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2024 PCPlayStationXbox

You terraform a hostile planet by gathering resources, building bases and machines, and watching a barren wasteland slowly gain atmosphere, water and life. The blend of calm survival and visible, large-scale progress is what makes it special.

What defines Planet Crafter:

  • Open world
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Lots to discover
  • Cosy, great for unwinding

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No Man's Sky

95 %

2016 PCPlayStationXboxNintendo Switch

  • Open world
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Lots to discover

A near-infinite procedurally generated universe where you hop freely between vivid alien planets, gather resources, build bases and upgrade your ships. Years of free updates have turned it into a relaxed sci-fi sandbox with optional co-op.

The Last Caretaker

Sci-fi setting

A sci-fi survival-crafting game where you play the last caretaker, recovering human seeds, reactivating the Lazarus Complex and sending humanity to the stars. You explore an open world while gathering resources and building up your base.

Subnautica 2

Open world

An underwater survival adventure on a new alien ocean world where you gather resources, build bases and push into ever deeper, more dangerous waters. This time you can also dive together in four-player co-op.

Astroneer

Cosy, great for unwinding

As an astronaut you explore colorful planets, reshape terrain like clay with your terrain tool, and build bases with automated production chains. A relaxed mix of discovery, gathering and tinkering, solo or in co-op.

Occupy Mars: The Game

Open world

A technical survival sandbox set on Mars where you build a base, mine resources, produce water and oxygen, grow crops and repair broken equipment to colonize the planet.

SpaceCraft

Open world

An online space game about exploring a vast galaxy, mining resources, building your own ships, and automating planetary bases and interplanetary logistics. Trading and cooperating with other players is a core part of the experience.

Cubic Odyssey

Open world

A voxel-style space adventure where you explore colorful planets, craft tools and build vehicles while fighting the Red Darkness. The focus is on discovery, crafting and tinkering in a large universe.

Subnautica

Open world

Stranded on an ocean planet, you dive ever deeper into a gorgeous yet terrifying alien sea. You build bases and submarines while piecing together the planet's mystery, and the dark depths themselves become the real source of dread.

Atmosfar

Open world

Atmosfar sends you flying over the floating islands of an alien planet in a small craft, with a mobile airbase as your hub. Your goal is to uncover what happened to your collapsed colony.

Drifter Star: Evolution

Strong character progression

You grow from a tiny speck of stardust through asteroids and planets into a galaxy-devouring titan. Each evolution stage brings new choices and cosmic secrets to uncover.

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