Imagine Earth Windows game

Imagine Earth

Serious Brothers | Early Access 2014

Planetary Colonization

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.

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.

Growth 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.

Features

Global and real-time world experience instead of playing on limited square maps.
Fully playable and story based campaign with 7 planets / missions.
Freeplay mode with a procedural planet generator for endless worlds and challenges.
Competition mode for matches against up to 4 AI corporations per planet.
Planet Editor for terraforming, building and customizing individual planets which can be saved and shared.
Development of over 30 colony buildings with individual upgrades.
Global simulation of local pollution and worldwide emissions.
Threats and disasters: Chemical spills, oil slicks, radioactive contamination, wild fires, tornadoes, volcanoes, dying forest and growing deserts, alien and robotic invaders, etc.
Melting polar caps will raise sea levels and flood your coasts in case of global warming.

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Technology Trade on Giant Planets

Nov 8 2018 News

Greetings, Space Colony Managers!

The Universe is expanding! Because of this growing luxury of empty void we implemented much bigger planets into Imagine Earth which can be played with or against up to 6 factions. There is now technology trade to make other colonies more interesting.

There is a new trailer as well as tons of gameplay fixes and improvements to make Imagine Earth ready for the launch of early access on Humble Store on Nov 9th... - that's right, two days ahead but you can already wishlist the game there ;)! Please share the joy about this with us and the rest of the world.

Bigger Planets

We implemented bigger Planets into the game because many of you asked for them. Let us know if you have any feature requests, ideas and stuff coming to your mind while checking out the latest version. Here are the details:

Biggest planet has 2880 compared to previously 2000 fields
Increased maximum competing companies to 6 (from 4)
Maximum landmass increased to 80% of planet
Tuto twice the size (720 fields, previously 320)
Addition: Tuto mission has received a lot of detail improvements to make it a smoother experience

Technology Trade

Now you can buy single construction kits for buildings from other corporations. This means trading with other colonies gets more interesting.

Each building that has been licensed by the other colony will be offered in their store - given that your diplomatic status is good enough. Of course it will be much more expansive to buy these single construction kits and therefor make sense to license a construct yourself if you need it more often.

Landing animation

As you can see we started implementing epic cut-scenes to introduce all other factions, traders and invaders landing on your planet for the first time.

Planet Themes

The last update introduced planetary themes and this time we made a general and huge rework of the themes textures to make them look more diverse and individual and last be not least, much better.

Volcanic world for example has by default no polar caps (so no rising sea level)

AI Doing Research

Another important step done in order to make the AI fair and fun to play: The AI now has to research upgrades and other improvements in order to use them. So far those tricksters were able to build any upgrade without having to research it.

New Trailer Video & Subtitles

The existing trailer clearly needed a remake and has been replaced with a new one that is much more relying on in-game graphics to give you a perfect introduction into the actual game. Watch it and enjoy advanced space traveling via ideon powered hypergates!

Improvements & Balancing

New Music Track. Tracks are now looped to a maximum of three minutes and than randomly change.
Forests back in build ring. No longer license-able.
Removed remediation from tool ring.
Increased maintenance cost for forestry (the relatively low cost was basically the reason the AI most times choose to build it).
Changed description and factors of industrial farm GM upgrade to make it less confusing
Sleeping volcano new better visualized and explained
Increased number of volcanoes and likelihood of erupting every once in a while
Rare rocks are now also detected on neighboring fields
During campaign also block fields next to rocks for first city center
Auto saves are now done based on real time instead of in-game time
Dead sea grass on land field is automatically removed
Dead forests can now be removed
Desertification can now also be canceled with temple powers (growth and fertility) and super-fertilizer
Temple power cure can now also be used on other colonies
Assimilator uplinks can now also be set on fire while they are building a drone. The uplink will extinguish itself after some time, though

UI Improvements

New fertility icon
Build process is now visualized with the icon of the building
Influences of neighbor buildings are now visualized with the resource type icon instead of the buildings icon
For huge buildings and mountains influence icons are now only displayed on the main field
Harvesting resources new displays the corresponding resource icon
Improved goal description visualization
Improved mouse responsibility when interaction with menus
Added separate smiley when a district is losing people due to missing food
Added icon to build ring to clearer distinguish it from the tool ring
Highlight in inventory when new item has been crafted
New sound for cancel
Dead forests and temple ruins are now properly named
Added tooltip for fossil resources to field info panel in bottom left
Adjusted building order in the technology panel
Improved game over dialog