Planet Explorers overview

Overview

Planet Explorers comes from Pathea Games and is published by Pathea Games. It arrived on Steam on Nov 8, 2016, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, Partial Controller Support, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Planet Explorers's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 9 players at 10 September 2026 - 15:05:07 UTC, with a tracked peak near 16. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 62% positive across 6,815 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Planet Explorers is available in 2 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Planet Explorers has sold up to 474,000 units and has 5,117 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $6,200,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Planet Explorers overview details

Planet Explorers combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

In Planet Explorers, it is the year 2287, one of the first colony ships sent out by Earth arrives at the planet Maria, in the Epsilon Indi Star System. During its landing sequence, something appears in front of the massive ship that causes it to lose control and crash into the planet. Some of the colonists survive in lifeboats, but what they find is an unforgiving land filled with creatures ready to outlast the visitors from Earth. Now the survivors must explorer, gather, build, create, fight, and ultimately, build a new home. Game Modes Planet Explorers right now only features single player. In single player there are 3 distinct selections Story Mode – Story mode is the main meat and bones of the game, it is the action-adventure-rpg-somewhat-4X segment, offering npcs, missions, colony building, farming, training, diplomacy, and of course, a storyline that you can follow or ignore. This story features a 17X8km world map with many unique character, landscapes, biomes, locations, and over 140 types of potential enemies. Even though we’ve made it seem like a very action oriented game in the trailers, in reality, players can choose to not fight so much as to just plant a farm, make some food, keep the colonists alive, negotiate with the sentient aliens, and defend the perimeter from the local life forms. That can still eventually arrive at the ending. And yes, there is an ending. Story mode also features coop with other players. Adventure Mode – This mode is based on a procedural map generated from a seed. It comes in a 40X40 kilometer map. Players will be able to complete r…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Planet Explorers is listed as a game with Free to play. It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, belongs to Single-player, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, Partial Controller Support, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG, and Simulation. SteamPulse's latest observation records 9 players at 10 September 2026 - 15:05:07 UTC, a tracked peak of 16, and 62% positive reviews.

Overview tags

Open World Survival CraftSandboxOpen WorldSurvivalMultiplayerAdventureCraftingRPGExplorationBuildingSci-fiIndieActionCo-opSimulation

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