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Terraforming Mars

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Terraforming Mars
Terraforming Mars cover
Developers
LuckyHammers
DLC Artefacts Studio
Publishers
Asmodee Digital
Engines
Former Unity 2018[Note 1]
Former Unity 2019[Note 2]
Unity 2021[Note 3]
Release dates
Windows October 17, 2018
macOS (OS X) March 18, 2021[4]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, DLC
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Top-down view
Controls Point and select
Genres Board, Card/tile, Strategy
Art styles Realistic
Themes Sci-fi
Terraforming Mars on HowLongToBeat
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Terraforming Mars on Wikipedia

Terraforming Mars is a singleplayer and multiplayer top-down view board, card/tile and strategy game.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

An Asmodee Digital account is required for online play.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Prelude
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Hellas & Elysium
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Venus Next
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\LuckyHammers\Terraforming Mars\Saves\BaseConfiguration\Configuration
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\LuckyHammers\Terraforming Mars\
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/800270/pfx/[Note 4]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\LuckyHammers\Terraforming Mars\Saves\LocalGameSave\
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/800270/pfx/[Note 4]

Save game cloud syncing

Video

General settings.
General settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Used in place of exclusive fullscreen.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
Frame rate is capped at display refresh rate.[5]
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound, Music
Surround sound
Stereo.[6]
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language selection
Language selection
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Swedish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
5 Versus, Hot seat
LAN play
Online play
5 Versus
Asynchronous multiplayer

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
[7]

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU) 3.0 GHz Dual Core
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 250 MB
A 64-bit operating system is required.
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 337 MB
Video card (GPU) Intel HD Graphics 4000
Other Broadband Internet connection


Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 2018.4.12f1[1]
  2. Unity engine build: 2019.4.15f1[2]
  3. Unity engine build: 2021.3.12f1[3]
  4. 4.0 4.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/800270/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (800270) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2020-02-18
  2. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2021-03-17
  3. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2023-01-24
  4. Terraforming Mars - Terraforming Mars now available on MacOS! - Steam News - last accessed on 2021-03-18
  5. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2020-08-09
    Tested at 50 Hz, 60 Hz.
  6. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2020-08-09
    Tested with Special K.
  7. Catalina 64-bit Compatibility - Google Docs - last accessed on 5 May 2023