The Planet Crafter
BANGER · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$23.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$11.9950% offBANGER
- Cost per hourS
- $0.65/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 75,192
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Narrative
Watch this gameOne alert at $11.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 37h
- To 100%
- 60.8h 1.6x the story
- Achievements
- 55
Price and sales
- Sales
- 47 on record
- Typical cut
- 30% off
- Steam low
- $9.99 October 2025
- Sale every
- 36d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 4,275 now
- Recent reviews
- 95% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
95% start to 13% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 47 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Eden Crafters ($19.99, scores 60) and ICARUS ($34.99, scores 40).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $49.97. It costs $23.99.
More about The Planet Crafter
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 19 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,628 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 944 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 1,576 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 10 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
After spending a completely totally normal amount of time in a game that I have owned for less than two weeks, I can confidently say that I greatly enjoy Planet Crafter. This game was recommended to me by a friend after I had finished the Subnautica 2 early access content, as I was chomping at the bit for more of that particular brand of Survival Crafting, and wowie did it not disappoint. THE PROS: - Gameplay: Like...
2 more reviews
A thoroughly enjoyable experience, one, built upon the idea of long-term visual gratification and it does that very, very well. You'll land on a barren planet and are tasked with of course, terraforming it. Progress will start off slow and the visual improvements minimal, but it all builds upon the idea of delayed gratification. It's something that is better experienced, rather than described, it hits all of the...
A really fun and relaxed base building game! In fact, it reminds me of subnautica in a lot of ways (just on land instead of sea). Pros: - Really good graphics - Seeing the effects of your terraforming in real time is beautiful and satisfying to see. - Lots of interesting lore and worldbuilding Cons: - Some things in this game take way too long to happen. This is most notable with the trade rocket and the final phase...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 3GB VRAM, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Planet Crafter scores 96/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1284190/the-planet-crafterReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 8, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.