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Terraformers: First Steps on Mars

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2.8/5

( 28 Reviews )

2.8

28 Reviews

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Terraformers: First Steps on Mars
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Terraformers: First Steps on Mars is a free standalone version of Terraformers. Lead the first human settlement on Mars! Earth is sending its first expedition to assess the viability of human settlement on Mars, with the long term objective of terraforming the planet and spreading life acr...
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2.8/5

( 28 Reviews )

2.8

28 Reviews

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2021, Asteroid Lab, ...
Time to beat
1 hMain
2.5 h Main + Sides
3 h Completionist
2.5 h All Styles
Description


Terraformers: First Steps on Mars is a free standalone version of Terraformers.

Lead the first human settlement on Mars! Earth is sending its first expedition to assess the viability of human settlement on Mars, with the long term objective of terraforming the planet and spreading life across its surface. You will have to explore the planet, exploit local resources and develop your colonies into large cities. But make sure to provide a decent living standard for your people to retain their support! Are you ready to lead mankind's first steps on Mars?

Choose your leaders

Explore the planet

Develop the first outposts

Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
1 hMain
2.5 h Main + Sides
3 h Completionist
2.5 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04), Mac OS X (10.11+)
Release date:
{{'2021-10-23T00:00:00+03:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0300 ' }}
Size:
1.1 GB

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English
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text
Deutsch
audio
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中文(简体)
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text
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Posted on: July 20, 2024

Rencer

Verified owner

Games: 73 Reviews: 2

Minus 10 stars

The worst thing about this game, is not that the makers mislead the users to think it is a free and full game, by not stating it in the tile that it is a demo. If that was the only problem than it deserves 1 star. No, it doesn't even worth 1 star. You start playing the game and it give you a leader. Every leader has one particular strength that boosts one type of structure you can build. So you start building up the colony focusing on that particular type of buildings. E.g. you build up a "farming" type colony. As you play the game, at some point, you have to choose another leader with different strenght, that force you to build those type of building that this new leader boosts, and even destroying what already builted up. Firts it doesn't seemed a problem, I was like "Ok. This must be somekind of turorial, that introduces you the abilities of the different leaders." But as you play more, the game again FORCE you to choose different leader, even if you don't want, because you build up your colony focusing on one type of building that your current leader boosts. It FORCE you to destroy whatever you build up, just to give place to the new type of buildings, because of the extremely limted spots where you can build. No matter how many times I started over, the game always softloked me, beacuse I can't keep building the type of colony I already has. After countless times of restarting the game and running into this exact same problem, beacuse the game won't let you build whatever type of colony you want, it really pissed me up. This FORCED annoying choosing another leader, destroy whatever the previous done, made me hate this game as much as it is humanly possible. I think even masochist will be pissed up by this. A "game" should be fun to play, not annoying. This game is one of the worst and most annoying management game that I ever played. Avoid it. There are countless of other free-to-play fun and great games out there to choose from.


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Posted on: October 4, 2024

JMayer70

Verified owner

Games: 504 Reviews: 211

Demo that has not convinced me to buy...

.... the full game. I found the overall mechanics to be rather well, weird. I didn't really feel "in control" of my efforts to colonize and terraform Mars, it all felt down to random chance and dice rolls. Still, this is good reason to have free demos available....... problem is, it's now stuck permanently in my library :) Ah well, there are worse things on the scale of human suffering!


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Posted on: June 27, 2025

WeylandYutaniCorp

Games: 114 Reviews: 9

Old concept

It plays as all similar games. Each building has its cost, its production and its benefits. Some should be placed near together, some of them far away. Graphics is average, it seems that most graphic effort was spent in vain on diverse leaders.


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Posted on: September 14, 2025

Butcheroo

Verified owner

Games: 46 Reviews: 1

Terraformers: First Steps on Mars

Excellent. Difficult at first but working through the years helped get a good overview.


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Posted on: April 5, 2025

Passinby12

Verified owner

Games: 19 Reviews: 1

Thought it was free

Thought it was completely free


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