Comparison

TerraGenesis vs Tiny Space Program

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • Space program management
  • Build off-world colonies
  • Launch rockets and spaceships
  • Research technologies
  • Mine resources from celestial bodies
  • Astronaut progression
  • Simulates orbital mechanics
Features
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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.

Screenshots

TerraGenesis4 screens
Tiny Space Program4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
TerraGenesis versus Tiny Space Program: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTerraGenesisTiny Space Program
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (33K ratings) — better4.5 (1.6K ratings)
Positive reviews74.3% of reviews79.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings33K — better1.6K
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size302 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTilting Point LLCJerry Neimann

Customer experience

TerraGenesis

All ratings32,596 ratings
Positive91.9%
Neutral2.6%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews2,153 reviews
Positive74.3%
Neutral7.2%
Negative18.6%

Tiny Space Program

All ratings1,633 ratings
Positive87.7%
Neutral3.9%
Negative8.5%
Written reviews402 reviews
Positive79.6%
Neutral8.7%
Negative11.7%

User reviews

TerraGenesis

From 33K App Store ratings

What 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 ratings

What 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

10 purchases

TerraGenesis

Subscriptions1
  • W6 Pack$5.997 Days
One-time9
  • 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
14 purchases

Tiny Space Program

One-time14
  • 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

Is TerraGenesis free?
TerraGenesis is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tiny Space Program free?
Tiny Space Program is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, TerraGenesis or Tiny Space Program?
TerraGenesis is rated higher. TerraGenesis averages 4.6 out of 5 from 33K ratings, while Tiny Space Program averages 4.5 from 1.6K ratings.
Do TerraGenesis or Tiny Space Program have ads?
Both TerraGenesis and Tiny Space Program show ads.
Which is updated more often, TerraGenesis or Tiny Space Program?
TerraGenesis ships an update monthly, and Tiny Space Program monthly. Most recently, TerraGenesis was updated on September 24, 2026 and Tiny Space Program on September 23, 2026.

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