terragenesis

Pretty nice simulation game, gets you thinking about how life depends on so many different parameters being within narrow ranges. Also the gameplay is so different for different factions. And like others out there i love that the ads are opt-in for perks rather than in your face breaking the user experience.

At the first I thought what a cash grab from F2P game. Whatever you want to do you need to buy GP. After a week of play I came to the point where this game can be played with no real money spent at all and even without watching a single add. The point is you need to learn how to play this game and when you cross that point it is really fun (and completely free if you chose so). To be honest I watched over 500 ads in few days to speed things up and to support developer and I have no regrets doing that. It's quite satisfying to see Paradise planet risen from Barren. P.S. I had some really realistic and futuristic dreams few nights after playing this game which was quite surprising and interesting experience.

Great game, but in app purchases don't work, and I cannot get a response from anyone as to why. Frustrating, and the first time I've ever had a dev not want to take my money. EDIT: game randomly murdered all of my worlds with a magical "time traveler set the atmospheric pressure on all worlds to 10M and murder everyone, wasting months of progress and $35 of real money". EDIT 2: the developers have deleted my support tickets; I recovered a cloud save but most were corrupted beyond salvation.

Best mobile game. Ever. And 5.0 isn't even out yet. - UPDATE: 5.0 is there for a while now. It's even better than it already was. - UPDATE: It's been 4 years after I started playing now. They are now partnering with Ecologi, who plants real life trees the more you are active in the game. This game might be the best project I've ever witnessed.

This game started out fun and my mines were making money but then I started to watch my money decrease instead of increase right in front of my eyes even tho my stats show that I should be earning money not losing it. Support has done nothing to fix this. I looked online and found many other players having the same exact issue so clearly the app needs some work to fix glitches like this one. It makes the game frustrating and unplayable. PLEASE WORK OUT YOUR BUGS!

love it. pausing the game should be a little quicker to reach in my opinion. Maybe in the future being able to see a visual change in the cities when architectural designs and mixing cultures with the recent influx of immigrants happen within the cities.

Great time waster when their is nothing to do, just leave it and let a world be transformed. It is pretty challenging when figuring out how to balance all of the resources when trying to prevent full on extinction from multiple factors. It is an overall great game and highly recommend.

I love this game, but.... The summary button in the top left corner seems to have a broken "hit box." This issue also occurs with the pause button (bottom left) while zoomed out from the planet. Also all input freezes for about 10-15 seconds at a time every few minutes. This started with the previous update and doesn't appear to be fixed with the latest. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the addition of planting real trees while I play. Looking forward to future updates!

I've enjoyed this game since I started playing. In a matter of 1 month, I've been able to terraform Mars, Mercury, The Moon, and Venus! All fully independent too! I found it really easy to grasp the mechanics of the game and it isn't pay to win so it gets you interested even more. One thing I would add is that the tutorial could use some work. Other than that, this is my favourite mobile game to play in my free time, unless I have to wait hours for stats to increase lol. Overall 5 stars

Amazing game... When it doesn't freeze or crash. I've played earlier versions of this and never had the problem of the app crashing until now. :( Figures once I put in the money, it stops working. ????

Requires patience! A good game, its important to know not to put to many buildings in the beginning though. If you do, you'll spend a week rounding things back out. litterally.

Love this game! The terraforming process is well designed, the planets are varied and challenging, and the backstory of the factions adds to the immersion. Many humorous messages in the game add to the enjoyment.

I love the concept, it's Red Mars brought to game form. The aesthetic is elegant. The game is balanced. It's free to play, with optional ads, and any ads you watch contribute to actual reforestation efforts on Earth. I rate it a perfect 5 out of 7.

Very well thought out. I like the complexity of it all. Once you get it figured out which shouldnt take too long things really take off. I terraformed Mars and im lovin this. it keeps you on your toes though. so go check it out. if you invest your time its a great way to do so. But at the same time, you will need to spend some real currency if you wanna make it anywhere real quick.

This game need help with the loading. Also it glitchs at times. Because it takes awhile to load my game. So please try to fix the loading problem and glitchs please. But I do like the game.

Overall, a fun game, even if it isn't exactly scientific based. The oceans of some moons are methane, not water based, but getting into that level of minutia would probably make the game unplayable. I wish that they had a better linking system, like some games, so that if your phone died, or changed (upgraded, etc.), you didn't have to start from scratch, or remember some exponential bolean code to recover your account.

Pretty good game however there is a major bug. Sometimes by seemingly random the game will move your game up a couple thousands years and put millions of pressure onto your planet. It happened twice. Otherwise its a pretty fun game

It took me a minute to figure out exactly how everything works. I feel like the tutorial could have been better, but it's pretty easy to understand the mechanics of the game. It's definitely not a "pay-to-win" game. There are a lot of adds to watch for income boosts, and you can buy Genesis Points to speed things up, but those come in adds too.

Fun game but requires patience! Scientific knowledge helps but the basics are explained. Ads are optional but the boosts make a big difference. Planets look nice and adapt as you change the atmosphere, water levels, etc. The 'incoming transmission' banner is kinda in the way of the ui on my screen but there is another way to find the menu, luckily! Worth a play but could do with some tweaks

sometimes when I load the game, it won't let me collect the income and I can't play until it decides to work again. other than that, the game is fantastic. Edit: I figured out the problem. I had a blue light filter program active. Turning that off fixed that problem. Game still crashes all the time, but reloading it works now.

I'm rating this game as "Just OK", though I do believe it still has a lot of potential. A few things I noted: - Only a couple worlds out of many seem to be available for free. This is fine, but purchasing all worlds is a hefty 15?. Too big an ask in my opinion, when some games have large amounts of content for 2-5? out-of-the-box - Ads are very, very present, with a video-ad request roughly every 30 seconds. They boost your revenue by 200% too, which makes them quite necessary for an enjoyable experience. - The game seems a little underpolished on many regards. Navigating between menus is quite slow, for example. - "Expert" mode is not much more difficult, but just slower : it has more RNG that can set you back, as well as artificial constraints that require you spend more time on the game. - It would be nice if the worlds were more story-driven. Moon and Mars unfortunately had very little story apart from the randomly generated one! "Keeping the balance" is a good promise and this is a good point of the game. I just wish the ad and price balance was there too, and that the game was a bit more polished.

Relaxing, but slightly addictive, haha. I was absolutely thrilled to discover that it uses many of the factions from Alpha Centauri, one of my favorite games from the past. The high cost of the ad-free subscription is annoying, however, and is probably why I'll abandon the app soon. It's a good game, but not worth the price tag to enjoy it ad-free, sadly.

The tutorial is too short, it doesn't effectively even communicate how you should proceed in the game. After that, a "Transmission" is received every 10 seconds, offering you an ad to view. The last thing I want while I'm trying to figure something out is to be pestered incessantly. hard pass on this game, the experience was just annoying.

I think £20 for all the worlds was steep and that should be reduced. But I was willing to fork out for a solid game with new ideas. AREAS OF IMPROVEMENT: !!!! Edit: the above review was made years ago. Since then it was infested with adverts and microtransactions and is now 1 star as a result. Shame as the intent of the game orignally was to be educational.

they should change the name of the game to "incoming transmission".. that stupid banner pops up every 15 seconds. it's distracting, intrusive and did not use to do that. I know ads or subscriptions are the money makers but c'mon guy.... I put 5 stars cuz there's been a lot of change since I last played it, and the game is really cool overall. but the constant nagging for ads are awful

Been addicted to this game for years! It's a really relaxing game that has given me the chance to plant over twenty trees! It seems they don't do the tree planting program anymore but I still love playing it. I love playing it before bed, it helps with my insomnia.

really like the simple but complexity of the game. gotta balance stuff and keep it on track, can't really complain. if I did have one, it would be the timing and having to watch ads for boosts etc, maybe put something in game to achieve these things in the future?

My experience of the game, I do a tutorial where you can only click where they tell you to, while the game blast music that you can't turn down before you are done with the tutorial, and the second that is done you get a "incoming message" that tells you about deals or events, if you click "declined" it will give you the same pop-up 1 second later, for the same thing, and if you say block communication. they ask you to pay.

A classic game where you alter the atmosphere of a planet and build an ecosystem, unfortunately it has been changed drastically since I last played. Apparently I must wait an hour to build 1 starter building, where previously I could build lots of things and experiment, so basically you can't play the game unless you buy gems or whatever, my advice is not to waste time with this.

Overall a fun game. It is interesting to see the planet develop and the graphics reflecting the changes. It would be helpful if there can be some option for notifications when the different things we are trying to manage like pressure, oxygen etc are about to reach the ideal level. It would also be helpful if on the info pages of each part like pressure, oxygen etc, it shows how long it takes to reach the ideal level according to current growth The game feels very repetitive by the time I completed all the free planets. So it didn't feel worthy to pay for the other planets. What a shame, I was hoping that it would be better.

Immersion as close as possible to realism in a game that takes up the basics and / or codes of real situations in order to make you experience them in the virtual environment.