Play The Colony Online

I first played The Colony back in the late 80s, a 1988 release from Mastertronic's MS-DOS Classic Games line. It was one of those early PC titles that felt ambitious for its time, trying to build a tense, resource-driven survival experience on hardware that was still pretty limited. You didn't get a lot of hand-holding or cinematic flair back then; games like this relied on atmosphere and player ingenuity to create a sense of stakes.

You control a lone astronaut responsible for managing a remote planetary base after a mysterious disaster. Your main objective is simply to survive long enough to repair your ship and escape. The core gameplay involves constant resource juggling: you monitor oxygen levels, manage power distribution between life support and defense systems, and fend off alien intruders using a basic laser. The pacing is deliberately stressful; systems fail without warning, and every decision feels critical. It's a game that makes you feel the weight of isolation and the slow creep of dread with every flickering alert.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".