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Terraformers
Terraform Mars in this turn-based colony builder and resource management game with roguelike elements. Explore the planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and turn the Red Planet into a green one!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
44 of the 85 reviews raise this.
“This is fantastic. Later scenarios can be sooooo hard, but it's always fun, if you crack the code and win. It's incredibly rewarding to win. I love this game, and for what it costs, you'll get hours of fun out of it.…”
“If you like one-more-turn strategy and euro-style board games this game is a masterpiece.”
“This is a Euro-style (planning and resource allocation) board game adaptation. If you like this kind of games you'll love it. The game feels very well balanced so truly a long sequence of interesting choices. Feels…”
18 of the 85 reviews raise this.
“This is fantastic. Later scenarios can be sooooo hard, but it's always fun, if you crack the code and win. It's incredibly rewarding to win. I love this game, and for what it costs, you'll get hours of fun out of it.…”
“This is a Euro-style (planning and resource allocation) board game adaptation. If you like this kind of games you'll love it. The game feels very well balanced so truly a long sequence of interesting choices. Feels…”
“Early levels are just hard enough to keep you interested, but difficulty goes up very fast in mid-levels. The challenge is more than a bit adictive. Highly reccomend joining the community threads for thoughtful tips.”
15 of the 85 reviews raise this.
“I'm obsessed with this game, it's the perfect strategy game. I love all of the different challenges which helps to keep it feeling fresh and it can be really challenging at times, especially the new Independence DLC!…”
“Great game - good balance in terms of nerd\casual, nice music and graphics. Good tutorial and scenarios + weekly challenges for not-repeatetive gameplay”
“Nice variety of scenario objectives, interesting decisions to be made in balancing the various mechanics in pursuit of those objectives, and the randomisation of maps, events, and available build options means every…”
6 of the 85 reviews raise this.
“Really liked it. Feels balanced, games are not too long or too short.”
“This game is good fun. Even after finishing all the content I still come back to play it.”
“Great replayability. A genuinely fun turn-based strategy game that you can complete multiple games in an evening. I only wish there was more content to unlock, hopefully they keep making DLC.”
4 of the 85 reviews raise this.
“This is fantastic. Later scenarios can be sooooo hard, but it's always fun, if you crack the code and win. It's incredibly rewarding to win. I love this game, and for what it costs, you'll get hours of fun out of it.…”
15 of the 85 reviews raise this · 9 of them still recommend the game.
“This would be a great 5 dollar game. A single run is couple hours. Do 1-3 and you've seen 90%+ of the game. It just doesn't have enough content/depth to justify its price. All the game modes/objectives play the same.…”
“For the first 15-20h game is GREAT It's a card-based economic game and it's great because it introduces randomness into each game, but... the longer you play, the more cards you unlock and the more administrators you…”
“Kinda boring. Most of the game is locked behind benchmarks you have to hit. It makes you play the game repeatedly until you score enough "points" to unlock higher stuff, then rinse/repeat. Its an ok game until you have…”
7 of the 85 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“Nice, relaxing game, at least in my 15 h of gameplay. Honestly, I have only 3 eh gripes with it. I would love to see how bacteria change the landscape. I would love to see animals. Because I win too fast. I won probably…”
“The game is challanging and interesting. However, in high difficulty, I believe it depends too much on luck. Also, It gets a bit repetitive.. the starting of the game could be more diverse...”
“Too easy and simplistic. Do not buy if you have any real experience playing strategy games.”
7 of the 85 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“This would be a great 5 dollar game. A single run is couple hours. Do 1-3 and you've seen 90%+ of the game. It just doesn't have enough content/depth to justify its price. All the game modes/objectives play the same.…”
“For the first 15-20h game is GREAT It's a card-based economic game and it's great because it introduces randomness into each game, but... the longer you play, the more cards you unlock and the more administrators you…”
“Kinda boring. Most of the game is locked behind benchmarks you have to hit. It makes you play the game repeatedly until you score enough "points" to unlock higher stuff, then rinse/repeat. Its an ok game until you have…”
5 of the 85 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“This would be a great 5 dollar game. A single run is couple hours. Do 1-3 and you've seen 90%+ of the game. It just doesn't have enough content/depth to justify its price. All the game modes/objectives play the same.…”
“Kinda boring. Most of the game is locked behind benchmarks you have to hit. It makes you play the game repeatedly until you score enough "points" to unlock higher stuff, then rinse/repeat. Its an ok game until you have…”
“Game is decent. But after playing through the first scenario, I felt like I had pretty much seen everything the game had to offer. If I wanted to continue it would be different scenarios (the game pretty much plays the…”
4 of the 85 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“This would be a great 5 dollar game. A single run is couple hours. Do 1-3 and you've seen 90%+ of the game. It just doesn't have enough content/depth to justify its price. All the game modes/objectives play the same.…”
“Game is decent. But after playing through the first scenario, I felt like I had pretty much seen everything the game had to offer. If I wanted to continue it would be different scenarios (the game pretty much plays the…”
“Great replayability. A genuinely fun turn-based strategy game that you can complete multiple games in an evening. I only wish there was more content to unlock, hopefully they keep making DLC.”
Counted across 85 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 88.4% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“Buy. This. Game. I've recommended this game to people in person, and I can honestly say it is one of my favourite games.. These are game developers worth supporting, IMO of course, and its cost is low compared to the amount of joy (and at times, frustration) I've gotten from…”
— a player, Steam review · 516 hrs played“Good Game for a casual gamer. Due to the turn based character, there is no time pressure for every turn. It has limited, but reasonal undo functionality during a turn. For me it provides enough choices and possibilities to continue gaming. Don't expect action but a game with…”
— a player, Steam review · 1,269 hrs played“I am going to nuke Mars's Poles for the sake humanity again”
— a player, Steam review · 21 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
version 1.7.90 patch notes
General changes Bugs fixes Removed the loading screen icon that remained on ultra-wide screens. Fixed a bug in marsyclopedia where undiscovered item could still show the info popup when using a gamepa
Patch 1.7.82
Patch 1.7.82Bugs fixes and ImprovementsFixed “Space race” mandate impossible to use with the gamepadFixed “Transport boom” mandate sometimes resulting in negative resource stock (end of turn productio
Update v1.7.79
Bug fixesfixed a city migration bug where the turn cooldown and policy of the migrated city were incorrectfixed "Extract Aquifer" mandate not being usable on ocean locationsshow flood warning popup as
Independence DLC hotfixes
V1.7.77 - 18.04.2026Bugs fixesFix for a performance problem that affected some players on WindowsFix the megastructure button being partially under the government widget when in compact UI modeFix an
Independence DLC release patch notes
V1.7.76 - 16.04.2026Balance changes (regular game)Slightly increased expectation rise frequency past turn 40 (to accommodate some projects getting a little better, see below).Dejah Robinson’s independ
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Strategy |
| Player tags | Simulation · Procedural Generation · Survival · Atmospheric · Rogue-like · Sci-fi · Singleplayer · Space · Choices Matter · Science · Resource Management · Card Game (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Stats · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Korean, Japanese |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 63 |
| Official site | https://terraformers-game.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 Processor: 1.3 GHz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: DX9 (shader model 2.0) capabilities Storage: 4 GB available space