Terraformers Reviews

I am sorry the game is beautiful but the gameplay is just very boring.

It's.... okay. For under $10 I'd say it's worth maybe 5-10 hours of gameplay but the graphics are simplistic, the "exploration" is very limited. Doesn't feel like you're building/terraforming a planet so much as you're moving your plastic pieces onto known placeholders of a board game. The mechanics are pretty easy, not that I succeeded on every playthrough - I didn't - but more that I didn't care because it felt like the success parameters weren't created to emulate challenges of a real planet but more like tweaked excel formulas to pretend the game was deeper than it was. Basically, play the tutorial and you're done. In short, this game just made me realize I wanted to play other games like Surviving Mars, Cities Skylines, anything that any aspect of this game better.

A great relaxing building game with never ending strategies to learn and adjust to new conditions. No two games are the game and no strategy is a guaranteed winner. A perfect game for parents and busy people that does not have a clock with game play developing slowly with beautiful graphics.

Incredibly well designed single player city builder adaptation of the Terraforming Mars board game. I love the little leader choice screens, the music, the actual mechancial design, all of it. You draw 3 (or more) cards from a 9 category fixed order deck of options to acquire projects, explore a randomized martian map, and settle the planet with cities and regional structures. You produce/harvest resources on mars while taking on an ever increasing "support" production requirement. Terraforming is needed to some degree on all the high difficulties due to the high scaling support burden, but the varied victory settings and random game events give a lot of play, ++++++. I 100%'d the difficulty tiers, all modes on the max difficulty and I was sad when I was done. The DLC is absolutely worth it. #MarsOlympicsBack2BackChamps

Really great game. Also have a mellow and relaxing vibe since there is no combat in the game and you are basically playing alone trying to beat the scenarios. Can recommend.

I never thought I would be attracted to that style of game. I like games with a deep story, but this one doesn't have it. It often comes as a break from such games. You are constantly conquering Mars with shorter or longer missions that become increasingly difficult.

An under-appreciated, well-polished gem. Fitting mechanism to theme is well-developed through-out: intriguing exploration system, robust resource allocation, in choosing leaders, man vs. machine dilemma, specializing cities, and in both terrraforming and developing ecosystems. Decorum is flawless. Has great replay value, and good amount of player control over difficulty levels. Not surprisingly, I find it far better than the board game Terraforming Mars (ignoring the advantages of tabletop). My thanks to the people who made this game.

I've been enjoying this game on and off for a while now. It's enjoyable for people who like resource management games. Haven't tried the DLCs, so this is purely the vanilla experience. My only complaint so far is the length feels short. I've been playing at the Utopia level lately, and I've never been able to terraform much of the planet before the round has to end. I'll probably mess with custom settings at some point, but I think it'd be nice if the victory requirements were doubled and the support penalties were cut in half so that the game could last long enough to experience the mid and late game content. As of now it almost always ends around turn 55-65.

Video is snappy, and loading save games is instantaneous. Not all games can say that; especially many of the 4X games. Contrary to what I have read elsewhere, the game is technically not 4X. There is no Exterminate. Which actually I find refreshing, because time and again I play games where you go to war. This time, the enemy is outer space, and humanity is your friend. Plus the Sci-Fi setting is actually more plausible than many of the other games out there involving aliens and warp drive. You're colonizing Mars. That is actually in the conversation for real now.

This is a good game. More like board game than anything else. Challenging and interesting. Every scenario presents its own unique goal but you have to keep in mind many other aspects in order to succeed. Keeping support high later in the game becomes very, very difficult and if you didn't make investments into terraforming earlier, even if your scenario doesn't call for any terraforming, you won't be able to spread the animals and plants that bring in the big bucks support wise and you'll quickly run out. I really like it.