Games like Planet Explorers

Miss the replayable and chaotic pull of Planet Explorers? These games keep things close enough to feel familiar. Most of them work well for a shared session.

Empyrion - Galactic Survival
A space sandbox survival adventure: start in a crashed pod on an alien planet, mine, craft and build your way up to capital ships, planetary bases and space stations, then warp off to explore a whole galaxy. Play alone or with friends, and expect things to go gloriously wrong along the way.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Chaotic
78% of 29,251 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 561$19.99
Farworld Pioneers
Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Chaotic
37% of 623 Steam reviews are positive$3.74
Starbound
You flee your destroyed home with a broken ship, beam down to survive, then roam a procedurally generated universe. Save the galaxy or ignore heroics to farm, build, collect creatures, and run colonies. Relaxed, colorful, and packed with things to make.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Chaotic, Relaxing
92% of 120,659 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 868$14.99
StarsOne
You’ll see an unexplored world full of dangers, mysteries and adventures. You will explore randomly generated planets, develop industry, conduct trade, plant colonies, explore outer space.
Also in Survival crafting
73% of 480 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
ASTRONEER
Gather resources, build modular bases, automate production, and chase strange structures and signals across seven planets, solo or in 2-4 player co-op.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Mysterious, Relaxing
91% of 119,338 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,050$29.99
The Planet Crafter
You land on a dead red planet with one job: make it livable. You gather ore, build machines that add heat, pressure and oxygen, and watch puddles become lakes and moss become forest. Slow, calm survival crafting with a payoff you can see from orbit.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Relaxing, Atmospheric
96% of 69,923 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4,876$23.99
Ragnorium
Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
57% of 585 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Unclaimed World
Manage interstellar pioneers and their descendants in this detailed sci-fi colony sim. Centuries after planetfall, colonists are still struggling to gain foothold on their lush and alien planet. You settle on the frontier by carefully managing resources, production and different personalities.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
49% of 179 Steam reviews are positive$1.18
Stars End
A sci-fi survival sandbox on the lawless frontier of a distant star system. Start with sticks and stones, build from a shack to a space station, and fly your own ship from planet surface to orbit. Play solo, team up with friends, or fight rival survivors for territory. Every scrap is earned.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
63% of 1,131 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
CryoFall
CryoFall is a 2D sci-fi survival colony sim on a forgotten planet. You start with primitive tools and work your way up through industrial, modern and space-age technology: farms, power grids, factories, vehicles, even war machines. Play it relaxed on PvE servers or brutal on PvP ones, alone or with friends. Just know it asks for patience.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
78% of 4,909 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 31$19.99
Cubic Odyssey
A blocky open-world galaxy where every star in the sky is a system you can visit. Mine planets, craft gear, build vehicles and starships, and push back the Red Darkness spreading across the stars. Play solo at your own pace or team up with friends to take on colossal threats.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
74% of 2,425 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 57$24.99
Planetaries
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
58% of 215 Steam reviews are positive$19.99

Hidden gems like Planet Explorers

Eden Crafters

Eden Crafters hands you a hostile planet and one job: make it livable.

$19.99

Astro Colony

Set up conveyor networks, dock your stations and research new tech at your own pace, alone or with friends.

$19.99

Signs of Life

Mine ore, build a base and piece together a crashed world in a 2D survival sandbox, alone or with a friend.

$9.74

Plains of Pain

A brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where the sun itself is out to kill you.

$19.99

Cubic Odyssey

Explore procedurally generated planets, craft gear and ships, and fight the Red Darkness alone or with friends.

$24.99

StarRupture

StarRupture is a first-person open-world survival and base-building game on a planet torn by recurring cataclysms.

$19.99

Project Rebearth

A massive online multiplayer where everyone plays on an exact replica of planet earth.

$17.99

Scrap Mechanic

Crash-land on a robot-infested farm planet and tinker your way through it, alone or with friends.

$28.99

Under A New Sun

While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth.

$17.99

Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder

Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game.

$11.99

QANGA

QANGA: 750 years after humanity's fall, you must survive in a shattered world where Earth itself demands vengeance.

$19.99

The Planet Crafter

Gather resources, build machines and slowly bring heat, air and water to a barren world, alone or with friends.

$23.99

Newest games like Planet Explorers

Signs of Life

Mine ore, build a base and piece together a crashed world in a 2D survival sandbox, alone or with a friend.

$9.74

Scrap Mechanic

Crash-land on a robot-infested farm planet and tinker your way through it, alone or with friends.

$28.99

Wonderia

Wonderia's an open-world, manga-art adventure just waiting to be explored.

$13.99

Farlands

Clear the weeds, plant your first crops and fish quiet ponds on a little world of your own, with trips to nearby planets for what you need.

$17.99

Last Breath

Last Breath is a solo or online co-op survival game about bringing a dead planet back to life.

$7.99

Astro Colony

Set up conveyor networks, dock your stations and research new tech at your own pace, alone or with friends.

$19.99

Eden Crafters

Eden Crafters hands you a hostile planet and one job: make it livable.

$19.99

Project Rebearth

A massive online multiplayer where everyone plays on an exact replica of planet earth.

$17.99

Adaptory

Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed.

$19.99

StarRupture

StarRupture is a first-person open-world survival and base-building game on a planet torn by recurring cataclysms.

$19.99

The Front

Gather, craft and fortify a base, then push back against the empire in first person, alone or with friends.

$19.99

Star Crafter

A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game.

$19.99