Imagine Earth

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About the Game 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.

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Developer:
Serious Brothers
Engine:
Unity
Release date:
25 May 2021
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All Steam reviews:
Mostly Positive (801)

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About the Game

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.

Profits vs. Ecocide

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.

Expansion & Research

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.

Allies, Threats & Enemies

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.

Capitalist Space Age

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.

Competition and Economic Warfare.

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.

Trade Resources and Technologies

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.

Features

  • 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.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:
Windows 10/11
Processor:
2 GHz or multiple cores with 1,5 GHz
Memory:
2 GB RAM
Graphics:
DirectX 11 compliant graphics card with 1GB dedicated memory
DirectX:
Version 11
Storage:
1 GB available space

recommended*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

User reviews

shaun.b
Not recommended | 26 Jul 2025
33.5h played

I had wanted this game for ages and finally got it for a decent price. It really isn't what I thought it was. It's not really a colony builder as such it's more of a plunder the planet as quickly as possible before your

Helpful: 38
Ganymede
Recommended | 03 May 2025
8.5h played

This is the end result if you put together Spore with Rise of Nations (low-key, though). Imagine Earth is a visually pretty and very interactive planet-building game with customizable planets, tech research, city

Helpful: 14
Mukirana
Not recommended | 23 Jan 2026
19.6h played

The game itself is serviceable, but it’s buried under relentless, kindergarten-style moralizing about sustainability and anti-capitalist themes. This heavy-handed approach completely undermines what could have been an

Helpful: 14
Camille
Recommended | 15 May 2025
15.4h played

Plays and looks great on Deck on high settings and HDR at 60FPS. A lot of thought went into input design for playing with a controller. I'd say it's perfect for Deck.

Helpful: 11
fallingout
Recommended | 13 Apr 2025
21.7h played

This is a calm and fun game, if you create a planet with no other competitors! I have played several games with other corporate competitors who are terrible polluters. So, while I am very careful about protecting the

Helpful: 9
HenryCWarmoth18
Recommended | 26 Dec 2025
5.8h played

Imagine Earth is one of the best city builder strategy games I've ever played, ESPECIALLY when it comes to using a controller. It is so hard to find a strategy game that has good controller support and it's clear that

Helpful: 11