Last updated on November 27th, 2025 at 01:50 pm
TerraGenesis – Space Settlers – Simulation Game Review
TerraGenesis – Space Settlers is a Simulation/Entertainment/Strategy game from Tilting Point LLC, first launched in 6th July 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 32,182+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes TerraGenesis – Space Settlers Stand Out
Use real science from NASA to cultivate life on desolate planets. Think you have what it takes to bring a dead planet to life? Can you settle the stars?
Explore space and terraform new worlds in this immersive idle planet building simulator rooted in real science. TerraGenesis dynamically animates entire planets with changing biospheres, all based on real data from NASA.
The universe is your playground in TerraGenesis! With idle gameplay you can cultivate real planets in our solar system, planets created just for TerraGenesis and even alien worlds! When the world is in your hands, the possibilities are truly endless. If you’re a fan of astronomy, idle games, or resource management games, you will love Terragenesis! Download and start terraforming today!
BUILD A PLANET
- Join one of four interstellar Factions, each with different benefits for building interstellar settlements
- Build entire worlds one step at a time, by creating pressurized habitats for your settlers so they can survive in hostile environments
- Terraform your planet to support human life by managing specific resources of each world, including air pressure, oxygen, sea levels, and biomass
- Melt ice caps to create planet-wide oceans and seed the planet with life
- Track your civilization’s idle progress and your world’s current status with the Stats Summary Page
DISCOVER PLANETS & MOONS
- Learn astronomy and settle planets from our solar system, including Mercury, Venus, Earth & Mars!
- Terraform orbital satellites, including The Moon as well as the Moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
- Build civilizations on fictional planets, including Bacchus, Ragnarok, Pontus, Lethe and Boreas
- Terraform Dwarf Planets, including Ceres, Pluto, Charon, Makemake, Eris and Sedna
- Discover lost secrets on Trappist-1 planets, including Damu, Aja, Huanca, Ruaumoko, Asintmah, Ostara, Aranyani
- Travel through time in the Historical Earths campaign, including Vaalbara, Rodinia, Cambria, Cretacea, Dania, Chibania, and Ultima
- Generate random worlds with complete surface and elevation maps, unique starting conditions and more
BIOSPHERE SIMULATOR
- Start with 26 different phyla and add 64 unique genes to create all kinds of amazing organisms to inhabit your world
- Manage your lifeforms as they thrive in both terrestrial and aquatic biospheres
ENCOUNTER ALIEN POPULATIONS
- Discover distant planets in outer space with thriving alien civilizations.
- Choose between making peace or conquering the alien lifeforms.
- Carry out dozens of missions and build your new world based on your alien strategy.
DEFEND FROM ASTEROIDS
- Save your civilization and protect your flourishing planet from the threat of an asteroid attack
- Build a planetary defense network to detect giant asteroids in space, initiate missions to destroy the threat, change the asteroid’s course or develop new strategies to survive certain doom.
BUILD YOUR OWN FLAT EARTH
- Insanity now comes with an on/off switch; flick a switch to turn existing worlds flat.
- Build a flat earth or build other flat planets from our solar system or throughout the universe!
- Hilarious random events unique to flat earth mode!
TerraGenesis is free to play and as an indie game; it was important to us that all in-app purchases are entirely optional and not required for a full and complete experience.
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This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, TerraGenesis – Space Settlers is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
Various backend improvements.
Download & Availability
TerraGenesis – Space Settlers is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get TerraGenesis – Space Settlers on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Ive played this game for over 5 years, over multiple accounts, its so relaxing, will always recommend it.
Update: we completed the free ones and the event is fun. We would purchase or purchase through other apps to payback when we could have enough in the future. We were on our older version device playing this game, then we were frustrated to update some apps because they of VPN issues we clicked it by mistake then our older device couldnt open it anymore since it would launch crashed so we decided to uninstall it until our newer device has enough storage to install.
We used to love this game but then one day we logged in and it just kicked us out over and over again and we figured out that for some reason when we had Wi-Fi enabled it didnt work. Then when we turned off Wi-Fi it worked but there were so many features that we could not do. Then we started troubleshooting and tried to delete and reinstall the game with a cloud save. But it still kicked us out when there was Wi-Fi AND it deleted all of our progress which was like 20 hours. To make it worse we couldnt even use the cloud safe before because it wont work without Wi-Fi and now we are worried that because it kicks us out when we have Wi-Fi enabled that we lost 20 hours of work. Please fix this.
This game is so fun! Just one flaw. For some reason half the ads we watch dont give any rewards.
Its free to play, with optional ads. You can buy expansions. But its not required to enjoy this game. We have ideas for it but its not our game, like we do wish there was an option after winning to start a new world using since people from a previous world, like a continuation but still, a really good game.
So we used to have this game before we deleted it and why deleted it is because we just think its a little more advanced for us for not seems like a little down track so we think we should put it 9 and up because we think its just a little too advanced. Theres like too much like technology and like stuff that like a 12-year-old will understand. And Im not saying the game is terrible. Im just saying that its a little too advanced so raise the age please. Its really fun. Thats why we gave it a five star.
Great game played it for half a decade it needs some updates like visualization of the plants when you create them or visualization of the space elevator etc. We think that there is much more potential in this game really this game needs an update.
Super cool, graphics and awesome game.
But our iPhone 8, running on 16.7.11, cant load it after start up.
We recently downloaded this game and we never expected it to be that good. During our boredom phase, we downloaded 5 games including this game. Helped us out a lot.
This game is incredible and Ive been playing it for years. It could use some gameplay improvements though. Like you should see different types of creatures based on how you evolved them in the biosphere. Im sure you could make it so you can zoom in on the planet more and see trees and mountains and river. Or see like a window of a landscape changing as you terraform. Being able to see your cities grow would be nice. And being able to interact with them or interstellar places more would be great. Multiple worlds per game where you can hop around and interact would be a huge leap forward. Overall incredible game thought.
Maybe you could add ceres please.
You terraform a planet. Its awesome once you play! So realistic too, and very challenging and fun. Not so many bugs, we havent even seen any the whole time we played. We are just shocked and awe at this awesome game. Make sure to follow TerraGenesis on Facebook and instagram.
After update we can no longer play work we on for year this game good tho if can play we cant tho.
This game is about terraforming planets and growing them you can even create a new species! We highly recommend this to anyone who is interested in strategic games and building civilization.
Ive been playing since it came out on the IPhone like 7 and it over all is addictive for people with patience. So 10 out of 10 would recommend.
Been playing for years and still love it.
From.Caden we did all of the stuff for mars why dont u do a Jupiter uno.
Several years ago we picked this game up, and even though we had limited WiFi we were able to play it anywhere. Its perfect for those who love math and science and space, and its community is amazing too. Even if this game hasnt had updates in years, there is enough content to keep one occupied for a while. If youve never played this before we recommend checking it out.
Good game its a lil hard to get ur plant to turn green if using biomass but the plants still look beautiful.
Really fun and also entirely based off real science, we could see the tech biology they use in this working irl.
This is truly a unique and special game in a sea of the slop mobile games obsessed with micro transactions and brainrot.
This is a pretty good game if your patient. Lots of cool science stuff and very satisfying to watch your planet transform.
We used to love playing this game so we decided to get Pluto and Charon, however, even after spending money, whenever we log in, it immediately logs us out and we cant get in, we dont know what to do and we dont want to lose all our hours of hard work to a bug, if any dev knows how to fix this, please respond.
Very nice graphics and smooth rotation, definitely playing this for years! The adds are okay, we suggest a little less games with bad mechanics.
So could you change the name of cities to countries instead of them being cities because there to big too be called cities.
We like it but we keep getting stuck because it would go down till 0 and we would have no way of getting back up.
Good in most qualities just wish it were faster.
We like this game. The atmosphere is good. We love learning about facts of terraforming, it made us feel like a real scientist.
Dont what to say its just good.
Been playing for a couple months now and loved it. But once you get so far it stops working. Reached out to devs and have heard nothing back.
Like the title says, youll be experiencing more ads than youll actually do playing the game. Its about 90 seconds of ads for every 30-45 seconds gameplay. And that goes for the other TerraGenesis game – Landfall.
We were able to restore our save it was backed up through Facebook, which we havent used in years, so we were not remembering that. But theres still an issue that this even happened in the first place. To reiterate, THE – GAME – REFUSED – TO – LAUNCH. AND DIONE WAS ABOUT TO FLOOD. That kind of thing simply should NOT HAPPEN. PERIOD. END OF. FIN. THATS ALL FOLKS. AND THEY ALL LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER. ARE WE ON THE SAME PAGE, HERE.
Game crashes every couple of minutes now, very frustrating. Used to love this game and now we can barely play it.
Neat game. Just wish it wasnt made with its subtle woke values.
Had to delete it kept crashing. When we gave it about three months and also got a new phone just because. And guess what still crashing we put money into this game because we are obsessed with space this game allowed us to experience something only Katy parry can afford. So please help us please. We want to play. We want be imagine Im Katy parry.
Its amazing how everything works! Please keep making games like these.
Ive been playing on and off for a few years, its very fun.
All we can say is its absolute peak gameplay.
This game really brings space travel to life as it Also informs us on how difficult it is for a planet to truly be habitable.
The good a game yes this is a good we having a big fun yes it is very yes fun the big fun the yes it is a fun we are having fun.
Hive Fleet Ouroboros loves this one. We must all harvest biomass and contribute to the terraforming of the Earth or our race will soon die out on a barren rock. Or join the Sons of Hephaestus with us and move to Luna.
When we saw it in AppStore we thought that it would have a terra misle that terraformed it for u but really good game four stars.
Thanks for making MARS to habitable.
We want more planets to terraform so can you somehow add jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune, proxima centauri system, alpha centauri system, and a bunch of other systems, maybe even the andromeda galaxy! Pls we just want more planets to terraform! And plus you have not updated the game in 2 years. Pls.
This is why we like this game. Its really education. Its also very fun. Any age can play it. Thats why we give this a five stars.
The only thing we think would be cool to have is that tabs in he starts bar updates with whatever is happening on the planet for instance if we were watching the water tab it would show how much water we have every time we gain water.
We think the game is very well thought out and just complicated enough to be fun. Plus the ads are only optional which is amazing. High quality.
We were a beta tester for this game and beat it into singularity. It was enlightening. Downloading again to see the improvements since then.
Good game the biosphere feature is interesting to.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 6.37
- Size: 365.13 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: AR, EN, FR, DE, HI, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TR
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Tilting Point LLC
Last updated: 14th November 2025 | Genre: Simulation, Entertainment | Developer: Tilting Point LLC