Colony system requirements state that you will need at least 500 MB of RAM. The cheapest graphics card you can play it on is an NVIDIA GeForce 6200. An Intel Pentium 4 2.00GHz CPU is required at a minimum to run Colony. In terms of game file size, you will need at least 500 MB of free disk space available.
Colony will run on PC system with Windows 7 and upwards. Additionally it has a Linux version.