Plan B: Terraform

Solid title. Very well designed randomized worlds with a great visual aesthetic. For those like me coming from Factorio, the depth of this game is more shallow and less polished. This is mostly a good thing and It still provides about 100 hours of fun so it is well worth the price. It is well differentiated from other automation games. Plan b focuses on environmental engineering and there is plenty to build. Only negatives are an over-emphasis on rebuilding and rebalancing due to environmental changes / tech requirements. The first playthrough will have some tedious and repetitive moments. There were a few small UI quirks like not having build hotkeys and terrain leveling being a total bearcat to master. I definitely sunk over several hours using trial and error to make new waterways and not drown my cites. This is due to an amazing mechanic of the water being very complex, but it's very tedious to control because it responds slowly and unpredictably. Can't wait for a sequel or future title from the dev.

if you're anything like me, you play automation games like factorio and shapez in "test runs" where you start a low-risk save and restart having a better understanding of the mechanics and what to do and what not to do. if this is true then do not buy this game; the progression is rigid and you will not make any short-term decisions outside of logistics. it's not much of a problem if you're not looking for replayability or if you have actual patience to get back to where you were in the game during the last save.

Wow! I don't often write Steam reviews, but this game is an underappreciated gem that deserves much more highlight. I would describe this game as Transport Tycoon meets Factorio with a terraforming theme. Where you as a player are really the one driving the terraforming to the benefit of your cities. The game is really well balanced and leaves many annoying aspects (like managing electricity) aside, to let you focus on the more fun elements of managing logistics and builds. It has some very novel gaming mechanics. For example, the water dynamics are done very well and very gradually change your game world with new opportunities and challenges. Highly recommended, this developer deserves much more spotlight!

A simplistic but beautiful logistics game with cool evolving landscape+gamplay. Keep in mind that you are always building for scale and the game becomes easy, at least in comparison with some of the more hardcore logistics games out there. Pathing is kept simple (There is no vehicle collisions here, so no need for the complicated TTD signals), so linear scaling is easy to accomplish.

The trailer had me at boats! Trains are cool and all, but if you're going to melt the icecaps and make an ocean... It's a simple, polished factory/logistics game. About as simple as it can get -- if you're new to factory games, I think this is the one to start out on. It has a minimum viable number of buildings and resources, but they are well-chosen for meaningful progression. I always felt mildly challenged without it getting too repetitive. The UI and quality of life is quite forgiving. Have fun copy-pasting! It's quite emotional for the genre. The factory must grow to support growing cities! I got warm fuzzies looking at buildings pop up and evolve. Terraforming is a lot more visceral when not only do trees spread, but rivers flow and the ocean rises. (I'm looking at you, Surviving Mars.) There's a simple story with cute NPCs that guides the gameplay nicely. I enjoyed making city blocks with roads, just for the aesthetics. You can guide the city's shape and even make parks. The oceans are what makes this game shine. You can dam rivers, plan your city's coast and ports - and oops, all your stuff's flooded. The loading tips recommends you don't fight the ocean, but I totally did. Even if it's not quite Timberborn, there are some subtle groundwater mechanics you can play with for that megafarm. (And hey, it's not like Beaver Game has boats on a space ocean!) Arguably play this one first if you're getting into factory games! Experienced factory builders can enjoy the aesthetic, the story, and the water -- definitely crank mountains to maximum... and oceans too, if you dare. I found it had just enough replayability with achievements, but I think this is a stepping stone to a deeper, 1000-hour factory game. I enjoyed it and I'm done with it.

I’ve put around 40 hours into Plan B: Terraform, and I’ve had a mostly positive experience. The core idea is fantastic: taking a barren planet and slowly turning it into a functioning civilization is incredibly satisfying. Terraforming is not just a progress bar either. It becomes part of the logistics puzzle. Digging canals through mountains, reshaping terrain for infrastructure, and building massive industrial networks are some of the most memorable moments the game offers. The logistics are surprisingly deep too. Trains, trucks, and ships each have their own strengths, and building a centralized industrial hub that supplies cities across the planet feels great. The biggest weakness is that many systems are more opaque than they need to be. It is difficult to know how to design things "correctly" without a lot of experimentation. Transport capacity numbers can be misleading because loading times, unloading, and travel distance all matter. Ship docks and drone logistics are especially tricky to optimize. Late-game scaling is also a mixed bag. The planetary scale looks incredible, but growth is almost entirely horizontal. If you need twice as much steel, the answer is usually to build twice as many steel plants. Watching your industrial footprint spread across the planet is cool, but eventually expansion starts to feel like maintaining more of the same rather than finding new ways to improve efficiency. Rebuilding infrastructure is another pain point, since moving large transportation networks is tedious. Performance has also started to become a concern on larger worlds. My planet is around 400k population, and while that is not even the game's intended endpoint of 1 million population, moving around the world can become unpleasant due to stuttering and lag while panning around the map. For reference, I am playing on a fairly capable system (Intel Core i5-12600K, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti), so I do not think the game is not performant, but the late-game experience could use more polish. Overall, I really enjoyed Plan B: Terraform and think it has a unique sense of scale. I just find myself losing motivation to push all the way to the end, partly from the natural fatigue of a long factory game and partly from the friction of managing such a large world.

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Great game for what’s here already. Eagerly waiting for the major update. I’ll definitely sink many more hours into this.