players that are stuck, if something is already attacking your base spam scouts not defenders, theyre cheaper and have the same damage per second.
We dont review games, but this one we had to. This is a great game at a reasonable cost, no pay to win, and you can play and stop and pick it up at any time. The developer did a great job with this one.
Hello we like this game its fun and simple and we like to add some things to the game, well some suggestions, mabey add a range unit cost about 15 energy and mabey a other campaign but for bugs basically like you are the bugs instead. Mabey add a sandbox if you wanna play around but you have to complete at least 2 missions the first and the tower one. Anyways the range could have a very small cannon or a explosive, a explosive tank basically could be added. Mabey add more buildings and the player can place the building such as the building we have now but will cost both ore and energy. Also the player can place walls while the bugs attact the range units shot at the bugs. The bugs can also have a range unit like a ant with its acid or something. Anyways that will be our suggestions to the game keep the good work.
We didnt have much expectations going to this game we even thought it was just going to be one of those idle games. But this game exceeded our expectations and its actually very fun to play.
We love this game it is great to pass the time by and the only suggestion we have is that maybe you can add water tiles to the game so that nothing can go over it but other than that it is a great game, keep up the good work.
Its not like a groundbreaking game but definitely fun to play here and there. Although a few updates with more complex levels and bots would be nice instead of just 5 robots. Really glad it doesnt spam you with ads though, really refreshing.
Ok so this is a good game in all but you should add a tutorial on level 1 like the basics and on level 2 and 4 you should make a tutorial about how traps and turrents work Anthor suggestion is that you should add more levels and make more types of robot like commander bot for example it can call any robot in its radius and it can be controlled by the person playing it This is a fun game u should play it :D.
So we played through level one and sone of level two and we really really like the concept and the way the game is made but sometimes it just seems to difficult even with upgrades the bots still take forever to kill the bugs and even with loads of loaders (hehe) it still takes forever to get energy so its kinda difficult and slow.
Played for like an hour but we already like.
This is a very simple game, dont go expecting deep strategies with no 2 players being the same. But at the same time, we cant remember the last time we enjoyed a mobile game so much, the constant siege of your bases keeps you on your toes and we find it brilliant.
This was a really good game it really calmed our nerves but at the same time there was tense moments.
We finished the game in like an hour or two so it needs more content, a sandbox game mode could be a cool solution. The game is also slightly buggy and wonky one might say but its a new game and isnt too bad. Overall 4/5, needs more content and fine tuning.
The game is amazing and interesting but it has so much potential to make it a better game like make it so you can direct your robots with turrets active.
Intelligent enemies but you have mindless robots with no control. Your scouts dont explore the obvious areas. You cant focus your attacks. Your builders all work together on the same building. This makes them easy prey for the flying bugs. You only have a limited amount of building options with no upgrades the first three levels. Third level is impossible even on easy. Takes tons of time to play if you dont pay the $1.99 to be able to advance the speed.
Fun mechanics and strategy. Reminds us of Starcraft in some ways. It gets pretty difficult at level 3 even for medium. Maybe its just us but we cannot seem to get past the 6th or 7th wave of bugs. Youre still in the process of building your 2nd base but barely get by due to a potential bottleneck in gathering resources. Maybe it can be fixed by giving the defenders and turrets more health or damage. Another suggestion is when your building is destroyed and you have a few robots being built in the queue, you should get those resources back rather than losing them forever.
We were on level 2 when all of a sudden the screen just becomes a a blank green screen where we cant do anything. When we tried to continue it still got stuck on the green screen. Please fix this glitch.
The game has a solid concept and somewhat decent, simplified mechanics. The problem is that at a certain point, the game gets cheap, rather than difficult. You can build up a massive army and be swimming in resources, but if the computer decides to send you a couple of exploding bugs, itll wipe out a good portion of your defenses with little time to recover before the next wave.
Its so hard that you cant pass the first level! Fun game and all but why is it impossible to pass the first level.
Was fun for a good 5 days untill we opened it and no matter what setting or mode we were playing our swipes to move the camera around the map would zoom instead of panning.
Once a game mechanic is introduced it should stay. And tapping to attract allies to enemies should be a default mechanic. Not to mention some method to make them run away.
The game is very linear and slow. There is a 2x and 3x speed option but theyre blocked behind a price $. Theres nothing to customize or research or build towards. Units you build are locked to the base you build them from. Even if you have 2 bases side by side and one gets attacked, defenders from the neighboring base dont help. You build units and hope you have what you need to defend and resource harvest. Your defending units AI is not smart. Defenders spread out and it takes a long time for them to get to your base when its under attack. Even fully upgraded, 25-30 defenders cant take out more than a couple bugs before your base is destroyed.
Interface needs work, the waves seem to be determined by how well youre doing. We did runs where our economy was weak, the waves were weak, and vice versa. Whats the point.
It gave us lag even after we deleted it.
We dont know where the positive reviews are from. The first level is boring, and the subsequent levels are just the same plus more bugs and one different mechanic that defeats that bug. The much later levels are just a meta build simulator, wherein if you dont do strat X, you lose.
By the time our robots kill the bugs, time runs out and another swarm starts and we still havent replenished the robots that got killed in the last one. Either increase the time between swarms or make the robots cheaper.
Kind of stressful at times, but simple and nice. Charming, delightful lil game. Theres not an overload of ads which brings this game to five stars.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.136
- Size: 78.32 MB
- iOS: 12.1 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Ivan Khokhlenkov
Last updated: 14th June 2023 | Genre: Simulation, Strategy | Developer: Ivan Khokhlenkov