Half-Earth Socialism

Political strategy simulation about managing production on a warming planet

Francis Tseng, Son La Pham, Drew Pendergrass, Troy Vettese · Published by Trust · Released Jul 19, 2022

Reviews: Very Positive; 82% of 1,091
Recent reviews: Not enough recent
Players: 5; daily peak, Oct 28, 2026
Steam Deck: Playable
Last update on Steam: 2 years ago; Mar 18, 2024
Minimum PC: 0.5 GB RAM · 0.3 GB disk; Full requirements

What is Half-Earth Socialism?

In this free single-player strategy simulation, you act as a global planner starting in 2023. You choose research and infrastructure projects, decide how the world produces food and energy, and balance factions in a global parliament. Climate and production models track the consequences for the environment and living standards.

For you if...

+you enjoy environmental policy and global resource planning
+you are willing to retry a demanding strategy game

Not for you if...

−you want resource management without competing political factions

What players say

82% of 1,091 reviews are positive

Players praise the political interactions. Common complaints concern limited paths to success and what players describe as an anti-nuclear bias. Recent reviewers also report technical problems, including crashes and unexplained production failures.

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Half-Earth Socialism system requirements

Minimum: 0.5 GB RAM, 0.3 GB of disk space.

As published by the developer.

Can my PC run Half-Earth Socialism?

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Minimum

OS: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 or later
Processor: An Intel Pentium 4 processor or later that's SSE3 capable
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Storage: 300 MB available space

Does Half-Earth Socialism have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Single-player

Does Half-Earth Socialism run on Steam Deck?

Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.

Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
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Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

PC version details

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
Steam features: Family Sharing
Languages: Text only: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Thai.

Does Half-Earth Socialism use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam