The Planet Crafter

The Planet Crafter

For players drawn to turning a barren world into a living one, The Planet Crafter makes resource gathering, base building, and terraforming its core appeal. Its current tracked low makes ≈ $6.88 at GOG a timely fit if this measured survival-and-building experience is already on your list. On Steam PC you can play alone or choose online co-op, while adjustable difficulty and creative mode allow different approaches. Consider whether its steady focus on construction and environmental change suits the way you want to play. At GOG, The Planet Crafter is ≈ $6.88, matching this site's tracked low; confirmed interface languages include Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese-Brazil, Italian, and Turkish.

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96%Steam Reviews69.5K reviews81Metacritic/10078OpenCritic/100
Released: Apr 10, 2024
Base Building · Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Online Co-Op · Co-op
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Price History

Past 36 months · Updated daily
Historical Low~ $9.992025-10Current Low Across Stores~ $23.99Steamvs. Historical Low+140%
~ $14.45~ $18.11~ $21.77~ $25.4325-1026-0126-0426-0726-10~ $11.99

Prices cover Steam and 39 authorized stores; only legitimate offers are counted. The chart shows weekly market-wide lows and Steam's official price across the past 36 months.

01About The Planet Crafter

The Planet Crafter combines exploration, resource gathering, and base building with terraforming a hostile planet. Build machines to generate heat, oxygen, and pressure, then watch a biosphere take shape. Steam players rate it 96%% positive across 69,479 reviews. The interface is available in multiple languages, including English, German, and Chinese. English full audio is available. Released April 10, 2024.

Credits

Developer
Miju Games
Publisher
Miju Games

Steam player reviews

96%positiveOverwhelmingly Positive69,479 Steam reviews

Lowest recorded in 36 months

$9.992025-10-30 · SteamBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.

Language support

LanguageInterfaceSubtitlesAudio
Simplified ChineseYesYes—
Traditional ChineseYesYes—
EnglishYesYesYes
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LanguageInterfaceSubtitlesAudio
FrenchYesYes—
GermanYesYes—
SpanishYesYes—
RussianYesYes—
PolishYesYes—
PortugueseYesYes—
KoreanYesYes—
JapaneseYesYes—
Portuguese-BrazilYesYes—
ItalianYesYes—
TurkishYesYes—

Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-19

02Before you buy

Play modes

The Steam PC version supports solo play and online co-op for 1 to 10+ players. Difficulty is adjustable, and a creative mode is listed.

Language and controls

Full controller support is listed for Steam PC. English has full audio; the interface is available in multiple languages, including English, German, and Chinese.

03Frequently asked questions

What is the main goal?

Gather resources, craft equipment and machines, build a base, and raise heat, oxygen, and pressure to terraform a hostile planet.

Can I play solo or with others?

Yes. The description specifies online co-op for 1 to 10+ players as well as solo play.

What changes as terraforming progresses?

Terraforming brings life such as moss, insects, forests, and animals. Animals can be created by combining DNA extracts.

What survival options are described?

Survival mechanics include thirst, oxygen, temperature, and health. Difficulty can be adjusted, and a creative mode is included in the description.

7.5
Overall Score
External ratings96%Steam Reviews69.5K reviews81Metacritic/10078OpenCritic/100
Graphics
8
Audio
6
Gameplay
9
Story
6
Content
8

“Nursing a toxic dead world into blue skies and grass, where the journey beats the destination while story and sound stay thin”

Our Verdict

The Planet Crafter will not crash any awards podium, but it is the most reassuring kind of 2024 recommendation: clear in its goal, long where it needs to be, and honest about its flaws.

Where it sits, and why nobody can copy it

On OpenCritic it lands in the Strong tier, inside the top 17% of all games; on Steam it wears the Overwhelmingly Positive badge, that 96% rating built on more than 65,000 real reviews and over a million copies sold. Together those numbers say one thing — this is not a divisive experiment or a flawless masterpiece, but a sturdy genre favourite that most people enjoyed and whose weaknesses are clear without being fatal. In a crowded sci-fi survival field, it carved out room on the strength of a temperament rivals cannot reproduce.

That temperament is the un-copyable part. It runs directly opposite to its closest rival, Subnautica: that game grows you through fear, dropping you into a lightless deep and using raw dread to force competence out of you. The Planet Crafter does the reverse, coaxing you forward with the steady rewards of building, letting you grow life out of a dead wasteland with your own two hands and no one chasing you. Same genre, two completely different souls — one a thriller that wants your pulse up, the other a balm that wants it down. You can clone its Terraformation Index, copy the machines, mimic the rocket multipliers. What you cannot clone is the specific, hard-won calm of watching a dead world breathe again and knowing it happened because of you. That feeling is what protects it from imitators, and it is made of tone, not features.

Who it is for, who should skip it, which version to grab

So are you the player it is built for? If you love the slow payoff of long-haul cultivation, the sight of your own labour stacking up into visible, undeniable results, and you would frankly rather not be jolted out of that flow by combat, death penalties, or punishing difficulty spikes, then this was practically made to order for you. Its core high is the exact arc PC Gamer described, oppression giving way to relief — the long, patient work of nursing a toxic dead planet into blue skies and waving grass, and the quiet satisfaction of having done it yourself. For the right temperament it is close to perfect comfort food.

The fully terraformed world

If instead you want deep narrative, tense combat, or hardcore survival stakes, you will likely come away cold; the thin story, threadbare audio, and late-game repetition will only loom larger for the wrong player. As for editions, the advice is simple: the base game is complete on its own and will happily eat dozens of hours, so start there. Only if you finish still craving the loop should you add Planet Humble for a fresh world to redo it all. For most people, one planet's worth of story is more than enough to settle into for a good long while.

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