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Zap Colony

Zap Colony⚡is a minimalist defense sim where you build a power grid and match tower energy to enemy colors. How long can you keep the colony safe?

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About the Game

Zap Colony⚡ is a minimalist, real-time strategy sim where you design and optimize a powered defense grid for a colony on an alien planet. Plan at your own pace with active-pause, reroute on the fly, then scramble when the map zooms out and resources run thin.

PLAYING ZAP COLONY

The game takes place on a grid-based map, with colony buildings and alien hives spawning outside of your control. Your job is to defend the colony from different colored Starclops by strategically placing turrets, upgrading and connecting them to a power source of matching color. Sounds easy? Success is measured by how long you can withstand before the colony is overrun.

A typical Zap Colony map lasts 20–40 minutes. The game unfolds in weeks: each week you choose one of two resource packs, letting you keep building and adapting your defense network as enemy numbers grow and the map expands.

You’ll manage five resources - Towers (zap Starclops), Power Stations (built on craters to extract colored power), Cables (link Towers to Power Stations), Splitters (divide a cable’s power), and Scaffolding (lets cables cross other cables or span mountains).

KEY FEATURES

 Real-time growing colony simulation with time controls and active pause
Build power-lines at your own pace and rearrange resources on the fly
Place and upgrade defense towers to zap more starclops with a single shot
Upgrade power stations to charge your towers faster
Strategically choose rewards each week to replenish your resources
Unlock all maps, modifiers, achievements and conquer the galactic leaderboards
Enjoy the Sandbox and Custom game modes
High resolution and widescreen support
Palette settings for color vision impairment

PLAY THE DEMO AND WISHLIST ZAP COLONY

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