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Planet's Edge cover art

Planet's Edge

New World Computing · Ziggurat · 2021-02-05

SteamGOG

RPGSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 01, 1991 (DOS), Feb 05, 2021 (Mac), Feb 05, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Travel between dozens of stars, harvest resources to repair and upgrade your equipment, meet and negotiate with friendly (and hostile) aliens, and do whatever it takes to stay alive and bring Earth back in this groundbreaking sci-fi RPG.

0
playing now
91%
positive of 11 reviews
Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$7.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Planet's Edge is a 1992 space science fiction role-playing video game developed by New World Computing with Eric Hyman as the lead designer. The game's plot centers on investigating the sudden disappearance of planet Earth, by venturing out into the universe from a Moon base. There are two main play modes: real-time exploration and combat using various spacecraft, and turn-based exploration, problem solving, and combat on the surface of dozens of planets. The game features a variety of objects, weapons, and missions, though it lacks any detailed experience or stats system for the four characters the player controls.

Health check

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  • · Top 99% of 6,201 RPG games in the census by review count.

Current store prices

GOG$1.99-75%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$7.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.99 at Humble Store (2026-08-13) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 45 of 80 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$7.99$1.992021-02-052026-08-302021-02-05 — best price $5.352021-05-11 — best price $5.732021-06-03 — best price $7.092021-07-09 — best price $7.092021-09-13 — best price $7.992021-10-29 — best price $5.872021-11-30 — best price $7.992022-01-06 — best price $7.092022-03-07 — best price $5.192022-05-17 — best price $7.092022-06-26 — best price $7.092022-11-29 — best price $7.992023-01-20 — best price $5.192023-04-05 — best price $5.192023-05-25 — best price $7.092023-07-11 — best price $7.092023-10-23 — best price $5.192023-12-21 — best price $5.192024-02-08 — best price $5.192024-08-01 — best price $7.092024-11-21 — best price $5.192025-01-12 — best price $7.992025-05-26 — best price $7.992025-07-21 — best price $7.992025-09-04 — best price $7.992025-10-07 — best price $3.592025-11-29 — best price $7.992026-01-03 — best price $7.992026-02-17 — best price $3.192026-04-02 — best price $7.992026-04-30 — best price $7.992026-05-29 — best price $5.952026-06-30 — best price $2.392026-08-03 — best price $2.392026-08-30 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Census log

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

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