About the Game
Planetaries
Prepare to dive into a sci-fi open world survival adventure. Set in a time when humanity has expanded its reach beyond the confines of Earth, immerse yourself in a rich galaxy. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and fight your way through a living universe filled with alien life, mysteries, pirates, droids, and much more.Progression and Mechanics
Explore, gather resources, and complete contracts to earn rewards. Engage in daring raids to secure valuable loot or focus on collecting crucial data to advance your levels and accrue tech points. Use these resources to unlock new technologies and crafting blueprints. Upgrade your gear and equipment to take on increasingly challenging contracts or brave perilous environments on hostile the planet, ensuring your survival and success in your adventures.Build Your Legacy
Build your base of operations, whether it's a fortified bunker to withstand enemy assaults, an industrial outpost for farming and trade, or a temporary shelter for your adventures. Construct essential facilities like particle accelerators, energy generators, vehicle pads, and more to support your goals and survival in this vast and challenging planet. Each choice shapes your gameplay and strategies, offering diverse opportunities for exploration and success.Tower Defense and Combat
Construct your Tech Data Beacon and brace yourself to fend off relentless waves of hostile enemies drawn to its signal. Alternatively, you might choose to focus solely on survival by hunting aliens and battling the dangers of the world. If raiding and plundering suit your style, target other outposts for their valuable loot. Or perhaps you’re an intrepid adventurer seeking thrills in perilous caves, taking on hazardous contracts for the ultimate challenge.Gathering Resources
Explore, gather, collect, and harvest a diverse range of resources. Utilize your advanced gathering laser to kickstart your resource collection journey, extracting rare matter essential for crafting and construction. Venture into deep mines to extract valuable crystals coveted by traders for their currency value, or hunt alien fauna for their organic matter.Contracts and Exploration
Explore a variety of outposts to acquire contracts from reputable contractors, then dive into completing these tasks for both rewards and the excitement of facing adventure and danger head on. Or traverse the world, uncover valuable loot, level up your skills, reveal hidden secrets, and stumble upon new outposts and points of interest.CO-OP Multiplayer
Create or join a multiplayer game to team up with friends or random players, collaborating to build, adventure, fight, and craft together. In this expansive world.Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
Hello explorers,
Thank you all once again for the amazing support, feedback, suggestions, and bug reports. To everyone in the Planetaries community — on Steam, Discord, and beyond — we truly appreciate your kindness, patience, and continued support for the project.
This update is another big step forward. A major focus of v1.8 is optimization, including huge improvements to loading systems, streaming performance, foliage, lighting, and texture management.
🌌 Patch Notes:
Fixed loading issues
Fixed minor animation bugs
Fixed additional loading-related issues
Fixed minor inventory bugs
Fixed lighting and rendering issues
Tweaked certain sound effects
Improved loading screen
Improved overall texture streaming (significant improvement)
Improved foliage optimization
Improved overall performance (major optimization pass)
Improved and tweaked shadow optimization
Improved streaming loading times
Improved and tweaked player roll mechanic
Improved the player’s ability to dodge melee attacks using better maneuvering
Improved & tweaked Boss AI movement
Added Virtual Streaming Texture support
Added new loading system
Added New Boss: Destroyer Bot
Added Mini Boss: Destroyer Bot Variant
Added New Pirate Boss: Duelist
Added Destroyer Bots to world enemy spawns
Added Boss Beacon POIs across the world
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Thank you again for your support.
We wish everyone a great, chill, and happy weekend — and happy gaming!
- Fixed a bug that was limiting tech tree options
- Fixed a UI bug related to the scroll function
- Fixed a minor bug related to crafting
- Fixed a bug related to AI movement
- Fixed a minor server networking bug that impacted performance for some players
- Fixed an async-related bug
- Fixed a minor buildable positioning bug
- Improved AI navigation system
- Improved overall performance
- Improved Nanite object load times
- Minor improvements to UI function performance
Hello again! I want to thank you all for your continued support and for playing Planetaries.
I’m currently working on a future major update, which will bring the game to newer technologies this might impact performance slightly but will also improve visuals and the overall experience.
What would you like to see in the future of Planetaries? Let me know!
What's New:
- DLSS tweaking for RTX cards
- Server stability improvements
- Fixed minor visual bugs
- Minor weapon balancing
- Minor bug fixes
- You can now build in the Arctic biome
- More resource variety spawns in the Arctic biome
- Added buildable Large Particle Accelerator
- Added new weapon: Aero Bow
- Added the ability to change arrow types for bows by pressing "G"
- Added Inferno Arrow
- Added new keybind "Switch Ammo" (default: G)
- Added new weapon: Shotgun
- Added crafting recipe for Aero Bow
- Added crafting recipe for Inferno Arrow
- Added crafting recipe for Shotgun
- Added crafting recipe for Precision Rifle
- Added crafting recipe for Pulse Charge Module
- Added new random event: Pirate Base Construction
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What's New:
- Removed: Holiday hats for NPCs.
- Removed: Holiday Present Event.
- Fixed: Hoverbike spawning under the vehicle pad after loading a save.
- Fixed: Container lock issue when interacting with a container and pressing the build menu.
- Fixed: Missile targeting bugs.
- Fixed: Projectile targeting issues.
- Fixed: Lighting artifacts.
- Fixed: Minor UI issues.
- Improved: Entity despawn rates to boost overall performance.
- Improved: UI navigation elements for better usability.
- Balanced: Item repair costs for the repair machine.
- Added: Buildable Living Module "4" (biggest module yet!).
https://i.ibb.co/GRYvSSQ/1.gif - Added: Buildable Missile Turret.
https://i.ibb.co/LrwCB1k/3.gif - Added: Buildable Shield Generator.
- Added: Core Module "Pulse Charge" (currently available only as world loot).
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In this update, I’ve worked hard to address optimization issues and introduce exciting new content, including a new area to explore and contracts to complete. Here's what's new:
Here’s what’s new in this update:
- Improved overall performance.
- Improved optimization to lighting, shadows, and reflections.
- Improved rendering performance.
- Changed overall graphic settings (Recommend resetting to default).
- Added new alien type "Erakta".
- Added new alien type "Cyplice".
- Added new boss "Sarut".
https://i.ibb.co/xLyfv1r/1.gif - Added new lore notes.
- Added 4 new contracts.
- Added new reachable area "Arctic" (portals at outposts).
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45002464/bf9a8357a565dd4717ff5203e5e9f8bcdb4f4833.jpg - Added new weapon "Precision Rifle" (found in loot).
https://i.ibb.co/nsvfnhF/2.gif - Added holiday buildable decorations.
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45002464/41e74daaec4a524544fdd0705c3511e57b7345aa.jpg - Added holiday presents event.
- Added holiday cosmetics for NPCs.
Here’s what’s new in this update:
- Mesh Streaming Performance increase.
- Major Rendering Performance increase.
- Improved Game Runtime Stability.
- Fixed game stability issues.
- Fixed engine-related stability issues.
- Fixed minor UI bugs.
- Fixed background tasks cleaning issues.
- Improved Random Events system.
- Increased Nucleium stack size to 5000.
- Added new boss type "Antkore".
- Added a new random event encounter.
- Added Buildable Proximity Missile Trap.
https://i.ibb.co/HxDGLYJ/1.gif - Added Buildable Item Repair Station.
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45002464/890b744cfaf914715e80560f8888c6d2a73c0dc2.jpg - Added new soundtracks to the game music.
Thank you for your continued support and feedback!
What's New:
- Added Experimental First Person View:
You can switch to first person by holding the camera key (default: "C").
Note: This is an experimental mode. It may have bugs, visual artifacts, and some animations may appear off since they weren't originally designed for first person. I hope to refine this over time as development progresses.
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https://i.ibb.co/QdVkh6P/3.gif - Added Buildable Structure Repair Station:
This structure will repair nearby damaged structures within a radius and consume Nucleium as a resource. - Added New Item "Energized Battery"
- Added New Buildable Machine "Nucleium Harvester" this machine can harvest Nucleium resources.
- Added New Buildable Machine "Synthesizer" this machine can synthesize crystals.
- Minor UI Improvements
- Minor Performance Tweaks
- Boss hatched creatures now have improved behavior and intelligence
- Improved AI Movement System
- NPCs will no longer target player vehicles if the player is not inside
- Removed Halloween Holiday Music
Thank you for all the feedback and support that helps shape these updates! Your input is invaluable as I continue to improve the game. Enjoy!
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What's New in this Update:
- Fixed Droid Fabricator Interaction Text bug
- Improved Tech Data Item Info
- Minor UI Improvements
- Improved the Random Events system
- All vehicles now use the same movement key binds as the player, and these can be changed
- Added a new TD Wave for droid data collection
- Added a new droid enemy type
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45002464/3d3dda84e21e92c74164ddee583b3de5f5592909.jpg - Added a new contract
- Added new Lore voice notes
- Added a new ranged weapon "Ion Gun"
https://i.ibb.co/30bsPmT/1.gif - Added a new Alien type
- Added UFO random event
- Added Halloween Holiday Music
- Added Halloween buildable pumpkins to decoration
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45002464/1c02c133663f72241a08014683f8af13e98de965.jpg - Added the option to disable holiday music in the audio settings
Update Content:
- Added Nvidia DLSS Support and included the setting in the Graphic Settings.
- Added AMD FSR Support and included the setting in the Graphic Settings.
- Added DLSS Quality option to the Graphic Settings.
- Added Frame Generation support and included the setting in the Graphic Settings.
- Fixed minor server issues to improve stability.
- Improved overall performance.
- Increased despawn timer for all elite aliens.
- Increased despawn timer for all elite pirates and droids.
- Increased despawn timer for wandering traders.
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Here is a list of what's new:
- Fixed recipes for the water capsules
- Fixed contracts display bug
- Fixed general map collisions
- Minor UI improvements
- Improved hover bike movement
- Fixed hoverbike destruction mesh
- Added the first addition of the companion/follower system (command nearby followers by pressing Y) [default key] Follower limit is set to 5 for now
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https://i.ibb.co/n3g8Pt6/3.gif - Added a new machine: Droid Fabricator
https://i.ibb.co/pypmhDK/1.gif - Added 2 new types of buildables: Living Modules
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45002464/9415f9f1b084861c5bed8d9107dc598551255d26.jpg - Added 3 new types of barricades
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