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Farlanders
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“It's a good game. As vibey as you can get for a turn-based city/colony builder. The gameplay loops and systems are challenging and rewarding. The gameplay seems to get muddled the deeper into the game you get. What starts as an interesting puzzle ends as an uninteresting math…”
— a player, Steam review · 33 hrs played“Great game. It's challenging and really fun. I also like the art style a lot and can't really think of anything negative to say.”
— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs played“I was enjoying the game until I hit a show-stopping bug in the 4th mission, where the game refused to recognize that I was connected via power lines. Since I couldn't work around that bug and I'm not replaying the scenario, I've given up. Farlanders isn't really a city builder.…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 19:57 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
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Farlanders hotfix
Greetings, I uploaded a small update: Fixed terraforming controls, which were not working properly if you opened the colony info interface with a hotkey and then returned to terraforming Updated Unity
I made a new game, it's about railway automatization
Greetings 🙋♂️ I’d love to tell you about my new game, Super Loco World , which just launched! It’s all about trains, automation, and cozy vibes. It’s a bit of a departure from what I did in Farlander
Fixed softlock in mission 5
Fixed softlock in mission 5 when dialogue appeared together with the colony level up popup. Thanks to kamilko for reporting
Farlanders now also in French
Hello, we've added French localization, big thanks to Sykhasamann for the translation! Also, I made a couple of small fixes to UI to display text correctly. Andriy
Steam Deck cursor hotfix
Whoops, for some unknown to me reason hardware cursor stopped being visible on Steam Deck. I fixed it, so now you see a beautiful handmade cursor that I found on the internet (thanks to kenney.nl).
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | City Builder · Turn-Based Strategy · Colony Sim · Space · Base-Building · Resource Management · Turn-Based · Mars · Building · Strategy · Management · 2D (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, German, French |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 45 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 64-bit Processor: Intel i5 or equivalent (Dual Core with Hyper-Threading) Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD 4400 or equivalent, 1280x720 resolution or higher. Storage: 1 GB available space