
The Planet Crafter is an exceptional Adventure that raises the bar for the genre.
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Verdict
96%
Steam
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IGDB
Verdict score based on confidence-adjusted Steam reviews?
Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam (96% positive from 67K reviews)
Healthy player count of 3,212 concurrent
Compelling narrative and story
Rich open world to explore
Still in Early Access — content may be incomplete
The Planet Crafter is an open-world survival game developed and published by the French studio Miju Games for Windows. Players awaken in a crashed spacecraft, tasked with terraforming a barren planet to make it habitable. Gameplay involves gathering resources, crafting tools, building machines, and gradually transforming the environment.

Runs well on modern hardware.
Last updated 1d ago
Love the game with 1000+ hours I like to take my time and build rather then just plunking down stuff willy nilly I sometimes don't put up the progress screens till mid game. I have maxed every planet and moon and I see no end in sight. I enjoy this to no end even at age 82
**The Minecraft of the sky! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐** Such a great game. My husband and I play Planet Crafter together basically every day and we absolutely love it. We actually stopped playing for about three months, then came back and decided to start a completely new world .. and somehow it feels exciting all over again. There is SO much to unlock, discover and learn. Every time you think you’ve figured the game out, another mechanic, resource, area or goal opens up. There’s way more depth to it than I originally expected, and watching the planet slowly transform because of everything you’ve built is ridiculously satisfying. It’s relaxing, addictive, rewarding, and one of those games where you can easily say “we’ll play for an hour” and suddenly realize half the night is gone. 😂 Honestly, the best way I can describe Planet Crafter is **Minecraft of the sky/space** building, exploring, collecting, crafting and constantly discovering something new. Love, love, LOVE this game. ❤️
I had debated picking Planet Crafter up for a while before I did, and, frankly, I wish I had sooner. If you are expecting Satisfactory, you're going to be disappointed. It is closer to Subnautica in gameplay terms, but without the terror of getting mauled by something while you go off exploring for resources. There is a degree of grind to it, but there is almost zero pressure. No time restraints, minus the management of food, water, and oxygen. The progression started to slow down a little at one point, but that ended up being down to my mismanagement of things like rockets and multipliers, once I worked that then I was fine. I love exploring in games, and one of things I love the most in this is that, as the planet has evolved, new things have opened up in places I had already been, as ice caps melted and vegetation grew. The evolution of the environment is such that it will suddenly occur to you that the ground looks totally different than it did ten minutes ago. Its very pretty, and very well done. Crafting is crafting - its not complicated, minus my own inability to remember what I went to my storage room for by the time I get there. And the building is pretty decent, although some more customisation options wouldnt go a miss. Performance is excellent, I havent encountered a single bug or connection issue, and its running well on my pretty average PC. I am currently playing solo, but have jumped into a friends game to nosy at their base, and they into mine, and the connection was quick and no problems. All in all there isnt really much not to like. I am enjoying it enough that Ive just picked up the DLCs, and plan on completing everything. So, thumbs up!
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