$14.99Planet Centauri Dig, tame, transform
Planet Centauri is a colorful 2D pixel sandbox RPG where you explore biomes and trap-filled dungeons alone or with co-op friends. You capture and tame monsters, turn into them, build and defend a village, and craft weapons and custom magic spells. There is a lot to try, from farming to machines to circuits.
Is Planet Centauri worth it?
Planet Centauri is worth it if…
- you like open-ended co-op games with no forced main quest
- you want to split jobs with co-op friends: one tames, one builds, one cooks
- you like creature collecting, breeding, and transforming into captures
- you like fiddly systems for spells, machines, and circuits
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Catch monsters and wear their shape
You capture monsters with gems, fight beside them as they gain experience and evolve, and keep their quirks. Sealed monsters let you transform into almost any creature you have caught, so you can borrow useful tricks like flying or digging through ground. Happy captives in little pocket-world houses can even lay eggs, with traits passed down from the parents. Breeding for the perfect monster takes patience, and chickens remain a workplace hazard.
Build a village that works for you
You rescue the native Chloridians, build and fortify their village from over 500 blocks and decorations, then give inhabitants jobs as cooks, guards, wizards, researchers, and more. Shapes, slopes, and paint give structures detail. Past houses and walls, you can set up windmills, chicken wheels, cogs, belts, conveyors, and saws to mill, crush, and cut trees, or wire lights, sensors, logic, and memory into magitech circuits. Copy and paste is the most advanced spell for sharing with friends.
Craft spells, gear, and dinner
You design magic in a live event editor, setting arcs, patterns, and combined elements: fire burns, ice freezes and pierces, electric is fast, stone throws or petrifies, light heals, shadow follows through enemies. Weapons and armor come in seven rarity levels, level up through kills or crystals, and take runes for stats and effects. Full armor sets unlock classes, from miner to shadow hunter. Eating varied cooked food and farming crops makes your character stronger, with essences brewed into potions for life, haste, and more.
What else should you know?
Can you play it solo or with co-op friends?
Both work. The game is built for solo play or with friends in multiplayer, exploring dungeons, building villages, and fighting Night Walkers together. Progress is open, so you can take bosses and dungeons in any order you can survive, with a completion tree and tutorial pages for direction.
How does monster rarity work?
Monsters and gear both have rarity levels. Rarer monsters are stronger and more dangerous, with reinforced stats and unique abilities, which makes capturing them more rewarding. Weapons and armor also run through seven rarity levels, with higher tiers carrying stronger and more unusual effects.
Can you share custom spells?
Yes, in a low-tech way. Spells are built in the editor from events and elements, then shared as base64 text. You copy the string, send it to a friend, and they paste it in. No workshop needed.
Is there a creative way to play?
Creative mode gives developer tools, commands, terraforming, and infinite items, plus an event and trigger system for traps, enemy spawns, and mini-games without coding. Modding is also possible through text files and Lua, though mods must be shared and installed by hand.
