
There are some, er, quirks to learning the game, you see. Sadly, I didn’t figure out how to place these guardsmen in good time, which led to some unfortunate consequences. Still, I would have liked such protection on my first attempt at a town. I say face – they have two hollow eyes and nothing else. They are less your servants than they are immovable turrets with a face.

They just stand there and, when night falls and the slow-moving zombies come out of the woods, they shoot any enemy in range with a deadly arrow.

These rigid peasants stand on the spot you mark out for them and never move. Colonists can also be assigned to guard duty. It’s also a bit Minecraft-but-tower-defence. Colonists in the form of AI-controlled helpers can be recruited to farm crops, mine ore, grind flour and cook bread. That once safe and sound (now vastly oversubscribed) subgenre that sees you building a personal castle out of giant blocks from a first-person perspective and fending off nightly monsters, like a really lonely King. To look at the videos of Colony Survival you might think it a top-down city builder or a blocky management sim.

This time, he recruits some peasant help to run a farm in Colony Survival Every week we cast Brendan into the early access wilderness to see what friends he can make.
