Games like The Planet Crafter
If The Planet Crafter is your kind of game, the closest matches are Satisfactory, ASTRONEER and Eden Crafters — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →The Planet Crafter is a space survival adventure in which players terraform an inhospitable world into a thriving biosphere. Gameplay centers on survival, resource gathering, base building, and crafting, with players progressively introducing oxygen, warmth, and atmospheric pressure to transform the environment. The game supports solo play and online co-op for up to ten participants. Miju Games released the title in 2024 at $23.99 USD, and it carries Steam Deck Verified status. Reviewers highlight its satisfying progression loop and collaborative potential, with the game holding a 96% positive rating from over 35,000 Steam reviews.
About The Planet Crafter: A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Players who liked The Planet Crafter also play
Steam players who put hours into The Planet Crafter also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Planet Crafter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
ASTRONEER
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Planet Crafter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Eden Crafters
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Planet Crafter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Palworld
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Planet Crafter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
ICARUS
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Planet Crafter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Occupy Mars: The Game
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Planet Crafter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Voidtrain
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Planet Crafter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Planet Crafter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Planet Crafter
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ASTRONEER
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Planet Crafter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Eden Crafters
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Planet Crafter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Subnautica
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Planet Crafter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Planet Crafter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Planet Crafter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Planet Crafter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Subnautica: Below Zero
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Planet Crafter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.
Grounded
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Planet Crafter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Planet Crafter at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~58% under The Planet Crafter on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Planet Crafter on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Inscryption
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Priced ~67% under The Planet Crafter on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
It Takes Two
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under The Planet Crafter on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Planet Crafter on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~96% under The Planet Crafter on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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More from Miju Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Miju Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Abracadabrew
WHY THIS
Another title from Miju Games, the studio behind The Planet Crafter.
Abracadabrew is a memory-based 1-4 player local co-op game. Cooperate with friends while using your memory to brew as many potions as you can by dawn. Gather ingredients hidden around the room while communicating and staying focused to unlock new brain-racking potion combinations.
Abracadabrew : Prologue
WHY THIS
Another title from Miju Games, the studio behind The Planet Crafter.
Abracadabrew : Prologue is a memory based 1-4 players local couch co-op game. Cooperate with your friends while using your memory skills to brew as many potions as you can before dawn. Gather ingredients hidden across the place, communicate and stay focused to unlock new brain-racking potions!
The Planet Crafter: Prologue
WHY THIS
Another title from Miju Games, the studio behind The Planet Crafter. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Palworld
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Frequently asked about The Planet Crafter
- Is The Planet Crafter verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Planet Crafter is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does The Planet Crafter cost?
- The Planet Crafter is listed on Steam at 23.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does The Planet Crafter have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Planet Crafter supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to The Planet Crafter?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Planet Crafter are Satisfactory, ASTRONEER, Eden Crafters.
- Who developed The Planet Crafter?
- The Planet Crafter was developed by Miju Games.
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