Imagine Earth

Imagine Earth is a real-time planet simulation and build-up strategy game. As a space colony manager, you explore and populate distant planets, develop profitable colonies across the globe, and trade resources and goods into space. In 2048, huge corporations have divided Earth and heavily exploited its resources; the discovery of ideon crystals makes space travel possible, while the laws of the market spread into the universe.

Build and sustain colonies

You raise cities and meet their demand for resources by building power plants, farms and factories. You can mine ideon crystals, research technologies and constructs, and grow your colonies while keeping their ecosystems healthy. Riots also need to be pacified.

Growth brings environmental costs. Exhaust emissions and ground pollution affect the global climate; rising temperatures melt polar caps, and rising sea levels can destroy colonies. Other hazards include chemical spills, oil slicks, radioactive contamination, wildfires, tornadoes, volcanoes, dying forests and expanding deserts.

Trade and competition

On each discovered planet, factions compete for economic dominance. You can use fossil resources and minerals to expand quickly, sell shares in your colony to raise money, and buy up opponents’ shares to take over their companies, cities and colonies. Merchants and technology traders buy minerals and other resources you extract and sell technologies; you can also trade with cooperating colonies and alien tribes.

You encounter natives, merchants and hostile colonies, while facing space raiders, alien investors and other invaders. Defend against space pirates, alien invaders and locusts with energy shields and lasers.

Campaign and modes

The story-based campaign spans 9 planets and missions. Competition mode pits you against up to 5 AI factions, each with its own agenda. Freeplay uses a procedural planet generator to create endless worlds and challenges.

Tools and systems

The game simulates the whole planet in real time rather than using limited square maps. Its climate system tracks local pollution, worldwide emissions, melting polar caps and disasters. You can also terraform, build and customize planets in the Planet Editor, then save and share them.

Colony development includes more than 50 constructs with over 80 individual upgrades, alongside a research system for advanced and sustainable technologies, diplomacy and trade, and a share market for refinancing and hostile takeovers.