The Planet Crafter: Prologue similar games & best alternatives

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The Planet Crafter: Prologue

2021

Should you play it?

Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.

What works

  • Addictive and relaxing gameplay
  • Engaging terraforming and base building
  • Free prologue with many hours of content
  • Beautiful visuals and atmosphere
  • Clear progression and exploration

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited map size and replay value
  • Some ui and building interface issues
  • Lack of multiplayer or co-op
  • Resource gathering can become tedious
  • Early access bugs and performance issues

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Waking Mars

  • Astrometica: Prologue

  • Blossom: The Seed of Life

  • Star Trucker

  • Breathedge

  • Downward: Enhanced Edition

More violent

Games that feels like The Planet Crafter: Prologue but with more combat and destruction

  • Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered

  • Verho - Curse of Faces

  • Wild West and Wizards

  • Exoplanet: First Contact

  • Voidling Bound

  • Eternal Edge+ Prologue

Less survival-focused

Games that feels like The Planet Crafter: Prologue but with less survival pressure

  • Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles

  • Sword of the Sea

  • LEGO® Worlds

  • The Witch of Fern Island

  • Summer in Mara

  • Garden of the Sea (VR)

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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

The Planet Crafter: Prologue: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Story, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival, Fantasy, Story.

Last update: 03/08/2026