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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. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“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 count fetched 2026-07-11 13:27 UTC · history 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 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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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 2026-05-20.
| 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 |
| Estimated owners | 1,000,000 – 2,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| 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