Planet Crafter

[Sennex 1,973]

So I picked this game up about a year ago, and it's somewhat usurped Minecraft as my go to game when bored at work.

 

The basic premise is you are a convicted criminal thats exiled to a planet and you need to terraform it in order to survive.

 

You have to gather ore's in order to build drills, shelters, generators, food growers, etc...

 

Starting off you need to increase pressure, heat, and oxygen. This will in turn melt the ice that is everywhere and start the water cycle, from there you gather materials to start getting moss and grass to grow and spread. From there Tree's, eventually you hit insects and then animals.

 

The thing that I love about the game is that it runs in the background, and based on how many of each type of machine you have, you get a real time countdown to when the next planetary phase unlocks. The more machines the faster it is, the less machines, the slower. So I can fire it up, sit in my shelter, and work, but the game just runs along happily, and as long as I have food, water, and oxygen in my pack my convict jsut hangs out.

 

It was made by a small indie dev team, and it shows with some weird clipping when you get close to map edges, but other than that, its one of the best games I have played in the last year.

 

Latest update Trailer

 

 

Release Trailer

 

 

 

Its 23.99$ right now on steam, and honestly if any of you need a fun PC game, and like to build things, this will be your jam.

[phil bottle 10,057]

Looks like the Steam community enjoy it.

 

I don't believe I'd heard of it, I will check it out!