Terraformers Reviews

The challenge is just hard enough to keep you engaged and challenged to do better

Easy to get into, but so many possibilities

This game is a puzzle game, with a survival/simulation theme. On sale, this game is reasonable value. The art is good. The content is short with some replay-ability. The game mechanics are relatively simple, and within a couple hours it is possible to achieve a good level of mastery. It would be best enjoyed by a casual or youth gamer

Good strategy with nice graphics and replayability. I hope the developers will continue to develop the game.

This is basically a solo version of the board game Through the Ages, just on Mars and with nice music. It's more a puzzle game than colony/city builder. Good fun, worth the price.

Excellent little turn-based Civ-like! The design is simple but deep, and it never gets too micro-management heavy unlike late-game Civ. Highly recommend if you're looking for a chill turn-based strategy game!

I've played soooo many city building games and I wanted to like this one. But between the poor tutorial, the turn-based aspect, and the fact that getting resources is really tedious (not to mention they don't just flow in easily) I just had to uninstall.

Great game overall. I've played a few games now and all have been quite different. It has some similarities to other games I have played such as Against the storm, whereby there are alot of random cards and you need to adapt based on the cards you are dealt.

Explore, Expand, Exploit ... Terraform Mars. No opponents and no fighting. Plays fast. "Dammit! I need more Oxygen!" Introducing whales to Mars feels great and may win the game.

After having played more than two hundred hours and having 95% of achievements, I can say that it offers a lot of replayability. After unlocking all content you can still experience many different scenarios, the weekly challenges provide a way to come back to the game. Every choice that you make early game sets different pacing in regards to the terraforming of the planet as well as the final objective which can vary. For example going heavy in resource extraction, delaying terraforming can make you lose the game and investing early on it can mean you didn't create that extra energy facility or landing platform that smoothens up the rest of the game for you. Also the expansions are well tailored adding a meaningful dimensions to the game. Planet colonies give you the edge in many different, cool ways, for example, early colonization of Mercury can lead to having lots of tritium and energy, to basically build infinite spaceports. Or having Europa can lead to Mars becoming a water world. You can build a megastructure to have additional technologies or use one to spread plants across the planet. It's not just challenging but also visually compelling and the different sounds and music play their part.