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Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Plan B: Terraform is a early access, automation and resource management game
developed and published by Gaddy Games.
Released on August 29th 2025 is available only on Windows
in 16 languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Spain, Italian, Czech, Polish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 2,425 reviews of which 2,220 were positive and 205 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 15.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 64 bits
- Processor: Intel Core i5-7xxx, AMD Ryzen 5 or better
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 2GB video memory
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 500 MB available space
- Additional Notes: Mouse, Keyboard
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A lot better than I expected, and not quite what I thought it would be. Rather than a city builder, this felt like non-capitalist Transport Tycoon of all things - with a sprinkle of Satisfactorio-style automation. There are also some fresh solutions and general simplifications which I frankly welcomed. For one thing, no conveyor belts, so no spaghetti hell. Instead, resources are moved using depots: essentially a box equipped with some drones. Each depot can only process resources of one type, and can both collect and provide said resources within its working range. In practice this means that they move things around - also load vehicles and whatnot - and store them when there's no consumer in range. It takes away some control from you but it simplifies factory logistics. Troll Physics In fact, all logistics is simplified. Vehicles do not interact in any way with anything except other vehicles on the same supply lane: in other words, they phase through each other and you never have to worry about traffic congestion or collisions. I welcome that change. Although you could also make an argument that the logistics is too simple. In reality - hell, in any other game of this sort - transporting goods has a cost. Here, you only "pay" for two things: the roads/tracks, and the vehicles. No fuel, no maintenance costs, no salaries. This luxury gay space communism is truly fully automated, and apparently there's also a Dyson sphere or something because energy is infinite. Energy is simply not a part of the game. And honestly, that's fine with me. So - transportation is completely free, as long as you build the infrastructure. This means that it's possible - and even viable - to have central processing facilities that simply gather goodies from all over the globe. The facilities over a certain size do become rather clumsy and inefficient due to how depots work, however. Okay, and the Terraforming? I mentioned logistics first because that's the brunt of the game. Terraforming is merely a part of the industry chain, so to speak - but of course it has ground-shattering effects as the game progresses. If you've played [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1284190/The_Planet_Crafter/?snr=1_1056_ajaxgetfilteredrecommendations_1056_curator-tabs&curator_clanid=42922988]Planet Crafter you should know what to expect. As usual, your first order of business is to heat up the planet using greenhouse gases. Eventually, this will start melting the planet's ice deposits, and you'll start seeing flowing water. As the temperature and moisture increases, you'll be able to plant trees which generate oxygen, and so on. Luckily, once you've given the plants a foothold they'll start spreading on their own... as long as the conditions allow. There are trees that prefer the cold, trees that prefer heat and lots of water, cacti and more. As the planet changes, your globe-spanning tundra forest will retreat to the poles and will be replaced by a more moderate kind of woods, which in turn will eventually give way to a bona fide jungle. It's up to you to give plants proper starting points in good conditions, and life itself will take care of the rest. Water-powered FPS drops You might notice that some reviews complain about the framerate drops towards the mid-game. I can't say I was bothered by it, but once you've got enough water, you'll notice occasional stutters and hiccups. That's because the game has a very detailed water circulation system - and for good reason. Let's be honest, water is life. Plants need it, animals need it. But it can also bring death and desolation by flooding your cities and facilities. Ground water is needed for plant life, pumping water is needed to produce food later on. But this isn't Satisfactorio, if you pump the water in places with little of it to begin with, you'll notice that your lakes and oceans will start shrinking. Plants will die. And eventually the pumps will stop working as well. So what do you do? You have to pay attention to how the water circulates. The game has a mode that shows you its flow - both on the surface and below. An ocean which is the endpoint of many of these paths is probably a better place for your industrial wells than a shallow but wide sea in an otherwise dry area. And since logistics is free, you don't need to worry about distances too much. Alternatively, you can alter the paths of the water with some dams and dynamite... to an extent. Don't try to fight the ocean. Oh God it's so SLOW Still, the latter part of the game becomes a little too grindy. Your general progress is measured by your population, which is affected by how well you can supply your settlements with whatever they need at their growth stage - as well as whether you can properly dispose of (read: recycle and reuse) all kinds of waste. Eventually, however, the cities become gigantic, and ensuring the flow of goods remains satisfactory becomes a bit of a crapshoot, since your depots and supply centers simply won't be able to keep up. You can add more "endpoints" - in fact, that is necessary at some point - but all of this complicates your logistics chain... and not in a fun way. To make matters worse, the amount of population needed for the next stage starts growing at a stupid pace. At first it's like, 200, 300, 500, whatever, but eventually if you double the number every time you have things like 50k->100k->200k... I think the last one is actually 200k -> 1 mln. It feels a little artificial if you ask me, and I can tell that not many people were willing to put up with this pace: only 5% of players beat the game. And believe me when I say that managing your gigantic logistic chain at that point is very literally mind-numbing. Conclusion 56 hours to beat, but I played the entire thing on normal speed since there always was something to do. Add some factories here, rearrange depots there, adjust the vehicle amount there, plant trees, add farms etc etc. Fun, sure, but eventually you just feel like your brain has left to a different planet. There's also a story, and it's... you know what, it's okay, but don't play it for the story. Play it because you'd like to create Fully Automated Gay Luxury Space Communism using Transport Tycoon, and watching the world turn green makes you smile. And maybe you have a few audiobooks to catch up on. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42922988/]Curator page
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First thing first: this game is not about terraforming. It happens mostly by its own. You do some trivial setup in the beginning, and a couple of hours later - BAM - you planet is perfectly habitable. What you actually do is some simplistic factory building. You have three cities that consume resources, half a dozen recipes with rarely more than two ingredients, and a magic railroad where trains have no collisions. Have fun. But be aware: the game is truly poorly, atrociously optimized. Despite its primitive graphics, it's hungry for both CPU and GPU, and the FPS constantly drops for no apparent reason. I guess the game simulates the whole water cycle on a planetary scale (which you do not clearly see, but it looks legit), but one might wonder, is it truly necessary with how much CPU it requires, and how little it actually affects gameplay.
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This is a fun automation game that is more focused on the supply chain problem in automation rather than having really complex automation itself. I disagree with another review I saw that called this game a "city builder." It definitely isn't. I'm not a great automation player but I enjoy a good automation game. I've played Factorio, Shapez, Satisfactory, Dyson Sphere Program, Zachtronics games, and others. About 80% of the top games under Steam's automation tag. This game differentiates itself from a lot of the others because the main challenge is in the supply chain, and not the production chain. This game does not have a really deep production and research chain like Factorio. It doesn't have manipulation and orientation puzzles like Shapez or Zachtronics. In this game, you have relatively fewer building blocks, but they're needed all over the place, and the demand for these components changes over time. You need to combine iron ore and sulphur to make reinforced concrete. So you find an iron patch and a sulphur patch and connect them with a road. OK, that was easy, but now you need your concrete at a settlement, so now you need another road. But wait, you have three settlements, so now do you build another road literally halfway across the planet or do you set up secondary production somewhere else? Then your cities start growing and now you need more supplies than you're currently providing, so where do you put that new production and how do you get the new supplies to the places needed? This game asks you to solve a different problem than a lot of the other automation games, which is why I like it. But don't worry, there are still production puzzles and room for optimization. You get drone depots that automagically shuffle resources between producers and consumers, but are limited in distance to one or two hexes. You get roads that have higher throughput and longer range, and trucks auto-route over the road network, but you need a lot of trucks to cover long distances with high throughput. You get trains which then really starts to unlock the possibility of centralized production depots that then get farmed out all over the planet. This is not a city building game. You don't place cities. You don't place civic buildings. You don't need to keep people happy. You don't need to worry about tax rates. Cities serve as a resource sink and in this way they motivate your supply network. This is a game about building supply networks, and for that to make sense you need a place to send all the resources you produce. The fact that you have to support three geographically distributed cities across a planet is what provides the challenge and fun. Overall, a different kind of automation experience. I'm enjoying it.
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This game is for sure my favorite terraforming game. Obviously we are working on planetary scale, the more we grow the more interconnected it feels. Unlike most games this gave me a sense of scale I was always missing, there are so many progression steps and production chains to take care of as well as logistics for the 3 cities you grow. I think anyone who is into management games will like this one for this reason alone. A lot of candy and good automation. But there are issues. I love my management games because I like making my cities or whatever look nice. Planet itself will always look gorgeous, but cities... there are so many issues, lets pick some: - They blob and you can't control their direction too much. I tried to use roads to block where new tiles spread, but those tiles are so pesky that sometimes it can cross 15 layers of roads. 15 layers of roads are more than easily visible from space. - What's worse, sometimes a river is located near your city, you can't control underground water movement so your city tiles will grow on them, then die, then spam popups, and of course resources get wasted on that. Cities also produce waste which is part of recycling loop which takes a huge chunk of game right till and including endgame. That's totally fine, but other than this and producing one of 3 types of resources, well... cities just consume things you produce and do absolutely nothing. And since we can't really influence how they grow too much... well, it feels lacking to me. So while I can command the visual layer, the automation and the idea the game sells, it has issues, like the cities among others, that aren't immediately apparent from store page or from first few hours of gameplay. It's not inherently an early access issue either, it's just how it was designed I think. So buy this expecting great automation and eye candy, but a lot of pet peeves along the way. I also want to commend devs, I once suggested so that we can place landmarks underwater since I like to name my craters or seas and I won't always remember to name all of them. I got a reply, and they actually added this at some point. It's not that common to have someone to reply to your feedback and actually take action, regardless of what would that action be.
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For the record: I'm at +12C, almost fully formed oceans, a lot of trees, 46k population. Level 17. I think the game is fine for the first few hours, but after some time it's very tedious to rebuild production chains (because new items required, not enough space, etc.) and need to keep moving stuff due to city expanding, oceans/rivers etc. I'm not a fan of finite resources and moving production from place to place after time, it's usually that you oversee extractors don't do anything anymore. Space elevator is being placed in some random remote location, so right away you need to put a rail through exactly half the world to get seeds to the main city. It could be manually place-able (and not movable later) or show its location since the beginning. Depot drones have rather bad AI and often don't move resources at all. Not sure if they're supposed to equalize all depots in range or what, but they usually don't do that (e.g. I have 10 depots with food connected by depot chain to another few food depots near supply center, the chain is empty, while food storage is full). Trucks are far too slow at moving anything, they're basically useless after some time. If you don't create an always working sink for city waste, you will just keep stopping to expand, which is a shame, because drones are too slow at moving waste away and recycling it. There might be a 'way' to do it better, but it's annoying when city waste disposal is so often stuck at 97%, preventing population from growing. That said, seeing the planet being terraformed from players actions is really satisfying though. Graphics style is really cool and nice to look at.
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Plan B: Terraform is currently priced at 15.99€ on Steam.
Plan B: Terraform is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 15.99€ on Steam.
Plan B: Terraform received 2,220 positive votes out of a total of 2,425 achieving a rating of 8.76.
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Plan B: Terraform was developed and published by Gaddy Games.
Plan B: Terraform is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Plan B: Terraform is not playable on MacOS.
Plan B: Terraform is not playable on Linux.
Plan B: Terraform is a single-player game.
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