Wednesday, November 2nd 2022
Sci-fi Management Sandbox Plan B: Terraform is Coming to Steam in Early 2023
Gaddy Games founder Nicolas Gadenne is proud to announce his new project, Plan B: Terraform, that will be coming to Steam Early Access in Early 2023. After more than three years in the making, the French indie developer is eager to put the game in the hands of players and evolve it following the community feedback. Nicolas Gadenne, who previously created the successful survival 2D sandbox Dig or Die (more than 250K copies sold on Steam), defines his new creation as a "calm and contemplative science-fiction management sandbox game with a strong emphasis on automatization based on a credible near future. Plan B: Terraform also offers an educational approach on greenhouse effect and water cycle mechanisms".
Manage a newly discovered planet, contemplate your world evolve and grow your population. Mine resources, process and transport them to the cities to keep colonizing. With the mission of terraforming the planet to make it inhabitable, the player will have to warm up the atmosphere, form rivers, oceans and grow forests.
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Gaddy Games
Manage a newly discovered planet, contemplate your world evolve and grow your population. Mine resources, process and transport them to the cities to keep colonizing. With the mission of terraforming the planet to make it inhabitable, the player will have to warm up the atmosphere, form rivers, oceans and grow forests.
- Extract minerals, transform and transport them to the cities, so that they can expand.
- Build terraforming devices, such as greenhouse gas factories, in order to progressively warm up the atmosphere, make the ice melt and make rain fall, until rivers and oceans form. Then, when the conditions are met, you will be able to plant trees and watch them grow into large forests.
- Huge planetary scale playground, composed of more than a million hexagons.
- The "real" terraformation of a planet, with a global and real-time simulation of temperature, vegetation, rain and water flowing to form dynamic rivers and oceans.
- Radical evolution of the population, from a few inhabitants to a million and more.
17 Comments on Sci-fi Management Sandbox Plan B: Terraform is Coming to Steam in Early 2023
I mean oh wow another EA title that sure looks interesting but will not be released in ... ever, I assume.
oh...ermm it was all a dream....
sure you can say you had fun during the movie....but it all leading to that? basically everything you were told during the movie was a lie and a complete waste of time.
Thats how does hundreds of hours games can be (and often are, because people are bad and writing stories)>
Anyway I'll add this game to the wishlist and see how it shapes up, but I have a good amount of similar games on there and I'm frankly kinda done with the EA model as most games seem to use it. Supporting the devs while they make their way to 1.0 is largely ok, eternal goalpost shifting and no hint of what even 1.0 means is not.
Sorry, but if you're going to explain something, explain it properly, as I have no idea what you're talking about here.
www.techpowerup.com/300614/the-legendary-dwarf-fortress-gets-a-whole-new-look-on-december-6th
You can make it challenging for yourself but honestly, to me that feels like keeping busy more so than experiencing something new. That's the thing, once I've seen the whole tree of buildings, most of the fun dies off in this type of game. I always try to keep at it, exploring the systems further etc. but meh.
But the initial hours are very relaxing nonetheless. Its something to go back to perhaps once a year or so, when you've forgotten how most of it went.Yeah I get that distinct 'avoid' vibe from it.
Its a trend, indie games that move towards mobile capable UI and mechanics, doing a simple but smart thing to keep a game concept afloat.
Airborne Kingdom is another such example. Its so thin, that one wore out after a whopping 8 hours for me. One playthrough, zero replay value.