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Build colonies across distant planets, balancing resource production, corporate competition, trade, and climate risks.
Released 25 May 2021
Build Across Planets
Balance Growth and Climate
Trade Planetary Resources
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
Developed by Serious Bros. · Published by Serious Bros.









As a space-colony manager, establish settlements on distant planets and grow them into profitable colonies. Expand across each world by placing cities, farms, power plants, mines, and factories to meet the needs of a growing population.
Manage supplies of energy, food, and goods while extracting resources and trading with merchants, local colonies, and rival companies. Research technologies and upgrades, and use diplomacy, share purchases, or territorial expansion to compete with other corporations.
Industrial growth affects the planet’s climate: emissions and pollution can contribute to rising seas and other disasters. Choose how to develop while protecting living conditions, and play through a campaign, compete against AI factions, or explore procedural planets in freeplay.
Players who enjoy Imagine Earth often describe it as a relaxed, approachable planet-building strategy game, with appealing visuals and satisfying economic and environmental balancing. Some also praise its campaign characters and controller support. Others find the management too simple or repetitive, criticize the interface, or feel the sustainability themes are presented too forcefully.

Imagine Earth is a real-time planet simulation and a build up strategy game. Your job as a space colony manager is to explore and populate distant planets. Build up thriving and profitable colonies on a global scale and trade resources and goods into space.
You will experience a massive conflict between the profit goals of the interstellar corporations and the need to preserve living conditions for your people. Exhaust emissions and ground pollution impact the global climate as your colony is growing. Increasing temperatures melt down polar caps and your colonies are destroyed by rising sea levels.
Raise great cities and satisfy their appetite for resources by building power plants, farms and factories. Dig for ideon crystals, pacify riots, research technologies and constructs and maximize your growth while maintaining a healthy ecosystem.
Get ready to deal with threats like asteroid strikes, twisters, wild fires, volcanoes and rising sea levels. Fend off space raiders and alien investors. Coexist and trade with natives, merchants and hostile colonies.
In 2048 huge corporations have divided Earth among themselves and exploited its natural resources to a large extent. Now the discovery of ideon crystals allows journeys into space, while technologically and ideologically almost everything remains the same. The laws of the market are being spread into the universe.
On each discovered planet a competition for economic dominance breaks out. To expand your colony as fast as possible and overcome your opponents you exploit the freely available fossil resources and minerals. Additional money is provided by selling shares of your colony. Take over opposing companies by buying up their shares.
Merchants and technology traders organize the interplanetary trade and will happily buy all minerals and resources you extract from your territory while selling expensive technologies. The same goes for cooperating colonies and alien tribes that live on some of the planets.
Global and realtime world experience instead of playing on limited square maps
Fully playable and story based campaign with 9 planets / missions
Competition game mode to play against up to 5 other AI factions with individual agendas
Over 50 constructs with more than 80 individual upgrades
Diplomacy and trade with local colonies and space traders
Tower defence with energy shields and lasers against space pirates, alien invaders and locusts
Development and research system for advanced and sustainable technologies
Share market for refinancing and hostile take over ofopponent cities and colonies
Freeplay mode with a procedural planet generator for endless worlds and challenges
Planet Editor for terraforming, building and customizing individual planets which can be saved and shared
Global climate simulation of local pollution and worldwide emissions and melting polar caps and disasters
Disasters: Chemical spills, oil slicks, radioactive contamination, wild fires, tornadoes, volcanoes, dying forest and growing deserts, alien and robotic invaders, etc.

| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 25 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 78/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |