TerraGenesis vs Tiny Space Program
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TerraGenesis
Simulate the terraforming of planets using real scientific principles. Cultivate life, manage resources, and build civilizations on various worlds, from our solar system to fictional planets and moons. Encounter alien life and defend your settlements from cosmic threats.
- Idle planet building simulator
- Real science from NASA
- Terraform planets and moons
- Manage biospheres and resources
- Encounter and interact with alien populations
- Defend from asteroid attacks
- Multiple interstellar factions
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Use real science from NASA to cultivate life on desolate planets. Think you have what it takes to bring a dead planet to life? Can you settle the stars? Explore space and terraform new worlds in this immersive idle planet building simulator rooted in real science. TerraGenesis dynamically animates entire planets with changing biospheres, all based on real data from NASA. The universe is your playground in TerraGenesis! With idle gameplay you can cultivate real planets in our solar system, planets created just for TerraGenesis and even alien worlds! When the world is in your hands, the possibilities are truly endless. If you’re a fan of astronomy, idle games, or resource management games, you will love Terragenesis! Download and start terraforming today! BUILD A PLANET - Join one of four interstellar Factions, each with different benefits for building interstellar settlements - Build entire worlds one step at a time, by creating pressurized habitats for your settlers so they can survive in hostile environments - Terraform your planet to support human life by managing specific resources of each world, including air pressure, oxygen, sea levels, and biomass - Melt ice caps to create planet-wide oceans and seed the planet with life - Track your civilization’s idle progress and your world’s current status with the Stats Summary Page DISCOVER PLANETS & MOONS - Learn astronomy and settle planets from our solar system, including Mercury, Venus, Earth & Mars! - Terraform orbital satellites, including The Moon as well as the Moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - Build civilizations on fictional planets, including Bacchus, Ragnarok, Pontus, Lethe and Boreas - Terraform Dwarf Planets, including Ceres, Pluto, Charon, Makemake, Eris and Sedna - Discover lost secrets on Trappist-1 planets, including Damu, Aja, Huanca, Ruaumoko, Asintmah, Ostara, Aranyani - Travel through time in the Historical Earths campaign, including Vaalbara, Rodinia, Cambria, Cretacea, Dania, Chibania, and Ultima - Generate random worlds with complete surface and elevation maps, unique starting conditions and more BIOSPHERE SIMULATOR - Start with 26 different phyla and add 64 unique genes to create all kinds of amazing organisms to inhabit your world - Manage your lifeforms as they thrive in both terrestrial and aquatic biospheres ENCOUNTER ALIEN POPULATIONS - Discover distant planets in outer space with thriving alien civilizations. - Choose between making peace or conquering the alien lifeforms. - Carry out dozens of missions and build your new world based on your alien strategy. DEFEND FROM ASTEROIDS - Save your civilization and protect your flourishing planet from the threat of an asteroid attack - Build a planetary defense network to detect giant asteroids in space, initiate missions to destroy the threat, change the asteroid’s course or develop new strategies to survive certain doom. BUILD YOUR OWN FLAT EARTH - Insanity now comes with an on/off switch; flick a switch to turn existing worlds flat. - Build a flat earth or build other flat planets from our solar system or throughout the universe! - Hilarious random events unique to flat earth mode! TerraGenesis is free to play and as an indie game; it was important to us that all in-app purchases are entirely optional and not required for a full and complete experience. Enjoying TerraGenesis? Learn more! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TerraGenesisGame Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/SettleTheStars Terms of Use: http://www.tiltingpoint.com/terms-of-service
Tiny Space Program
Manage your own space agency, from designing and building rockets to launching missions for research, mining, or tourism. Explore planets and moons, establish off-world economies, and advance your technology in this interplanetary simulation.
- Space program management
- Build off-world colonies
- Launch rockets and spaceships
- Research technologies
- Mine resources from celestial bodies
- Astronaut progression
- Simulates orbital mechanics
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Build and run your own space program — like SpaceX, but yours. Launch rockets, manage astronauts, mine planets, and colonize the solar system from the Moon to beyond the Kuiper Belt. WHAT WOULD YOU DO AS A SPACE BILLIONAIRE? Send tourists on a spacewalk? Start a mining operation on Titan? Build a space station around Mars? In Tiny Space Program you manage the early colonization of our solar system — based on real orbital mechanics and ship propulsion. BUILD YOUR SPACE AGENCY - Launch rockets and spaceships into orbit - Build off-world colonies, outposts, and modular space stations - Mine resources on moons, planets, and dwarf planets - Research new technologies and better spacecraft - Level up your astronauts and equip spacesuits - Establish off-world economies and trade A CHILL GAME, NOT A CHORE No forced ads, no daily-streak punishments. Play at your own pace — run an hour-long research expedition, take tourists on a quick tour, then put it down and come back later. Mines keep producing while you're away. MADE BY ONE DEVELOPER Actively updated (space stations, automation, dwarf planets, and vehicles all shipped recently). Join the Discord and help shape what comes next.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: TerraGenesis at 33K against Tiny Space Program's 1.6K. Tiny Space Program's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. TerraGenesis sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days and Tiny Space Program sells 14 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for TerraGenesis against 4.5 for Tiny Space Program. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TerraGenesis has 33K ratings behind it against 1.6K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 74% of TerraGenesis's written reviews are positive against 80% of Tiny Space Program's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TerraGenesis | Tiny Space Program |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (33K ratings) — better | 4.5 (1.6K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 74.3% of reviews | 79.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 33K — better | 1.6K |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 302 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tilting Point LLC | Jerry Neimann |
Customer experience
TerraGenesis
Tiny Space Program
User reviews
TerraGenesis
From 33K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Awesome and engaging
- 👍 Perfectly engaging game
- 👍 Incredibly addictive in a good way
- 👍 Beautiful and pleasing graphics
- 👍 Realistic and based on science
Room to improve
- 🐛 Biosphere bugs
- 🐛 Crashes and performance issues
- 🐛 Terraforming progress resets unexpectedly
- ⏱️ Terraforming takes too long
- 💰 Expensive to unlock all content
Tiny Space Program
From 1.6K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Awesome game
- 👍 No ads or pay-to-win
- 🚀 Engaging gameplay
- 🚀 Lots of depth and content
- 👍 Great for space enthusiasts
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches
- 🔧 Confusing UI and menus
- 💰 Difficult to earn credits/resources
- 🕰️ Slow progression and long wait times
- 🤔 Unclear tutorials and instructions
Bugs and requests
TerraGenesis
Reported bugs
4 issues- Biosphere mechanics not working as expected
- Crashes and freezes on certain devices
- Terraforming progress being lost unexpectedly
- Incorrect or missing information in UI
Requested features
8 requests- Add more planet and moon options
- Improve biosphere management
- Add more natural disasters and events
- Allow manual control of city development
- Improve UI and make it more responsive
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- Add more detailed planet visualization
- Implement multiplayer or shared worlds
- Add more ways to earn premium currency
Tiny Space Program
Reported bugs
4 issues- Buttons not working or unresponsive
- Disappearing ships and resources
- Crashes and freezes after updates
- Quests and missions not tracking properly
Requested features
6 requests- Add more planets and moons to explore
- Improve the economy and resource management
- Implement cloud/online save functionality
- Streamline the UI and make it more intuitive
- Expand the research and upgrade trees
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- Add more animations and visual effects
In-app purchases
TerraGenesis
- W6 Pack$5.997 Days
- 10 Genesis Points$0.99
- $0.99 Genesis Point Pack$0.99
- 50 Genesis Points$4.99
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- $4.99 Genesis Point Pack$4.99
- 200 Genesis Points$9.99
- $9.99 Genesis Point Pack$9.99
- All Planets$19.99
- 500 Genesis Points$19.99
- $19.99 Genesis Point Pack$19.99
Tiny Space Program
- Supporting the game, thank you$1.99
- Helping out, many thanks$4.99
- Crystal Pack 1$4.99
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- Starter Pack$4.99
- Plasma Space Ship Package$8.99
- You are great! Many thanks$9.99
- Crystal Pack 2$9.99
- Colonizer Pack$9.99
- Experimental Dragon Ships$9.99
- Aerospike space ship pack$9.99
- A big pile of credits$19.99
- Crystal Pack 3$19.99
- Biggest box of credits$49.99
- Crystal Pack 4$49.99
Questions
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