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Planet Explorers cover art

Planet Explorers

Pathea Games · 2016-11-08

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieRPGSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person, Third person

Releases: Nov 08, 2016 (Mac), Nov 08, 2016 (Linux), Nov 08, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.

Planet Explorers is an Action, Adventure, Indie, and RPG game released in 2016, free-to-play, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (62% of 6,817 reviews).

6
playing now
62%
positive of 6.8k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
82
Nexus mods (37k downloads)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

6 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Planet Explorers is an adventure role-playing video game developed and published by Pathea Games. Development began in January 2014, existing as an early access game. The game was released on 8 November 2016 for Microsoft Windows, OS X and Linux on the Steam digital distribution platform.

Trailer

Planet Explorers trailer thumbnail

Planet Explorers - Launch Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 6 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 32 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 24% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (224 reviews).
  • · Top 6% of 27,712 Action games in the census by review count.

All-time low: $7.49 at Steam (2018-10-15)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
15015020182026Week of 2018-01-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 150 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

712026-09-15 13:00 — 5 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 3 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 6 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 5 players2026-09-22 04:00 — 3 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 6 players2026-09-24 19:00 — 5 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 2 players2026-09-27 10:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 3 players2026-09-30 01:00 — 5 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 4 players2026-10-02 16:00 — 4 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 4 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 4 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 3 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 2 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 5 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 6 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 5 players2026-10-13 05:00 — 7 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$0.002015-01-012019-07-042015-01-01 — best price $19.992015-01-02 — best price $24.992015-02-19 — best price $12.492015-02-21 — best price $24.992015-06-11 — best price $18.742015-06-17 — best price $12.492015-06-18 — best price $18.742015-06-22 — best price $24.992015-11-25 — best price $14.992015-12-01 — best price $24.992015-12-22 — best price $12.492016-01-04 — best price $24.992016-02-05 — best price $14.992016-02-12 — best price $24.992016-06-23 — best price $14.992016-07-04 — best price $24.992016-12-22 — best price $14.992017-01-02 — best price $24.992017-01-19 — best price $19.992017-06-01 — best price $9.992017-06-03 — best price $19.992017-06-22 — best price $11.992017-07-05 — best price $19.992017-08-07 — best price $14.992017-12-21 — best price $10.492018-01-04 — best price $14.992018-06-21 — best price $10.492018-07-05 — best price $14.992018-10-15 — best price $7.492018-10-22 — best price $14.992018-11-21 — best price $7.492018-11-27 — best price $14.992018-12-20 — best price $7.492019-01-03 — best price $14.992019-02-04 — best price $7.492019-02-11 — best price $14.992019-02-14 — best price $9.992019-07-04 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1412026-06-02 — 3 pageviews2026-06-06 — 6 pageviews2026-06-10 — 4 pageviews2026-06-14 — 9 pageviews2026-06-18 — 3 pageviews2026-06-22 — 5 pageviews2026-06-26 — 4 pageviews2026-06-30 — 9 pageviews2026-07-04 — 4 pageviews2026-07-08 — 10 pageviews2026-07-12 — 2 pageviews2026-07-16 — 7 pageviews2026-07-20 — 4 pageviews2026-07-24 — 3 pageviews2026-07-28 — 5 pageviews2026-08-01 — 2 pageviews2026-08-05 — 4 pageviews2026-08-09 — 2 pageviews2026-08-13 — 7 pageviews2026-08-17 — 2 pageviews2026-08-21 — 6 pageviews2026-08-25 — 6 pageviews2026-08-29 — 6 pageviews2026-09-02 — 10 pageviews2026-09-06 — 7 pageviews2026-09-10 — 4 pageviews2026-09-14 — 6 pageviews2026-09-18 — 3 pageviews2026-09-22 — 3 pageviews2026-09-26 — 3 pageviews2026-09-30 — 5 pageviews2026-10-04 — 6 pageviews2026-10-08 — 5 pageviews2026-10-12 — 1 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

16
achievements tracked
14.2%
earned "Old and Sick"
2.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2016-11-09 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,2203%16

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

RPGCo-opIndieActionSci-fiSandboxBuildingCraftingSurvivalAdventure

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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