I should note that the game starts up slowly. So TerraGenesis will find its niche, I'm sure. But on the other hand, a great many gamers have time on their hands and seem to love living vicariously in a virtual number-driven environment. If juggling dozens of numbers in real time while your phone processor takes a hammering sounds like a lot of hassle and work for a comparatively small visual payoff then you'd be right. The time-honoured (pun intended) freemium game method of building things in a world sim, where everything costs money and also takes time - being in a hurry, you then pay extra to 'fast forward' construction. can you manage everything such that your planet warms at the right rate as your population grows? The nearest you get to seeing the effect your settlements and actions have is, after much time and effort, looking at the planet from space and noting changes from bare rock to lush planet. You do get to build hab-units and heating clusters and biodomes and getting to work on a planet, but it's all done through numbers and visualised statistics. But most of what's in the trailer isn't part of the game - it simply sets the scene and atmosphere. If you watched the trailer above then you'll have got excited by the surface structure building animations, seeing what you can imagine the game is about assemble before your eyes. However, I did want to downplay expectations. So I'm very sympathetic here to what the developer, Tilting Point, is doing here, plus bonus points for getting the simulation onto, not only Windows, but Windows 10 Mobile. (There's even a modern equivalent, not by me, but using the same ideas with today's phone graphics). a big number-based model with real time elements, dressed up to give an impression of 'things happening' - I wrote an F1 (car) management sim back in the 1990s, for the Psion palmtops of the day. I should add that I'm no stranger to this game genre, i.e.
TerraGenesis is essentially a world modelling game, at least in a numerical sense - this is stat-heavy but dressed up prettily enough in pseudo-RPG, pseudo-cinematic form. New UWP applications and games are somewhat rare on the ground in 2020, especially those which have been developed according to (and tested for) Windows 10 Mobile, yet here we are with a Windows port of a largish iOS and Android 'world sim' title.
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