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AETHUS

Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.

★ PENKURA ★ STARSAND ★ PROSPECTOR ★ TERRATECH WORLDS ★ UNDER A NEW SUN ★ THE PLANET CRAFTER ★ CRASHLANDS ★ THE PLANET CRAFTER: PROLOGUE ★ MEWNBASE ★ SATISFACTORY ★ ASTROMETICA ★ BLOSSOM: THE SEED OF LIFE ★ WE ♥ IT 
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The Planet Crafter

96% 👍 OF 71K
About This Game

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

In this game, you can…

  • …build too low and slowly watch the rising waterline flood your entire starter base into a lake.
  • …turn a dead red planet into blue skies, lakes, grass, and forests.
  • …launch rockets to boost terraforming, and watch them crash into each other if you fire too many.
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The Planet Crafter: Prologue

96% 👍 OF 10K
About This Game

Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.

In this game, you can…

  • …turn a dead desert green as the landscape visibly changes in response to what you build.
  • …watch the sky change color as your machines pump heat and oxygen into the planet.
  • …get meteor showers that drop fresh resources around you and can slam down dangerously close to your base.
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Satisfactory

97% 👍 OF 274K
About This Game

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

In this game, you can…

  • …walk in one direction for 30 minutes and realize it's all one connected 30 km² world.
  • …build a 4 km pipeline just to bring crude oil back to base.
  • …power an acre-long production line with nuclear energy, then use the leftovers to build a racetrack in the desert.
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Astrometica

82% 👍 OF 1.7K
About This Game

Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.