Terraforming Titans

This game is so much more than it initially seems. The dev did a marvelous job of finding the line between the complexity of scientific aspects like ground albedo and simplifying others, like the water phase diagram. This game is not for everyone, but if you marvel when the atmosphere of your planet heats to over 1,000 kelvin, trashing your colony—all because sublimating dry ice caused a runaway greenhouse effect—it's an absolute blast. And if that sounds vaguely intriguing, then give it a try. You might learn some cool new concepts, and for the price, it's definitely worth it for the experience alone.

Having finished the narrative story and still going strong towards the gameplay endgame, I feel this. If you like incrementals and/or terraforming games, I'll say this is a must have. Some light spoilers ahead for gameplay and story. Even just the "tutorial" world is already a good experience, as you slowly build a colony, balancing your colonists needs with your available resources until you can take that lifeless rock and turn it into a place where you can life under the open sky. Then the game opens up with world after world, almost every story world opening up some new aspect of the game. New types of worlds, new toys to play with, new challenges and [spoiler]new species to terraform for[/spoiler]. I only have two negatives, neither a big deal or a dealbreaker. One, the autmatition can be clunky. Luckily, I didn't really need it yet. Two, (end story spoiler) [spoiler]towards the endgame, for me, there was a slight mismatch between gameplay and story happenings[/spoiler].

(Finished the story on the itch.io version and currently replaying it on steam) I'll let the other comments explain why this is a very good game and instead focus on a random aspect i loved This game is very sandbox, you have lots of ways to solve the diverse problems this game throws at you. Some solutions are straight forward and simply needs you to grow your economy, some are more efficient but requires you to interact differently than you usually do, and some are crazy and dumb but works (Too much methane in atmosphere ? Just make oxygen until the atmosphere COMBUST and transform the methane into co2) Would i recommend this game for everyone ? No as it is above average in complexity for an incremental, little idle time and zero offline stuff which might turn some people away Is it the most interesting incremental i've played yet ? Probably, definitely top 3

(I've got a lot more hours on the pre-steam itch version) An extremely fun game automation incremental. This is also a long game, unlike a lot of steam incrementals. Though for $5, it's definitely worth checking out even if you just want to spend a couple hours terraforming Mars (the first planet). The real depth of the game comes in the prestige system and through terraforming story worlds. I will say that while this game is about automating terraforming, it is actually a fairly active game. More in-depth automation becomes available as you progress through the story worlds, but because as you progress you get better at terraforming / more challenges getting thrown at you, the time between active intervention stays very short. Even in the post-story phase (where every bit of automation is unlocked, and whole worlds can be terraformed automatically), a lot of the game is spent actively setting up the automation and tweaking the scripting. Also this game doesn't have the cardinal incremental game sin of requiring discord to progress (or progress at a good rate). However, if you have any questions, the discord is very helpful and active. Furthermore, the dev is also very active and responsive to feedback; which is always good to see in a game. Ultimately, the game is $5, and you'll have the first world to determine if you like the game. The current fastest completion of mars is 40 minutes. While you probably won't be that fast, there is plenty of time to decide if you like the game, so why not give it a try.

I just so happened to have a desire to play a terraforming game less than a full day before this game's release. Everything was just what I was looking for, so I put it on my wishlist and made a note of the exact time it released. I came back the next day and bought it without even thinking of the very generous pricetag. The game has a lot of systems, mechanics, and values to keep track off that you can really sink your teeth into. It avoids a fairly common pitfall with incremental games of simply chasing after a bigger number. That's still true for this game, make no mistake, but you'll have to actually think of how you want to apply that. To provide an example, you can heat up a planet by increasing its luminosity, decreasing its albedo, or increasing its optical depth. You'll have to think about which one to increase to achieve the effect you want. The tutorial and tooltips will help you get on the right track, but it's all up to you. The story is quite interesing from what I've seen, though I'm not very far into it. It dangles a few of mysteries in your face while avoiding exposition. The graphics are quite simple and just a small tad of extra presentation would go a long way. Such as the viewport for the planet having somekind of mild filter or overlay to give off the impression that it's comming from a satelite. I wouldn't say it's necessary at all, as that's not the focus of the game and I do frankly think the simplicity gives it all a certain charm. I'd genuinely recommend this over other, more popular terraforming games. Though I understand that everything I've described doesn't have the general appeal to grab casual players and make them play for days on end. This is still well worth the asking price even if you only try it once for a couple of hours.

I've played a lot of incremental games, this one is absolutely the best. For one thing, it has time acceleration! If there's nothing to do but wait, then you can reduce the waiting. But generally speaking, there's something you want to be doing. The game features a whole bunch of puzzles, and they don't feel artificial, they feel like a natural consequence of your own choices. While there are some surprises written into the game as scripted moments (the bit 16 hours in where it told me I had finished the tutorial comes to mind), the surprises that really impressed me were the ones where I started out going "Why the hell did metal go from a surplus of 5 million/sec to a deficit of 25 billion/sec in the last 10 seconds?" and ended up going "Oh right, yes, of course." Plus, I now know what the words 'albedo' and 'sublimation' mean. Because there are puzzles that hinge around understanding those real-world concepts.

I don't see myself finishing this, at least for a while, but it's a very cool incremental

Quite a good incremental game. My main issue with it is the automation settings are very difficult to use for most things, as you can't do things like "until X amount of excess" only things like "X% of population" or "X% of land size" which are kinda useless, IMO. One major point going for it is very, very open difficulty settings. Almost everything has modifiers you can tweak, or simple on/off options. I like to tweak it to be more realistic, and harder, personally. Terraforming Venus without stripping the CO2 off was an interesting challenge. Kessler syndrome was irritating since I rely heavily on my spaceships. Building artificial worlds has been most of what I've been doing, and I've progressed way further than I should by this point in the story, but it's been pretty good so far. I cheated on a new save, and it's got some really nice unlocks much further on too. Very much worth the $5 it cost me.