For game endings, this one was a little boring. At least I did decide to go off and do some last-minute things. As a game that more than kept my attention and entertained me till the end. I was expecting something far better it was still well worth a game playing.

Before going off to do the thing that would end the game for me. I first wanted to hit up one last area that I only just recently acquired what I needed to get access to. I’m talking about the door that requires five keycards to open.

As far as where I got so many spare keycards. I ended up running a bunch of portal generator wrecks and any extra keys I had I just saved for this moment.

Here I am at that last faithful door hoping for the entry cost this was going to be amazing. For those not in the know throughout I've been finding hiding locations for a guy named Ikhlas. The place I was about to enter was his last location before he might have escaped or died. I can only suspect he launched off into space assuming the device that makes people crash here did not destroy his ship in the attempt.

Inside were a couple of buildings. The loot here was rather subpar. A locked door on a portal generator wreck that I ended up skipping just so I could get the two final keys I needed to unlock this place would have had more loot in it than this.

There were a couple of things I could deconstruct. A couple of chests I could loot. Other than that, just got to read the final note by Ikhlas and know this was one of these hideouts. Was perhaps the real prize for unlocking this location in the game.

Also, at some point between all the portal generator wreck maps I ended up running which had to been around twenty or so. I ended up doing a massive overhaul not only to my storage system. I also went all in on drones.

While I've had tier 1 drones unlocked for quite some time. It's been something I've ignored. I kind of liked having to do everything for the most part without automating it. Sure, I've built some automated crafters in the base to make things like super alloy just to save time. I however for the most part been ignoring them.

The biggest thing drones do is move items from one storage container you marked as supply to another one you marked as demand. It is quite an amazing system where you can pick a single item or just everything.

These drones work great and moving ores are mined at ore extractors that automate mining either a select resource that can be found in the area or several random ores. Since I ended up building quite a few of these far away to target rare ores it would not been practical to walk over to each one of them to collect. By the time I would have been done, they would have all been full again anyway.

You might also notice the inventory for the ore extractor is full. Yes, I have it set up for the drones to come pick up any more it mine. There is however no room for it to be stored so it sits until I use some resources back at my base.

I ended up investing quite heavily in drones. I have around 40 of them. It’s quite funny when I have an auto crafter make an item that uses lots of resources. I'll see dozens of drones just come swarming in to drop off resources to fill back up my storage.

You might also be wondering why don’t I just increase my storage capacity. I did that as well. The standard locker storage I was using had 35 inventory slots. I ended up buying the tier 2 storage from the Terra vendor.

The tier 2 inventory holds 80 items each. All these tier 2 containers are full of 80 items. There are even more that are not shown on the screen. I have 80 of just about every item in the same excluding some of the more complex things and some of the quartz types.

I can craft anything and everything I could ever need in this game so many times over it’s not even funny. I have like four containers of iron for 320 irons in total just in case I needed something that basic of a resource.

All of this took quite some time to swap out the containers. Craft all the drones. Go out and put down a couple of ore miners for each type of ore that can be mined. It was also the boring part of the game.

I then sat back in my base letting drones and the auto crafters do all the heavy lifting. The fun part of a game like this is for me to go out to explore and maybe get killed. Not sitting safely at my base waiting for ores to come in and higher-tier crafting ingredients to become crafted.

With the massive stockpile of resources I had at my disposal, I ended up sending up quite a lot of rockets to have massive multipliers for heat, oxygen, pressure, and so forth. I then went on a massive crafting spree of machines to boost up terraforming numbers.

Then it just became a waiting game. I needed the final terraforming stage for the planet to finish. Then I'd be granted the last blueprint I needed. The extraction platform and since I had an insane number of resources waiting to be spent and being auto-recrafted and replaced in my storage system. I almost instantly built the thing.

You however can’t quite blast off and leave the planet quite yet. As there is a strange device keeping you trapped on the planet. That odd floating white ball I ended up finding a while back. I knew it would be something useful.

It also took next to no time to backtrack to where I found out. To craft the special explosives needed to take it out. Then I just triggered the bomb and got to enjoy the biggest explosion this game has to offer.

Final Thoughts

With everything that I wanted to do done. I hopped on the extraction spaceship and took off to the stars. Was my prison sentence dropped? Well, I'm not going to spoil the exact ending. I will say I kind of felt it was meh. It did however leave the game open for the developers to make a DLC which they did end up doing.

Despite the fact, I got a bit bored of the game in the end. I would say up until those final few hours I had a blast along this adventure. I was even half tempted not to leave the planet in the first place and just keep running portal generator wreck maps. The issue is I already had more than I'd ever need, and nothing left I wanted to build or work towards. So that was no longer needed.

Is this game worth playing? You bet it is. Would I play this game again in the future at some point? I say there is a chance. I might even pick up the DLC one day since these kinds of things do go on sale.

The moments and experience this game gave me were well worth the price they charged for the game. It’s great to see games like these out there doing so much with the developer and resources they had at their disposal. This game is a lot better than quite a few big-budget triple-A games that have come out in the last year for the kind of game it is.

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Screenshots were taken and content was written by @Enjar about Planet Crafter.

Disclosure. A review copy of the game was received for free.