Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

• riot@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I personally like it a lot more than Satisfactory currently, but that's because my life is pretty stressful right now, and managing the conveyor belt spaghetti and machine connections is too tiresome for me at the moment.

  With The Planet Crafter you are striving to unlock buildings by raising your Terraformation Index, which is comprised of pressure, oxygen, heat and biomass. You do that by crafting and placing down various machines and buildings, but none of them are feeding each other like in Satisfactory. Instead you are out exploring, finding ores in the wild, in old bases, scattered crates, and raiding old, abandoned, crashed spaceships for resources and parts. There are no enemies in the game, so no combat and no weapons. Instead the challenge is to manage your oxygen, hunger, thirst, and various environmental hazards like meteors and weather events.

  As you raise your Terraformation Index you'll start seeing your planet change in flora and atmosphere, which is such a cool experience! New areas will be unlocked by you heating up the planet, which will introduce new resources. I just can't recommend this game enough. I think it's definitely worth the full price, but based on previous sales, my guess is that it'll go on sale again within a month, around 40% off, if they stick to the pattern. I also really appreciate their pricing structure for DLC, which is just a new planet to start out on (Base game has 2 different planets to choose from as your starter), at 8 euros. I ended up getting it, since only the player hosting the save file, needs to own it, in order for everyone in multiplayer to join in.

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  • _hovi_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sounds good yeah, I’ll add it to the list lol

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