Baltis

Terraforming game

Terraform Venus over seven centuries. Every megaproject is decided by the citizens who will pay for it.

In development for iPhone and Android, then PC

Tell me when it launches

Opens your email app, or write to info@ngenlabs.org. We write once, when it is out, then delete your address.

Baltis on a tablet held sideways at Gate II, the Shade, in 2522: the globe in the Temperature lens with the ground at about 423 °C under the cloud cities Aldis and Sedna, the first sunshade segments beside the planet, and the decade’s chronicle and who pays on the right. — Gate II on a tablet: the sunshade goes up and the ground begins to cool.

How it plays

You begin in two cloud cities, Aldis and Sedna, 52 km above the surface, with 4,800 people and about thirty years of water
Every megaproject is a bill put to nine named citizens drawn by lot. You shape the odds; you never set the verdict
A globe built from real Magellan topography, with lenses for water, light, temperature, CO₂, seas and life
The climate model is grounded in real physics, and the seas fill Venus’s real lowlands
Families remember how they were treated, and the chronicle records who paid for what
Nothing makes you wait: Run on passes quiet decades and stops for every decision

Part One: four gates

I. The Veil: Water for two cloud cities
II. The Shade: A sunshade between Venus and the Sun, and its price
III. The Drawdown: The carbon comes out of the sky, and the cities come down
IV. The Water: Imports and ice, and the first seas

Part One ends at the River, the Roofed Valley or the Long Sky, or in one of the ways to lose, and closes with the chronicle’s account of who paid for what.

Privacy

AccountNone
Ads, in-game currency or timersNone
Analytics or trackingNone
Where your colony livesOn your device, saved after every action; no network needed once installed

Free. It will come first as an app you install from the browser on a phone, tablet or computer, then on itch.io and the app stores. Everything in it, from the globe to the portraits, is drawn by code.

Screenshots

Baltis on a phone in 2382: a pale yellow Venus with the cloud cities Aldis and Sedna marked, the tanks at 28 of 80, the four pools Light, Matter, Insight and Mandate, and Gate I, the Veil, with the war due in 2387. — The first decade: two cloud cities and about thirty years of water.

Baltis on a phone at Gate IV, the Water: the globe in the Seas lens with blue seas filling the lowlands, the sunshade in orbit, and the Ice capture card, 0.010 of an Earth ocean at once, with a 3% chance to pass its panel. — Gate IV: the first seas fill the real lowlands of Venus.