Plan B: Terraform

A fantastic automation game. I am honestly surprised this isn't more popular

Amazing Factory&logistic game with very handy controls over macro economic processes. In addition there is an interesting terraforming mechanic which rounds up the gameplay loop and connects very well with the thoughtrough story.

Recommended but 3/5 stars. A very fun mix of terraformer, city builder, rail builder. It goes bad at the end game. Making the stretch from 200,000 population to the game winning required 1,000,000 population is boring and drudgerous to the point of being rage inducing. Play to 200,000 and quit having enjoyed the game as I did.

I'm having a good time with it. The gameplay loop is in a good balance between depth and simplicity - the core mechanics are straightforward: setting up facilities to craft items you need and supplying them to the cities isn't too cumbersome and seeing the planet change from your actions is really nice. There are some issues, though, mainly with how water determines where it will spawn combined with the fact that cities and space elevator (required for progression) are in pre-determined locations so there's a big chance your city/elevator will be flooded and you'll have to deal with that and rebuild a lot of your infrastructure. Luckily, unlike majority of these kind of "build a factory" games rebuilding anything from scratch is simple enough and you don't really lose resources. I did notice that the performance starts to dip once you have more vegetation/more populated cities, though. I like the core gameplay, I bought the DLC and will give it a shot at some point too.

Lots of fun building and supplying your cities.

I like the game, but it feels like it's missing something critical in some aspect of the game play. Like the factory side of things isn't developed enough to make it feel like a factory game. You aren't running conveyor belts, balancing imputs, expanding a factory. Things never get more complicated than like, making green circuits in factorio, and even that is probably overselling the complexity by a significant margin. There's no power to consider, there's no real incentive to create like a main BUS or anything, and you don't have any granular control over your depots to try and create like buffers and stuff to control the flow of resources, beyond being able to mark depots as essentially fill valves "add material if drop below 50%". Which is something, but not a great deal. It's not really a teraforming game, you aren't trying to find a careful atmospheric balance. Or shaping terain to form oceans and rivers, or trying to form certain biomes for animals to flourish in. You have two gasses you pump into the air pretty indescriminately, you can make dynamite to reshape the terrain, but I went through two sulphur patches dealing with one mountain that offended me, and you do hav…