Planetbase
Skip · Strategy · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line 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
$14.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$7.4950% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.70/hr
- Reviews▼
- 80% of 10,498
- Genre rank
- Top 18% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 8.8h
- To 100%
- 33.1h 3.8x the story
- Achievements
- 30
Price and sales
- Sales
- 107 on record
- Typical cut
- 40% off
- Steam low
- $3.74 June 2025
- Sale every
- 35d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 114 now
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 78% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
98% start to 2% 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
Across all 107 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 18 percent. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Space Haven ($24.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats The Crust ($19.19, scores 41).
More about Planetbase
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 354 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 8.8 hours; clearing it takes 33, which is 3.8 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 11 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
Game is more fun in early game when stakes are high and your colony can fail. Later on, it's just a matter of balancing resources as your population approaches 300 to unlock (what will probably be) your last milestone for that planet. I did full completion on all planets, so it was enjoyable enough.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Great base builder game, I had a lot of fun with it. Very relaxed and chill sound track. really recommend for the price
MPCs are so stupid, and it's ruining 85% of the gameplay. They are just too lazy to take care of food and vegetables, then in next 10 minutes they're all hungry, but still lazy to start making food. And in next 10 mins they are all dying. And rest 15% is ruined, cause it's too hard to build a good base from beginning, and as result on 60d - your base is mess, and there is no good way to fix it, and cause of it your...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB VRAM (Shader Model 3), 645 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Planetbase scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/403190/planetbaseReviews 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 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.