The Planet Crafter
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The Planet Crafter Trailers
Planet Crafter - Official 1.0 Launch date announcement trailer
Planet Crafter - Official Steam Trailer | 2021
Critic Reviews for The Planet Crafter
It would have been nice if Planet Crafter had gotten the AAA budget and polish, but the game as it exists nails all the important parts in ways that can make multi-hour gaming sessions fly on by in minutes. It's a dead cold rocky ball without a hint of life when you get there, but each new crafted item is another step closer to the terraformed paradise it can become.
The Planet Crafter is one of my favourite survival game of the last few years. It has many of the usual flaws – an achingly slow start, simplistic UI and inventory management that's a chore – but once you're past that hump, growing your base and ramping up your terraforming activity is fiendishly addictive. If survival and terraforming sounds good to you, this is the best place for it.
The Planet Crafter truly captures the roleplay feeling of terraforming a strange new planet and offers a rewarding and immersive terraforming experience. It is well-paced, and multiplayer makes it an even better experience, with groups of friends being able to work on solo projects side by side or enjoy focusing together on completing goals. Though it would be nice to be able to have more direct interactions with other players and a chance to customize looks to distinguish one another, the multiplayer is well done in its execution of being able to feel like a team working on common goals.
How many times have we crash-landed on the surface of an alien planet now? It feels like a lot, and I dare not count the number of minerals I've min...
The Planet Crafter is unique among sci-fi survival sandbox titles, featuring depth and complexity but on a planetary scale. It could use some quality-of-life features, but the compelling gameplay, exploration and aesthetic make it hard to put down.
The Planet Crafter is a cool survival crafting game with lots of possibilities. It just would have had more of an impact with a good end-game goal or a story peppered in.
The low-key project finally got out of the Early Access phase and, as one of the few survivors, made it to a successful conclusion.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Planet Crafter is a very peaceful, satisfying game worth dumping your hours into. It's a game you play to relax after a hard day's work, and what better way to show it than by turning a lifeless rock into somewhere you can call home?
