Colonist.io 2024 Summary
Hey Colonist Community,
This is our 6th year live! Thank you for your ongoing support. Your passion and feedback fuels our mission to create the ultimate online settling experience.
- In 2024, we grew our playerbase by 1,000,000+
- Colonist also became the largest repository of Catan game data, logging over 3,000,000 monthly Catan matches and saving 600GB of data—giving us complete insight into every game.
Recap of 2024
| Category | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly Active Players | 39K | 1.2M | 1M | 2M | 3.2M | 4.3M |
| Monthly Active Players | 7K | 127K | 111K | 199K | 288K | 532K |
| New Registered Players | 7K | 288K | 182K | 249K | 2.1M | 3.1M |
| Games Played | - | 13.8M | 19.3M | 25.3M | 33.4M | 45.2M |
| Years of Play Time | 37 | 1007 | 999 | 1,393 | 1,872 | 2,466 |
| Peak Concurrent Players | 0.2K | 9K | 5.2K | 3.8K | 7.6K | 7.1K |
Big Features
We built some of the most requested features by our players:
- Game Replays
- Many trade improvements including Open Ended Trades
- Auto-reconnection
- Bot difficulty levels
- Improved friends feature
In addition to the above features, we added:
- Beginner mode
- Mobile Discord Activity
- Countless mobile app improvements
- Notification panel
- Gifting Memberships
Development Stats
We went from updating every 2 weeks, to every week! With our new schedule we released 52 new versions.
| Category | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Versions | 97 | 122 | 148 | 180 | 232 |
| Suggestions Done | 219 | 268 | 336 | 367 | 397 |
| Colonist Team Members | 4 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 11 |
| Colonist Freelancers | - | - | 4 | 6 | 8 |
| Lines of TS code | 76K | 106K | 142K | 189K | 222K (21 books) |
This leads to different kinds of comparisons, to show the impact of our work:
| Category | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players per line of code | 11 | 9 | 14 | 17 | 19 |
| Days played per line of code | 2.2 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 4 |
| Years played per resolved suggestion | 45 | 20 | 20 | 60 | 82 |
This shows that making changes, improving things, and fixing even small annoyances in the game is worth it. - Kovarex
Colonist Social Stats
| Category | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discord Members | 2K | 18K | 15K | 24K | 29K | 36K |
| r/Colonist Members | 0.1K | 0.6K | 1K | 1.5K | 2.4K | 3.5K |
| Twitter Followers | 0.1K | 0.3K | 0.5K | 0.7K | 0.8K | 0.9K |
| Instagram Followers | 0.1K | 0.3K | 2.4K | 2.4K | 2.5K | 2.6K |
| Youtube Subscribers | 0K | 0.1K | 0.9K | 1K | 1K | 1.7K |
| Twitch Followers | 0 | 0.4K | 0.8K | 1.3K | 1.8K | 1.9K |
Our attention has primarily been on the game but our Discord and Reddit communities have been growing at a solid pace!
We've also started uploading content to our Youtube channel.
We hosted our 4th Colonist Con! Watch it on YouTube.
Colonist Community Stats
We love seeing our players post video and highlights. Here’s a look at some of their growth this year:
| Category | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| r/Catan Members | 23K | 35K | 44K | 65K | 102K | 115K |
| DyLighted - Catan | 2K | 24K | 46K | 59K | 67K | 69K |
| DandyDrew | - | - | - | - | 10K | 16K |
| ThePhantom - Catan | - | - | - | 3.7K | 7.8K | 9.7K |
| Treeckosaurus [Catan] | 0.4K | 1.8K | 2.7K | 3.3K | 3.8K | 4.4K |
| TheWandererCatan | - | - | - | - | 1.9K | 2.6K |
| Catan Blunders | - | - | - | - | - | 1.9K |
| Hugh Catan | - | - | - | - | - | 1.9K |
| BuddyCatan | - | - | - | - | - | 1.7K |
| Hakuna Matata - Catan | - | - | 17 | 400 | 1.1K | 1.3K |
| Total Youtuber Subscribers | 2K | 26K | 49K | 78K | 107K | 120K |
- The Catan community is growing a lot. Especially Reddit.
- This is not an exhaustive list of the community, only the most popular ones.
2025 Plans
Here is our public to-do list. This year, our primary focus will be to double down on enhancing the user experience and making the entire experience more enjoyable across all of our platforms, especially mobile!
Want to help us accomplish these goals? We're looking to increase the size of our team. Join Colonist now! If you have friends, refer them!