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Half-Earth Socialism
Try your hand as a global planner of a future society. Play with a wide range of technologies and policies spanning different fields and ideologies. Will you lead the world to ecological utopia or planetary ruin?
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“It's alright. Developers have a bit of an anti-nuclear bias and it seems like the game is fundamentally just a device to sell the book. Its theses are that of the game's, and you will find that a handful of options like nuclear and solar are just wasteful and useless - in line…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“It's alright. scrolling through the cards is a bit janky, but it's fun for a couple runs.”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“this game is simultaneously extremely good and interesting, and also so cryptic that it is driving me mad. It actively feels like the game is fighting against me, random events will trigger when i'm not using the processes they are tied to, i cant get into the puzzle because i…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2026-08 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Several balance updates and new translations
The game has been patched to more accurately reflect the scientific consensus on various values like land use and water use, to rebalance the difficulty, and to patch some bugs. Players should exercis
Spanish Translation!
We're happy to announce that a Spanish translation of the game is now available.
Brazilian Portuguese translation
Some minor fixes and a Brazilian Portuguese translation, thanks to our amazing volunteers!
Update notes for August 15
- A few UI fixes - Some content fixes - Fixed an issue that was corrupting saves and messing up production calculations - Fix for issue where the "Continue" button at the start of a new planning phase
Updates notes for August 11th
- Big fix for our error monitoring. A lot of UI bugs weren't being properly reported. Now that they are we should be able to address them in a more timely manner. - Miscellaneous UI fixes.
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Simulation · Strategy · Card Game · Education · Grand Strategy · Political Sim · Interactive Fiction · Roguelike · Roguelite · 2D · Agriculture · Alternate History (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Thai |
| Official site | https://www.half.earth/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 or later Processor: An Intel Pentium 4 processor or later that's SSE3 capable Memory: 512 MB RAM Storage: 300 MB available space