Imagine Earth news & patch notes

• Overlay of reconstruction and demolition at destroyed city center

• Clear message for reconstruction of destroyed cities

• Forests should grow back immediately after pollution has been removed

• Sandbox: Remember tool size

• Upgrade city districts, must be added to the drones' to-do list above cleaning and recycling

• Navigator: Quests are not activated correctly

• Tool ring opens in the wrong place after cutscene

Good news everyone, Indiecade Festival has started and Imagine Earth is part of it! Please enjoy and recommend 65% discount and stay warm through out winter!

We wish you a fresh start into 2026 and that things will be more relaxed and deescalating overall. Let's hope for the best..

Few fixes:

• finally got rid of random crash that was experienced by ~10% of our players with the latest version

• fixed "scientist" research achievement not being unlocked

• fixed unlocking of second city on Lorian giving a double research queue entry

Warm greetings from an otherwise rather cold Germany, but winter is helping us keep a cool head as we tinker away at the next DLC for Imagine Earth. This is me officially announcing the "Transformation" DLC before we get to the specific update :-)

Transformation DLC 

The DLC features a campaign in which you are part of a rescue team that wants to transform civilizations before their planets are destroyed by a climate catastrophe.

New buildings

The DLC coming early next year will finally include new ocean buildings: A wave power plant and a floating algae factory. There are slums from which you must relocate the population to modern quarters, and mountains of trash that you can recycle as a source of income. Insect farming will most certainly be introduced as a new food source, and you can create lakes to cool down the temperatures in your cities, as heat waves will be a new and threatening disaster.

But now let's move on to the features of the current update 1.21

Update 1.21

Forests Grow Deeper

This is a big change and makes it more interesting how you grow forests strategically: When you surround a forest with other Forest pieces they grow much bigger. Thick forests compensate much more emissions and ground pollution.

Bonus on Fossil Fields

We had to completely rework how the influence of fossil deposits on the production of power plants worked out. So far fossil power plants always had full productivity as long as there was still a neighboring field having at least 10% deposit. This is more differentiated now:

• The power plant will still have full bonus when it’s on a fossil field with more than 50% reserve.

• Down to 10% it will still have half productivity.

• The same goes when the neighboring field has 50% or more reserve.

• Below that it will have no more bonus.

• On fields that are not near a fossil reserve it will have a malus (as it used to).

Emission Tax vs. Compensation

We have raised the CO² tax to make it more relevant and change the behavior of other factions as well.

Abandoned Cities

The procedural Planet generator can now generate abandoned cities and you can also define how much they should lie in ruins.

Relocating City Districts

You can now relocate city districts without losing the complete inhabitants of a district. You can also relocate supply buildings without losing their production for a long while and thus causing panic in your population.

General Cost Reduction

We reduced the costs for planting trees and claiming land. Please see if it feels more balanced for what you get.

Chinese Voice Over

We have a Chinese Voice Over now! If you speak Chinese please give it a try and tell us what it sounds like. We were very amazed by how great automated voice over worked for the German language. The main story campaign was once translated into Chinese by a professional agency so the generated speech should make sense. The new Galaxies campaign and some menus have been translated with automated translation. We are looking forward to get your feedback on this.

We reactivated the feedback button for language translations for this. If you find a typo in some dialog click the tiny icon and it will bring you directly into the translation forum where you can request optimizations.

Beauty Fixes

• The planet's atmosphere isn’t cut on super wide screens anymore.

• We’ve updated to Unity Version 6 to give you a more stable game experience.

• You can now zoom closer into the beautiful details of the game world.

• Supply capsules are not landing on forest anymore that are then auto self destructing to make place for the capsules.

• The license button is not hiding under the info box of the ring menu anymore.

Thank you for your interest and support! Please let us know what you think of the latest version and write a review if you want to support our work!

Best

Jens & Martin

WDC World Ocean Day Charity Sale

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How your support will help this year

Thank you for joining us and for supporting WDC!

Improvements

• Keep current zoom level when jumping to city
• City extensions of Galaxies DLC now available in free play and competition game modes
• Annoying car beeping sounds in cities removed
• Clarified how satellite hubs are charged
• Improved visibility of Icons in functions ring
• Rounos: Rounosians don't accept donations anymore before Leen is there
• Territory takeover reparations consider building value now
• Construction tasks assigned to a plot with rocks or a forest can be canceled

Balancing

• Fixed side effects of the city extensions of the Galaxies DLC that were randomly blocking the AI from building climate positive upgrades.
• The AI will more likely work sustainable when the player does so.
• Fixed another problem were the AI planting forests and using seed bombs could block it from building climate positive upgrades.

Fixes

• Forest shows wrong examine message
• AI is failing to give up after take over by Assimilator and having native camp
• Ruins graphic error when teared down in water
• Ideon map shows wrong natives on Bora
• Bora: Other factions sometimes don't land
• Bora: Pyramid taken by other faction
• Bora: Leen finds no field to land

• Genesis Seed Campaign of Galaxies DLC no longer has a fixed time limit per planet
• Destructing city district no longer requires all people to find a new home. We will probably come back to this in a dedicated game mode
• Added 120, 144 and 240 fixed refresh rate options
• Research the trade price bonus now also reduces rates at native camps and midras miners
• Fixed error related to population moved from one to another district
• Fixed food and goods consumption not properly counting districts with special states like riots or relocating
• Fixed crash related to cannon defense of your city

• Error when hovering the “Typo” icon in the MessagePanel in the galaxy
• Bug when selecting the last entry in the list of expansions for city centers
• Occasional error when selecting the faction for a new game
• Occasional error when displaying city center expansions
• Camera rotation via keyboard blocked after jumping to a field

Endless Game

Game Mode

Colonization of whole Galaxies

The Space Station

Orbital Lift

Extensions

Story Campaign

Space Capsule Delivery

Earth Appreciation Festival

New Update 1.19 Out Now

German Voice Over

DLC Release on April 8

Dear Space Colonist community,

Galaxy DLC will be released on April 8

Official DLC Trailer

Improved HDR & Anti-Aliasing

Medicine Production

Disaster warnings improved

More Fixes

• Workshop crafting sounds are not so loud anymore.
• Description of City Districts has been shortened and made up to 40% more concise.
• A short time limit now prevents you from accidentally pressing away freshly popped story dialogs.

Update 1.18

Ring System Improvements

• We also rebuilt the ring that appears outside of your build radius and made it uniformly appear the same way on all outer fields of the planet.
• shows the option to directly build a city center and tells you directly how much more people you need for a new landing permit.
• it also offers access to tools, functions and inventory

AI Improvements

Planet Emission Sequestration

More Construction Freedom

Relocate City Inhabitants

List of Buildings

More Improvements

• You will now be informed when another faction has taken over parts of your territory
• We doubled the time an epidemic needs to spread because organizing 3 medicines can be quite devastating.
• Better visual warning from dangers in the city panel

Bug fixes

• Infinite Money Bug fixed - sorry! ;D
• Tool overlays with fire at the temple
• Presentation of the build selector in the water fixed

Update 1.18.2

• Fixed crash on Tuto and on some workshop planets (e.g. dead industries)
• Fixed graphic artifacts related to gold asteroid approaching planet
• Fixed 'jump to partner camp' button overlapping with relocate
• Fixed trade with other factions not working
• Added German translation for Gaia Container and unified naming of frontier buoy

Update 1.18.3

• Adapt mouth animation to pauses in speech
• AI no longer complains when you take your previously owned territory back
• Added support for home, end and delete keys for input field
• Fixed severe error in Bora mission stopping the mission from continuing because the external aggressor was not able to land on the planet (thanks MaBeHo!)
• Fixed goals button for mission planets not showing anything when planet is not started yet (thanks Jessi81)
• Fixed “multitalent” achievement not working correctly (thank Project Gateway!)
• Fixed consumption of rare resources below 1% (thanks ComplexUnit!)
• Fixed rare crash during takeover of other cities

Update 1.18.4

• Fixed severe bug: Next planet directly shows up in campaign galaxy when previous one is finished - thanks burningironbutterfly and Roderick!
• AI consumes content of supply capsules (finally!)
• When wildfires are deactivated, forest no longer start to burn when damaged by nearby explosions or thunderstorms take place

Endless Game

Game Mode

Colonization of whole Galaxies

The Space Station

Orbital Lift

Extensions

Story Campaign

Space Capsule Delivery

Game Mode

Colonization of whole Galaxies

The Space Station

Orbital Lift

Extensions

Story Campaign

Space Capsule Delivery

Dear all,

Switch off voice output

Game speed

Reset campaign

Security Complex

Quick start button

Building production

Music enhancement

Diplomacy

Warnings

User interface

Mission corrections

Planet Edora

Planet Bora

Planet Rounos

Bugfixes

Update 1.17.1

Update 1.17.2

Update 1.17.3

WDC World Ocean Day Charity Sale

Who is WDC?

What WDC has been doing so far

• They’re collaborating with creel fishers in Scotland to trial new types of fishing gear to reduce entanglements of humpback and minke whales.
• They’re working with colleagues and partner organisations in the Central Baltic Sea to develop a recovery plan for a critically endangered group of Baltic harbour porpoises.
• On the west coast of the United States, critically endangered North Atlantic right whales are facing extinction. Entanglement is a massive threat to their survival, and WDC have been working with fishers to trial alternative gear types.

That's basically it.

Not only is there a DLC..

Please have a look at the brand new game trailer on the store page!

Also check out the cool new cover art

Happy Earth Day, Humans🌍!

Today all proceeds from Imagine Earth are donated to reforestation!

Yearly Impact Report

Mac Release Date is May 9

Radio Noises

Holographic Projection

Building Debris

Cancel actions for items

Bookmark Panel

More Improvements

• Warehouse Auto-Harvest remains off when you move a building or build new ones.
• Visualizing pause play time more clearly
• A guide to user interface, controls and handling. Big thanks to MB for writing a detailed explanation of the interface and all its elements!

Bug Fixes

• Merchant pays more for landing permit than he takes
• Satellite Hub: Positioning of the satellite
• Upgrades are shown in tool ring of foreign cities
• Multi-talent achievement does not work
• Generated planets have slums
• Fish trawlers "being flooded"
• Wrong text for explanation of "Indoctrination"
• Typo: "Idea bomb" instead of "Ideon bomb"
• Tuto landing cutscene broken
• Bangka Island cannot be taken over
• Explosions from last game no longer stay on the planet after loading a savegame
• Mission briefing in pause screen when message is locked
• Game rarely hangs in the challenge menu
• Error in temperature calculation

Update 1.16.1

• Fixed Nootila faction not having audio voices in the faction selection for a new game
• Fixed trade panel speakers moving their mouth without actually speaking

Update 1.16.2

• Fixed reduced animation quality of camera following landing and starting ships.
• Fixed missing Japanese translations in voting screen
• Re-added missing glow on atmosphere entry of city capsules

Dear Space Colony Managers,

Ocean coloration

Land degradation

Moving instead of demolishing

New button for complete campaign reset

New space backgrounds

Improvements

• New more open look for the selection ring
• New info box style
• Prices for tech & research are now fixed instead of being dependent on trade on planets
• Population loss is no longer so blatant and fast when the mood is very bad
• City Center now only has living space for 50,000 colonists
• AI opponents no longer land right next to each other at the start of the game
• Xrathul: Damage to the ship also reduces resource hunger before departure
• In challenge mode, the ranking on the current challenge planet is now displayed instead of the eternally identical mission description.
• Automatic savegame name also shows last activated quest
• Back button no longer triggered by right mouse button
• No more icons in the pause screen
• Lousy performance of fireworks and GameOver explosions improved

New models of fishing boats optimized

Gamepad control

• Right stick not only jumps to cities but also to events
• Show left shoulder button icon directly on research button if stock trading is not yet available
• Tab symbol is no longer displayed for Cities

Preview - Exentensions

Bugs fixed

• Trader landing animation hangs
• Help dialog hangs over the store menu in the campaign
• Streets are faded out too early
• Colony value is wrong directly after loading a savegame
• No more congress invitations after mission end
• Journal hotkey flicker

Update 1.15.1

Update 1.15.2

• Fixed "demolition" still being called "resettle" for districts
• Fixed city centers still having high tax revenue and resource consumption although population was halved with the update

Update 1.15.3

• Fixed unlimited tech licenses provided by supply capsules
• Fixed error in editor when trying to use functions without having the related high-tech constructs

Update 1.15.4

• Fixed missing ground texture for native camps
• Fixed icons hidden within fires and their smoke particles
• Fixed start animations of traders sometime not being shown
• Fixed right click no longer closing in-game panels like research
• Fixed active tool (e.g. repair) blocking game from ending
• Fixed error when starting another planet after leaving a planet that had fires
• Changed mixed colors of trader and native storage to a single color
• Make sure that players see landing animation for other factions arriving on the planet in most of the missions

Update 1.15.5

• Fixed scanner and other items not being usable anymore
• Fixed music not working anymore after setting the volume to 0 for some time

Update 1.15.6

• Removed unwanted spoiler of city extensions that also broke the competition gameplay balance.

• Fixed merchant sometime not arriving at all, when a single spaceport is blocked by other traders. E.g. this lead to a quest not being started in the Joma mission
• Fixed birds sometimes flying through mountains or buildings
• Fixed crash related to birds
• Fixed incorrect number of competitors displayed for workshop planets
• Fixed dynamic resolution now working anymore, related to problem with linux version

Editor improvements

New building textures

Icons for tree species

More Features & Fixes

• Pause and select button icons were still displayed in the build menu, but did not work.
• Display category and building icons/buttons in build menu with equal spacing at the same height
• Cas in cities do not jerk anymore
• Optimized build process makes updates easier

• Fixed graphic errors in transparent building elements, e.g. when placing a new building or in the shield of frontier towers
• Fixed “ambient occulusion” not working
• Fixed two problems that could make the game crash

Further Improvements

• The duration for the production of items through buildings and upgrades has been increased by 25%.
• Additionally, the influence of additional buildings has been reduced. Previously, the time was halved with 8 buildings, but now it's only reduced by 25%.
• Rare resources are now immediately visible again after the blasting of mountains.
• Merchant Quest on Tuto and Joma is now triggered correctly again, even when a dialogue is still open.
• Merchant no longer sells Machinery on Tuto in order not to undermine the corresponding quest.
• We don't show building menu details while hovering over the CityCenter panel.
• We made explosions a bit louder.
• No more warning to be played while a message to the player is active.

In order to also initiate change with our climate crisis game project in the real world, we entered into various collaborations with NGOs that generate a great range of effects. Even more impactful actions are planned for the future, for which we are looking for partner organisations who are active in the field of sustainability, environmental and climate protection.

How We raise money

• All Imagine Earth soundtracks sales net income is donated to reforestation.

• 20 % of income by Steam Charity Sales is donated to reforestation.

Impact Report 2025

• 897 $ - WDC - Whales and Dolphin Conservation

• 1000 $ - OneSeed Reforestation - PlanetPlay

• 573 $ - Cool Earth - Rain Forest Protection

Impact Report 2024

In 2024 we raised 2782 $ and donated to the following charities

• 1782 $ - Eden - Reforestation Project

• 1000 $ - WDC - Whales and Dolphin Conservation

Impact Report 2023

In 2023 we raised 4361 $ and donated to the following charities

• 3236 $ - Whales and Dolphin Conservation

• 952 $ - Gamesforest Club

• 200 $ - WRLD Foundation

Impact Report 2022

Who We Work With

Eden Reforestation Projects

They work with local communities to restore forests on a massive scale, thereby creating jobs, protecting ecosystems, and helping mitigate climate change. All sales of the Imagine Earth soundtrack go to a reforestation project. Together with this organization, we have now planted over 46,000 trees until Februar 23.

WDC

The Whales and Dolphins Conservation's aim is to protect. They have teams in Germany, the UK, Australia, the USA and Argentina to manage and support projects around the world. They organize an annual Steam Sale events for World Ocean Day, game studios receive a feature and donate a portion of their proceeds to marine mammal conservation.

Jingle Jam '22

Jingle Jam has expanded to include unique live-streaming content hosted by a variety of creators from the Yogscast and beyond. Together with 80 other game studios, we raised over four million Euro in December '22 for various non-profit organizations such as WDC.

Green Game Jam

This event is about game studios making activations in their established games and motivating their players to take action for the environment. The organizer Playing for the Planet is a UN initiative that wants to make games greener. We were able to plant 14,920 trees and Imagine Earth won the “Best Activation” award in the Forests category.

Game Forest Club

We are a member of this initiative which enables game studios large and small to support forest conservation projects of their choice around the globe through their contributions. It has 61 supporting companies, which together supported the protection of over 1,4 mil m2 of forest and the planting of over 78 000 trees.

Planet Play

Is a marketplace where games are sold for Green Coins, 100% of which go to carbon reduction projects. We recently provided the store with a large number of keys for Imagine Earth to help with their project funding.

Playing for the Planet

The Playing For The Planet Alliance was launched in 2019 during the Climate Summit at UN Headquarters in New York. The members of the Alliance have the ability to reach more than 1 billion video game players. In joining the Alliance, members have made commitments ranging from integrating green activations in games, reducing their emissions and supporting the global environment.

Steam

We participated in various environmental Steam sales over the years and donated between 10-20 percent share of the net income to reforestation or sealife. This of course wouldn't be possible without the reach and the playerbase that steam offers.

Native Linux Support

New Challenge - Saving Planet B

World Oceans Day Sale

New construction ring

Hitech building in technology panel

The Takeover Panel

Population free areas on the planet

Gamepad - Major changes

• We have once again intensively rethought and optimized the gamepad controls for Imagine Earth. It should be almost more dynamic to control than with the mouse, give it a try. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/5849166/9fbbd96d5558da980d793e63ad6887653280ab14.jpg The Green Game Jam has started! Many game studios have launched Green Activations to save the planet's most important habitats, and so have we. If you click on the image, you will be taken to Imagine Earth's contest page and you can support our project in this jam.