TerraGenesis - Space Settlers

Name: TerraGenesis - Space Settlers
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User Reviews for TerraGenesis - Space Settlers

Love TerraGenesis!

I am a sci-fi aficionado. I read it, I watch it, I write it, I live and breathe it. And dammit it’s like this game was made with me in mind. There graphics are stunning, the science behind the game is sound, the discussion on the ethics of terraforming is absolutely fascinating, the worldbuilding is amazing (“City X has developed a local legend!” “City Y’s accent is developing into a dialect! Ooh, now it’s become an entirely new language!” “City Z just opened a new genetic park which is basically Jurassic Park, and, quote, we expect nothing to go wrong!”) and the ongoing story of the world is absolutely delightful. I also like that the game is a mix of skill and a little luck, like real life. Sometimes you get a random boon from the game, sometimes you get a random setback, and sometimes you have to solve a trolley problem dilemma where both options are a little good and a little bad. That adds a lot of fun to the game, and it helps teach you how to become a better player—you gotta save a pile of credits in case you need that money to fix a sudden problem, etc. But more than that, it’s skill and strategy. And that way, you eventually learn to make any random events work in your favor. Anyway, it’s so much fun. This is a great, great game. Thanks TerraGenesis! I plan on purchasing the fictional worlds pack once I’m done with the free worlds!

Aidene Siannodel, Aug 13, 2023

Love this game but a few glitches

I really was enjoying this game a lot. I finished a few planets and then it was time to do earth. When I started earth it was already inhabited and everything was where it was supposed to be with oxygen, etc. I thought this strange. So I started doing research and mining. Went to bed. Got up next morning and my mines were lost to rising seas and all the inhabitants were gone. So I checked all the stats and everything was still perfect with oxygen,water, etc. Weird. So I built the thing that causes minus 4 water and built more mines. Next day it said they were lost to rising waters but that was impossible since the water had actually gone down a couple of hundred. So aggravating. So now I’ve been waiting for the population to build back up. My next culture point is at 4 billion so I’ll be waiting a while. Lol Was really enjoying this game until this happened. You have to be able to do math and figure out actions and counter actions. Taxes the brain. But when the game just erases things built and people for no apparent reason it’s frustrating. If you judge this game on the first few planets I played it is an amazing game. I was actually going to buy one of their packages but decided to wait after this earth catastrophe. If it goes back to normal I will probably wind up purchasing a package. It’s that good a game when it plays right

Bobalinka, Feb 28, 2020

Satisfying Simulation

If you’re someone who really loves watching progress happen in simulation games, then this is probably one of the most satisfying games you’ll play. After working for days to set up Mars for sustainable human life, I saw greenery spreading for the first time. I was mesmerized, watching it start from the shorelines and spread inland. And then coming back later to see that as the greenery thickened, it grew darker as well was pleasing. My only downside is the time. This game requires you to be punctual if you don’t want to spend a lot of time undoing what you should have cams back for earlier to stabilize. I didn’t realize this in the beginning and turned Mars into a gas giant. It took so long to come back from that that it would have actually been better off to restart the game. Now I’m at the point where humans are living amongst Mars life freely, but I’ll be waiting a long time before I finally achieve victory because I put very few culture points into independence before. Now I just have to stabilize everything for the next few days while I wait for enough people to live on the planet before I can claim victory and am able to move on to other planets. All in all, it’s a great game. Just make sure you pay attention to when you need to log back in to change things, or it’s gonna become a never ending nightmare.

Chazz Martin, Jul 23, 2019

Gorgeous and captivating!

I rarely write reviews, but this game was so well-designed and enthralling that I felt that I had to do so. The graphics are stunningly beautiful and this game has consumed my attention since I downloaded it. It gives you the option to watch advertisements to gain currency, culture, and “Genesis Points,” which allow you to build faster, but offers the option in a very inobtrusive way, unlike so many games with obnoxious ads. I watch them occasionally to speed things along and support the developers. I also purchased Genesis Points because I love this game so much I felt obliged to pay something. At this rate, I’ll likely purchase the options to terraform other planets and moons as well. This is a game that is truly enjoyable without spending a cent or watching a single ad, though, and that can be won simply with some patience— which you’ll need anyway! I love the educational aspect and basis in science, and with just the most basic math and science abilities, you’ll enjoy this game as well. I’m looking forward to the next planets and moons already. I also loved the book recommendations in the information section! The developers clearly prioritized the quality of the game and educational aspect over making a quick profit. I hope others purchase the optional moons, planets, and GP so the team can keep working on this game and more like it. This is the best I’ve played on iOS to date.

eHeidi, Oct 20, 2018

Good game!

I love this game. I’ve been playing for a few months. I also love how doing things in the game can help the planet by planting trees. However, I have two suggestions. One is that you should be able to transfer credits back and forth between games. I’m currently in the process of terraforming two different planets, and one is really struggling economically while the other is doing great. It would be really nice if I could loan myself some money to build the space elevator, or even just to demolish existing depleted mines so I could build new ones and get myself out of the hole. My other suggestion is that you should be able to get new planets and moons to terraform without paying for them. I finished with all five terrestrial planets long ago and now I’m just stuck with them. I want to terraform the moons of other planets and planets in other solar systems. I want to terraform a planet with a native population detected, to see what it’s like. But no. I love this game but I as a rule do not make in-app purchases. Why bother making people pay for planets anyway? Maybe you can make them cost gp so people will pay for that but could also save up for it if they didn’t want to spend real money?Overall, though, it’s a great game. I really love how you just give out special currency for the price of watching an ad. Keep that up! And please consider my ideas!

ilovecatvideos, Apr 16, 2021

Been playing for years

I’ve been playing this game on and off for two years and it never gets old, and there are plenty of world to play with. If you’re playing with a simple developing biosphere you can terraform a moon/planet in 4-5 days without spending any real money for in-game boosts (called Genesis Points or GP), 2-3 of you do buy these boosts. If you play with a biosphere you can fine tune it’s definitely more of a challenge and terraforming this way might take you 4-5 days with boosts, a week or a little longer without. WATCHING ADS IS COMPLETELY OPTIONAL, YOU WILL NEVER BE FORCED TO WATCH AN AD 🙌🏻 (putting that in all-caps because ad trap games are everywhere these days) but watching the offered ads gives you bonuses to your income and even 1-3 GP sometimes. Watch enough ads and you could have income bonuses for days (literally). Random positive and negative events that can affect your income, structures, organisms, or culture keep you on your toes if you leave the game open, but you don’t have to worry about bad events happening while the game is closed and the terraforming continues when closed, so this game is great for people who don’t want to have to play all the time to succeed. The game can also be paused so you don’t have to worry about letting things go for too long and accidentally destroying your progress. Graphics are pretty and the game runs smoothly. Definitely earned my 5 star rating!

KyleJH1995, Sep 23, 2019

A Console-Level Game On My Phone

I didn't want to like this game, because I've never really been into terraforming or sci-fi games. Terragenesis is an exception to that, and with good reason. This game offers the challenge of having to balance environmental, socio-political, and economic challenges in a way that really makes it come to life. The attention to detail does stand out, with how different levels of Temperature, Pressure, Oxygen, and other things will change the appearance of your planet. The best thing about this game is easily watching your planet change. Watching as the structures and cities you build and all the facilities can change a barren planet like Mars slowly change into a beautiful, thriving planet like Earth, or even watching as Earth slowly decays from a tropical paradise to another copy of Mars. Whats more is the developers aren't greedy with in-game purchases. The difficulty curves can be overcome without the help of Genesis Points (though it is not preferable,) the developers offer frequent ads that in turn boost credit revenue or give the player free Genesis points (Pretty rare for devs to hand out special currency like that) and the ads aren't very intrisive either. The game doesn't require an internet connection so it can be played on the go, the game will continue to change, so if you are playing a volatile world remember to pause when needed, and start on Mars, the easiest planet.

Loard Of Ball, Jul 05, 2019

Decent, but has serious bugs

Significant problems with events. Anything with expert, forget it unless you want to spend a ton of GPs. Every few minutes there will be a random even that destroys every habitation in a city, sending you back to square zero, worse than when you founded the city. Then a few minutes later, the same thing will happen to another city. Can’t build up cultural income, because your cities keep getting abandoned. It’s better to just abandon the event as soon as you realize it’s on expert. Besides that, there is an event where one victory condition is to earn 50 million credits per minute. That’s not a typo. If you make the planet habitable so you don’t need domes, you might get as high as 400k per city (20 coral reefs with revenue sliders to maximum) and 30 cities. That would get you to 12 million. Still 38 million short. Unless you have about 5 level 10 building revenue governors, you aren’t getting to 50 Mil.A bug deleted an event save. I was playing the current event on an iPad. Opened it up on the iPhone, and it deleted the save for the current event because the last time I had opened it on the iPhone, I was playing a previous event. It deleted both the previous event save and the current event save on the iPhone. The current event save was deleted on the iPad too. All progress on the event lost when I was almost done. If they give me the rewards I missed out on, and fix the bug, I’d likely rate it higher.

OldSchoolDK, Apr 01, 2023

Mind-blowing!

Hey, this is the single most epic game on the App Store right now! I love how technical this game gets. When you increase air pressure, the temperature goes up because of atmospheric thickening. Same thing happens when you thin the atmosphere, only the temperature goes down! I still only have the terrestrial planets + the moon, and I’m having a blast! There is so much to do in just the base game that you don’t need the expansions to enjoy the game to its utmost potential. I love the fact that natural disasters like quakes, meteors, and plagues happen. It makes the challenge that much more awesome. I think it would be amazing if you guys could make it so that you can set up trade routes between your planets to give a little boost to your economy or population growth. I also think that adding more disasters like occasional volcanic eruptions from the Martian volcanoes, violent dust storms, or even wildfires (when you actually have biomass). Maybe also sea trade routes is a good idea for cities along the coast line? That would be so awesome!I only have one bug to report. I went back to review Mars after I had moved on to Venus, and all of the plantlife had disappeared. 4.6 billion people had left the planet because all the biomass disappeared. It was very confusing. Other than that, I have no problems with the game! Keep up the good work!

Phantom Basilisk, Oct 10, 2019

Can you fix the Moon’s name?

Great game! I just want to point out that the way people talk about the moon, they don’t say “the moon”, they just say “moon”. For example, when I enter the game I see: “Your colonists on Moon have earned 50,000c!” It would be better for them to say: “Your colonists on THE Moon have earned 50,000c!” Obviously it wouldn’t be like that, it would say: “the Moon” not “THE Moon”. Another way you could do it is to name it “Luna” instead of Moon. It looks nicer either way.One unrelated thing I suggest is to get a notification if your planet is starting to reach inhospitable levels of something. It wouldn’t notify if you are already inhospitable and are going towards hospitable, only if you are hospitable and going to inhospitable levels of something. And also notify if you are at a perfect level of something and should balance the loss and growth so you don’t go towards inhospitable levels.Another one (sorry I just keep getting new ideas), please make it so you can link two devices progress. I only play it on my iPad, but I want to play it on my phone too, but it's separate. If you could make it so we can link two devices progress that would be great. And when I say "link", I mean if you do something on one device, it automatically puts it on the other device, once they are connected to the internet.

Swag Man 98, Apr 04, 2018

Description

Use real science from NASA to cultivate life on desolate planets. Think you have what it takes to bring a dead planet to life? Can you settle the stars?

Explore space and terraform new worlds in this immersive idle planet building simulator rooted in real science. TerraGenesis dynamically animates entire planets with changing biospheres, all based on real data from NASA. The universe is your playground in TerraGenesis! With idle gameplay you can cultivate real planets in our solar system, planets created just for TerraGenesis and even alien worlds! When the world is in your hands, the possibilities are truly endless. If you’re a fan of astronomy, idle games, or resource management games, you will love Terragenesis! Download and start terraforming today! BUILD A PLANET - Join one of four interstellar Factions, each with different benefits for building interstellar settlements - Build entire worlds one step at a time, by creating pressurized habitats for your settlers so they can survive in hostile environments - Terraform your planet to support human life by managing specific resources of each world, including air pressure, oxygen, sea levels, and biomass - Melt ice caps to create planet-wide oceans and seed the planet with life - Track your civilization’s idle progress and your world’s current status with the Stats Summary Page DISCOVER PLANETS & MOONS - Learn astronomy and settle planets from our solar system, including Mercury, Venus, Earth & Mars! - Terraform orbital satellites, including The Moon as well as the Moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - Build civilizations on fictional planets, including Bacchus, Ragnarok, Pontus, Lethe and Boreas - Terraform Dwarf Planets, including Ceres, Pluto, Charon, Makemake, Eris and Sedna - Discover lost secrets on Trappist-1 planets, including Damu, Aja, Huanca, Ruaumoko, Asintmah, Ostara, Aranyani - Travel through time in the Historical Earths campaign, including Vaalbara, Rodinia, Cambria, Cretacea, Dania, Chibania, and Ultima - Generate random worlds with complete surface and elevation maps, unique starting conditions and more BIOSPHERE SIMULATOR - Start with 26 different phyla and add 64 unique genes to create all kinds of amazing organisms to inhabit your world - Manage your lifeforms as they thrive in both terrestrial and aquatic biospheres ENCOUNTER ALIEN POPULATIONS - Discover distant planets in outer space with thriving alien civilizations. - Choose between making peace or conquering the alien lifeforms. - Carry out dozens of missions and build your new world based on your alien strategy. DEFEND FROM ASTEROIDS - Save your civilization and protect your flourishing planet from the threat of an asteroid attack - Build a planetary defense network to detect giant asteroids in space, initiate missions to destroy the threat, change the asteroid’s course or develop new strategies to survive certain doom. BUILD YOUR OWN FLAT EARTH - Insanity now comes with an on/off switch; flick a switch to turn existing worlds flat. - Build a flat earth or build other flat planets from our solar system or throughout the universe! - Hilarious random events unique to flat earth mode! TerraGenesis is free to play and as an indie game; it was important to us that all in-app purchases are entirely optional and not required for a full and complete experience. Enjoying TerraGenesis? Learn more! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TerraGenesisGame Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/SettleTheStars Terms of Use: http://www.tiltingpoint.com/terms-of-service