Terraformental
Posted December 13, 2024. Updated March 14, 2025. Played 10841 times for a total of 17086 hours.
description
Try to survive and perhaps eventually even tame an unknown planet in this incremental semi-idle game.
Inspired by Increlution, though if you've played that game, please be aware that the looping mechanic in this doesn't start unless/until you reach a certain point. So you do have to do some planning to make sure you survive long enough first time around.
This project is currently in early access, with a prologue and two chapters of the story available. I aim to release major content updates at least once every 2 months.
Discord Server: https://discord.gg/nMqMxKw6Y5
Ko-Fi Donations: https://ko-fi.com/shadygames
Download (via Itch.io): https://sh4dowsand.itch.io/terraformental
There's a list of known issues in the bugs forum on the Discord server, so please check there before reporting any problems.
latest update
Bugfixes & Minor Additions v0.3.1.0 March 23, 2025
Changes
- Remove Power Cell now available in Talos after repairing power systems (and discovering rover power)
- Unique death message if you lie in your pod after waking up
- Reduced base time for inspecting the dam control booth
- Added combined action for driving to the lost rover, getting supplies and driving back.
- Added alt logs for reaching the dam on time/too late and with/without the codes
- Added an alt death message if you die at the dam after being too late
- Added alt 'rover out of power' log if you run out while trying to find the Talos-Dam route
- 'Gather Supplies From Outside' action is now hidden if you already manually left and collected them
- Added an 'Inspect Rover Charger' action to Talos after you discover rover power
Fixes
- Parking in Talos now only requires either finding the tunnel or discovering rover power, not both
- Resource hover tips no longer say 'lasts forever' when the resource is full but draining (went into negative but immediately paused)
- Fixed potential crash when loading saves in a certain format
- Typos
newest comments
Hey, I found a typo! It write Synthesise, while it should be Synthesize!
developer response: That's actually English Vs American, so synthesise is correct.
This is so good. After completing it I'll wait until you update Chapter Three, then I would make a speedrun video, using the minimal loop amount.
Is it a bug when I randomly die of thirst in Santorini? I have full resources and inventory, and I just die randomly in the building. It's happened twice now and I haven't gotten any explanation of what happened so I assume this is unintentional.
developer response: Yep, apologies, this was a bug in v0.3.1. I've released a hotfix to correct that, so if you make sure you're now on 3.1.1, refresh if you're not, then you should be good to go.
Seeing a debug message on Unlock office door, under Repair rover power system.
Raising it as a bug as requested by the prompt
Dev - Would you consider letting us have Area Resource of Water when we're next to the river? I died of thirst a couple times there while waiting for the dam and feels silly that I'd let myself die with all that water around.
developer response: The logs do mention that the river water isn't safe to drink because of where it's coming from. However, there are plans for the dam to be rebalanced next major version, which will include some supplies being there.
top comments
This is REALLY good. Consider me sufficiently interested. First time I've commented on galaxy and I've been playing more or less daily for months. Great little flavor blurbs; a couple of interesting thought sections as a player; intrigue into the artifact and story as a whole; enjoyment in the system of gameplay and although no real interest in possible future combat, I would still do it with a smile while also loving even more of this king of gameplay evolved through new ideas in future chapters. I really hope you continue with this project. Thank you so much.
Cool game, I can't wait to see it get updated.
Another weird issue, in Laurion, i installed a water recycler into the rover, which destroyed the rover's ability to make water bottles? WTF?
Looking forward to more! I enjoyed the story telling aspects, and the non-linear loops, I know in Increlution you could just choose to skip some things, but I like that you just don't even have those things to skip.
I did find one bug though, if you explore the rover the second time the "bypass" option still exists and you can take that to "save" time (it's still not quick enough not to die of thirst though
Wonderful! Only thing would be to have a text size option. On 4k the text is super tiny.