Terraforming Titans

(Played the game countless hours in the web version and on the first steam playtest.) Terraforming Titans is one of the best idle games I've touched in recent years, even with a slow pace it managed to keep me in for its story. The story is well written and has moments that will occupy a space in your mind for quite a while. Gameplay let's you do a lot of customization thanks to later unlocks, like automation presets or scripting. You can really feel the power going up after getting on the later story worlds, a mix of knowledge of how things need to be done and sweet "prestige" upgrades. Difficulty isn't negligible, some story world "got em hands", and if story feels too easy you can give a try to challenges, and after all of that, if challenge worlds and story is too easy you can tweak difficulty settings yourself to give in to a nightmare experience (immigration pool... yay). Last point I am gonna write on this review, I worked in the game as one of the artists and playtesters and after all this time I can proudly say that now that the game is fully out, it was an amazing experience working with the developer. Cheers <3

An excellent terraforming incremental based on (simplified) atmospheric models. It's really fun to see your rock slowly become a verdant planet supporting billions of people. For the price, highly recommend.

It took all my brain power and lots of game time to terraform Mars and they hit me with the "congrats on finishing the tutorial" Game good, me bad

It's a good game! At 8 hours, I got my 5 dollars worth. There's a lot more to it, but honestly I found restarting again overwhelming, and it seems like the automation is going to become more scripting-heavy, so I'm not all that interested in continuing. But again, really enjoyed the time I already spent. I've been looking for a denser, more involved take on terraforming and this game has a great progression through terraforming Mars.

Finally a way to support this game! <3 Don't be put off by the AI disclosure, the dev actually put a lot of effort into the game. In the online version I have ~60 hours and it has been pretty fun the whole time. Every new terraformable planet brings new mechanics to spice things up so it will be a while before you get bored. If I had to compare to something I'd say it is similar to Evolve and Kittens Game a bit. The only bigger downside for me is the story which I didn't care much about, but the gameplay made up for it.

(Got 500h in web version before buying steam) TL;DR Amazing incremental game, and most detailed terraforming mechanics in possibly any game that exists The good: - Terraforming is basically a (simplified) physics simulation. From albedo to greenhouse gases, what you do with a planet will (mostly) realistically affect it. This is what truly sets this game apart from any other - Very good tutorial, and generally introduction of new game mechanics over time with good pacing - Has a story, that is fairly fast (for an incremental game anyway, still several dozen hours) to play through, but then a much longer post-game - Good QoL features. Sometimes they can be a little frustrating, but most of the time they work pretty well - In-game scripting you can use to automate basically everything (as you unlock it) - Good in-game infos for terraforming physics and other things you need to know - A lot of difficulty settings that allow you to customize your game - Very active dev, bugs usually get fixed extremely quickly The neutral: - Story is fine. A bit silly at times, but also good moments - Relatively complex game. If you're into it you'll love it, but if you want something simple or quick to play, you may want to look elsewhere - AI was used for coding among other things, but you honestly wouldn't know it without the disclosure. It's well thought-out, and absolutely no slop The bad: - Some minor bugs here and there, some typos. Nothing major - A few places could use some more information, like some technologies you unlock without knowing where to even look for what they're doing Overall, this is one of my favourite incremental games. If you like the terraforming theme it's an easy recommendation, and even otherwise you'll probably enjoy it since it's just a well made game. Highly recommend!

This is genuinely one of the best incremental games I've played yet. You build entire civilizations and terraform planets while going up the Kardashev scale and going through a space opera story and it's extremely well done, with every step of the progression offering something new.

Very in-depth Idle Game!