Fit check
Is Planetaries worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Players who want survival crafting combined with tower-defense combat
- Explorers who prefer open worlds with mining, contracts, caves, and outposts
- Small groups seeking cooperative base building and combat
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a tightly focused genre experience rather than a mix of exploration, crafting, survival, combat, and defense
- Players who prefer short, linear sessions over resource gathering, base development, contracts, and repeated enemy waves
- Players looking for a story-led adventure with a fixed sequence of events
Our take on Planetaries
Combining open-world exploration, base construction, resource gathering, contracts, and tower defense gives the game a broad activity range. The trade-off is a less focused structure, with progression spread across several systems instead of centered on one primary gameplay loop.
What is Planetaries?
Planetaries is a sci-fi open-world survival game on a distant planet.
Players gather resources, mine, trade, explore, fight alien life, and complete contracts for rewards. Data collection, raids, loot, levels, and tech points support access to technologies and crafting blueprints. Bases can serve as fortified shelters, industrial sites for farming and trade, or temporary camps, with facilities such as energy generators, vehicle pads, and particle accelerators. A Tech Data Beacon attracts hostile waves for tower-defense encounters, while other activities include hunting aliens, attacking outposts, exploring caves, and recovering resources. Single-player and multiplayer modes support building, crafting, combat, and exploration with friends or other players.
How Planetaries plays
- 01Open-World Exploration
- Travel across an alien planet to find outposts, points of interest, hidden secrets, caves, loot, and contracts.
- 02Base Construction
- Build bunkers, industrial farming and trading sites, or temporary shelters with facilities including generators and vehicle pads.
- 03Resource Gathering
- Use a gathering laser, deep mines, and alien hunting to obtain materials for crafting and construction.
- 04Wave Defense
- Construct a Tech Data Beacon that draws hostile enemies into successive attack waves.
- 05Contracts And Progression
- Complete tasks, collect data, earn rewards, gain levels and tech points, and unlock blueprints and technologies.
- 06Cooperative Multiplayer
- Create or join multiplayer games to build, craft, fight, and explore with friends or random players.
Planetaries compared to similar games
Planetaries combines open-world exploration, base construction, resource gathering, contracts, combat, and tower-defense waves, while Mr. Prepper centers on preparing an underground shelter and resisting an authoritarian government in a survival crafting setting. Planetaries also supports single-player and multiplayer play, whereas the provided description of Mr. Prepper does not identify multiplayer.
Planetaries: platforms & release
Is Planetaries worth it?
It is worth it if: players who want survival crafting combined with tower-defense combat. Skip it if: players seeking a tightly focused genre experience rather than a mix of exploration, crafting, survival, combat, and defense.
Where can I download Planetaries?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Planetaries's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Planetaries on?
Windows only.
