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Pathea Games · 2016 · 62 % positive of 6,812

24 games that play like Planet Explorers and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Planetaries, Starbound and Keplerth.

Player tags

  • Open World Survival Craft
  • Sandbox
  • Open World
  • Survival
  • Multiplayer
  • Adventure
  • Crafting
  • RPG

At a glance

What games like Planet Explorers have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Planet Explorers: Sandbox (22 of 24), Open World Survival Craft (19) and Open World (19).
  • They came out between 2014 and 2025, 17 of them after Planet Explorers (2016).
  • Best rated by Steam players: The Planet Crafter (96 % positive of 54,316).
  • 4 games both play and look like Planet Explorers, among them GRAV, Stars End and Empyrion - Galactic Survival.

By gameplay

Plays like Planet Explorers

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. ASTRONEER92 % positive of 128,956Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Open World
  2. TerraTech Worlds62 % positive of 1,809Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Open World
  3. Surviving Titan67 % positive of 166Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Open World · Survival
  4. ROKH37 % positive of 440Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Open World
  5. TerraTech91 % positive of 23,410Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Open World
  6. Empyrion - Galactic Survival78 % positive of 33,247Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Open World
  7. Rising World84 % positive of 5,335Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Survival
  8. Beyond Contact72 % positive of 1,010Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting
  9. Creativerse77 % positive of 30,975Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Open World
  10. Novus Inceptio53 % positive of 1,277Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Open World
  11. Ragnorium59 % positive of 623Shared: Sandbox · Survival · RPG
  12. Edge of Space33 % positive of 2,723Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Open World

By look

Looks like Planet Explorers

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. GRAV47 % positive of 6,917
  2. Time of Dragons62 % positive of 1,673
  3. Executive Assault85 % positive of 1,455
  4. Starbase57 % positive of 6,606
  5. StarDrive 255 % positive of 2,084
  6. Guardians Frontline82 % positive of 301
  7. Star Control®: Origins73 % positive of 2,617
  8. 天际起源 The Ark of Horizon52 % positive of 669
  9. Ryzom70 % positive of 502
  10. Impulse of War64 % positive of 439
  11. The Riftbreaker: Prologue95 % positive of 4,100
  12. PlanetSide Arena45 % positive of 1,876

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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