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TerraScape
Developer Bitfall Studios
Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy, medieval City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes. From the Steam store page
229 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Oct 28, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
81
LovedLoved
156 positive · 36 negative
95% range 75–86%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 156 | 36 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 8 | 0 | 18 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 0 | 3 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
873 of 1,004 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
80% recommend · 152 yes, 37 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 189 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (1,997 of 2,255 positive).
Players praise TerraScape as a relaxing and beautiful puzzle city-builder with strategic depth. [1][2][3] Some reviewers compare it favorably to Dorfromantik, noting its unique building synergy mechanics. [4][5][6] A minority of players find it repetitive, lacking challenge, or having confusing progression. [7][8][9]
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- [7]
Visually beautiful, but the game feels like playing candy crush with extra steps. It is almost impossible to lose, you just select your building and scroll around the map to find the area that gives you maximum points. And repeat. Good for relaxation for a wqhile i guess, but soon it gets repetitive and not challenging at all.
- [2]
A surprisingly fun city-puzzler that turns hex islands into tranquil kingdoms. Strategically placing buildings to unlock combos and watch your realm grow is effortlessly relaxing, and the visuals combined with soundtrack make sessions feel comfy and satisfying. It’s not a demanding kingdom builder with micro-management, more like Dorfromantik meets an easygoing kingdom builder, with the satisfaction of offering …
- [3]
If you like games like Dorfromantik, this is probably right up your alley. A well polished puzzle game with procedurally generated maps and endless replayability. The software performs well, the controls work well. The animations and just beautiful game in general. The tutorial is pretty intuitive and eases you into the game. Scenarios, sandbox, time based puzzle challenges. There's tons of little buildings and …
- [1]
And yet, I don't even like puzzle games... Okay, yeah... this one is different. TerraScape, developed by Bitfall Studios, is a turn-based medieval puzzle city-builder where your goal is to build a kingdom on a map made up of hexagonal tiles. Gameplay Your main goal in TerraScape is to earn medals by completing the various scenarios and missions. The more points you score, the better your medal will be. But how do …
- [4]
I debated whether to buy this game or not because I'm cheap and already own too many games. But this is exactly what I wanted. There aren't many video reviews, which is a shame. But I've been loving my time with this game. Granted, it's only been a couple of hours, and yes, some of the instructions are a bit obtuse, but being able to take my time to make decisions, build my little kingdom, gather points and …
Summarised from 34 of the 225 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked TerraScape talk about relaxing and visually appealing gameplay; those who didn't talk about can become repetitive after initial missions. Which matters more to you?
Reactions
60 of 229 · most liked firstVisually beautiful, but the game feels like playing candy crush with extra steps. It is almost impossible to lose, you just select your building and scroll around the map to find the area that gives you maximum points. And repeat. Good for relaxation for a wqhile i guess, but soon it gets repetitive and not challenging at all.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TerraScape is a puzzle game disguised as a city builder. It starts really well, but quickly loses its steam: - It rewards quantity over quality. Your deck is quickly overflown with buildings and you can just aimlessly place them not thinking much about synergy and adjacency - Beating your high score is a poor motivation. There is any other reward - just the numbers go up - Scenarios are easy and don't offer a good challenge - Once you unlocked all the decks, there is not much to explore -…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Plenty of new popular singleplayer releases: https://steamdb.info/stats/gameratings/2024/?min_price=0.01&min_rating=85&displayOnly=Game&category=2&sort=followers_desc Edit: If you want less popular games take these (collected from YouTube, [email protected] , steam etc): [Wild Bastards - roguelike strategy fps](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1660840/Wild_Bastards/) [Arco - turn based rpg](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2366970/Arco/) [Nova Drift - bullet hell…
neutral · AI labelView post →And yet, I don't even like puzzle games... Okay, yeah... this one is different. TerraScape, developed by Bitfall Studios, is a turn-based medieval puzzle city-builder where your goal is to build a kingdom on a map made up of hexagonal tiles. Gameplay Your main goal in TerraScape is to earn medals by completing the various scenarios and missions. The more points you score, the better your medal will be. But how do you actually get those points? Simple: by placing buildings. You get new…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not sure why this has been getting bad reviews. I'm really enjoying this unique game. Some of the puzzles are very challenging. It is a beautiful game that runs well and if you enjoy puzzles, this is one for you.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice little game, great graphics and atmosphere, love the whole puzzle idea to get points with combos etc... but... There is waaaayyyy too much clutter. It's a headache to figure out everything in between the nice graphics (you can turn off the clouds that helps a little) but then in order to see everything going on you start turning on filters/highlights and somehow it gets even busier on your screen.... at the end its tiring...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can see why people like this game, as a chill building game. Personally I don't think there's enough puzzle or strategy, which is how it's marketed. After you learn the system, you follow more or less the same strategy for every building. It's not a bad game, it just doesn't make it into my recommended.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Phenomenal game if you have OCD. Ignore the other people in the reviews, they are literally drooling buffoons. The game is very intuitive and straight forward, it allows for a lot of flexibility and planning. The game has many game modes to suit your style of play, a "campaign" that gives you quests that chain. Scenario which is just, get the score before you run out of points or land. Puzzle, where you put your brain to the test to complete a challenge with prepared cards and a special map.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The tutorial leaves you guessing, which a tutorial should not do. Save that for the main game. Missing lots of labels and UI bits like scrollbars. Will give you tons of cards you don't need and not the ones you need for the active quest. Is there only a limited number of each card? No idea, since the UI has no such indication. Hopefully these design decisions can be fixed and I can give a thumbs up in the future.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really enjoyable and eye candy. It's a puzzle game based on tile placement: you start with a pre-existing map and you have to place buildings on it. You score point based on placement: for example, a fish trap generates more points if closer to a bank of fish; a market if closer to city districts, and so on. The higher the points, the higher the score, the more decks (thematic sets of cards) and draws (turns) you unlock. When you run out of draws, it's game over. This forces you to be strategic…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall I think TerraScape is a beautiful puzzle game that suffers from the requirement of too much forethought and future knowledge. So many aspects of success and progression are tied to knowing how buildings merge or interact with each other, which makes the early to mid-game unrewarding and a pain with little variety in building placement. The Decks, Planning & Trading The Deck system can work when dealt a good set of cards but most of my time I was given cards that aren't useful or cards…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[Epic Games] Out of Sight & TerraScape (100% off / Free).
neutral · AI labelView post →🚨Free Game Alert🚨 What 🎮 Terrascape and Out Of Sight Where ➡️ Epic When ⌚ 8th October to 15th October 2026 #games #indiegames #free #gog #gaming
neutral · AI labelView post →A surprisingly fun city-puzzler that turns hex islands into tranquil kingdoms. Strategically placing buildings to unlock combos and watch your realm grow is effortlessly relaxing, and the visuals combined with soundtrack make sessions feel comfy and satisfying. It’s not a demanding kingdom builder with micro-management, more like Dorfromantik meets an easygoing kingdom builder, with the satisfaction of offering thoughtful layouts and puzzle combinations.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Finished" my first game with a friend. The game desyncs between buildings (he merges some buildings like hospital and others but it doesn't show for me so i can place other buildings there which doesn't show for them). Game is unfinishable, you just can't finish, you just have to stop playing and go to main menu. This gave us no "experience" so our profiles are level 0 but has like 200+ buildings placed. Very unsatisfying start to a game that now feels very uncompleted.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it reminds me of Dorfromantik but instead of placing single tiles that only care about direct neighbors you place buildings that care about their surroundings. there are sets of buildings that you choose from (the game calls these decks) which you merge to alter the surrounding area and give you more options artstyle looks great and you unlock more visual variants of the buildings and resources as you progress in the game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall great game, was disappointed though after I finished the scenarios and puzzles to find out that kingdom mode limits you to 9 of the 13 decks. Why? On a huge map I want to build all the industries!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dorfromantik on steroids! Chill but challenging enough to keep my interest. Love it, and can't wait for the Eygyptian extension to drop.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I debated whether to buy this game or not because I'm cheap and already own too many games. But this is exactly what I wanted. There aren't many video reviews, which is a shame. But I've been loving my time with this game. Granted, it's only been a couple of hours, and yes, some of the instructions are a bit obtuse, but being able to take my time to make decisions, build my little kingdom, gather points and resources, etc., is so cool. It's Dorfromantik+, or Civ-, depending on how you look at…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TerraScape is free on Epic Games until Oct 15, I think this is a good game to share. Anyone who likes it might want to support the developer @terrascape.bsky.social on steam. Have fun gamers! #gaming #indiegame #steam #free
positive · AI labelView post →If you like games like Dorfromantik, this is probably right up your alley. A well polished puzzle game with procedurally generated maps and endless replayability. The software performs well, the controls work well. The animations and just beautiful game in general. The tutorial is pretty intuitive and eases you into the game. Scenarios, sandbox, time based puzzle challenges. There's tons of little buildings and merged buildings to discover unlock and you're not rushed per say so it's fairly…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a really fun little puzzle/town builder. Simple, easy to learn and fun. The art style is bright and delightful. Though a larger map can cause the game to become a bit drawn out and repetitive, the scenarios are fun, brief and let you explore the various elements of the game. A few more building combinations would be great but what is here now can, when the cards finally fall for you, cause great groans of satisfaction as the buildings upgrade.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Relaxing/chill but so boring
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I only do not recommend, because of the multiplayer implementation. This doesn't affect single player at all. So don't let yourself be discouraged to buy the game if you just plan to play it alone. We bought it for multiplayer, but for some reason unknown, even in co-op you need to take turns and one player is always sitting around idle, which kills a lot of fun. I don't get that decision.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Generally positive. I do think it gets a little tedious with guessing the intended build location for each element and in the right order and right combo to get the max points to pass. I'm finding myself having to constantly tab out to guides to figure out what pairs create the intended building combo. I think it'd be a lot smoother experience if that was shown directly on the card's mouseover once you discover it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →City Builder Meets Puzzle Game: TerraScape Full Version Available Now.
neutral · AI labelView post →🚨Free Game Alert🚨 What 🎮 Terrascape and Out Of Sight Where ➡️ Epic When ⌚ 8th October to 15th October 2026 #games #indiegames #free #gog #gaming
neutral · AI labelView post →Switched out all multiplayer and leaderboards to EOS.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You may want to give an Anno game a try. Best recent one is Anno 1800, but Anno 2070, 1404 and 2205 are great as well. In these you manage population levels, needs and logistical chains instead of traffic. Or maybe look into more survivaly city builders like Kingdoms&Castles, Nova Roma, Farthest Frontier or Banished. If you want more puzzle than city builder then there's Terrascape or Dorfromantik. Finally, you may enjoy Railgrade or Train Valley 2 - these are not city builders, but tycoon…
neutral · AI labelView post →Nice puzzle game, but very boring for me, I like the description of "Candy crush with extra steps"
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →3 hours in, I am happy to give this game the thumbs up, especially at its current 50% off price - and doubly if it goes on an even deeper discount. We have a good relaxing card-based city builder, puzzler with multiple game modes (build a city, solve a puzzle, challenges with online rankings), scenarios that take hours to complete with specific goals and now, with the new Ancient Egypt DLC, with different buildings. Positives: 1. Build tree with multiple themed buildings (settlement, food,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just bad design. In order to complete levels you need to make "merged buildings" which comes from placing basic buildings next to each other, however the game does not tell you what buildings need to be placed where for this to happen, making the game mostly random trial and error. Not fun, not good design, absolutely not recommended.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you like hexagon games and puzzles, this is a really good game. I'm excited for the upcoming DLC. My two complaints are: The Scenarios secondary goals don't always count buildings correctly. It sort of forces you to play through it again with everything you have to build and in what order in mind. Makes it tedious and less fun. \ The other thing is that I don't find the High Score mode very compelling. It might just be a mismatch of playstyle for me personally, but it's just hard to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A lot like Islanders, but you lose quite a lot of legibility (probably this game's biggest issue) and gain pretty graphics, a neat building merge mechanic, and a deck draw mechanic that is sort of 50/50 whether it adds anything or is just frustrating. There are a few other QOL issues still, like scenarios requiring that you place cards which can't be reliably generated by the player. But this is a very fun game in the puzzle city builder vein.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My eyelids are so heavy today, omg. TerraScape was a wonderfully built game, but I will admit, I have to think far more steps ahead than my brain is able. Do check it out! store.steampowered.com/app/2290000/...
positive · AI labelView post →If you like space, you should play **Homeworld** and its sequels. Incredible game. If you like chill strategy, try **Terra Nil**, **Islanders**, and **Terrascape** -- they're all really fun and Terrascape has turn-based multiplayer! If you like puzzle games like Myst, Cyan has **Obduction** and the slightly controversial **Firmament**, which I thought was a lot of fun. **Quern - Undying Thoughts** is in the same vein and feels a lot like Myst or Riven. If you like Halo's multiplayer with…
neutral · AI labelView post →Excellent adjacency puzzle game. Simple and polished. 25+ hours content +game mechanics: card draft and building merges. +UI: map feature overlay +smooth visuals. -main game modes kinda easy.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I usually like city builder and puzzle style games but I couldn't get into this one. I thought it was boring and closed it after about an hour, my plan was to give it another try but my experience was so bad I haven't been able to convince myself to open the game again. I wouldn't be writing a review except that they also denied my refund request. It was denied because I waited more than two weeks to request the refund. Even though, I was an hour under the 2 hour play time benchmark. It says…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun chill building game, but not a lot of variety after the first half-dozen missions or so. Hidden combos seem somewhat random sometimes, and with no way to undo more than the last move it's hard to figure them out without looking up cheats. Never did figure out the value of some of the "mod" placements like raise/lower land.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There's a lot of puzzle / builder games that have a weekly challenge to keep you coming back, but this is the one I make time for every week. Incredibly well designed and compelling.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very original puzzle game, with not just one but two distinct synergy mechanisms between the buildings. In essence it is about building supply chains for a city, but the order of constructions and the relative placements of the buildings define the scoring, which determines whether you unlock the next set of cards. Very well executed, simpler than Caesar/Pharaoh but still complex enough to be enjoyable. The simplicity makes it so that most missions can be completed in 1-2h game sessions.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a pretty puzzle where you need to place tile improvements to maximize synergies and make combos. You unlock new stuff by making more points. It has a lot of content and depth but leaves a bit to desire. Progression is confusing. You can't unlock all decks in a single play and it's not clear what you should do next to unlock new stuff. The game forces you to learn it in by trial and error. Interface leaves a bit to desire. When you have a lot of cards as you need to constantly rearrange…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm allergic to deck-building / card games, but I picked this up in a bundle so I figured I'd try it out. The graphics and visual design are incredible -- not just the game tiles, but the UI is nicely done also -- and the game performs well. Everything feels very polished. Gameplay revolves around placing buildings on certain tiles or near other buildings or resources to get bonuses, like Anno or Islanders. Placement is semi-permanent so there is also a puzzle aspect to it, and sometimes you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really enjoy digital card and board games, city/colony building sims, and strategy games, so the way the developers combined these genres make it the perfect game for me. I like the idea of building a city/colony without having to worry about not having enough resources and such. You simply place the buildings/tiles where you need them to get points. The buildings affect each other positively and negatively, so you have to be strategic about where (and when) you place the buildings. There…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Graphics are pretty, but gameplay lacks a lot of depth. Cards of different decks have hardly any synergy, all synergy mostly exists just within the 4 cards of a single deck, with limited "tacked on" extra cards from higher tier decks. You can have infinite cards in your hand, which means that the entire challange of the game is just "plan your entire map out ahead of time", instead of forcing you to think on your feet that would come from randomly drawn cards and a limited hand size. With this…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TerraScape, city-builder x puzzle game hybrid, set on flying islands, released on Steam.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is actually a very interesting evolution on relaxing city-builders. There's a strange balance between the simplicity of the game mechanic and the complexity of various possibilities. The core mechanic is similar to hexagonal tile settlers, like Dorfromantic, where you get randomized cards and play the cards to add structures to various available tiles. But Terrascape goes even further, both in terms of giving you a wider range of choices in what kind of card subsets your random cards…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Chill puzzle game. I returned after this sat in my library for a year+. All my previous progress was lost. Lost a save from today, terrible UI. Needs improvement before I can recommend
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I saw from other reviewers they found they didn't have enough direction to understand building merging but I started with the puzzle mode and each level gives you the tools to learn each merge type. Once I did about half of the puzzle maps I found the other modes easy to grasp and a blast to play. I love the strategy and grid plotting without the pressure of a timer for this game. I can't wait to check out the Egypt DLC once I finish all the base maps!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun game, good challenge, and a very relaxing vibe.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not upset about having it, but it gets old very fast. The early buildings can fail you on your first turn, and some of the later buildings are basically useless unless you've unlocked a different set of buildings that aren't considered prerequisites to unlocking them. Not upset it's in my library, but I probably won't be revisiting it very often.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty fun game, takes a bit of brainspace towards the end. But I've had already 2 crashes in 3 hours, so a bit hard to find it relaxing. And concerning considering the game is already 1.5 years old. But it seems to be still getting updates so who knows
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A great puzzle game! The challenges and the learning curve are well balanced. The graphics are well done. It's like Dorfromantik leveled up.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Suprisingly catching deckbuilder / puzzle game. Gets a little bit annoying when you try to remember all the merged combinations or don't know which tree your target building is. 8.5/10 overall
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Love it, looks like a strategy game and feels equally comforting, by "only" being a puzzle game. Very Soothing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've been enjoying Terrascape quite a bit lately. It's a fun puzzle game! I get to build maps of cities. I really enjoy that.
positive · AI labelView post →Very relaxing game and I think it's one of the best card games out there! I enjoy it a lot and I love the building and strategy and also the beautiful views and order of things.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've got this game through giveaway and played for a couple of hours. So far I like it, every game unlocks a bit of a progress which I enjoy since it gives extra repeatability, game-play isn't rushed. Every game I've started felt rewarding and It's a very good time killer with neat, detailed graphic design.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TerraScape has the cozy feel of click and place but with the advanced feature of combining tiles in certain patterns to upgrade your efforts and get more points. As you play you get introduced to cards that can help edit anything you've already placed, or improve the base tile output altogether. I really enjoy the slight skill/difficulty level in being strategic about where and how you place your city cards, but it still keeps that relaxed and enjoyable feeling without aggravation or…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Our review of #TerraScape is also up on YouTube! We even had a chance to show multiplayer gameplay on PC and the Steam Deck. WATCH ➡️ youtu.be/JUeqt7wT1vA?... #IndieGames
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