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Pioneers

Pioneers is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you transform barren planets into beautiful habitable ecosystems by terraforming the landscape and building a new home for humankind. Explore a variety of inhospitable planets that you turn into a colourful thriving world.

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Andy Cadman
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Andy Cadman
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Pioneers is a relaxing building strategy and puzzle game where you terraform barren planets into beautiful habitable ecosystems. Immerse yourself in a peaceful world as you bring life and colour to desolate planets. At the same time, Pioneers offers a challenge for those who are looking for one: To beat the highscore, carefully plan and strategically place your pieces to score the most points. 

In Pioneers you set out across the galaxy to make a new home for humankind. Here you will begin forming oceans and terraforming the land transforming the barren wastelands into a colourful planet to call home. With each piece you place you will be rewarded with points depending on how well you place it or what surrounds it at the time. 

      

                    

As you cleanse the toxic air of planets you will begin revealing more of the planet discovering new land and various quests hidden below , here you might come across ancient alien civilizations to bring back to glory or once beautiful natural wonders that need to be restored but watch as you may come across natural distasters as you contend with errupting volcanos or a planetary ice ages! 

    

     

Once the polution has cleared you can begin to reclaim the wasteland. Use advanced eco-technology to purify the soil, grow crops, create sprawling forests, wetlands, beaches and more as your transform the land into a new home. As the planet becomes more hospitable you can begin building your settlements and colonies as you strive to learn from humankinds past mistakes and create the perfect balanced ecosystem where man and nature live in harmony. When it is done and the planet can sustain life you have the choice to stay or venture deeper into the unknown in search of the perfect planet to call home from arid wastelands to volcanic ash planets.

      

  • Transform wastelands into beautiful landscapes

  • A mix of strategy and puzzle mechanics

  • Balance nature and colony expansion 

  • Relaxing and calming gameplay (unless a volcano errupts)

  • Strategic placement to beat the highscore

  • High replay value - every session is different with an endless amount of procedurally generated planets

  • Inspired by great games like Islanders and Dorfromantik

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