Strategy · March 9, 2023

Terraformers (2023)

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Send your leaders to mysterious locations and uncover rich resource depots, giant crystal caves and stunning natural wonders. Found new cities on craters and in lava Tubes. Make them thrive and meet your population's rising demands. As the planet is procedurally generated, every new playthrough will be unique. Choose the best buildings from a selection of randomly proposed project cards at the start of every turn. Plan your city layout efficiently and find strong synergies between buildings. Grow your cities into utopian metropolises or industrial settlements automated by robots. Restart a volcano, construct giant space mirrors or nuke the poles to geo-engineer the entire planet. From spreading adaptive bacteria, to planting full-grown forests with bears. Each life form has specific requirements and provides strategic benefits. By making this game, we hope to inspire humankind to take its first steps out of the cradle and become an interplanetary species, starting with Mars! Do you want to join the terraforming movement, get updates about the game development? Then join our Discord server!

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Simulation · 3.2k
  • Procedural Generation · 2.9k
  • Survival · 2.9k
  • Atmospheric · 2.9k
  • Rogue-like · 2.6k
  • Sci-fi · 2.6k
  • Singleplayer · 2.6k
  • Space · 2.5k
  • Choices Matter · 2.5k
  • Science · 2.5k
  • Resource Management · 2.4k
  • Card Game · 2.4k
  • Turn-Based · 2.4k
  • Mars · 2.4k
  • Board Game · 2.4k

Position in Strategy

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume3.3k Steam reviewsTop 76% in Strategy
Positive rating88% positiveGenre average: 84% — this title sits in top 50%
Metacritic80/100Genre average 79 — top 48% of Strategy titles
Concurrent peak127 playersTop 56% in Strategy by live player count
Engagement hours17 h averageTop 54% for session depth among Strategy

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Reception Metrics

Steam community

88%Very Positive · 3.3k reviews

2.9k positive · 395 negative

Metacritic

80/100 critic aggregate

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Curator recommendations

2.8k

Peak concurrent players

127

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (9)

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Polish
  • Korean
  • Japanese

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

17h

moderate (15–40 hours)

Median

7h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

6h

Current engagement

Achievements

63

Steam unlocks available

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Cloud
  • Stats

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Release & Availability

Release dateMar 9, 2023
DeveloperAsteroid Lab
PublisherGoblinz Publishing, IndieArk
Base price$7.99 -60%
DLC / Add-ons3 released
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · [email protected]

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Editions & Packages

  • Buy Terraformers