Update v1.5.36

Megastructure DLC

• Fixed a bug where some UI would remain invisible after viewing the megastructure construction UI
• Fixed a bug where the new megastructure scenario does not benefit from the +5 turns for trophies
• Fixed a bug where a wrong text would appear on the scenario progress tooltip
• Removed some spam in the logs which could slow down the game
• Fixed having to go "back" after destroying a megastructure for the focus to come back
• Fixed wooshing past the megastructure element when transitioning from "freestyle" city slot selection
• Fixed a bug when destroying a megastructure
• Fixed a tooltip overlap when upgrading the megastructure
• Fixed some layout issue in the event popup for small screens
• Some other small UI improvements on menu sprites

V1.5.32 patch

Megastructure DLC

• Fixed issue with some lines in Korean/Japanese
• Fixed the title of the welcome popup being wrong
• Updated the Manual to include information about the DLC
• Hide trade arrow for space projects when viewing the megastructure
• Fixed a bug where upgrading a megastructure would repair it (this might have slight consequences where the cost of repair of some megastructure might change the resource type for some saves)
• Fixed a bug where megastructure would not trigger tech effects properly

Base game

• Fixed a bug where gamepad shortcuts to swap between cities were not working

• The Marsolympics event now provides -2 global comfort of living if lost and +2 global comfort of living if won.
• Increased the adjacency support from the Athlete Training Complex from +1 to +2. Increased its costs from 8 to 18 water.
• Lowered the cost of the Large Scale Resource Conservation tech from 15 to 10 science.
• Lowered the cost of the Research campus from 30 to 25 food.

Megastructures DLC is finally OUT NOW!

Features:

• Develop - Decide which megastructure designs your architects should pursue. There are 10 unique megastructures that can be researched.
• Build - Upgrade your megastructures multiple times, with each new stage offering unique benefits but requiring a larger city population.
• Optimize - Integrate your megastructure into the city and make it synergize with previously constructed buildings.
• Events - Make technical innovations to enhance your construction capabilities with 3 new events.
• Leaders - Reshape your Martian society into a construction-centered one with 3 new leaders.
• Projects - Focus on architectural innovation and resource efficiency with 5 new city buildings and 1 new technology.
• Scenario - Take on the challenge of a new longer scenario.
• Music - Accomplish all of this while listening to a new music track.

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V1.5.30 - Full Patch Notes

New features and content

• New megastructure scenario.
• New megastructure starting option.
• 10 megastructures to build.
• 3 new leaders.
• 3 new events.
• 6 new projects and an additional 4 tied to new leader skills.
• 1 new music track.

Base game

• Bug fixes and improvements
• Fixed a bug where the negative support tooltip for far away locations was not always displayed.
• Fixed a bug related to a negative event removing a trade route.
• Fixed a bug about relocating mines from special resource locations.
• Fixed a bug for the production of special resource locations.
• Fixed a bug where the titanium production bonus would not be removed when removing the building.
• Fixed a bug where the cost of a building would not be paid on construction in some rare specific conditions.
• Fixed a bug where the technology counter would display a large number.
• Fixed a bug where the planet would spin in the wrong direction after clicking an action button in some cases.
• Improved leader shortcuts for gamepads.
• Improved city ambiences sfx.

Balance changes

• Lowered the food cost of population from 30 to 25.
• Lowered the amount of food that the different starting conditions start with.
• Reduced the amount of food-discovery events in the early game by 1 event.
• Increased the amount of population required for the Refugee crisis event from 20 to 25.
• Lowered the cost of the Athlete Training Complex from 8 to 7 water.
• Reduced the spread duration of Deinococcus from 9 to 8 turns.
• Beatrixs radiation treatment centers now give 2 radiation protection to the city instead of 1. The cost is increased from 1 to 4 science.
• Lowered the cost of Regolith Burner from 13 titanium to 12 titanium.
• The embassy now generates 2 support by default instead of 0. Lowered the support it generates per trade route in that city from 2 to 1.
• Reduced the cost of the luxury workshop from 23 to 22 silicates

Hello everyone, A few months after the launch of our first New Frontiers DLC, we are excited to announce that a second DLC is on its way, ready to land on October 23rd! In this Terraformers' DLC you can build a megastructure in every Martian city. Will you construct a self-sufficient Arcology, a facility to completely control a city's local climate zone, or a space elevator to vastly increase your trading capacity? [previewyoutube=olomX8JtaFk;full][/previewyoutube]

Features:

• Develop - Decide which megastructure designs your architects should pursue. There are 9 unique megastructures that can be researched.
• Build - Upgrade your megastructures multiple times, with each new stage offering unique benefits but requiring a larger city population.
• Optimize - Integrate your megastructure into the city and make it synergize with previously constructed buildings.
• Events - Make technical innovations to enhance your construction capabilities with 3 new events.
• Leaders - Reshape your Martian society into a construction-centered one with 3 new leaders.
• Projects - Focus on architectural innovation and resource efficiency with 5 new city buildings and 1 new technology.
• Scenario - Take on the challenge of a new longer scenario.
• Music - Accomplish all of this while listening to a new music track.

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Dear Martian athletes! It is time to compete in the Marsolympics and show Earth which planet has the most talented and fittest population!

Marsolympics

Custom Mode

3 new projects

Bug fixes & Balance changes:

Base game

Bug fixes and improvements

• Fixed the Miners Union specialisation which provided too much support
• Fixed a bug when destroying the Electron Beam Printer building
• Fixed an event artwork
• Improved some tooltips to better explain some gameplay features
• Projects which have a bonus related to beeing close to the ocean will be now proposed less often if the players strategy is not focused on raising the ocean (in the same way it is currently done for buildings on oceans).

Balance changes

• Reduced the cost of the Outdoor Duck Farm from 15 to 14 water.
• Reduced the cost of the Outdoor Potato Farm from 21 to 20 nitrates.
• Reduced the cost of the Outdoor Sheep Farm from 25 to 23 water.
• Reduced the cost of the Outdoor Wheat Farm from 41 to 38 nitrates.
• Increased the support income gained from the Outdoor Vineyard from 12 to 15.
• Increased the support income gained from the Bee Colony from 10 to 12.
• Reduced the cost of the Outdoor Cattle Ranch from 40 to 35 water.
• Reduced the cost of the Rice Fields from 50 to 40 nitrates.

• Phobos has 1 rock less.
• Deimos now provides a discount of 20% instead of 15% to space projects.

New frontiers DLC

• Reduced the celestial resource shortages from 50 to 40 for water, nitrates, titanium, tritium & silicates. Reduced the celestial resource shortages from 75 to 60 for food, science & power.
• Reduced the decrease of resource shortages from Harry Leclercs specialization from 20 to 15.

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New Frontiers DLC

Scenarios:

• As we had multiple reports that the New Frontiers scenario was too short and quickly completed, weve increased the amount of celestial bodies youll have to develop to win by 4. Because that would make the existing records and trophies invalid, weve shifted the trophies down by 2 levels (so if you previously had the trophy on mastery level 21, now youll have it on 10). Were sorry that this might feel like youve lost a trophy, but we think that this updated scenario goal matches the extra 5 turns you have to complete this scenario and get the trophy better. Our intention is that this new scenario would be longer, not shorter.
• Weve added 2 lower difficulty entries to the New Frontiers scenario.

Overall Difficulty

Bugs & improvements

• Update the game manual to contain the information about DLC related gameplay
• Added a popup when first launching the game after purchasing the DLC to confirm the purchase and explain how to play with/without the dlc
• Added a tooltip about exporting resource to solve the DLC shortages
• Added the flooding warning popup when about to complete the Europa shortage
• Right click / back action will bring the view back from the the solar system view to the planet
• Fixed a bug where the robotropolis skill could be used on city where not all neighbors where explored yet
• Fixed a situation where the end game button could be locked in some edge cases
• Fixed a bug where the new mars exploration building would prevent the ocean expand action in a city

Base Game

Bugs & improvements

• Fixed that extra starting options could be exploited
• Fixed a bug where two buildings would appear twice in the marsyclopedia
• Fixed a bug where it was possible to delete slums after finishing the refugee crisis
• Fixed a bug from apple where the game would not work in window mode on mac
• Performance improvements to limit vram usage
• Added a haptic vibration setting
• Added some missing sounds for gamepad
• Changed some cursors depending on situation and improved some gapead interactions
• Fixed the name of the zoom out action for gamepad
• Fixed a bug where a tooltip would display an incorrect key

Balance changes:

Dear Terraformers, The time has finally come. Our first DLC, New Frontiers, is now available! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2646850/Terraformers_New_Frontiers/ https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/38195/Terraformers_Deluxe_Edition/

Features

• Expeditions - Decide which celestial bodies should be explored by your astronauts.
• Settle - Establish outposts in up to 8 different locations across the solar system and develop them into large settlements that can send resources and unique technologies back to Mars.
• Trade - Identify system-wide resource shortages and export these for extra benefit.
• Events - Decide the fate of these new locations with 8 new events.
• Leaders - Lead your Martian society in different ways with 3 new leaders.
• Projects - Focus on interplanetary development with 5 new space projects, 2 new city buildings, 3 regional building and a technology.
• Scenario - Take on the challenge of a new longer scenario.
• Music - Accomplish all of this while listening to a new music track.

Bugs & improvements

• Fixed an exploit that allowed duplicating buildings by relocating a building and using the shortcut to switch between cities before placing it.
• Fixed WASD or arrow keys not working to rotate the planet when keyboard navigation is unchecked in the settings. This is useful to play with keyboard and mouse at the same time
• Fixed "end turn" and "revert" shortcut actions prompts not showing when holding ctrl/cmd if keyboard navigation is off
• Allowed confirming the found city popup by pressing return even when keyboard navigation is off
• Fixed a bug in how some cards are rejected with certain game conditions (this resulted in less robots being proposed if the ocean was not high enough)
• Fixed a bug in how cards are tracked to be offered in the background (too many were added, flooding certain decks).
• Fixed a bug where the max hand size could change for 1 turn due to a skill
• Fixed a bug where the repair cost of a damaged regional building would be wrongly displayed in planet view
• Fixed an exploit with the Tourism leader specialization
• Fixed a bug where randomly generated leaders would have a wrong skill
• Improved verification and warnings in case potential lose action
• Added that gamepad can cycle zooms in both directions now (using right stick/left stick clicks)
• Fixed that asteroids should not appear in the tutorial
• Fixed the food Monitoring Office bonus
• Fixed Open Science Database tech bonus (could start in the negative)
• Fixed how the Gene Vault bonus was rounded
• Fixed that adjacency bonus from university was also worked during relocation
• Fixed that Mars Enthusiasm would trigger when relocating a city
• Fixed that the wrong difficulty icon for a challenge would be displayed in game
• Fixed hand ordering
• Fixed a gameplay data loading bug (float parsing)
• Fixed that 2 identical modifiers could appear in the challenge mode
• Fixed a bug where the map generation could fail and still continue with launching the game (apparent in the last 2023 challenge in particular)
• Improved map generation logic so will be faster
• Fixed a bug where resource locations could still appear on city locations in challenges where they shouldnt
• Major performance optimization in many parts of the game
• Fixed multiple tooltip typos
• Fixed multiple small bugs with some bonus displays

Balance changes:

• Changed cost Local Culture Center from 12 water and 12 power to 11 water and 11 power.
• Let the Smelter and Thermal Updraft Tower be proposed a little later.
• Reduced cost of Urban Planning Center from 12 science to 11 science.
• Reduced cost of Coffeeshop from 9 nitrates to 8 nitrates.
• Reduced the cost of Exhaust Processor from 12 power to 11 power.
• Reduced the cost of Igloos from 30 food and 3 water to 30 food and 2 water.
• Reduced the cost of Botany and Forestry Center from 20 nitrates and 5 water to 15 nitrates and 5 water.
• Reduced the cost of the Mohole from 20 power and 30 titanium to 20 power and 25 titanium.
• Changed the cost of Heliostat Powerplant from 12 silicates and 12 science to 10 silicates and 15 science.
• Reduced the cost of the Agricultural Complex (Rich soil upgrade) from 26 to 24 water.
• Reduced the cost of the Touring Company from 13 power to 10 power.
• Reduced the cost of Courthouse from 10 food and 4 titanium to 10 food and 3 titanium.
• Reduced the cost of Automated Robotic Workforce from 3 science to 2 science.
• Reduced the cost of the Food Monitoring Office from 7 science to 6 science.
• Increased the support per turn from Self-driving Taxis from 16 to 18.
• Reduced the cost of the Shipwright from 5 power and 5 tritium to 4 power and 4 tritium.
• Reduced the cost of Marslink from 9 science and 10 silicates to 9 science and 9 silicates.
• Increased the cost of the Spaceport from 11 power and 15 tritium to 12 power and 15 tritium.
• Increased the cost of the Landing Pad from 3 titanium to 4 titanium.
• Increased the cost of the Orbital Ring from 22 tritium to 23 tritium.

• Increased the effect of advanced city planning: Cities can now have 6 more maximum buildings instead of 3.
• Decreased the effect of Space flight conditions: it now only provides +1 support per turn per new trade route instead of 2. Decreased its cost from 20 science to 10 science.

• Increased the oxygen and atmosphere produced by the Boreal Rainforest from 1 to 2. Reduced its prestige from 18 to 12. Reduced its local support provided from 8 to 6.
• Increased spread duration of Cyanophyta from 12 to 14 turns.
• Increased spread duration of Methanogenium from 11 to 13 turns.
• Increased spread duration of Deinococcus from 8 to 9 turns.
• Increased spread duration of Radiodurans from 8 to 9 turns.
• Increased spread duration of Plankton from 13 to 15 turns.
• Reduced local support provided by Tundra forest from 5 to 4.
• Reduced local support provided by Alpine Pine forest from 5 to 4.
• Reduced local support provided by Mediterranean shrubs forest from 5 to 4.
• Reduced local support provided by Temperate forest from 8 to 6.
• Reduced local support provided by Temperate rainforest from 8 to 6. Reduced its prestige from 32 to 30.
• Reduced local support provided by Palm trees from 12 to 10. Reduced its prestige from 32 to 30.
• Increased the spread duration of Arctic Hares from 5 to 6 turns. Increased their local support production from 3 to 4.

• Reduced the cost of the Viewpoint Tower landmark upgrade from 3 titanium to 2 titanium.
• Reduced the cost of the Spa landmark upgrade from 6 water to 4 water.

• Jan van Dijks Linked Nitrogen Factory now also produces 1 atmosphere per turn (besides the 1 atmosphere per adjacent linked nitrogen factory).
• Jan van Dijks Power Breathing Center now also produces 1 support per turn.
• Yolanda Madibas specialization now provides a 50% discount to landmark upgrades that provide support or comfort of living (instead of 25%).
• Lna Kertsz Local Art Gallery now also provides 2 support per turn per location that the city owns that provides support or comfort of living.
• Lna Kertesz Cultural Festivals skill now costs 5 water and generates 75 support instead of costing 10 water and generating 110 support.
• Hope OMalleys Cultural Festivals skill now costs 10 water and generates 125 support instead of costing 20 water and generating 170 support.
• Henry Carnegies Mine Venting skill now generates -30 support per mined resource instead of -25.
• Aishe Jgers specialization now provides a 50% discount to animal spreaders instead of a 40% discount.
• Tariq Fayeds Police station now provides 3 support per turn instead of 1 comfort of living.
• Pekai Ayads Inter-Class Dialog Center now provides 1 comfort of living and 1 support to adjacent populations instead of a flat 3 support per turn.
• Beatrix Barbiers Radiation Treatment Center now only costs 1 science instead of 2.
• Mustafa Orbays specialization now only requires 10 projects to be trashed instead of 15.
• Jorge Dromedos specialization now gives a 10% discount to regional projects instead of 15%.
• Jorge Dromedos Modular Apartments now provide 5 support if theres at least 1 other Modular Apartments adjacent instead of 3 support.
• Tsvetan Ivanovs Marllywood Studio now provides 1 more support per turn per landmark upgrade that provides comfort of living or support.

• Growth: Increased nitrates from 22 to 25.
• Expansive: reduced titanium from 20 to 15. Reduced tritium from 12 to 10.
• Utopian: reduced titanium from 15 to 5.
• Terraforming: reduced water from 18 to 17.

• Lowered the expectation rise frequency by a tiny bit to accommodate for the balance changes above.

Dear Terraformers, we wish you a great 2024! And we hope the stars will align just right for you. And if they wont, just visit them from January 25th, when the New Frontiers DLC arrives! In this devlog well shine a light on that new DLC!

Explore and develop the solar system

Fulfill interplanetary resource shortages

New content

Hello everyone, We have great news for Terraformers!

A DLC IS ON THE WAY!

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FREE UPDATE OUT NOW

• Full gamepad support
• Compact UI option (finalised)
• Larger text option (finalised)
• Full keyboard navigation option (finalised)
• Implemented keyboard shortcuts
• Adapted localisation for gamepads where necessary
• Data handling for upcoming DLC integration
• Added traditional chinese localisation
• Added 6 new projects

• Better event popup option text placement
• Fixed a bug related to picking cards in another "ui state"
• Improved the placement of some popup in the space cities
• Fixed a bug when placing a "dock" where the pathing algorithm would produce wrong results
• Large performance improvements in the map generation
• Performance improvements in the Marsyclopedia
• General performance improvements (a bit everywhere)
• Improved logs
• Fixed a bug where the martian event could happen twice
• Fixed some issues with the reward popup after a victory
• Fixed some overflow issues with the gameplay messages (middle of screen)
• Improved some steam/gog/epic initialization steps
• Improvements to some UI visuals (icons and moon roads)
• Fixed a bug which happened after using the import lifeform skill
• Fixed a bug with switching cities after relocating a city
• Fixed a bug with leader skills in the Marsyclopedia
• Fixed a map generation bug wit some special resources
• Improved sorting of building actions
• Fixed a bug with Urban Planning
• Fixed a bug where sandstorms lasted a turn too long
• Fixed a bug where the mohole project displayed a strange icon
• Fixed an issue where the planet's visual would not load to their actual state straight away and slowly move towards the correct appearance
• Lots of other UI improvements and polish

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Small patch fixing an issue with the weekly challenge of this week.

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Bugs & improvements:

• Fixed the special event lifeform from being proposed through normal means
• Repaired sandstorms (they will normally appear on the planet and not on the moons anymore)
• Fixed an error in the steam save system which could potentially erase a save if steam had trouble connecting
• Fixed a bug where the lifeform dying would cover the whole screen
• Fixed a bug where a small resource icon would always be visible next to the mouse
• Fixed a bug when calculating distance path which could also potentially cause a crash (happened often when removing an expansion hub)
• Fixed a map generation bug where it would be possible to get a location with a single connection.
• Fixed a map generation bug where it would be possible to get connections which cross each others
• Fixed the trade boost leader specialization
• Fixed a bug preventing steam achievements on linux
• Fixed a bug with the supply station not always recalculating its bonus correctly
• Some other small polish
• Auto convert exports to space exports when importing resources to space projects
• Show moon cities when clicking their items on the top right, overview popup or space project list while being constructed

Gamepad

• Added gamepad bindings for prev/next city (right trigger + left/right direction), and changed next turn / revert shortcuts to use the left trigger (easier on the hands)
• Added relocating, destroying and repairing planet locations
• Added controls for the dikes item
• Added controls for the city informations at the top
• Lots of other improvements

Bugs & improvements:

• Fixed a bug where the close city reminder would be shown all the time during the tutorial.
• Fixed a small error message which could appear for no reason.
• Fixed a bug where a card would very slowly slide down to the player hand when picking multiple cards quickly.
• Fixed a bug where it was not possible to place special buildings like the slum with the gamepad.
• Fixed the line spacing in the breakdown panels.
• Fixed a bug where the new achievement would be unlocked if another achievement was already earned (and vice versa).
• Improved some gamepad vs keyboard detection.
• Added shortcuts to go from one city to the next.
• Fixed a bug where it was not possible to build a city mine with the gamepad.
• Fixed unique space projects being proposed multiple times.
• Fixed a bug where the game proposes enough cards in lengthy games.
• A few other small improvements and fixes.

Balance changes:

• Slightly increased the proposal frequency of robots and planet-expansion projects.

Dear Terraformers, As we already annouced in our latest devlog, our first free update is here and features gamepad and small screen support, 4 new events, balancing, quality of life improvements and bug fixes. We've been working hard on gamepad and small screen support, but are aware there's more work to be done in order to polish them. Therefore, we need your feedback to improve them as much as possible. To do so, please join our Discord server. We hope you will enjoy this update!

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New stuff:

• Gamepad support Beta
• Small screen support Beta
• Added a card counter to clearly display the current maximum number of cards which can be kept.
• Added previous/next city buttons so you dont have to leave the city view to switch between cities.
• Added 4 new events (2 new projects are linked to these events).
• Added 1 new hidden achievement (linked to a new event).

Improvements:

• Split the population and robots information in the overview popup.
• Allowed buildings that increase the maximum number of buildings to be constructed in a city which is currently at the maximum number of buildings.
• Added warnings for when the player will perform an action that will lose them the game.
• Added warnings icons next to the ocean parameter to indicate that buildings or lifeforms will be destroyed when raising the ocean.
• Increased maximum victory points which can be set in custom mode to 2000.
• Improved how the cards are spread out in the hand and made the hovered card fall over the others for better visibility.
• Improved the lifeform selection detection area.
• Made the event popup collapse or expand from the bottom right for better clarity.
• Scenario difficulty icon is now displayed while playing above the victory conditions bar.
• Terraforming projects will not be proposed when a parameter is at maximum.
• Added an explanation tooltip to the card draw popup.
• Guaranteed certain low-probability events to be proposed after reaching certain mastery levels if the player did not encounter that event yet.
• Improved the settings menu.
• Lots and lots of small improvements and performance optimisation all around.

Bugs:

• Fixed how the mastery level is counted (not-existing entries of scenarios were counted previously).
• Going temporarily below zero support will be correctly counted now.
• When losing a lifeform and thereby a prestige level, you now lose the amount of support that youve gotten from prestige from that lifeform before.
• Fixed multiple bugs and an exploit related to the Expansion Hub.
• Fixed a bug where sometimes there were not enough projects proposed.
• Fixed a bug where the weekly challenge streak was not properly calculated.
• Fixed a bug with the cooperative academy producing too much science.
• Fixed a bug with sandstorms appearing on the moons sometimes.
• Fixed a glitch when switching overview panels.
• Fixed a bug when the almost won music did not trigger.
• Fixed a bug where the technology timer would be set to infinite.
• Fixed a bug with how population buildings were checked before replacing or destroying them.

Balance changes:

BUILDINGS:

• Reduced cost of Brine Electrolyser from 12 to 10 titanium.
• Increased cost of Spaceport from 10 power and 15 tritium to 11 power and 15 tritium.
• Reduced cost of Domed Park from 10 nitrates and 20 silicates to 8 nitrates and 20 silicates.
• Increased support income from Self-driving taxis from 15 to 16.
• Reduced cost of Marslink from 10 science and 10 silicates to 9 science and 10 silicates.
• Reduced cost of Miners Cottage from 7 power and 30 food to 6 power and 30 food.
• Reduced cost of School from 4 science and 10 silicates to 3 science and 10 silicates.
• Reduced cost of Viewpoint Tower from 4 titanium to 3 titanium.
• Reduced cost of Spa from 8 water to 7 water.
• Reduced cost of Regolith Burner from 14 titanium to 13 titanium.
• Increased power production of Water Barrage from 3 to 5. Increased cost from 27 titanium to 40 titanium.
• Reduced cost of Scuba Diving School from 8 science and 8 power to 7 science and 7 power.
• Increased base support produced by Beach resort from 10 to 15. Increased costs from 20 food, 10 nitrates and 10 silicates to 20 food, 15 nitrates and 15 silicates.
• Changed shipwright output from 3 support income to 1 comfort of living.
• Reduced cost of Outdoor Duck Farm from 17 to 16 water.
• Increased output of Outdoor Cattle Ranch from 3 to 4 food. Increased water cost from 36 to 45.
• Increased Outdoor Wheat Farm food output from 4 to 5. Increased nitrates cost from 33 to 42.
• Reduced cost of Bee Colony from 22 to 21 water.
• Removed temperature-0 requirement for the Sheep Farm.
• Increased cost of Martian Festival Grounds from 40 to 45 water. Increased support output from 15 to 20.
• Increased support output from Mountain Huts from 15 to 16.
• Increased cost of Household Robot Dispatch Center from 5 science and 8 power to 6 science and 8 power.
• Increased cost of Urban Planning Office from 10 to 12 science. Increased support output from 4 to 5.
• Reduced proposal frequency of Luxury Workshop, Local Culture Center, Beach Club and Space Hotels in the mid-late game. Increased the proposal frequency of other support buildings, most notably the Entertainment Center.

MOONS:

• Deimos now has an extra titanium deposit.
• Phobos now has an extra water deposit.

LIFEFORMS:

• Increased the cost of Bacteria spreaders from 20 to 25 science.
• Increased the cost of Plant spreaders from 25 to 30 science.
• Reduced spread duration of Cyanophyta, Methanogenium, Deinococcus, Artificial Bacteria and Dark bacteria by 1 turn.
• Increased local support of Tundra Forest from 4 to 5.
• Increased local support of Alpine Pine Forest from 4 to 5.
• Increased local support of Mediterranean Shrubs from 4 to 5.
• Increased local support of Temperate Forest from 6 to 8.
• Increased local support of Boreal Rainforest from 6 to 8.
• Increased local support of Temperate Rainforest from 6 to 8.
• Reduced local support of Arctic Hares from 4 to 3.
• Reduced prestige of Penguins from 12 to 10.
• Reduced prestige of Atlantic Herring from 12 to 11.
• Reduced prestige of Deer from 12 to 10.
• Reduced local support of Birds of Paradise from 15 to 14.

TECHNOLOGIES:

• Lowered expansions gained from Urban Planning from 2 to 1. Lowered its science cost from 25 to 15.
• Reduced cost of Automated Scientific Archive from 15 to 10 science.
• Reduced cost of Megastructures Design from 20 to 15 science.

LEADERS:

• Reduced Mishas specialization bacteria spreader discount from 40 to 33%.
• Reduced Aishes specialization bacteria spreader discount from 50 to 40%.
• Reduced Floras specialization plant spreader discount from 60 to 50%.
• Reduced support required for Lnas specialization from 800 to 700.
• Jan van Dijks Power Breathing Center now also provides 2 support to adjacent populations.
• Beatrixs Pierre Barbier building now produces 2 support per turn per Radiation Treatment Center instead of 1. But it doesnt produce a flat 1 support per turn anymore.
• Buff related to a secret event
• Buff related to a secret event
• Anastasias independence now only gives 1 negative support per trade instead of 2.
• Lifeform prestige increase from Mustafas Genetic modification skill changed from 25% to 50%. Amount of times that it can be done is reduced from 2 to 1.

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Hello everyone! The release frenzy dust is settling down and we are very happy to see all the crazy strategies you are fomenting. The development of Terraformers continues and so do our devlogs! Today well go over whats up for the future of Terraformers.

DLCs

Free updates

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Bug Fixes and improvements:

• Fixed the button that opens the game manual on mac and linux
• Fixed a some event issues in custom modes with mastery level 0 or under
• Fixed a bug where it was not possible to discard a moon project
• Fixed a bug where volcanoes would modify nearby ocean tiles to rich soil and then bug
• Fixed a bug where Pierre Barbier building would not count its bonus correctly
• Fixed a bug where the wrong support icon would be displayed on some card
• Fixed a bug where a now deleted city would appear in the overview panel
• Fixed a bug where the abandon starting option information was wrong
• Fixed a bug where the city renaming achievement was not counting cities renamed directly when founding
• Fixed a bug where the card decks would not refill in time where drawing large amounts of cards
• Fixed a bug where an event could propose only space projects while all your slots were full, forcing you to delete one of your project

Bug Fixes and improvements:

• Fixed blurry text on the planet
• Fixed lose stinger not triggering
• Made gameplay message less obtrusive
• Quality of life: when choosing a leader, the selection is no longer reset upon closing and reopening the leader selection screen
• For long texts in the leader and event popups, a scrollbar appears instead of making the text smaller to fit the popup
• Made the game manual accessible directly in-game
• Fixed the Dikes and Ocean related achievements
• Fixed a specialization exploit where you could discard the moon space project to get a bonus and add it back for free and infinitely
• Fixed a bug with relocating city-mines which you could not discard and get stuck
• Fixed a flew localisation related issues
• Fixed a bug where you would get a constant reminder to do an explore action
• Stopped the blinking the place HQ/Found city button until you have hired a leader
• Fixed a bug where Pierre Barbier Building wasnt counting its bonus correctly
• Fixed a bug where the game would freeze when trying to load a corrupted save
• Made that playing an explore action building from a far zoom would zoom in towards the planet like leader skill
• Fixed a expectation event issue when setting environment to 0 in Custom mode
• Fixed a bug where the wrong save would be loaded when playing on steam offline
• Other small fixes and polish

• Lowered the difficulty of all scenarios a little bit. Except for the expectation level 15 in custom game, this one is still the same.
• Lowered the end-game difficulty of lower difficulty scenarios a little.
• Increased the amount of oceans you need to have nearby before ocean projects are proposed.
• Increased Tsvetans specialization to give 20 support income instead of 15.
• Increased volcano spawn rate slightly

Dear Terraformers! Its been one week since the 1.0 release, and we would like to take this moment to thank everybody for playing the game and for taking the time to write feedback and reviews. Even though sometimes its difficult to read the negative ones, the vast majority of positive comments really warm our hearts. I sometimes have to remind myself that people are really enjoying something that weve made!

Live Orchestra recording

Manual

Achievements & Steam Cards

Future plans

Bug Fixes and improvements:

• Fixed planet sometimes spinning around a whole turn when focusing on a planet location
• More performance optimization
• Added a tooltip for zooming the planet
• Added that clicking explore will zoom towards the planet if in moon view
• Fixed the placement of catastrophic event UI item at the top right
• Fixed the weekly challenge which was broken today
• Fixed the time of the last save on the load game popup
• Display spaceport comfort of living bonus on map after placing
• Fixed a bug where spaceport would contribute their bonus even if not owned
• Fixed that the language setting was not properly saving after auto-picking a language

• Increased the amount of Mars points you receive after playing a game, so youll unlock content faster.
• Catastrophic events now cant appear early in the game in the lower mastery level scenarios. The apocalyptic meteor cant occur in mastery level 1 anymore.
• Slightly lowered the chance of a Marsquake.
• Lowered the end-game difficulty of the lower mastery levels, so new players can take more turns to beat the earlier scenarios.

- fixed an issue where the custom mode would not trigger the start event on some specific settings - fixed an issue where digging aquifer could show a wrong resource

Greetings, Martians! After much anticipation, the day has finally arrived...

TERRAFORMERS IS NOW OFFICIALLY OUT OF EARLY ACCESS!

Full patch notes:

• Moon cities, they are discovered through an event and then you have to complete the space project to access them.
• An indication of how big the chance of an expectation rise is added above your support.
• Can undo all action in a turn if they did not reveal new information (like exploring or getting new projects proposed).
• When exploring you can hover on another exploration mode and after a short time it will display the alternative cost it would take with that other action.
• Localized map and city-name generation.
• Mineable asteroids (through events).
• Apocalyptic asteroid event.
• Added achievements (62 of them).
• Added Steam trading cards.
• New game flow and multiple save slots.
• Expectation forecasting feature (on the support UI widget).
• New weekly challenge game mode.
• Improved balance of luck and randomness.
• Many new exploration skills for more variety.
• 36 new buildings / space projects / technologies, 5 new events, 2 new leaders.
• Player named characters on the map.
• Removed that cities that own a coastal location have +1 comfort of living.
• Improved camera transition of cities.
• Added building construction animation.
• Fixed a bug with space projects triggering their progress too many times.
• Added city slot highlights for valid construction slots.
• Added a leader retirement counter.
• Added Japanese and Korean translations.
• Removed a not enough resource tooltip sometimes wrongly appearing when founding .a new city.
• Tutorial flow polish and improvements.
• New desktop game icon.
• Made that a terraforming event will take place before the win/loss check to avoid unwanted loss.
• The landmark sidebar will have a clearer indication of which options are available.
• An icon will be displayed on the map when a landmark can be upgraded.
• Added display of spaceport bonus on the map.
• Added animation for some actions which were not clear they had taken place.
• Added victory music when solving a crisis event.
• Added multiple colors for the support change per turn to better indicate the risk associated.
• Added a landmark highlight on the map when selected.
• Added auto-selection of the language based on the language of the current system.
• Removed the excessive warning popup on new games.
• Lots of performance optimization.
• Lots of small polish and improvements.
• Fixed many small bugs.

• Lowered the difficulty in the first few scenarios.
• Increased the expectations level of the Red Path scenario by 1 (so it is the same as in all other scenarios).
• Increased the terraforming requirements of the Blue Path a little.

• Load Balancing station now produces 1 power per 3 mines owned by the city. It costs 9 silicates.
• Changed cost of School from 4 science and 10 food to 4 science and 10 silicates.
• Changed the CO2 imports skill from Henry from 4 heat and 4 atmosphere to 3 heat, 3 atmosphere and 5 support.
• Reduced cost of Orbital Solar panels from 14 silicates and 10 tritium to 14 silicates and 9 tritium.
• Increased cost of Aerogel Manufacturer from 5 silicates and 5 tritium to 7 silicates and 5 tritium.

• Increased science requirement for 1 extra science income of Self-Learning AI from 4 to 5.
• Changed support gain per sold project from Reverse-Engineering technology from 15 to 10. Decreased the science cost to develop the technology from 20 to 15.
• Increased the cost of Urban Planning technology from 20 to 25 science.
• Increased the cost of Lightweight Hull Structures from 15 to 20 science.
• Increased cost of Open Science Database from 10 to 15 science.

• Lowered prestige of Temperate rainforest from 13 to 12.
• Lowered prestige of Boreal rainforest from 20 to 18.
• Lowered prestige of Palm trees from 36 to 32.
• Lowered prestige of Temperate rainforest from 36 to 32.

• Changed specialization of Pekai, now it gives 2 support income per new city you found instead of 25 support stock.
• Changed the skill of Dejah, now the space hotels project she creates costs 10 titanium and 0 food instead of 6 titanium and 3 food.

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Hello everyone! In exactly 1 week the moment is finally here: the 1.0 release! As we started this project 4 years ago, it almost feels surreal! With this devlog we want to inform you of the new things that will be in this update besides the multiple save slots and weekly challenge that were mentioned in the previous devlog.

Moon cities

• Phobos has a slot that connects to 5 other slots, something not seen in other city layouts. It also has a great natural sight and an aquifer. Finally, once you have a city on Phobos, all your trade routes generate 1 additional support per turn due to the tourism potential.
• Deimos has a titanium deposit and 4 anomalies that let science-producing buildings produce 1 extra science when constructed there. Also, once you have a city on Deimos, all your space projects will cost 15% less of each resource to complete. This is due to it being a great launch hub for other missions into space due to its neglectable gravity.

Expectation rise forecasting

• Stage 1, green: no chance of an expectation rise.
• Stage 2, yellow: small chance of an expectation rise.
• Stage 3, orange: likely chance of an expectation rise.
• Stage 4, red: high chance of an expectation rise.

New content

Other improvements

How you can help us

Hello Martians, We are excited to announce that Terraformers 1.0 launch is shaping up to release on March 9th! Get a sneak peek at the upcoming features in our latest trailer: [previewyoutube=ZrSCnqRAWVE;full][/previewyoutube] As previously announced, here's what we have in store for you with the 1.0 release:

• Space cities, they are discovered through an event and then you have to complete the space project to access them
• Player named characters on the map
• Localized map and city-name generation
• Mineable asteroids (through events)
• Apocalyptic asteroid event
• Achievements (62 of them)
• New game flow and multiple saves
• Expectation forecasting feature (on the support UI widget)
• New weekly challenge game mode
• Improved balance of luck and randomness
• Many new exploration skills for more variety
• Lots of small polish and improvements
• 36 new buildings / space projects / technologies, 5 new events, 2 new leaders.

Wishlit now and be notified at launch:

Hi all, As you may know, the year of Rabbit is around the corner! Best regards and wishes to everyone for the new year ahead! Looking back on the past year, we'd like to thank all of our players for supporting Terraformers. We're working hard now on new content hoping to deliver you the experience as best as we can. Stay tuned! Happy New Year everyone!

Fixes a major crash which was happening to some people during the first few turns of the game.

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Small patch v0.9.51 Bug fixes and additions

• community translation
• nobr appearing on the key in custom mode
• bug related to destroying flooded dikes
• bug related to relocating expansion hubs
• procedural leader "error building" skill
• fixed some projects not appearing marsyclopedia

Dear all, as we have wrapped up one year and are preparing for a new one in our little lab located inside a flying asteroid, we have some exciting new features to announce!

Weekly Challenge

Multiple save slots

- nobr tag fixed on trade panel

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug where docks were not correctly proposed
• Fixed a bug where the starting option would not be correctly offered on next game start
• Technologies now have the same discarding values as other projects
• Fixed more nobr related issues
• Fixed a bug where potential projects were not correctly being reseted when re-playing the tutorial
• Change some of the project proposition tables to get more varied projects earlier

V0.9.47

• Fixed the marsyclopedia scroll
• Fixed a bug where the settings were not saving properly
• Fixed that revert sent you back to the planet
• Fixed the reverse engineering tech
• Fixed the procedural skill issue with the error building. Unfortunately this will only work on new games and wont fix ongoing saves.
• Fixed the nobr appearing on the trade panel when the trade routes are in the negative
• Added a toggle to let players scale the UI into the unsafe zone where elements will overlap a bit. This is for very small screens, like a steam deck, where more scaling can help readability.
• Fixed a bug with the Expansion scenario where the number of cities to win was not accounted correctly.
• Fixed a bug where technologies were stopped being proposed in the technology scenario (3 of them were missing).
• Slightly increased the amount of docks and shipwrights proposed
• Fixed some tooltip typos
• Fixed the scaling of tooltips in the main menu

Hello Martians, This is it: our latest update is live and includes major additions like coastal locations, survival and leasure modes, a new scenario and much, much more!

Check out the complete patch notes below:

MAJOR ADDITIONS:

• There are now coastal locations on the planet. A coastal location is a location which neighbors an ocean location.
• City expansion now differentiates between land and ocean locations. population expansion is only possible on land. There are buildings like the expansion hub which only works on land locations and the docks which only works on ocean locations.
• You can continue a game after winning, choosing between survival and leisure mode. In survival mode the expectations will keep rising. In leisure mode the expectations will not rise anymore.
• A new scenario has been added: expansionist, where the goal is to own a certain amount of locations, and found cities in a certain amount of different climate zones.
• A new difficulty level has been added. Difficulty of other scenarios has been lowered a little.
• The overview popup now has a City and Climate Zone tab which shows summarized information about each, such as all buildings, the names, the resources produced, the lifeforms, the terraforming parameters All elements have detailed tooltips and cities can be clicked to zoom to them directly on the planet. Buildings and cities will also have icons to show which ones are damaged or at risk of flooding.
• Two terraforming landmarks have been added. Volcanoes which can be restarted as well as polar CO2 ice caps which can be melted (they will also melt by themselves if the climate zone is warm enough).
• 9 new ocean lifeforms have been added.
• 8 new leaders have been added.
• 48 new projects have been added.
• Added 3 lifeform adaptation events impacting how life spreads.
• Added 2 catastrophic events, a rare occurrence introducing a major crisis in the game which the player can choose to solve or not.
• Added 2 new city slot layouts.

IMPROVEMENTS AND CHANGES:

• It is now possible to swap locations between cities. Any further locations disconnected from its city will not be controlled anymore, the buildings will not be destroyed but not function and they can be reacquired normally. You will not lose expansion points. Switching city ownership has a timer of 1 turn (like the relocation timer).
• You can now move/delete/replace expansion hubs and similar buildings due to the new changes to city expansion tracking.
• Most of the new content needs to be unlocked first by playing.
• Some of the content will auto-unlock and a popup will appear when starting the update for the first time.
• Added gameplay tips on the loading screen.
• Added a dynamic city name generator which takes into account the current state of the game to propose a city name.
• The lifeform button has been revamped and is now split by lifeform type (bacteria, plant, animal). This gives more space for everything and avoids overlaps.
• Protection from sandstorms by lava tubes, rain and plants is now better communicated in the game.
• Cities have a new widget in line with the rest of the design. The size of the city will be visually displayed on the planet.
• The landmark sidebar visuals have been revamped to follow the rest of the UI design as well.
• Ocean flooding is now instant. A confirmation popup will appear to warn the player if he risks to flood a city, building or a lifeform. The popup will offer to have a look at the overview popup which summarizes all important data.
• Ocean flooding will now make you lose control of your locations and you will have to use a dock (or other ocean expansion building) to acquire it back.
• Ocean visuals now correctly follow the temperature of climate zones for the frozen / liquid aspect. Frozen visuals are now less bright as requested by the players.
• Lots of memory and process optimizations. The game is lighter and faster.
• Buildings had their colors updated to harmonize their intended purpose (food production buildings are green, science production buildings blue).
• All landmarks on the planet now have unique icons.
• The game seed is available in the settings menu on custom mode.
• To be more realistic, there are now more water deposits spawn on the poles, and less on the rest of the planet.
• To be more realistic, crater cities are more likely to spawn in the southern hemisphere, plain cities more likely in the northern hemisphere and lava tubes more likely to spawn near volcanoes.
• Climate zone generation and the name placement has been improved.
• UI scaling now has a slider so people with rarer screen ratios can find the best possible fit.
• The event popup option button will always have the same size now.
• Added buttons directly on the map for building providing an action (like the lifeform spreader buildings).
• Improved and fixed the way the music tracks are triggered in the game.
• Fixed a bug where some life forms were never proposed.
• Fixed a bug with the specialization Varied Development.
• Lots of language related fixes in some tooltips.
• Fixed a bug with how points were counted in the scientific scenario.
• Buildings details popup will not fall outside the screen anymore on the planet view.
• Renaming cities should now correctly display the name on the planet for non-Latin languages (Chinese in particular).
• Starting options now unlock when you reach at least 75 victory points (regardless of what scenario you're playing) instead of at 25% of the winning condition. This will lead to them getting proposed more often when playing more difficult scenarios.
• And more which I forget Im sure :)

CONTENT BALANCE CHANGES:

• Lowered the early game expectation rise frequency, increased the late game expectation rise frequency.
• Increased the amount of Mars points you get for winning a scenario by 25%. This will lead to faster content unlocking.
• The damage system has been rebalanced to scale better with the progress in the game.
• Lowered Dike cost from 4 to 3 titanium.
• The game will now more strictly pick a negative event if youve been lucky with events so far or a positive event if youve been unlucky with events so far. Previously there was more flexibility and this was balanced over a longer span of turns.
• Some events and projects will not appear until the player has reached a certain Mars level (to prevent information overflow for new players).
• Ocean projects as well as projects with terraforming requirements will be proposed based on the progress the player has made in each parameter. This is to avoid that the player is spammed with projects which are not relevant to his current strategy.

• Changed Massive radio Telescope. It now produces 4 science +1 if placed on a high location. It costs 30 silicates and 15 titanium.
• Changed Particle Collider. It now produces 5 science and costs 30 science and 25 power.
• Lowered cost of Automated Robotic Workforce from 5 to 3 science.
• Increased cost of GMO Lab from 36 to 38 science.
• Increased cost of Danl Lab from 27 to 28 science.
• Increased cost of Food Quality supervision from 6 to 7 science.
• Changed cost of Luxury Workshop from 16 silicates and 8 titanium to 23 silicates.
• Slightly increased amount of tritium deposits on the planet.
• Bio generator now costs 37 nitrates instead of 36
• Increased cost of Outdoor Cattle Ranch from 35 to 36 water.
• Increased cost of CO2 factory from 10 power to 12 power
• Increased cost of Nitrous Gas Factory from 35 nitrates to 40 nitrates
• Changed "Electron Beam printer" project. It does not provide negative support anymore, but its costs went up from 11 to 21 power.
• Reduced cost of road paver depot from 11 to 10 titanium.
• Reduced cost of Rover exploration center from 10 titanium and 5 tritium to 9 titanium and 5 tritium
• Changed cost of bus station from 6 titanium and 6 tritium to 6 power and 6 tritium
• Reduced cost of train station from 14 power and 14 silicates to 13 power and 13 silicates
• Reduced cost of hyperloop from 27 science and 27 power to 26 science and 26 power
• Changed expansion hub costs from 8 power and 8 titanium to 16 power
• Removed Airborne Wind Turbine from the game.

• Increased cost of Import Oceans from Europa from 24 to 25 tritium
• Increased cost of Import Oceans from Ceres from 8 tritium to 9 tritium
• Increased cost of Giant Space Mirrors from 21 silicates to 23 silicates
• Reduced food cost of Space Hotels by 1

• Deinococcus now requires 0 temperature instead of -2, has 2 prestige instead of 1 and takes 9 turns to spread.
• Increased spread duration of Methanogenium from 11 to 12 turns, but increased prestige from 1 to 2.
• Cyanophyta now requires -2 temperature instead of 0, increased its spread duration to 13 turns. Increased prestige from 1 to 2.
• Reduced spread duration of Radiodurans from 9 to 8 turns.
• Increased spread duration of Dark bacteria from 7 to 9 turns. Increased its prestige from 1 to 2.
• Increased spread duration of Metallidurans and Artificial Bacteria to 7 turns.
• Increased local support and prestige of Tundra forest from 3 to 4.
• Increased local support from Alpine Pine forest 3 to 4. Increased its prestige from 5 to 6.
• Increased prestige of Mediterranean bushes from 5 to 6. Reduced local support from 6 to 4.
• Increased prestige of Temperate forest from 8 to 13.
• Increased prestige of Cacti from 15 to 16.
• Removed temperature requirement of Boreal Rainforest. Increased its prestige from 14 to 20.
• Reduced spread duration of Temperate Rainforest from 12 to 8 turns. Increased its prestige from 17 to 36. Reduced its local support from 10 to 6.
• Reduced spread duration of Palm Trees from 16 to 12 turns. Increased its prestige from 13 to 36.
• Lowered spread duration of arctic hare from 6 to 5 turns. Lowered prestige from 6 to 4. Lowered local support from 5 to 4.
• Lowered spread duration of Penguins from 10 to 8 turns, lowered prestige from 14 to 1.
• Lowered spread duration of Deer from 10 to 8 turns, lowered prestige from 15 to 12.
• Lowered spread duration of Polar Bears from 10 to 8 turns.
• Lowered spread duration of Birds of Paradise from 10 to 8 turns. Lowered its prestige from 16 to 15.
• Lowered spread duration of Horses from 10 to 8 turns, reduced prestige from 20 to 18.
• Increased prestige of Elephants from 32 to 45.
• Increased prestige of lions from 35 to 40.

• Increased support income gain per trade route of Improved space flight conditions technology from 1 to 2. Increased its cost from 10 to 20 science.
• Reduced science cost of Improved Robotics from 10 to 5.
• Self-Learning AI now requires only 4 science to have its science output increased by 1 instead of 5.
• Increased support income gain per animal spread from the technology Animal Tracking from 3 to 8. Increased its science cost from 20 to 30.
• Reduced support gain from Food & drinks technologies, Consumer goods fabrication and Open science database from 3 to 2.
• Reduced cost of Terraforming Observations from 30 to 25 science.
• Changed House printing from a tier 1 to a tier 2 technology. Increased titanium gain per city building constructed from 1 to 2. Increased its science cost from 20 to 40.
• Applied research technology now provides 5 support income per tech played instead of 4.
• Removed DNA regeneration technology.

• Maryam Fayeds specialization now produces 1 power per 4 power produced instead of per 6.
• Hong Taos specialization now produces 1 power per 7 expansions you acquire instead of per 10.
• Jagrav Varmans specialization now generates 1 support income per 10 resources you transport to a space project instead of per 20.
• Dejah Robinsons specialization now produces 5 support per landmark upgrade that produces support or comfort of living instead of 2.
• Isabella Torres specialization now produces 1 oxygen per 3 new oxygen produced instead of per 4.
• Arthur Fosters specialization now produces 1 tritium per new 1 new tritium produced instead of per 2 tritium.
• Flora Norouzis specialization now gives a 60% discount on plant spreaders instead of 40%.
• Aishe Jgers ability now gives a 50% discount on animal spreader buildings instead of 40%.
• Anastasia Dromedos specialization now produces 6 support income when founding a city in a new climate zone instead of 3.
• Changed Naily Bolatbek to be a mid-game leader instead of a late-game leader.
• Changed Modular apartment skill from Jorge Dromedo. He now gives 2 copies of that building as a project card for normal costs instead of directly constructing it.
• Removed modular apartments from the research pool. Only Jorge Dromedo can provide them now.
• Changed "Cultural Festivals" skill to cost more water and provide more support.
• Changed "Local Art Gallery" skill to give adjacent support income instead of support income per natural sight.
• Changed "Astral Temple" from 5 support for a high location to 4.
• Changed the cost of Dejah Robinson's space hotel skill from 10 titanium to 3 food and 6 titanium
• Reduced support gain from Anastasia's specialization (support when founding a city in a new climate zone) from 5 to 3.
• Changed specialization requirement of Gustave from 7 to 6 robots.

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Hello Martians! Lets start with the most important point first: the next update will be released on the 7th of December! And it will be a big one: were merging updates 2 and 3 together into a single large update (and making some changes to the roadmap). Further in this devlog well give insights in some iterations weve made to the way you expand over oceans, shine some light on the new scenario and explain in what way were tweaking the difficulty level.

Roadmap update

Iterations to the ocean expansion

Difficulty changes

Continuing your game after winning

Hello world (whichever one youre on)! This devlog is the 2nd part about the upcoming ocean & leader themed update. In case youve missed it, the first part can be found on our blog. So put on your wetsuit, and join us as we dive into the Martian oceans!

Marine lifeforms

Coastal cities

New leaders

Hello Mars enthusiasts! We hope you are doing well. Here in Europe were seeing a warm and dry summer again. If only we could export our CO2 to another planet

EA1 release

• A custom mode where you could define your own difficulty settings and game length (also endless), and share your game-seed with other players, so you could play the exact same map and compare your results.
• The introduction of technologies. Technologies are suggested at specific moments and can be researched with science. They have an everlasting effect on the rest of your game and allow you to specialize more in specific strategies.
• The addition of the Marsyclopedia. This is a digital library accessible from the main menu where you can read about all the projects, leaders and lifeforms youve encountered so far.

Sneak peak into upcoming ocean related gameplay

Gamescom 2022

This small patch fixes an issue with a city layout providing twice an adjacency effect.

Small patch version 0.8.49:

• fixed some unsafe code which can potentially trigger crashes
• saving the player progression on more regular intervals so that less progress is lost in case of crashes

Additions:

• Added that starting options will unlock after playing endless mode for a while
• Added new expectation rising event texts
• Added a safety to avoid an infinite expansion bug (but did not find the source yet)
• Added arrow key control for the planet camera (so they can be mapped to a stick on the steam deck)

• Lowered the expectation rise frequency significantly in the early mastery levels, and a tiny bit in the later mastery levels.

• Fixed a memory issue which will hopefully stop some crashes from happening.
• Fixed the bug where only 1 lifeform was proposed
• Fixed a bug where lifeform spreading time would be displayed for hidden regions
• Fixed a bug where expanding to a location with a building would destroy the building
• Fixed a bug where relocating a building would inherit the damage
• Fixed a bug related to displaying information for Mine Venting skill (and other similar ones)
• Fixed a bug where you were not able to use the Mine skill on oceanic locations
• Fixed a bug where an error message with 131 missing would appear
• Fixed that you could destroy an expansion building (like a bus station) even when its expansion points were used
• Fixed the select leader screen would be cropped on small resolutions (like the steam deck)
• Fixed that you could relocate a city mine to a slot with no resources.
• Fixed a bug where the trade route breakdown was not displayed correctly for special mine trade routes.
• Some other small fixes and improvements

Hi Terraformers, As we previously announced, the Custom Mode (including Endless Mode) is now available to play and comes with lots of new features - Marsyclopedia, Technologies, new scenario and much more! Check out some gameplay in our latest trailer: [previewyoutube=L4cP-35Mvzo;full][/previewyoutube]

- Complete patch notes below -

Additions:

• Added new Custom mode (includes Endless mode)
• Added new Marsyclopedia (compendium)
• Added new gameplay mechanic: Technologies
• Added new scenario Planet of Knowledge focused on science and technologies
• Added new difficulty level for scenarios (Mastery level 36)
• Added new procedural leaders for long games
• Added new welcome popup
• Added decorations on project frame to indicate rarity
• Added a new tooltip when displaying lifeforms as well as full region coloring
• Added an abandon mars option in game menu
• Added many new building images
• Added a platinum trophy when winning a scenario in 65 turns (currently gold), giving 5 mastery points. Lowered the requirement for the gold trophy by 5 turns.
• Added that if you win a more difficult scenario, all lower difficulties of that scenario are also completed with the same trophy.
• When spreading a lifeform, the climate zones will now light up in different colors to communicate where the lifeform can be spread and how fast
• Added a table that breaks down the duration of the spreading of the lifeform depending on which climate zone you are hovering

Balance changes:

• Increased weight of the expectation rises a little bit in the underlying event-luck system, to balance it out better with the other (positive) events. As it was reported that getting more positive events resulted in a more difficult game as it also leads to more expectation rises.
• Decreased the expectation rise frequency a little between turn 20-40, increased expectation rise frequency a little after turn 40.
• Increased migration time on the planet by 1 turn.
• Changed the amount of mars points you win for winning a scenario and winning it in fewer turns.
• Increased prestige of palm trees by 1.
• Giant crystal cave, Giant diamond cave and Rich soil now also place small resources on nearby locations (shown as hints when exploring).
• Slightly increased amount of exploration satellites proposed.
• Martian Workers Association now gives 2 support per uniquely produced resource instead of 3.
• Division of labour now gives 1 comfort of living per 2 robots in the city, and is lowered in science cost to 5.
• Reduced the amount of water required and support gained for the "Cultural festivals" skill.
• Increased amount of city locations, lowered amount of empty locations.
• Lowered the starting power supply of the terraforming starting option by 5.
• Added an extra power supply crate near the starting location.
• Slightly increased amount of damage you'll receive.
• Increased the cost of founding a city by 5 water.
• Changed Electron Beam printer's effect to "Titanium mines owned by this city produce +1 titanium and -2 support", changed its power cost from 9 to 11.
• Slightly increased the chance of large/gigantic resource deposits in colder climate zones.
• Increased tritium cost of "Import oceans from Europa", "Import Methane from Titan", "Import Hydrogen from Gas Giant" by 1.
• Reduced spread duration of artificial bacteria by 1 turn.
• Slightly increased amount of research & development centers suggested in the early game.
• Reduced science cost of Robot Ingenuity Center by 1.
• Improvements and changes
• Safe save system handling, the save is now specific to the computer user and the store (steam or gog) specific user. (It should also be more safe from unwanted progress reset.)
• General memory usage improvements.
• Added a safety to avoid building a city mine at the same time as constructing a building.
• City locations are now destroyed when expanding to them.
• Improved the display of numbers on the resources (in case the numbers become very large).
• Improved the display of power costs when using the Mine skill.
• Improved the display of the specialization and other game effect elements.
• Enabled project run in background for the game (so you can continue to listen to the music ;) ).
• Improved the Expectation rise events (new text and artworks).
• Updated the roadmap.

Fixes:

• Fixed refounding power cost when canceling using Thomas mining skill.
• Fixed a bug where you could expand a city to another one.
• Fixed a bug with the last prestige level of lifeforms not working.
• Fixed Happiness Leads to Creativity specialization.
• Fixed an issue with card highlights.
• Fixed a bug where reloading a game would reset specializations.
• Fixed a visual issue in the select leader screen.
• Fixed an issue with the Enthusiasm widget not being visible when the player is about to lose.
• Fixed an issue with ocean locations (they are now fully destroyed).
• Fixed the revert action with the wrong name issue.
• Fixed that the costs of the select project popup were set to zero while in a city which is currently relocating.
• Fixed the trade boost specialization.
• Fixed the applied science center issues.
• Fixed the description overlapping in the scenario screen.
• Fixed and improved the dismiss tutorial logic.
• Fixed the investment game event option 2.
• Fixed some bugs related to flooding and dikes.
• Fixed some issues related to tooltips in the trade panel.
• Fixed a bug where it was possible to import more resources than normally possible.
• Fixed a bug where you could play locked difficulty levels.
• Fixed a bug with RESOURCE_NONE when exploring a flooded location.
• Made it not possible to replace the expansion hub to be in line with the fact that you could already not destroy it.
• Fixed that clicking on a web link would trigger twice.
• Fixed a situation where you could be requested to pick more projects than you were proposed.
• End game reward will show neutral color costs.
• Lots of text related fixes and improvements in all languages.

Terraformers, with this devlog were shining a light on the first major Early Access update. Be prepared, as this update will go live on July 18th! Heres an overview of what to expect:

Custom (endless) mode

Technologies and new Scenario

Lifeform spreading improvements

• When youve selected a lifeform, each climate zone will light up in shades of green and other colors to indicate if the lifeform can be placed there.
• When hovering over a climate zone, you get a tooltip explaining how the recharge duration after spreading the lifeform is calculated for that climate zone.

Difficulty level and platinum trophy

Marsyclopedia

Bug & Crash improvements

Hello Terraformers! Tomorrow, I (Jasper, game designer for Terraformers) will be a guest at the INDIGO showcase. At 17.05 CEST a streamer (TeamWALL) will play Terraformers for about twenty minutes and ask me some questions about the game. If you're interested, you can check it out via this link: https://www.twitch.tv/indigoshowcase . The event will start at at 9:30 and 19 other indie games at different stages of development will also be streamed. You can view the full program here: https://indigoshowcase.nl/discover/.

Dear Martians, we hope you are doing well! Welcome to our first devlog since the release of Terraformers into Early Access! On April 21st, the moment was finally there. At 19:00 CET we pressed the button that we were looking forward to pressing for over 3 years. It was a very exciting moment, as this is the first game we released as a studio. We were overwhelmed with all the responses and constructive feedback weve received, and would like to take a moment to thank you all for that. It will help us to develop this game further into the best version we can make it.

Patches since the launch into Early Access

• Weve lowered the frequency of expectation rises of your population, and therefore the difficulty of the game. Weve had reports that the first scenarios of the game were too difficult for new players, and we want to offer everyone the freedom to learn the strategies of the game at their own pace.
• Weve lowered the amount of damage that youll receive in a game, as that also contributed to the high difficulty.
• Even though we lowered the difficulty, we found it important that the game is still challenging for the players who are veterans of the strategy genre. Therefore weve added 4 extra difficulty levels, making sure there is an appropriate challenge for everybody.

Whats coming in the first major Early Access update

• Artificial intelligence: New robots provide +1 support income
• Enhanced Photosynthesis: Newly planted trees produce double the oxygen and gas.
• Megastructure Construction: When constructing a building that costs at least 40 resources, gain 5 random resources back.

More improvements for future EA updates

Here comes a new patch (v0.7.112) bringing bug fixes, better clarity of some gameplay concepts and some difficulty tweaks to the game. We hope you'll like it! Fixes:

• Trade arrows no longer appear on top of other ui elements (project details popup for example).
• Victory screen does not let tooltips from the planet appear anymore.
• UI elements on the planet are hidden when not looking at the planet.
• Fixed the setting popup so that it correctly appears over everything.
• Solved a bug where dikes did not correctly display the wave icon leading to unforeseen flooding.
• Fixed an issue with the orbital ring which didnt account for itself.
• Fixed an issue with the points not adding up in the Per Aspera Ad Astra scenario due to the free space project.
• Fixed the bug with the loot system (spawning 1 science loot too much in some occasions).
• Fixed that not-owned buildings with actions (like spread life) had their actions getting recharged
• Fixed the specialization trade boost which was not working.
• Fixed the specialization climate variety which only gave 1 support instead of 5.
• Fixed bugs related to the special slots where they would not provide their bonus in certain cases.
• Fixed a bug where modular appartements would display the wrong bonus before placing it.
• Fixed a bug where a slot in a city with no rocks would say blocked by rocks.
• Fixed Dejah Robinson alternative space materials skill which could happen in cases where you have almost completed the space project.
• Fixed an out of range bug in the scenario screen.
• Moving a city will now properly destroy all the buildings in the previous location.
• Fixed a bug with relocating of lifeform spreader buildings.
• Fixed a bug where you could zoom out very far from the planet.
• Fixed a bug where trade-routes from mines were not accounted for points.
• Fixed a bug where buildings providing climate zone bonuses would still work on a not-owned location.
• Fixed a bug with missing characters in Polish language.
• Updated a typo in the roadmap.
• Lots of localisation fixes in different languages.
• Other small fixes and polish.

• Better hand card spacing to accommodate for a high number of cards.
• Added a scrollbar to the card draw popup in case of a high number of propositions.
• Added a join discord button in the main menu.
• Added a tip from the leader to better explain the comfort of living.
• Auto-close trade panel when right-clicking or clicking somewhere else.
• Added a clear all trade routes button.
• Changed the rising expectation artwork.
• Made lifeform selection more clear (pulsating and hovering tweaks).
• Removed scaling options which would make the UI not usable in the settings option.
• Made climate zone terraforming parameter icons bigger so they are more readable.
• Improved the dike widget and button to be more prominent.
• Added feedback popup in main menu.
• Made that spreader buildings will show the lifeform icon of the type they can spread.
• Added 2 new difficulty levels and lowered the difficulty in the other scenarios, to accommodate for a smoother learning curve.

• HQ can only be replaced by Skyscrapers now.
• Expectation Rise and Mars Quake events will not happen one after the other anymore
• Lowered expectation rise event frequency.
• Lowered how often youll receive damage.
• Increased victory conditions for "Per Aspera Ad Astra"
• Removed the event "The end of Moores law" until it is improved to be less punishing.
• Slightly increased amount of "Research centers" proposal chance.

v0.7.106 reverts a bug which deleted the player progression in version v0.7.105. We are sorry for all those affected. This recent change make the progression faster so hopefully you'll be back on track in no time!

v0.7.105: bug fix, new difficulty levels and other polish

• Bugfix: After destroying a project that provided a trade route you could sometimes end your turn with more trade routes assigned than you have. Now the turn cant be ended in that state and an explanatory tooltip has been added.
• Improved loading performance. The game startup time is 60% shorter than before in our tests! Well continue working on improving that.
• Fixed a few errors related to founding of cities.
• Fixed an incorrect selection of a city background layer when a crater location is terraformed and at max population level.
• Corrected the lighting color in terraformed cities.
• Fixed a bug where removing a project that provides a trade route didnt force the player to unassign lost routes.
• Added more difficulty levels for all scenarios
• Added that each scenario trophy provide 1 player rank (ranks will grow faster)
• Added that you do not require to have completed all previous difficulty levels to player the later difficulties (so tied with the faster rank growth it will be faster to access the harder difficulties)
• Hid a tooltips which was showing when relocating a city HQ
• Fixed a lot of language keys not localizing properly
• Fixed that text would not refresh properly when changing language in the settings
• Localized all leader names
• Fixed some bugs related to music where a track would loop indefinitely
• Improved the music system pacing
• Added smoke effect to buildings which didnt have it yet
• Prevented that the HQ can be destroyed in a city
• Made the Supply Station and Expansion Hub not possible to relocate
• Lots of other small polish

Hey all. A new small patch is live! V0.7.101 - Difficulty lowered (fewer expectation rise events and damage). Difficulty scaling between scenario's increased, so the final ones should still be a challenge! - The Roadmap has been added to the main menu - Returning to the main menu after winning/losing a game will now open up the scenario screen (some players were not aware there was more)

V0.7.101

• We added the roadmap to the main menu screen to help communicate on upcomming features.
• When finishing a game you will be brought directly to the scenario screen in the main menu.
• Small difficulty balance

Hey everyone, here are the patch notes for V0.7.100 which brings a lot of fixes to your bug reports as well as balancing to lower the difficulty level of the early games.

• Reduced the difficulty of the early levels
• Updated localisation (for last few remaining non localized lines)
• Fixed missing lz4 library for linux
• Added missing lifeform sfx
• Updated to music tracks to newer versions
• Made a fix where a couple leader specialization would not work at all
• Added undo for space project activation
• Fixed a leader skill (speech) which could be done to the same city multiple times
• Fixed the placement of the building popup in cities for users with 4k screens
• Fixed the city dikes button
• Fixed undo after relocating a city
• Temp fix of mines being buildable on ocean tiles
• Fixed the mine venting skill on damaged mines
• Fixed that you could still extend a city after the game end
• Added a subscribe to newsletter button on the main menu
• Fixed a warning with dikes on location sidebar (when there is another building present)
• Fixed a bug where buildings would still produce after migrating

Hello everyone, You have been thousands to get an play the game on launch day. Thank you so much to all, we hope you're having fun! The Early Access launch is just the start, and more is on its way! Here is our Roadmap:

Hello everybody, This is it: Terraformers is now available in Early Access! [previewyoutube=NxIFctKaRsA;full][/previewyoutube]

Explore the Red Planet. Develop new cities. Terraform with ambitious projects.

Hello everybody. With the release of Early Access coming soon (21st of April), were putting the final touches to the games polish. In this devlog, I (Jasper) will outline what gameplay changes weve made from the Prologue to the release of Early Access, and why.

Trade interface and space projects

Extracting water for oceans

Founding new cities

Spreading life

Main game goal

Dear everyone, We have an exciting announcement, we are going to release the game in Early Access, and very soon! In this devlog we will detail why we will release in Early Access, when it will happen and what our development plans are during this period. [previewyoutube=M-8kcB-Qsa0;full][/previewyoutube]

Why Early Access?

Initial Early Access version

• New projects, lifeforms and leaders.
• Space projects that you can do outside of Mars.
• New impactful events.
• A new trade interface.
• Scenarios providing unique challenges, and difficulty levels.
• A meta progression system that unlocks more content as you play.
• Quality of life improvements.
• Removal of the turn limit, longer play time!
• And a lot more!

Early Access updates and more

• Update 1 will introduce technologies, which provide global benefits in various areas and cost science to research.
• Update 2 will be the leader update, where we will add more leaders with unique skills and specializations to the game.
• Update 3 will be the space update. You will be able to found a city on the two Martian moons: Phobos and Deimos. Also we will add more space projects in this update.
• Update 4 (Full release) would be the final update. As this will be the last update before full release, we will focus more on polishing and quality of life improvements.

Release dates and pricing

Hello everybody. In January we developed and fine tuned the game further, and designed new content. In this devlog Ill show a new feature that will be in the game: Space Projects! Also I will discuss how this new feature might change the trade interface, and explain how the migration of cities and projects due to sea level rises will work.

Space projects

• Importing Water from Europa, a moon orbiting Jupiter.
• Constructing giant space mirrors, heating up the planet.
• Mining asteroids, to acquire more resources.

Trade User Interface changes

City migration

Dear community, we would like to wish you all a very happy new year 2022 and thank you for your support! We hope your year is starting as successfully as the launch of the James Webb telescope! This year will be an exciting one for us with the upcoming launch of Terraformers!
James Webb telescope takes off from Kourou in French Guyana on december 25th 2020. Photo from NasaHqPhoto.

2021 retrospective

December progress

A peek into 2022

Dear Terraformers, With the release of the prologue, Its been some time since we wrote our previous devlog. And in this time, the project has moved forward a lot, so lets dive into it together!

Prologue release

Content suggestions

Semi-randomness in Terraformers

• Although the proposed projects might seem fully random, they are not. They are drawn from different decks which are categorized by their output (food, power, terraforming etc.). Each project is picked from a different deck, until all decks have provided 1 project, and then this cycle repeats. In this way, you will not suddenly get 3 food buildings proposed, and it should never take more than 2-3 turns until you get a food building proposed again. Some decks include multiple project types, for example the Population deck includes both human population and robots. So it can happen that you dont get a human population presented in a few rounds if it proposes robots, but at least projects also fulfill the need for expansion. Also, we make a distinction between early and late game projects when determining what projects are available in these decks in order to provide projects which are relevant to the current game stage. We are still balancing the amount of decks and which decks contain what, and might add more limitations to provide a more balanced game experience.
• We use input randomness and try to stay away from output randomness. Output randomness takes place after you do something, usually to determine if it is a success or a failure while input randomness proposes a random set of options, but then you have full knowledge of what the outcomes of these options will be, this usually feels much less frustrating. Some examples of output randomness that we stay away from would be, that if a leader travels far, they have a 20% chance to get injured. Or that when you do a risky terraforming project, there is a 10% chance that it fails. The problem with this type of randomness is that it does not give you much agency and does not (in my opinion) provide an interesting choice. Its more like a risk-analysis and a gamble. Instead, the outcome of actions in Terraformers is usually fully determined (exploration and projects always succeed). Instead, we use input randomness, which is randomness that takes place first, and then gives you the choice how to respond to it. For example the project proposal proposes to you 3 semi-random projects, and then it is up to you to choose the best one of them.
• For events, we have a system in place that balances positive and negative events. If more bad things happen to you (damage, expectation rise), the game will remember this and will provide you with more positive events later. The fact that events early in the game have more impact than later in the game is also taken into consideration when calculating this to provide a balanced experience throughout the game. So if something bad happens, dont lose hope, the game will help you get back on track later!

Hi everyone,

As Terraformers is participating in the Steam Digital Tabletop Fest, check out some gameplay on October 25th!

Features:

For the occasion, we also released our free prologue, Terraformers: First Steps on Mars!

Hi everyone, This is it! Terraformers: First Steps on Mars is now available! In this free prologue, lead humanity's first attempt at settling the Red Planet! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1557040/Terraformers_First_Steps_on_Mars/ Join us on Discord to share your scores and feedback with us: https://discord.gg/Xg8NqPTjyB

Terraformers: Supporter Pack

Hi everyone,

As Terraformers is participating in the Steam Digital Tabletop Fest, check out some gameplay on October 23rd!

Features:

For the occasion, we are also releasing our free prologue, Terraformers: First Steps on Mars today!

Dear everyone! We are extremely excited to announce that Terrafomers: First steps on mars, the free prologue of our game Terraformers, will be released on Saturday 23rd of October 2021. In just a few days! You can find it here!

A bit about dev

A bit about the lore

Prologue rewards

Hello earthlings, This month has been an exciting one with a new trailer and our participation at the Gamescom Indie Arena. We also started working with a writer who has been churning out new leaders and more!

New leaders

New trailer

Gamescom feedback

Hi everyone, We are so glad to finally be able to share the new announcements we made at Gamescom with you all! Here is a recap of them all.

New reveal trailer: Sandwalkers

Wishlist now:

New reveal trailer: Oaken

Wishlist now:

New gameplay trailer: Diluvian Winds

Wishlist now:

New gameplay trailer: Terraformers

Wishlist now:

Hi everyone, We are so happy to be part of the Indie Arena Booth Online this year! Join us on the Goblinz Publishing booth and play our demo and other great ones until August 29th! You can also watch our live stream to know more about the game!

About Terraformers:

• Explore the Red Planet: send your leaders to mysterious locations and be the first to discover rich resource depots, giant crystal caves and stunning natural wonders.
• Develop your cities: found new cities on craters and in lava Tubes. Make them thrive and meet your population's rising demands.
• Manage your resources: mine the rare metals of Mars, manufacture them into advanced goods and set up an effective transport system between your ever-growing cities.
• Terraform with ambitious projects: restart a volcano, construct giant space mirrors or crash ice asteroids to geo-engineer the entire planet.
• Become a gardener of life: from spreading adaptive bacteria, to planting full-grown forests with bears. Each life form has specific requirements and provides strategic benefits.

Fellow gamers, Here where we are on Earth, the summer has been mostly rainy, which is a bit strange, but its a good opportunity to just develop and play games. At least I dont get this annoying ball of light shining on my screen. And speaking of gaming, as you might be aware, Gamescom will take place at the end of August. We will have an updated version of the demo playable at the indie arena booth. There will be tons of other games worth checking out as well.

Workshop week

City buildings

Forest visuals

Dear everyone, June has gone by in a blink and July is around the corner, with the conclusion of the European Football Championships! Things are going a bit crazy and Switzerland played above expectations. It is also exciting to think about the possibility of a future Martian league. Or who knows, a Solar System League, with teams travelling from every world! What would be the sport competition you are looking forward to in a multi-planetary future? It reminds me of a show I liked to watch as a kid: Galactik Football Opening.

Steam Next Festival

Future features

New music tracks

Hi everyone, For the first time, Terraformers is part of the Steam Next Fest!
Terraformers is an expansive colony builder and resource management game. Explore the Red Planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and terraform the planet with ambitious projects. Watch our pre-recorded live stream on June 20 - 11am PT/8pm CEST to get an idea of the gameplay! You can also discover the game by yourself by playing the demo from June 16 to June 22! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1244800/Terraformers/ Any feedback is super helpful and appreciated. To give yours, join us on Discord! Enjoy this Steam Next Fest!

Dear indie-gamers, May has gone-by in a blink and June is around the corner, bringing sun and the long awaited Steam Festival in which well participate (meaning you can try a short demo!). In february, while checking out the previous Steam Festival, we tried another game called Slipways, an awesome indie game by Beetlewing where you expand a space empire by exploring, developing planets to create resources and connecting them with "slipways" to satisfy their needs. The game is easy to understand and yet I managed to spend hours at a time building my empire. They released a few days ago and we highly recommend checking it out!

Tutorial

Balanced content

Sound effects

Hi everyone, We are glad to be part of MGN. You can discover awesome indies on their dedicated page until May 31th: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/mgn
Cheers, Asteroid Lab & Goblinz Publishing

Fellow Explorers, Recently youtube suggested to me the videos of Sen Doran who makes incredible montages of just space views with music. I was mesmerized by the recent one he did on Mars and I would absolutely recommend having a look.

First steps on Mars

Exploration fog

New city names and more

Dear future Mars settlers, SpaceX is blowing-up prototype-rockets every few weeks this year, which is good, we want them to find all the ways they can blow up before we get on them! Spring is also finally shining on the northern hemisphere of Earth, bringing some long awaited warmth and vitamin D to dev-on!

Deep tidbits

UI and game design improvements

Public events

Hello everyone, Today is a special day for Goblinz, as the studio is already celebrating its 5th anniversary! For the past 5 years, we have been developing and publishing games we believe in. It's been quite an adventure, but this is just the beginning! For the occasion, we have surprises for you including new games announcement and big sales on all our games!

New published games: Diluvian Winds & Defend the Rook

All our games on sale!

Neurodeck is OUT NOW!

Hi everyone, We are proud to announce we are working on Terraformers: First Steps on Mars, a free standalone version of Terraformers featuring an exclusive mission taking place before the main game.
We wanted to offer you something better than a demo, that's why we opted for an exclusive mission in which you'll have to: - choose a leader ; - start the planet exploration ; - develop the first outpost. This will allow you to discover the game mechanics for free! Terraformers: First Steps on Mars will be available soon. In the meantime, you can join us on [Discord] to have a chat about it! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1557040/Terraformers_First_Steps_on_Mars/ Cheers, Asteroid Lab & Goblinz Publishing

Hi Folks! Last month we were gifted with the incredible footage from the Perseverance rover landing as well as the news that the Chinese spacecraft and the UAE probe all arrived safely to Mars, and we cant get over how cool it looks. Were looking forward to the day people will get on the red planet themselves and send over pictures and videos of their new home. In the meantime, Terrafomers will hopefully give you a small taste of that. We wish Perseverance and the scientist team behind it a fruitful exploration!
Perseverance landing on february 18th.

Exploration artworks

A month of improvements

Target release window

Dear everyone, The days are short and wet at this time in our part of the world. And with the current virus situation there isn't much we can do outside unfortunately. This got us wondering, what will people do in their off-time on Mars? Eventually, going for a walk outside or taking a rover for a weekend off might become a possibility. But at the start, the first explorers will stay mostly indoors and might have a lot of free time on their hands. I would totally play games and read books to kill time! Or better, make more games! What would you do?
A family enjoying their time off on Mars.

Improved planet UI

Exploration and building iterations

Implementation and optimization

Hi everyone, Goblinz Studio is releasing a new game with developer TeaForTwo.
Snowtopia is a ski resort tycoon in which you build your ideal ski resort. Keep skiers smiling with fresh pistes and fine facilities. Ski, build and chill in the wintry world of Snowtopia where everyone is welcome! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvNzqfBlyAY&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=GoblinzStudio For two years now, the Snowtopia community has been accompanying us on Discord as well as on different social networks. Thank you for all your feedback since the first version of the game in December 2018, and on all the updates. Your enthusiasm helps us a great bunch! The early access will allow us to be even closer to the players, who will have more than ever a decisive role in the development of our game. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1124260/Snowtopia_Ski_Resort_Tycoon/ Cheers, TeaForTwo & Goblinz Studio