The Zenith
La Cátedra de los Arquitectos
“La luz se gana”: light is earned
Order, energy and heavy industry
“Someone has to keep the light on. And whoever keeps it on decides who gets to use it.”
Station El Pináculo · Delvar, L4
COLONIZED — Space Survival MMORPG. Two factions. One fleet.Both are recruiting again.
Aurin system · Year 47 E.A.
COLONIZED is a space survival MMORPG with first- and third-person combat. You arrive with nothing: survive, craft, raise a base with your colony and choose a side.
- System
- Aurin
- Date
- Year 47 E.A.
- Cold peace
- Cracking
- Closed alpha
- Winter 2026-2027
- SurvivalFifteen worlds with weather of their own, ground to orbit
- CombatFirst or third person. The server decides who hits
- Crafting and bases90 recipes. Pull a support and it comes down
- Persistent MMOOne online universe on dedicated servers
Official key art
Preliminary requirements · being optimised
Will your PC run COLONIZED?
Pick your graphics card, processor and memory: the calculator shows the tier to expect, the frame rate and which part holds you back. It starts at 8 GB graphics cards.
- Minimum
- 8 GB VRAM · 16 GB RAM · SSD · 1080p
- Recommended
- 10 GB VRAM or more · 32 GB RAM · NVMe SSD · 1440p
- Minimum (Low profile)
- Medium
- High
- Ultra
What is COLONIZED
A survival MMO with a weapon in your hands.
Everything in this section already runs in the engine.
Combat
The server decides who hits.
Rifles, pistols, a shotgun and a sniper rifle in first or third person, switching at will, plus a rocket launcher and gatlings in third. Every shot is resolved on the server, with lag compensation. Grenades, alien fauna and armed humans that take cover and flank.
- 13 weapons
- 1st / 3rd person
- Server-side hits
Survival
Worlds you walk from the ground to orbit.
Spherical planets with radial gravity, and zero gravity once you leave the atmosphere. Rain, snow, dust and fog depend on the world. Five needs keep you honest.
- Health
- Hydration
- Nutrition
- Temperature
- Stamina
Crafting and building
Pull a support and it comes down.
Ninety recipes by hand, at the workbench, the fabricator and the furnace. Bases go up piece by piece with structural integrity, and your colony shares the beds you respawn in.
- 90 recipes
- 4 crafting sites
- Structural integrity
Factions and guilds
Zenith or Nadir. You choose once.
Pick your house at enlistment and climb its ranks. Five neutral guilds keep count of everything else, and what you do for one weighs on the others.
Compis
A companion that learns from you.
Five cores from the old fleet, one per guild. You recover one through its guild’s missions, build its shell from a blueprint, and its talent tree specialises you: hold the line, deal damage, heal, craft or fly.
The Aurin system
Fifteen worlds generated from their lore.
Four planets, ten moons and a captured asteroid, raised from the lore by a procedural chain: terrain from real elevation data and physics, not noise, and weather of their own.
- 15 worlds
- Real terrain
- Dynamic weather
What you do
You arrive with nothing. You stay for what you build.
The loop that already runs in the engine, in six steps.
- 01
Enlist
Aboard the Arca Custodia you choose your house, the Zenith or the Nadir. It is for good.
- 02
Survive
Drink, eat, keep warm and watch your stamina. Step out of the atmosphere and gravity lets go.
- 03
Gather and craft
Break resource nodes, carry what you can and turn it into tools, weapons, ammunition and food.
- 04
Build
Foundations, walls, ramps and stations that snap together. Your colony shares it, and respawns in its beds.
- 05
Fight
Fauna, armed humans and anyone who wants what you have. The server keeps the score.
- 06
Earn standing
Your house promotes you. Five neutral guilds rank you from Paria to Leyenda.
Then further out, with better gear and your colony behind you.
The world
Year 47 E.A. The cold peace is cracking.
In the Aurin system of the Parhelion galaxy, two factions born from the same colony fleet, the Zenith and the Nadir, keep a cold peace that is starting to crack.
In Year 1 the Arca Aurora took fire from both sides above Ithera and came down. No one has ever been able to say whose shot it was. The ones who crawled out of the wreck founded the five guilds inside the wound it left, La Cicatriz, and the two sides shut themselves in their stations to watch each other. Thirty-five years of cold peace later, both are recruiting again. You are one of the people arriving.
The Nadir
La Concesión
“Lo que nadie quiso”: what nobody wanted
Listening, salvage and sabotage
“Nobody should have a hand on everyone’s switch. And what gets thrown away still belongs to someone.”
Station El Fondeadero · Trasvar, L5
One fleetThey are not two peoples. They are one crew split by a question.
Five guilds no side can do without
Founded by the survivors of the Arca Aurora, they keep Ithera neutral under the Armistice and work for both stations.
“Metal doesn’t pick a side. Neither do I. I only pick who pays on time.”
The PioneersEl ViveroMedicine, farming and civil works
Apex SyndicateEl AguijónHunting and alien fauna
The ForgeLa Fragua BajaMining, refining and logistics
The VanguardEl BastiónSecurity and armed escort
The PathfindersEl Faro RotoCharts, anomalies and lost data
Open files in the Codex
- ItheraLa CicatrizThe only counter in the system where a Zenith and a Nadir stand in the same queue. Nobody mentions it. Everybody watches.Read the file
- TiranePuerto AuroraThirty-one people built eight docks in four months to welcome the Arca Aurora. It never came. At dock seven the welcome container is still there, shut.Read the file
- AurinTabla de FasesAurin’s moons circle in hours where physics asks for days. The Pathfinders don’t explain it. They measure it, and write it down.Read the file
- KaldrekAnillos de KaldrekFor decades everyone took them for war scrap. They were a moon. Its name was Mornane.Read the file
The Codex describes the universe of COLONIZED. What you can play in each alpha wave is listed in the alpha notes.
Aurin at a glance
The Aurin system
One star, four worlds, ten moons and a captured asteroid. Sizes to scale with one another; distances compressed.
Aurin, the star
StarRadius 130,000 km
Open in the CodexOrmek
PlanetRadius 6,050 km
Breathable N₂-O₂, 95 kPa, 80 km ceiling, under a veil of white cloud
Open in the CodexKharsis
PlanetRadius 6,300 km
Breathable N₂-O₂, 70 kPa with 26% O₂ (as at 1,300 m)
Open in the CodexIthera
PlanetRadius 6,000 km
Breathable N₂-O₂, 101.3 kPa, 80 km ceiling, with spores from the flora
Open in the CodexKaldrek
PlanetRadius 6,400 km
Breathable N₂-O₂, 120 kPa, 60 km ceiling; high aerosol haze
Open in the CodexCementerio de Aura
Belt
Open in the CodexThe outer ice belt
Belt
Open in the CodexPyra
Orbit 3 h, Tabla de FasesMoonRadius 420 km
Tenuous: a sodium veil from the basalt
Open in the CodexCinera
Orbit 9 h, Tabla de FasesMoonRadius 620 km
Tenuous: vapour the regolith gives off in sunlight (CO₂ and H₂O)
Open in the CodexKravane
Orbit 1.375 h, Tabla de FasesMoonRadius 1,150 km
Tenuous: exosphere, 95% argon
Open in the CodexKharun
Orbit 2.75 h, Tabla de FasesMoonRadius 780 km
Tenuous: exosphere, 97% argon
Open in the CodexAshkar
Orbit 5.5 h, Tabla de FasesCaptured asteroidRadius 45 km, irregular shape
None: vacuum
Open in the CodexErran
Orbit 11.83 h, Tabla de FasesMoonRadius 1,000 km
Thin: 0.654 kPa, 95.9% CO₂; not breathable
Open in the CodexMelvara
Orbit 0.5 h, Tabla de FasesMoonRadius 1,950 km
Breathable: 72 kPa with 27% O₂ (as at 750 m), 26 km ceiling
Open in the CodexTirane
Orbit 1 h, Tabla de FasesMoonRadius 1,500 km
Tenuous, collisional: 4.3·10⁻⁴ kPa, almost all CO
Open in the CodexSelvane
Orbit 2 h, Tabla de FasesMoonRadius 500 km
Tenuous: exosphere of argon, sodium, potassium and helium
Open in the CodexRenvar
Orbit 4 h, Tabla de FasesMoonRadius 400 km
Tenuous, a water-vapour coma (80% H₂O)
Open in the CodexOrdrek
Orbit 12 h, Tabla de FasesMoonRadius 750 km
Tenuous: a CO₂ exosphere with plumes at conjunction
Open in the CodexAnillos de Kaldrek
Belt
Open in the CodexThe Compis
They logged everything on the crossing. Now they learn from you.
On the crossing there were never enough people awake to keep the count, so the cores kept it: one per section of the arks, floating down the corridors, writing everything down. Then the war came and they were lost with it. A Vanguard patrol found one in a sealed compartment that had held pressure for forty-six years, dead centre, lens turned to the door. The recovery report says one word: holding.
In the game they are companion drones that specialise you: one awake at a time, each with its role, its signature ability and its talent tree. In a group they share the work: one holds the line, one deals the damage, one gets the fallen back up.
In developmentWorld bosses and group content built around those roles.
MAMPAROTankThe VanguardSignature The screenLens on. Now you know where to run.
AVISPÓNDamageApex SyndicateSignature The markThat makes nine.
LUMBREHealerThe PioneersSignature The healing beamI don’t know your name. I log you anyway.
FUELLEGathering and craftingThe ForgeSignature The scanThey pulled me out of a hopper. I was going to be melted.
CUADRANTEPilotThe PathfindersSignature The phase readingI keep the Tabla de Fases. I do not calculate it: I remember it.
Game models: mesh and textures generated with AI assistance (Tripo3D) and prepared by the studio.
How you get one
- 01The guild lets you closeEach recovery chain is opened by its guild, and it asks for rank.
- 02You recover the coreArchaeology, not combat: a wreck, a hopper, a sealed chamber.
- 03You rebuild the shellThe last mission hands you the blueprint for its body.
Progression
What you earn stays on the server.
Your character, inventory, builds and colony are saved on dedicated servers. Three ladders show how far you have come.
Faction rank
Your house promotes you as you serve it. Both houses use the same five ranks.
- Recluta
- Operativo
- Veterano
- Comandante
- Leyenda
Guild reputation
Five neutral guilds, five ranks each. Help one and another may take note.
- Paria
- Colaborador
- Socio
- Especialista
- Leyenda
Your compi
It only learns while it is awake beside you, and its talent tree commits it to one path.
- Level
- Talents
- Signature
The hangar
Ships you can walk through. More are coming.
Seven ships from three manufacturers so far, modelled inside and out, from a single-seat snub to a two-deck dropship. The catalogue keeps growing.
See the hangarRenders. Specs subject to change during alpha.
Closed alpha
Your seat in the first wave.
The first closed alpha wave is planned for winter 2026-2027. Applications are open now and pilots are selected in waves. Applying takes two minutes.
Closed alpha, first waves: winter 2026-2027 · Applications open
- 01
Sign in with Discord
Create your pilot account with your Discord account and claim your callsign.
- 02
Apply
Tell us how you play and what you play on. Two minutes.
- 03
Get your key
Selected pilots receive their access key for the closed alpha.
+10Every friend who completes an application moves you 10 places up the list.
The community is on Discord: devlogs, alpha waves and the people building it.
01What is COLONIZED?
COLONIZED is a space survival MMORPG for PC, built in Unreal Engine 5: one persistent online universe, planets with atmosphere and ships you can walk through. You survive, craft, build bases and fight in first or third person. Its first closed alpha wave is planned for winter 2026-2027.
02When does the closed alpha start?
The first closed alpha wave is planned for winter 2026-2027. Applications are open now at colonized.work/alpha, and keys go out in waves to selected pilots.
03Is COLONIZED a shooter or a survival game?
Both. It is a survival MMO with first- and third-person combat: thirteen weapons, shots resolved on the server with lag compensation, alien fauna and armed human enemies. Around it sit survival needs, crafting, base building and reputation with five guilds.
04What is confirmed and what is still in development?
Survival, crafting, base building, first- and third-person combat, the choice between the Zenith and the Nadir, reputation with the five guilds, the Compis with their talent trees and fifteen worlds with weather of their own run in the engine. World bosses, a capital ship and ship multi-crew are in development. The player economy, faction warfare, PvP and sieges are still being designed.
05Where is COLONIZED set?
In the Aurin system of the Parhelion galaxy, in Year 47 E.A. Two factions born from the same colony fleet, the Zenith and the Nadir, keep a cold peace that is starting to crack. The full story is in the Codex.
06Who makes COLONIZED?
COLONIZED is made by one person, Vanguille, who has worked on it for more than ten years. He has built the game, its servers, the portal, the community and the automation on his own, and the architecture is designed so that one person can maintain an MMO without large costs. The pace can be checked on the public roadmap.
07Is COLONIZED made with AI?
COLONIZED is not a game made with AI: one person makes it, Vanguille, with AI as a tool. In the game it has been used in very specific places and very little (some sounds and some art or icons); where it is used most is in automating the information around the project: roadmap, social networks and content generation.
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