The Planet Crafter

I really wanted to like Planet Crafter, but I feel like it dropped the ball in so many places. Going into it, I was hoping for some mid-complexity terraforming and ecology management (like a survival game version of Terra Nil), but it was mechanically similar to an idle game instead. I will qualify the rest of the review with the fact that 90-95% of my playtime was in multiplayer with me as the host, so that may have added to the stability issues. My friend and I had fun with the early game exploration and tech progression, but about the time we reached the ecology tech, the experience began to fall apart. The world stops meaningfully changing around this point and you have access to the overwhelming majority of the map. The systems don't have any method of promoting effective biodiversity in the plants and animals, but instead pushes you to focus on just getting the largest numbers. The biggest gameplay failure we experienced was easily the drone/automation system: drones ignoring priority ratings, grabbing things from storage only containers, and being idle when multiple production sources were completely full and the storages were empty. Beyond this, there were also lots of issues with the snap buildings not connecting/aligning properly and invisible or clipping terrain. We ended up doing 2 planets together, and I did one more on my own, but the same underlying issues were a constant regardless. While there was fun to be had, I was just really underwhelmed by my experiences. My first planet was finished in ~35-39 hours, and the 2nd and 3rd taking an additional 3-5 hours each. I 100% ~1 hour after finishing my first planet.

A wonderfully zen game where your only enemies are your environment. As you bend the environment to suit your needs, it becomes increasingly beautiful and filled with life. There's a good balance between exploration, hand crafting, and automation. Unlike some other games in the genre, this rarely feels like a grind. DLC content is fun, too, though early game on each new planet feels very similar. My only complaint is the clunkiness of automated interplanetary logistics, especially when learning how to properly configure things (since the documentation on this isn't very clear).

Beautiful game! Love it! Not too complicated, the progression is so cool seeing the land change. Already bought the dlc. Takes a very comfortable amount of time between upgrades and changes making exploring allot of fun and doesn't make you feel like you have to keep building non stop. I must imagine playing this with 2 players must be even more fun. 100% recommended many many hours of fun ☺️

10/10

Ótimo jogo, boa premissa, algo que nenhum jogo oferece, e bem viciante, porém falta polimento em certas partes, como a física do rover, e a performance é surpreendentemente ruim em hardware mais fraco, consegui pegar 25 FPS a 1920x1080 com fortes stutters.

yes

excelent play, sort of a subnautica meets no man's sky. the lack of 'enemies' is not as big of a flaw as it might seem at first glance. you are REALLY able to die from inattention as much as from being bashed from behind by an ogre. keep drinking and consuming oxygen (and occationally eat something) and you'll do fine.