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Planet Explorers

In 2287, a colony ship crashes on the planet Maria. As one of the survivors, explore an unfamiliar world, gather resources, and work toward establishing a home amid dangerous local creatures and sentient aliens. Dig into and reshape voxel terrain, build structures, farm, and craft equipment. A creation editor lets you design weapons, vehicles, and other objects, while exploration brings missions, NPCs, enemies, and varied landscapes. Story Mode combines missions, colony building, farming, training, and interactions with aliens. Adventure Mode uses a procedurally generated map for random missions, bosses, and dungeons; Build Mode offers an enemy-free space with unlimited building materials.

After a colony ship crashes on Maria, shape terrain, craft gear and vehicles, explore, and build a settlement among alien life.

Released 08 Nov 2016

62%positive of
6.8k player reviews

Free

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Sandbox

RPG

Reshape Alien Terrain

Design Custom Vehicles

Build a Survivor Colony

Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.

Developed by Pathea Games · Published by Pathea Games

Planet Explorers - Indie Sci-Fi RPG Sandbox

Planet Explorers | AMAZING GLIDERS! | And hunting monsters

Planet Explorers story mode. Ep. 17. Setting up my first colony.

Players Praise Most

Custom Vehicle Building
Voxel Terrain Editing
Exploration and Quests
Wide Sandbox Activities

Common Player Critiques

Unfinished Development
Clunky Building Tools
Rough Combat
Confusing Controls

62%

positive of 6.8k player reviews

From the Devs

In Planet Explorers, it is the year 2287, one of the first colony ships sent out by Earth arrives at the planet Maria, in the Epsilon Indi Star System. During its landing sequence, something appears in front of the massive ship that causes it to lose control and crash into the planet. Some of the colonists survive in lifeboats, but what they find is an unforgiving land filled with creatures ready to outlast the visitors from Earth. Now the survivors must explorer, gather, build, create, fight, and ultimately, build a new home.

Game Modes

Planet Explorers right now only features single player.

In single player there are 3 distinct selections

Story Mode – Story mode is the main meat and bones of the game, it is the action-adventure-rpg-somewhat-4X segment, offering npcs, missions, colony building, farming, training, diplomacy, and of course, a storyline that you can follow or ignore. This story features a 17X8km world map with many unique character, landscapes, biomes, locations, and over 140 types of potential enemies. Even though we’ve made it seem like a very action oriented game in the trailers, in reality, players can choose to not fight so much as to just plant a farm, make some food, keep the colonists alive, negotiate with the sentient aliens, and defend the perimeter from the local life forms. That can still eventually arrive at the ending. And yes, there is an ending. Story mode also features coop with other players.
Adventure Mode – This mode is based on a procedural map generated from a seed. It comes in a 40X40 kilometer map. Players will be able to complete random missions, defeat bosses, dive through dungeons, and explore different landscapes. This mode also features survival and versus.
Build Mode – In this mode, there are no enemies and an infinite amount of building material. It also currently comes in a 40X40km map. Players will be able to build whatever they want in this mode, including everything in the Creations Editor. Think of this as the perfect testing ground to test everything you build. Or…it’s your place to build your garden without ever worrying about the pesky aliens.

Game Features

Current

30+ hours of storyline
140+ types of enemies
40+ unique mainline NPCs
Able to dig
Able to build
Able to plant farm
Able to build colony
Able to have followers
Creation Editor to create vehicles, weapons, objects, vtols, boats, armor, and more
Day/night cycle with realistic moon cycles
Weather system
15+ types of mineral types
200+ unique items
Resource scanner
Realtime AI pathfinding
Realtime water physics
Multiple boss types
Story Editor
AI robot follower
Negotiation with aliens
War with aliens

Back of the Box

Platforms	Windows, macOS, Linux
Achievements	16
Age ratings	ClassInd (Brazil) 10 — Violência IGRS (Indonesia) 13 — Kekerasan Interaksi Daring Steam (Germany) 12 — Gewalt
Players	From 1 (maximum not specified)
Play modes	Online co-op Online PvP Co-op campaign Persistent world
Other modes	Story Mode co-op Adventure Mode multiplayer Build Mode multiplayer Cooperative Versus Survival
Multiplayer	Planet Explorers originally supported multiplayer, including story mode co-op and multiplayer adventure/build play with cooperative, versus, and survival rule sets. Reviews and the official description indicate private hosting, public servers, and official servers existed. Later reviews state multiplayer was permanently lost after a server/source-code loss, and the current version is effectively single-player only.
Multiplayer & mods	The game supports Steam Workshop and an in-game creation/editor system for sharing player-made vehicles, weapons, buildings, and objects. Reviews describe downloading and using other players' creations in multiplayer worlds, but no evidence states gameplay mods changed multiplayer rules beyond shared creations.
Controller support	Xbox
Controller required	No
Demo	Planet Explorers Demo
DLC / extras	1 listed on Steam
DRM / EULA	Requires agreement to a 3rd-party EULA Planet Explorers EULA
Content notices	Online interactivity
Website	Official website