Games like Planet Explorers
If Planet Explorers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Life is Feudal: Your Own, GRAV and Space Engineers — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and melancholic. 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 →Planet Explorers is a 2016 open-world sandbox adventure RPG developed by Pathea Games and set on a distant planet. The game features a voxel-based engine that allows terrain modification and object creation, with core mechanics including colony management, vehicle building, procedural crafting, and open-ended sandbox gameplay. Players engage with online cooperative multiplayer, progressing through a massive-length experience at a normal difficulty level. Reviewers highlight the creation system as complex and ahead of its time, with players able to design everything from vehicles to entire colonies. Players describe the experience as atmospheric, contemplative, melancholic, and nostalgic. The game is free to play with monetization limited to the soundtrack, and carries a 60 percent positive rating from 3,861 Steam reviews. It runs on Steam Deck.
About Planet Explorers: Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
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Life is Feudal: Your Own
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Planet Explorers.
Top pick for Planet Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Explorers.
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
GRAV
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Planet Explorers.
Second-strongest match for Planet Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Explorers.
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Space Engineers
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Planet Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Explorers.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Signs of Life
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Planet Explorers.
Ranked #4 for Planet Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Explorers.
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Planet Explorers.
Ranked #5 for Planet Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Explorers.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Empyrion - Galactic Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Planet Explorers.
Ranked #6 for Planet Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Explorers.
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Project Zomboid
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Planet Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Planet Explorers.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
FortressCraft Evolved!
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Planet Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Explorers.
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Planet Explorers
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My Time at Portia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Planet Explorers.
Reviewers of Planet Explorers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Explorers.
Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!
Starbound
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Planet Explorers.
Reviewers of Planet Explorers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Explorers.
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Infestation: The New Beginning
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Planet Explorers.
Reviewers of Planet Explorers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Explorers.
Infestation is a Survival Horror MMO that immerses players in a zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic world in which a viral outbreak has decimated the human population leaving in its wake, a nightmare of epic proportion.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Planet Explorers.
Reviewers of Planet Explorers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Explorers.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Space Engineers
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Planet Explorers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Explorers.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Rust
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Planet Explorers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Explorers.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Planet Explorers.
Reviewers of Planet Explorers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Planet Explorers.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Planet Explorers.
Reviewers of Planet Explorers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Planet Explorers.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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More from Pathea Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Pathea Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
My Time at Portia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Planet Explorers.
Another title from Pathea Games, the studio behind Planet Explorers. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Explorers.
Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!
My Time at Sandrock
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Planet Explorers.
Another title from Pathea Games, the studio behind Planet Explorers. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Explorers.
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
Let's School
WHY THIS
Another title from Pathea Games, the studio behind Planet Explorers. Shares Indie and Simulation with Planet Explorers.
Dive into the exhilarating role of a headmaster entrusted to revive your alma mater! Beyond just bricks and mortar, train teachers, recruit students. Sculpt your school into a unique educational haven! Let's School!
Ever Forward
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Planet Explorers.
Another title from Pathea Games, the studio behind Planet Explorers. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Explorers.
A girl trapped in a strange world somewhere between reality and imagination. Help her find her way in this adventure puzzle game.
Superball
WHY THIS
Another title from Pathea Games, the studio behind Planet Explorers. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Explorers.
Superball is a multiplayer 3v3 action game. An all-out blast of football in a cyberpunk setting. Choose a hero with unique abilities and conquer the sport of the future. Your accurate passes and strikes, as well as artful defense will lead your team to victory!
Ever Forward Prologue
WHY THIS
Another title from Pathea Games, the studio behind Planet Explorers. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Explorers.
A girl trapped in a strange world somewhere between reality and imagination. Help her find her way in this adventure puzzle game.
Super Buckyball Tournament Preseason
WHY THIS
Another title from Pathea Games, the studio behind Planet Explorers. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Explorers.
Super Buckyball Tournament Preseason is currently offline. Please join us again in early February 2021 for another round of SBT!
Let's School Homeroom
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Planet Explorers.
Another title from Pathea Games, the studio behind Planet Explorers. Shares Indie and Simulation with Planet Explorers.
Let's School: Homeroom is the prologue of Let's School. You can experience 2 weeks of in game time. If you like the experience, please go to Let's School Full Version's Store page and add to wishlist!
Frequently asked about Planet Explorers
- Does Planet Explorers run on Steam Deck?
- Planet Explorers is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is Planet Explorers free to play?
- Yes — Planet Explorers 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 Planet Explorers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Planet Explorers are Life is Feudal: Your Own, GRAV, Space Engineers.
- Who developed Planet Explorers?
- Planet Explorers was developed by Pathea Games.
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