Planet Explorers
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In Planet Explorers, it is the year 2287, one of the first colony ships sent out by Earth arrives at the planet Maria, in the Epsilon Indi Star System. During its landing sequence, something appears in front of the massive ship that causes it to lose control and crash into the planet. Some of the colonists survive in lifeboats, but what they find is an unforgiving land filled with creatures ready to outlast the visitors from Earth. Now the survivors must explorer, gather, build, create, fight, and ultimately, build a new home.Game Modes
Planet Explorers right now only features single player.
In single player there are 3 distinct selections
- Story Mode – Story mode is the main meat and bones of the game, it is the action-adventure-rpg-somewhat-4X segment, offering npcs, missions, colony building, farming, training, diplomacy, and of course, a storyline that you can follow or ignore. This story features a 17X8km world map with many unique character, landscapes, biomes, locations, and over 140 types of potential enemies. Even though we’ve made it seem like a very action oriented game in the trailers, in reality, players can choose to not fight so much as to just plant a farm, make some food, keep the colonists alive, negotiate with the sentient aliens, and defend the perimeter from the local life forms. That can still eventually arrive at the ending. And yes, there is an ending. Story mode also features coop with other players.
- Adventure Mode – This mode is based on a procedural map generated from a seed. It comes in a 40X40 kilometer map. Players will be able to complete random missions, defeat bosses, dive through dungeons, and explore different landscapes. This mode also features survival and versus.
- Build Mode – In this mode, there are no enemies and an infinite amount of building material. It also currently comes in a 40X40km map. Players will be able to build whatever they want in this mode, including everything in the Creations Editor. Think of this as the perfect testing ground to test everything you build. Or…it’s your place to build your garden without ever worrying about the pesky aliens.
Game Features
Current
- 30+ hours of storyline
- 140+ types of enemies
- 40+ unique mainline NPCs
- Able to dig
- Able to build
- Able to plant farm
- Able to build colony
- Able to have followers
- Creation Editor to create vehicles, weapons, objects, vtols, boats, armor, and more
- Day/night cycle with realistic moon cycles
- Weather system
- 15+ types of mineral types
- 200+ unique items
- Resource scanner
- Realtime AI pathfinding
- Realtime water physics
- Multiple boss types
- Story Editor
- AI robot follower
- Negotiation with aliens
- War with aliens
Steam User 45
i joined this game in the alpha. i had not even looked at the news for it since January 2018. it is now 2023 and i am writing my review. with those disclaimers in mind here is my review.
this game had, and still has i think, the potential to be one of the greatest games ever made. and all of the mechanics needed to reach that potential are implemented. the problem is they are implemented terribly. the game is a buggy mess. i was super involved with the development. and when they announced it was feature complete i thought "YES finally they will start knocking out the bugs." but they never did. you will see on my play time that i had a lot of fun with this game. but if you want a polished game don't play it. i held this game as a monument to the terrors of early access. i delayed buying their next game for years due to how bad this went. and i came here to finally write that negative review i meant to give.
then i saw it is free now! it doesn't change the disappointment of them saying "we are abandoning it to do another game from scratch." but it does mean that any one reading this review should download this game and play it right now. is it a buggy mess? yes. are there sequence breaks and, near unplayable content? yes. is it an imperfect vision of what my ideal game to ever exist could be? VERY YES.
Steam User 22
This was absolutely genius and groundbreaking for 2016. Why didn't you guys finish it?
Steam User 11
This game is a bit janky, but still quite pretty, fascinating, has many surprising and interesting mechanics.
I gotta say there are some moments in Story Mode that just blew me away.
The creation/build system is extraordinary.
I would recommend this game if you're into voxel based builders, and think a fair price would be about £15. Apparently it's now free (lol), so if you think you might like it then absolutely check it out. It's a no-brainer :p
Steam User 6
If you played "Space engineers", "The Forest" and other games in which you mine, chop trees, cook and build your own base, this game will be fun for you. Love the creativity of the game, kind of complicated when trying to build vehicles, but I'm guessing it's a steep learning curve.
Steam User 11
Loved game when i paid for it and played it. Then they just gave up took our money now its free to play. What bs.
Steam User 1
A good little adventure game!
Steam User 1
The harvesting is slow. Finding food early in game is questionable on a hard custom water world. And building and controls are bit clunky. But I like the idea of the game mechanics similar to rust or that Aquatic survival game. But building turns into minecraftish blockyness. But I don't have time to get the controls right. The map function not great for me. But All in all it is maybe one okay game. Maybe I would give it three stars out of five.