Planet Explorers

Planet Explorers is set in 2287, when one of Earth’s first colony ships reaches Maria in the Epsilon Indi Star System. Something appears in the ship’s path during landing, causing it to lose control and crash. Some colonists escape in lifeboats and find a hostile land full of creatures that threaten the newcomers. You explore, gather resources, build, craft and fight as the survivors try to establish a new home.

Game modes

The game offers Story Mode, Adventure Mode and Build Mode. Story Mode is the main action-adventure and role-playing experience, with some 4X elements. Its 17-by-8-kilometer world includes characters, landscapes, biomes, locations and over 140 types of potential enemies. You can follow or ignore the storyline, complete missions, build a colony, farm, train, negotiate with sentient aliens and defend the perimeter from local life forms. You can also focus on farming and keeping colonists alive rather than fighting; this can still lead to the ending. Story Mode includes co-op with other players.

Adventure Mode uses a procedurally generated map based on a seed, covering 40 by 40 kilometers. You can take on random missions, defeat bosses, explore dungeons and travel through different landscapes. This mode also includes survival and versus.

Build Mode has no enemies and gives you an unlimited supply of building materials on a 40-by-40-kilometer map. You can make anything available in the Creations Editor, using the mode to test your designs or build without interference from aliens.

Building and survival

You can dig, build structures and colonies, plant farms and recruit followers. The Creations Editor lets you make vehicles, weapons, objects, VTOLs, boats, armor and more. The game also includes a day-and-night cycle with realistic moon cycles, a weather system, over 15 types of minerals, over 200 unique items, a resource scanner, real-time AI pathfinding and real-time water physics.

Story and encounters

The story offers over 30 hours of content and more than 40 unique mainline NPCs. You can negotiate or go to war with aliens, encounter multiple types of bosses and use an AI robot follower. A Story Editor is also included.