Today: sci-fi strategy SimImagine Earth.

Managing the climate is usually an afterthought in colony building games, if it’s included at all.

It tends to be a non-issue until the games basically over, and its effects are usually underwhelming.

A screenshot from Imagine Earth showing the planet surface, focussed on a forested area

Imagine Earthisn’t entirely about the environment.

And it neednt be, given that you’re working for a business colonising one of countless worlds.

Who cares if you destroy a planet when you could easily skip over to another one?

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you could do that.

you’re able to be pretty rapacious.

Imagine Earth is never wholly mellow, but never quite stressful either.

A screenshot of the assembled planetary congress in Imagine Earth

It works by having you place little triangular buildings.

And then they go and flood the planet anyway, the muppets.