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Terra Firma
Play god and create your own world in this complex simulation. Plate tectonics, wind and water erosion and plant life all develop and interact to produce a world that is viewable from a single tree to kilometres across.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“I'm the very specific sort of turbonerd that can't get enough of real time erosion simulations. This one is pretty bare-bones, but it's free and clearly a tech demo for the sequel (which I will try if/when it gets out of early access) so I won't be harsh on it. I really like…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“It's great for being free! It runs a bit slow at times but it's still impresive and fun to play around with. There isn't a lot of depth but as I said, it's free and fun so it doesn't matter to me. It's like a great demo for terra firma 2, because it made me hungry for more and I…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“I love this game. First only plants spawned, but now also animals do, but I can't find any information about this update.”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Terra Firma 2 is Released!
On Monday the 29th of January, 2018 I wrote the very first lines of code for a project I called "land". It was meant to be a simple little project that I could knock out fairly quickly and get some ex
Terra Firma 1.0 Released
Greetings worldbuilders! Today Terra Firma graduates from early access to full release with the release of version 1.0, which will be the final update to this free version. It's been a long road to ge
Terra Firma 2 coming 2025!
Greeting worldbuilders! I'm excited to announce that Terra Firma 2 is in full time development and will be releasing later this year. This will be a paid sequel to Terra Firma containing many exciting
Terra Firma 2 coming 2025!
Greeting worldbuilders! I'm excited to announce that Terra Firma 2 is in full time development and will be releasing later this year. This will be a paid sequel to Terra Firma containing many exciting
Patch notes 27th August 2024
Fixed issue on some AMD cards that was crashing the display driver, which resulted in crashing the game and potentially also causing a Blue screen of Death on windows Fixed a couple of rare but genera
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Simulation · Strategy · God Game · Sandbox · Life Sim · Nature · 3D · Destruction · Physics · Relaxing · Singleplayer · Free to Play (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7+ Memory: 2048 MB RAM Graphics: Dedicated Graphics Card