Last updated on December 13th, 2025 at 04:09 pm
Colonize: Transport Tycoon – Strategy Game Review
Colonize: Transport Tycoon is a Strategy/Simulation game from Maksim Olegovich Zakopailov, first launched in 10th December 2020.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 145+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Colonize: Transport Tycoon Stand Out
Do you like transport simulators as much as we do? Then play Colonize – a unique economic strategy game set in a space setting. Build and develop your own colony and its transport network on a distant planet. This is a relaxing simulator that will allow you to feel the spirit of freedom of space explorers.
Are you tired of the notorious railroad and shipbuilder simulators? Become the manager of your own space colony. This will allow you to plunge into the world of unusual space transport of a new era.
There are no timers inherent in such games, all buildings and improvements occur instantly. Real time transportation of goods without timers and other artificial restrictions.
Discover and explore all the biomes of the planet, enriching and developing a fleet of unique vehicles along the way, which will give you the best gaming experience.
Features:
- Build a global transportation network on your own planet.
- Develop various buildings of the colony.
- Lots of amazing vehicles.
- Unique setting and visual style.
- Explore the territory of a wild planet.
- Nothing appears just like that, everything is created from the resources available on the planet.
- An unforgettable soundtrack that will allow you to immerse deeper into the atmosphere of the game.
And much more. We are working hard to meet the needs of every player. Expect frequent updates with new content and unique mechanics.
All this in a meditative atmosphere in which you can relax and enjoy the game process!
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Colonize: Transport Tycoon is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 7th April 2024
Recent improvements include:
⁃ Redesigned the interface of the depot and routes window, now the vehicles improve and evolve in a new way.
⁃ Redesigned the tooltips during route creation.
⁃ Improved the tutorial.
⁃ Returned social network links to the settings.
⁃ Added time check and fixed many bugs.
Download & Availability
Colonize: Transport Tycoon is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Colonize: Transport Tycoon on App Store
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:
We are really enjoying this and it is a unique take on transportation games. A couple of suggestions: 1) Need to be able to manage fleet to know what is failing similar to transit king tycoon (especially cancel all routes) 2) Can only do diagonal roads horizontal to the screen. The (vertical) diagonal wont build.
We really love this game, but we have completed everything and upgraded all of our vehicles to five stars and theres really nothing else to do because we cant open up the new area until Im level 33 but theres no way to gain any more points to become level 33.
Emailed support quite some time ago, nothing. Been stuck at level 26 forever with nothing left to do in the game and yet the one building says it needs to be level 33. Somewhat disappointing.
Long game, it takes lots of time to upgrade things. When will the next update come we finished up to level 26 but cant go further.
We think we are almost at the end of the game, our garage is about to level up for the last time, however the research station says it unlocks the next level at 33. We are only level 26, but dont see anything else to build or upgrade. Am we missing something.
It's hard to defining as a game.
We like the game. Its one you could you in and set up then go back to it later and the day and adjust your car deliveries. We wish we could zoom out of the map more. The building are somewhat spaced to the point you cant see the big picture because the map doesnt zoom out much.
We open the app and close it by itself instantly we reinstalled but it didn't hep.
After selecting a new vehicle, it never shows up in our lineup. Also a bit glitchy, screen seizes up and becomes unresponsive in app.
Personally we really like the game few bugs and glitches with recent update such as you cant delete a whole route all at once you have to go into the route and delete each car from the route you can, you can build roads from left to right but not up to down and personally we like this bug but instead of letting a route go from one place to another and then back again you can let it go from one place to another and then delete the car from the route and press it again and it goes back to starting place we dont think the game is supposed to be like that some optimizations should be made such as the idle play of the game sometimes we go back on to the game and what should have been done in 8 hours theres only like 20 min of work done and the time it takes for the trains or cars to go from one place to another should be increased by about 15-20%.
Another review mentioned it was kinda tedious, and we get that. Its hard to level up the thing you want to, but you dont need it. It does get tedious, so if you like a game with a grinding kinda mindset, this will be a neat one. Not too difficult, so Ive enjoyed it. To be honest, we got into this game after deleting a social media app off of our phone. Maybe thats why Im writing this review. Some social interaction. Anyway, 4 stars. The gears are too slow to earn.
We freaking lost our progress in the game how can we fix this.
First off we love this game. Its a great puzzler that allows you to figure out your supply chain in order to get the supplies you need. You have to balance resources which become more complex as the game progresses. There are the ability to upgrade as time goes on but that cost resources as well. Its fun and relaxing on the whole. Now for our notes to the creators. The game could be improved by allowing you to upgrade the building to require less resources to make other resources. It would help with the lag time the game seems to get the further you get into the game. It could also help if there was a daily resources giveaway for checking in and a better reward system. Also, having a screen that allows you to assign carts in a resource chain, instead of doing it individually, would probably help with gamer frustration. We hope these suggestions will help to improve what is already a great game. Thanks.
We have two complaints, first is that the resources you need get absurdly expensive overtime, not a horrible thing for more idle like progression, overall im happy with it so far! Second complaint is that its a HUGE drain on battery even in the background (could just be our phone having a bad battery, not sure if its like that with other devices) but besides those two things its an amazing game, hope to see more updates.
We have been playing this game a bit and generally, it has been pretty fun to play. The more we play though, the more bugs we find. The main bug that is bothering us is how the menu in the garage bugs out sometimes and you just don't get a new vehicle after upgrading. Another related bug is when you select a new vehicle from the garage, and you just don't even get it or it just gets removed from your inventory.
We love the game, and its a great new approach to transport games. Our only suggestion would be to somehow color code roads so when you upgrade them you can know which you still need to do at a glance, and wont miss any.
It needs vertical paths for efficiency stuff, but besides that its great.
We like this game, but after a while it gets tedious.. Also the amount of resources that needs to be delivered to build something or upgrade is huge.. It gets to 300 of something that needs entire pipeline to make it.. It just needs balancing and new features or events. It could be amazing game. Also we uograded our almac and it says it could carry 2 recourses at once byt it only picks one bug? Or we dont understand something.
Spent a lot of time in this game, we would like to thank the developers for such a gem. Our only suggestion is the possibility of creating bridges in the game. It would be so nice. Edit: we will soon finish this game :( please give us more content.
We wanted to like this game but stopped playing after an important UX element was hidden behind our screen notch. That plus references to clicking instead of tapping make us assume that this is a poorly thought out port from PC.
We hate to rate it poor since we havent played it but we havent played it since it wont start up.
We love the look of the game, its really cute. The music is simply beautiful, really a gem. We do wish that we could make North/South tracks, as it seems only you can make East/West tracks, and NE NW SE SW tracks.
Takes a LONG time to level up and complete different objectives. A good game, really! But the amount of time it takes you to get leveled up is a bit much in our opinion. And since you can not idle level up, it just gets annoying.
Ive been really enjoying the strategy of how this works for the first week of play. Im wondering if it will become tedious as time goes on as more and more time is required to complete each task. We have learned to upgrade our vehicles.There is little direction once you begin but we enjoy that.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.18.1
- Size: 223.08 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, PT, RU, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Maksim Olegovich Zakopailov
Last updated: 7th April 2024 | Genre: Strategy, Simulation | Developer: Maksim Olegovich Zakopailov