Terraformers
Worth it · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 60% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$7.9960% off
- Cost per hour
- $0.78/hr
- Reviews▼
- 88% of 3,779
- Critics
- 80 players 8 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 13% Roguelike
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 25.5h
- To 100%
- 157h 6.2x the story
- Achievements
- 63
Price and sales
- Sales
- 44 on record
- Typical cut
- 45% off
- Steam low
- $7.99 March 2025
- Sale every
- 36d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 78 now
- Cheaper than
- 9% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 78% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
48% start to 1% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 44 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 45 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 13 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, FTL: Faster Than Light ($9.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Trigon: Space Story ($3.99, scores 20).
More about Terraformers
Critics scored it 80. Players sit 8 points higher at 88 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 649 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 152 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 25.5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 157, 6.2 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
A game this simple should not have bugs, but this one has at least a couple of significant glitches. After beating the first scenario, I decided to continue my game to complete the terraforming process to see how that ended. The first problem arose when I'd select a base, only to find I couldn't zoom out to the planet view again with my keyboard as I'd been doing. I had to click on an unrelated UI element to bounce...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
So, I think my main problem with this game is that after every session I play, I hate myself. ...let's dig into that. It's not a terrible game concept and I can see it having a niche where people enjoy it. It's an optimization puzzle with the feel of a 4x game, so if you want to play something that looks like a civilization game, but are typically too burned out to deal with that many interlocking systems, or just...
This is a good game, well-polished and -designed. It is just not my type of game. What I expect is a civilization-like 4X colonization game, but it is not. it is more like a card game with puzzle solving. Each scenario represents a puzzle, you manage the resources and choose carefully each step (ability, explore and building cards) to reach the final victory. It is certainly fun for a certain type of players.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Terraform Mars in this turn-based colony builder and resource management game with roguelike elements. Explore the planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and turn the Red Planet into a green one!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DX9 (shader model 2.0) capabilities, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Terraformers scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1244800/terraformersReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 8, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.