Terraformers Reviews

Feels like Slay the Spire married to a min/max board game. Even got nostalgia hits of Master of Orion 2. I really like it and played three scenarios straight crushing them as they got harder.

Mixed on this one, the main game itself is not a good one if you want a relaxing terraforming game. Your citizens unhappiness can spiral out of control quite quickly, so you're always playing catchup, and when it hits 0, you're done. Also not big on the idea of trying to put a deckbuilder element in, and mandatory saving of games at exit, and no loading of games except at the main menu. The custom game style with the unhappiness minimized is alright, but all trophies are locked.

Great game for those looking for a complex puzzle to solve where the pieces are different each time. It can be very forgiving allowing you to undo moves (outside of undoing things like exploration). However, even when the game is "unfair" on the higher difficulty it's still fun to try and complete the task at hand.

Almost endless replayabiliy, and always challenging when stretched to Unfair or Impossible difficulty, even after you unlock everything. Great game, I totally recommend it!

This game is far more fun than I thought it would be. Def worth the 8 bucks I paid. That said a lot of reviewers are right that the simulation isn't dynamic enough. The ecology of the planet doesn't interact with itself at all and there are hard limits to the terraforming you can do which stops sort of even modern science at times unfortunately. If it was just a bit more dynamic this could be an actual terraforming sim game however at the moment it seems to shy away. That said there are a lot of people complaining about the randomness of the game and this just ignores the fact that there are facilities which appear quite often allowing you to bank more cards and have more pulls. If you enjoy building vast systems and optimizing efficiency across them this is a fun game. If you want a more dynamic sim that interacts with itself this isn't the game for you.

Fun game. Worth the money. I would say to those who complain about the constant needs increases - it is part of the challenge of the game. But with that being said once you complete a game you can do Leisure Mode afterward which removes the needs increases. If you have played the Terraforming Mars Board Game, then you will appreciate this game a lot.

I thought it is impossible to make a pieceful TBS which woiuld be absolutely suspenseful and not repetitive. I though "Slipways" and "Farlanders" was the best the humanity could do in this genre. I was wrong. There is only one caveat so far, but solvable. After some hours of playing, the game cannot be launched anymore, saying "Couldn't switch to requested monitor resolution". Since the problem was reported on the forum in 2024, this leaves little hope that it would be fixed by developers. Here is a manual fix, which I am pretty sure will work for many people: 1. Press the Windows Key + R and type in regedit 2. Click "Run" or press Enter, and in the top bar (where it says "Computer/HKEY..." etc.) copy paste this directory: Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Asteroid Lab\Terraformers 3. Right click "Screenmanager Fullscreen mode Default_...", choose modify, change value to "0". 4. Do the same for "Screenmanager Fullscreen mode_..." 5. Start the game. 6. You will have to do this before every game start.

This is such a tranquil, meditative game. Playing it is genuinely addicting and even helps with my anxiety.

Definitely one of the most fast and fun strategy games that I've played in a while.

The core mechanic is that dissatisfaction mechanically rises more and more and more and more regardless of what you do and you just need to reach the objective first. It's not a relaxing game to me and it really doesn't have the complexity of even e.g. SimCity. If you play with custom settings with the dissatisfaction not there to limit the scenario length, you reach a state where you have unlimited resources and maintaining a worldwide colony is effortless. There is no real interaction between things.