Games like The Planet Crafter: Prologue
If The Planet Crafter: Prologue is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Planet Crafter, Sol One and Occupy Mars: The Game — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and cozy. 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: Prologue is a free-to-play adventure released in 2021 by Miju Games. Players terraform an alien world through base-building, crafting recipes, and blueprint-unlocking, while managing oxygen and food production. Meteor showers dynamically replenish resources during gameplay. Reviewers highlight that crafting unlocks new biomes and gameplay layers, and exploration reveals hidden secrets and collectibles. Players describe the experience as atmospheric, cozy, and relaxing, noting the sandbox has no forced urgency while terraforming feels rewarding and impactful. The game holds a 95% positive rating from over 2,900 Steam reviews.
About The Planet Crafter: Prologue: 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.
Players who liked The Planet Crafter: Prologue also play
Steam players who put hours into The Planet Crafter: Prologue 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.
The Planet Crafter
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Top pick for The Planet Crafter: Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
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.
Sol One
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Second-strongest match for The Planet Crafter: Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
A grounded open-world survival crafting game where you're stranded alone on Mars. Explore the red planet, extract resources, build a pressurized base, manage oxygen, power, and food, and construct the rocket that's your only way home.
Occupy Mars: The Game
WHY THIS
Shares base building with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
Third-strongest match for The Planet Crafter: Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
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.
Blossom: The Seed of Life
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Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
Ranked #4 for The Planet Crafter: Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
Kalit
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Ranked #5 for The Planet Crafter: Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
A unique survival adventure, animated in a 1930s rubber hose style! Fight to survive: capture creatures, farm, mine, and craft everything you need: from gear and vehicles to your base. Explore strange lands and an underwater world of shipwrecks, dangers, and hidden wonders.
AstroPlanet
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Shares oxygen management, base building and an atmospheric mood with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
Ranked #6 for The Planet Crafter: Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
AstroPlanet is a sandbox game where you find yourself in the role of an astronaut whose ship has crashed on a planet with an inhospitable atmosphere. Your task is not only to survive, but also to turn this world into a habitable place.
Satisfactory
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Shares base building with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
Ranked #7 for The Planet Crafter: Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
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!
Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
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Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
Ranked #8 for The Planet Crafter: Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
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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.
The Planet Crafter
WHY THIS
Another title from Miju Games, the studio behind The Planet Crafter: Prologue. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
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.
Abracadabrew
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Another title from Miju Games, the studio behind The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
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: Prologue.
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!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Planet Crafter
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
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.
Blossom: The Seed of Life
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
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!
Frequently asked about The Planet Crafter: Prologue
- Is The Planet Crafter: Prologue free to play?
- Yes — The Planet Crafter: Prologue is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to The Planet Crafter: Prologue?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Planet Crafter: Prologue are The Planet Crafter, Sol One, Occupy Mars: The Game.
- Who developed The Planet Crafter: Prologue?
- The Planet Crafter: Prologue was developed by Miju Games.
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