Rival colonies vie to see who can develop the most efficiently.

Build and staff factories to produce resources, then spend those resources on more factories, colonists, robots, and powerful colony upgrades. Upgrades are won through auctions, so every credit counts and timing is everything.

Outpost is a 1991 economic auction game by James Hlavaty, reimplemented in 2011 as a 20th Anniversary edition by Stronghold Games.