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Explore a 2D alien world, mine and build, capture transforming monsters, and craft spells and machines in a sandbox adventure.
Released 12 Dec 2024
Capture and Transform
Breed Monster Traits
Design Custom Spells
Dive into an epic adventure alone or with friends! Explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame fearsome monsters, build and defend your village. Craft powerful weapons, master magical spells, and transform an planet into the cradle of a new civilization!
Developed by Permadeath · Published by Permadeath
After arriving on Planet Centauri, explore a 2D world of biomes, underground ruins, dungeons, and hostile creatures. The story centers on protecting the native Chloridians from the Night Walkers, while progression leaves room to explore in different orders.
Mine resources, craft weapons and armor, build a village, and fight with skills that can be chained into combos. Equipment can be upgraded and enchanted with runes; armor sets grant distinct abilities, and a spell editor lets you combine elements and customize magical effects.
Capture monsters to fight alongside you or transform into them, and raise creatures with inherited traits through breeding. Farming, cooking, alchemy, and assigning work to rescued villagers support your settlement, while cog-driven machinery and a programmable magitech system let you build automated contraptions.
Players who enjoy Planet Centauri often point to its breadth of activities, especially creature capture and transformation, exploration, automation, and custom spellmaking. Other reviewers find the systems underdeveloped or difficult to learn, and recurring criticisms include resource grinding, bugs, and rough controls or interface. The reviews are mixed, with appreciation for the game’s ideas alongside frustration with their execution.
Embark on your greatest adventure to Planet Centauri! Discover new biomes, explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame monsters, build and protect an NPC community, craft your own weapons, and create your own magic spells! Save and protect the native Chloridian species from the evil Night Walkers! Develop and raise the Planet Centauri to the heavens as the cradle of a new civilization!
Your new companions will support you and will evolve to become stronger! Each captured creature keeps its unique features, will evolve as it gains experience fighting by your side, and will even be able to have children if you find him/her a partner!
Captured monsters can be sealed and thus, allowing you to transform into almost any monster in the game.
Some monsters have unique abilities that you can use to your advantage, like flying or digging through the ground.
Captured monsters can be placed in tiny houses containing a pocket world that can be modified to the taste of its occupants. When the monsters are happy, they will gain experience and occasionally, if all conditions are met, lay an egg.
Traits from the parents will be inherited, allowing you to breed the perfect monster.
Use runes to enchant your equipment with various stats and effects!
Level up your equipment by killing monsters or with magical crystals.
Weapons and armors share 7 levels of rarity! Higher rarity always comes with stronger, and more unique effects and characteristics!
Monsters also happen to have rarity levels, rarer monsters being much more powerful and dangerous than their common counterparts, with unique abilities and reinforced stats.
Challenge the RNG by using currencies to get the perfect traits on your equipment.
A wide range of skills enables you to fight with great mobility.
Some skills can be chained, making combos possible.
Elemental swords have synergy with skills. You can unlock elemental skills for each type of element (fire, ice, stone, electric, shadow, light), offering a wide variety of combinations.
Equipping a full armor set unlock new skills and abilities, making each of them useful in it's own way. From the miner to the shadow hunter, discover all classes by crafting all armor pieces!
Equipment can be leveled to be useful at any time of the game. No set will be left behind!
From controlling the arc and pattern of your fireballs to simply enhancing your survival abilities, craft a plethora of magical effects to fit your desires.
Each magical element have it's forces and weaknesses:
Fire spells are destructive and can burn enemies or the environment
Ice spells can freeze and pierce through multiple enemies
Electric spells are very fast and can electrify
Stone spells will project monsters or petrify them
Light spells are good for healing
Shadow spells can follow enemies and pass through them
Multiple elements can be combined in the same spell and monsters may have weakness to some elements.
Spells are combined through an event system in a live editor with a lot of options.
They can also be shared to your friend through base64 text. It's as easy as copy and paste.
Eat well to get stronger has never been a more truthful quote than in Planet Centauri. Eating various types of food will cause your character to grow stronger and develop his abilities.
Extract essences from any plant, flower, vegetable or monster part to combine them into power full potions.
Each essences is related to specific effects and can be used to craft related potions: life, magic, energy, regeneration, vitality, resistance, power and haste.
Save the native Chloridians, build and fortify their villages. Befriend them and grant them jobs as Cooks, Guards, wizards, researchers and much more!
Build windmills or enslave chickens to generate mechanical energy to power your machines and transmit it through cogs and belts.
Recycle materials, craft unique resources and upgrade your high friction cogs from wood to steel.
Build mechanical systems using:
Generators (windmill blades, chicken wheels, hand-cranks)
Various kind of cogs (one way, double cogs, switches)
Belts to connect cogs, build gear trains to increase torque or speed
Pipe conveyors to transport items
Circular saws and tracks to place themto cut trees automatically
Pressure plates and mechanized doors
Various machines like milling or crusher machines, table saw, block maker...
Planet Centauri's magitech allows you to design various electronic systems, from humble automated house lighting to calculators or even CPUs!
This is achieved through an unique 'pipe' system to transmit soul energy up to 9 bit information signal and a large number of components, including:
Generators harvesting soul energy from the environment
Crystalizers to condensate energy to generate even more energy
Teleporters
Battery systems to store energy
Lights, pixels, displays,
Sensors and different kind of inputs
Logical operators (not, and, or...)
Mathematical operators (full adder, modulo, div, comparators)
ACD, DAC, encoders, decoders, mux...
Memories (flipflop, latch, 8-bit registers, counters)
ROMs, using blocks placed in the world as a memory storage
Transistors
Here is actually the classic Game of Life cellular automaton implemented in magitech.
In Planet Centauri you won't be bothered by mandatory tutorials, linear progression or any forced main quest.
Explore anything in the order you want, as long as you are able to survive.
Be guided by the completion tree or the tutorial pages to explore all possibilities offered to you.
The world is filled by ancient ruins. On most of them, special challenges await you.
Discover unexplored dungeons full of traps. Maybe something unique and incredible will be found there.
With over 500 different type of blocks and decorative items, let your imagination run wild to build detailed or imposing structures.
Any block can be shaped into a multitude of different slopes, or colored using paint.
When a block is shaped, It is possible to combine it with another one.
By combining double blocks and paint, possibilities are endless.
In creative mode you have access to developer tools, commands, terraformation, infinite items...
Planet Centauri has a complex event system allowing you to create traps, spawn enemies and create complex mini games without coding.
Currently, more than 20 different type of events and triggers exists.
Event are like functions and perform a specific action. Triggers can emit different type of signals, and be connected to any other Event/Trigger:
Zone triggers: Coming / Leave / ViewEnter / ViewLeave / ComingZone / LeaveZone
Combat triggers: Spawn / KillMonsters / PlayerGetDamages / Challenge / Open
Misc triggers: Counter / Switch / Chrono / ChronoLocal / PreciseTimer / Dice / HourChanged
Event dispatching triggers: Hub / HubFilter / Dispatch / TimedDispatch
BlockPattern to detect shaped structures (useful to make puzzles)
DropItemsSouls
CreateBlocks / DestroyBlocks / CreateDecorations / DestroyDecorations / Indestructible
SpawnRope / SpawnTree / SpawnBall / SpawnLava
Unlock / GenerateItems / ObjectAttributes / TriggerAttribute / AddAttributes / DisableLight
SetPortal / WorldLocation
SpawnOverride to modify permanently (or not) the world spawn tables
Steam workshop is not supported, but the game can be extensively modified.
Any item in the game can be edited through text based configuration files in the PlanetCentauri/assets/moddable folder.
You can add blocks, decorations, or any visual element without knowing a programming language.
For more complex systems, like monsters or entities, the Lua programming language is used (like in Factorio, Hades, Don't Starve, Roblox, and a lot of games).
The current limitation is the lack of a mod manager. This leads to potential problems and collisions between entries, and you have to distribute your mods manually.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 57 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Content notices |
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| Website | Official website |
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