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Miju Games · 2021 · Windows

Steam: 95 % positive of 10,715 reviews, as of Oct 28

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.

24 games that play like The Planet Crafter: Prologue and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: The Planet Crafter, ASTRONEER and Eden Crafters.

Player tags

  • Survival
  • Multiplayer
  • Open World Survival Craft
  • Base-Building
  • Open World
  • Exploration
  • Crafting
  • Singleplayer
Map region: Survival & Crafting
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Steam reviews

What players say

Players mostly enjoy this free prologue for its base-building and terraforming, but many say it ends too soon, and a few report motion sickness and control problems.

Most players recommend the prologue, mainly for its base-building and resource gathering, and for the sense of slowly terraforming a lifeless planet. Many reviewers like the crafting loop and the quest-driven progression that gives the crafting a purpose. The most common complaint is that the prologue ends at a fixed terraforming threshold and players cannot go on, which some call disappointing and others want extended. Some players find resources too scarce or food too slow to grow, and some find the time limit before oxygen runs out frustrating. A few report severe motion sickness, and a few report unplayable controls or lag on their hardware. Recent reviews are more negative than the older helpful ones, but too few exist to draw firm conclusions.

Praised

  • Base-building and terraforming

    Players enjoy building a base and slowly raising oxygen, heat and pressure until the planet changes.

    Many players
  • Relaxing crafting loop

    Players like gathering resources and crafting as a calm, satisfying way to unwind.

    Some players
  • Blueprints and exploration

    Exploring crashed ships for blueprints and rare materials gives players a clear reason to explore.

    Some players
  • Quest-driven progression

    A main story and quests give players a purpose behind the crafting, unlike pure sandbox survival games.

    Some players

Criticised

  • Prologue ends too soon

    Players reach a fixed terraforming threshold and cannot continue, which they find abrupt and disappointing.

    Many players
  • Scarce food and slow growth

    Players find it takes too long to grow food and that food in crates is rare.

    Some players
  • Oxygen time pressure

    Players say the short time before oxygen runs out makes gathering resources frustrating, and losing carried items feels unfair.

    A few players
Who it suits
Players who enjoy base-building, resource gathering and slow terraforming, and who are happy with a short free taste of the full game.
Who should skip it
Players who want a long, open-ended survival game, or who are prone to motion sickness or have hardware that struggles with lag.

Short vs. long playtime: Players with more hours tend to ask for more content after the prologue ends, while newer players mostly praise the crafting and building.

Summarised by AI from 41 Steam reviews (English, helpful and recent), as of Oct 28, 2026.

Best matches

Plays and looks like The Planet Crafter: Prologue

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like The Planet Crafter: Prologue

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

More matches

  1. Space Engineers88 % positive of 100,715Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Open World
  2. Astrometica80 % positive of 2,951Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Base-Building
  3. Planetbase79 % positive of 9,596Shared: Survival · Base-Building · Open World
  4. ICARUS74 % positive of 56,595Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Base-Building
  5. TerraTech Worlds61 % positive of 2,034Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Base-Building
  6. Empyrion - Galactic Survival77 % positive of 29,240Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Open World
  7. Scrap Mechanic92 % positive of 109,888Shared: Survival · Base-Building · Open World
  8. Farlanders: Prologue93 % positive of 290Shared: Survival · Base-Building · Space
  9. Starbound89 % positive of 87,438Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Open World
  10. Stationeers87 % positive of 8,656Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Base-Building
  11. StarRupture80 % positive of 12,562
  12. Stranded: Alien Dawn83 % positive of 9,786Shared: Survival · Base-Building · Crafting

By look

Looks like The Planet Crafter: Prologue

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

More matches

  1. The Outer Worlds82 % positive of 28,323
  2. Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition72 % positive of 1,570
  3. Subnautica: Below Zero90 % positive of 99,732
  4. Echo Point Nova96 % positive of 7,627
  5. Astrometica: Prologue88 % positive of 1,309
  6. Rodina92 % positive of 1,227
  7. Surviving Mars76 % positive of 29,321
  8. SpaceCraft62 % positive of 2,713
  9. StarsOne72 % positive of 480
  10. Occupy Mars: Prologue (2020)77 % positive of 1,566
  11. Space Trash Scavenger81 % positive of 515
  12. Planet S91 % positive of 2,904

At a glance

What games like The Planet Crafter: Prologue have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Planet Crafter: Prologue: Survival (23 of 24), Base-Building (19) and Open World Survival Craft (16).
  • They came out between 2015 and 2026, 12 of them after The Planet Crafter: Prologue (2021).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Satisfactory (97 % positive of 236,870).

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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