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Plan B: Terraform

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.

What works

  • Relaxing and meditative gameplay
  • Intuitive and forgiving mechanics
  • Engaging logistics and resource management
  • Smooth zoom and planetary view
  • Active and responsive developer

Things to keep in mind

  • Early access with missing features and content
  • Performance issues at large city scale
  • Tedious micromanagement of resource nodes
  • Limited transport and logistics complexity
  • Lack of narrative and social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Voxel Tycoon

  • Factory Town

  • Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation

  • Little Big Workshop

  • Microtopia

  • Terra Nil

More leadership-focused

Games that feels like Plan B: Terraform but with more leadership over others

  • Hegemony III: Clash of the Ancients

  • Before We Leave

  • The Wandering Village

  • Outlanders

  • The Universim

  • Timberborn

More violent

Games that feels like Plan B: Terraform but with more combat and destruction

  • Risen Kingdom

  • Kingdom's Deck

  • There Are No Orcs

  • Tinkerlands: A Shipwrecked Adventure

  • Above Snakes

  • clickyland

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  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Plan B: Terraform. These titles are not in What to play next.

Plan B: Terraform: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Thrill, Story. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Idle, Leadership.

Last update: 21/08/2026