StrategyFit check
Is Imagine Earth worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Strategy players who want to manage colonies across entire planets
- Simulation fans interested in balancing economic growth with environmental conditions
- Players seeking campaign, AI competition, and procedurally generated freeplay modes
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking short, self-contained sessions rather than extended colony management
- Players who want a narrowly focused combat game instead of construction, trade, research, and diplomacy
- Players looking for a puzzle or character-focused role-playing structure
Our take on Imagine Earth
The game combines economic expansion with environmental consequences, so growth is tied to managing pollution, emissions, disasters, and living conditions. That broad management scope leaves less room for a narrowly focused combat or production experience.
What is Imagine Earth?
Manage colonies across distant planets in a real-time strategy and planet simulation game.
Build power plants, farms, factories, and other constructs while managing energy, resources, production, and trade. Research technologies, expand cities, and maintain living conditions as pollution, emissions, rising temperatures, melting polar caps, and disasters affect each world. Economic and diplomatic systems support trade with colonies, merchants, natives, and alien groups, while competing corporations can be challenged through share purchases and takeovers. The campaign contains 9 planets and missions. Competition mode supports play against up to 5 AI factions. Freeplay uses procedural planet generation, and the Planet Editor allows terraforming and customization of saved planets.
How Imagine Earth plays
- 01Story Campaign
- The campaign covers 9 planets and missions.
- 02AI Competition
- A separate mode supports competition against up to 5 AI factions with individual agendas.
- 03Colony Construction
- More than 50 constructs provide over 80 individual upgrades for developing colonies.
- 04Diplomatic Trade
- Colonies can trade resources and technologies with local groups and space merchants.
- 05Defensive Combat
- Energy shields and lasers defend colonies from space pirates, alien invaders, and locusts.
- 06Climate Simulation
- Pollution, worldwide emissions, melting polar caps, and disasters affect planetary conditions.
- 07Planet Editor
- Custom planets can be terraformed, built on, saved, and shared.
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Imagine Earth: platforms & release
Is Imagine Earth worth it?
It is worth it if: strategy players who want to manage colonies across entire planets. Skip it if: players seeking short, self-contained sessions rather than extended colony management.
Where can I download Imagine Earth?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Imagine Earth's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Imagine Earth on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
