Line #44 VideoGame/PlanetExplorers


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3	''Planet Explorers'', by Pathea Games, is a sci-fi voxel-based SurvivalSandbox game with RPG elements, featuring a lengthy storyline and a procedurally generated adventure mode. The game allows players to create custom vehicles, weapons, tools, armour, turrets, robots and static ornaments and use them in-game, and even use a separate tool to [[LevelEditor create their own planets]] with custom quests and environments. Online multiplayer was available until the developers lost the netcode to a malware attack.
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5	After a Website/{{Kickstarter}} campaign and over two years in Early Access, ''Planet Explorers'' has been officially released on November 8, 2016.
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7	The game is set on the planet Maria, an Earth-like planet in the Epsilon Indi system. In Story Mode, the player takes the role of a stranded colonist who has been thrown in at the deep end when their starship was struck by a mysterious object, forcing the crew to abandon ship and make a rather "dramatic" landing in the escape shuttles. A lengthy, complex storyline then unfolds, featuring political intrigue, conflict between the people of Earth and Mars, more conflict with Maria's sentient natives and probably a lot of fast-travelling.
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10	!!This game provides examples of:
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12	* TwentyFourHourArmor: Players can wear armour constantly, even while sleeping on a wooden bed out in the cold, mining deep underground or trekking through the blazing-hot desert. Heavy armour is tiring and uncomfortable, though, represented by reduced Stamina and Comfort.
13	* {{Acrofatic}}: Ronaldo Sanchez is short and very fat, and allegedly fought off twenty [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Triad]] agents in one sitting before the [[MysteriousPast witness protection programme]] shipped him off to the colonies. He can also fight as effectively as any thinner [=NPC=].
14	* ActionGirl: If the player character is female, she'll almost certainly be one. Female {{NPC}}s are all capable of fighting, too.
15	* AnyoneCanDie: Maria's dangers are many; the Rhino Wolf in particular can bite through PlotArmour like it's cardboard. In Story Mode, easily half the named [=NPCs=] eventually kick the bucket.
16	* BoyishShortHair: Pleiades Zheng, Ava Azniv [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal and]] Aida Acosta both have short hair and the matching bolshy personality. Gerdy Hooke as well, to a lesser degree.
17	* CerebusSyndrome: Story Mode has a fairly gritty plot, but for the first few acts the player character's exploits mostly feel like a fun romp across Maria's beautiful vistas. Standing together against the wilderness, facing monsters and aliens, standing up for what's right and making new friends everywhere. Then you get to the end of Chen's reconnaissance mission, a [[spoiler: plague]] drifts in from the swamp, Pujans attack [[spoiler: both colonies]] and [[spoiler: the bodies hardly stop piling up]] until it's all over.
18	* CharacterCustomization: Players can design their own avatars, in a [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation wide variety of colours]].
19	* CoolBike: The "Cartercycle" the player gets early on in Story Mode, a tricycle with built-in first aid kit that can skip across the plains like a gazelle.
20	* DesignItYourselfEquipment: Anything from guns to cars, airships to suits of armour, turrets to compound bows and attack drones to a little statuette of a Maristag riding a unicycle can be designed in the creation system.
21	* DiminishingReturnsForBalance: After one enhancement, the enhance machine improves your equipment by half as much each time.
22	* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Maria is home to a lot of predators. It's almost impossible to travel far without being attacked.
23	* ExtraEyes: Almost all of Maria's fauna have more than two eyes.
24	* FantasticRacism: The Pujans and Pajans share a lot of animosity, with both races describing the other as brutal savages and blaming them for the [[spoiler: [[SyntheticPlague virus]] that devastated the planet]].
25	* FetchQuest: Players can are often given quests to gather resources.
26	* GatlingGood: The Gatling turret, naturally.
27	* GenkiGirl: Adisa has shades of this, particularly her squeeing over the hard drive from the [[spoiler: long-lost Michaelson probe.]]
28	* GiantFlyer: Many. The smallest creature to fit this category, the Harpia Warbird, is the size of a lion, while the Caelum Rex and Red Korona are on the scale of {{Kaiju}}.
29	* GlobalCurrency: Meat in Story Mode, and credits in Adventure Mode.
30	* TheGreatWall: The [[spoiler: Pujan city]] in Story Mode is protected by the Wall of Hardship, a colossal stone edifice as long and nearly as tall as the nearby mountain range.
31	* GreenHillZone: The plains biome.
32	* GridInventory
33	* HairRaisingHare: Marihares. They are among Maria's weakest predators, but can easily overpower an unarmed human.
34	* {{Hammerspace}}: A player's inventory has room for hundreds of items, and could concievably hold ''an entire fleet of flat-packed airships'' ready to be deployed at a moment's notice.
35	* HealingPotion: The herbal juice items fill this niche.
36	* HereWeGoAgain: Story Mode begins with the player's ship crashing into a huge piece of space debris, forcing them to crash-land on the Galileo continent. How does the story end? [[spoiler: With the [=McTalk=] facing off against three more of the objects, now known to be alien vessels, as they phase in from out of nowhere. The [[OhCrap look]] on Ava's face pretty much sums it up.]]
37	* HollywoodDarkness: Darkness on Maria isn't all that dark, a stark change from the pitch-black nights colonists used to endure during the alpha.
38	* InfinityPlusOneSword: The energy sword, which does more damage than any blade forged in the creation editor. The diamond greatsword and daggers cap off their respective weapon trees with lesser but still comparable [=DPS=].
39	* KilledOffForReal: Several main characters die during Story Mode.
40	** [[spoiler: Vera Novikova, Moric Gahn, Lao Lei and Ataro Baatar]] succumb to ThePlague, [[spoiler: along with three procedurally-generated colonists]].
41	** During the attack on [[spoiler: the Martian Colony, Gerdy Hooke, Alfonzo Hooke, Governor Skyrunner, Rol Olympus, Tariq Bakir, Dayita Saxena, Nanda Yadav, Amy Mikkola and a few procedurally-generated randos]] all perish.
42	** [[spoiler: Chen Zhen]] dies during a [[spoiler: Paja ambush]] in the rainforest. During the subsequent [[spoiler: attack on the player's colony, Ronaldo Sanchez, Jenab Hashtag and Agnes Copperfield]] go the same way.
43	* MagicTool: The Replicator. It is able to craft a huge variety of items, and anything it can't craft can be made with the Factory Replicator.
44	* MaleGaze: Some of the female armour sets come with exposed stomachs, shapely breastplates or even [[OfCorsetsSexy corsets]]. Aida Acosta's uniform comes with a crop top as well.
45	* MoraleMechanic: Represented as comfort, it determines a variety of things, including how fast your stamina regenerates. It gradually depletes over time, but can be restored by sleeping.
46	* OxygenMeter: The player needs to breathe. If they spend too long underwater, they will begin to lose HP.
47	* PracticalCurrency: In Story Mode, you use meat as currency. Meat can also be used for food or for crafting certain items, such as the all important animal fat.
48	* PurelyAestheticGender: {{NPC}}s and players alike have the same stats, regardless of their sex.
49	** A caveat: the game has separate men's and women's armour, fitted differently but with the same stats. Some sets are styled [[{{Stripperiffic}} very differently]] depending on what sex they're made for.
50	* RespawnOnTheSpot: If the player uses a revival shot.
51	* RunDontWalk: By default, the player moves at a gentle jog. They can sprint for a limited time by holding down the shift key.
52	* SeeWater: When the player is submerged, a transparent watery overlay is drawn over the screen.
53	* SentryGun: The player has access to several turrets which come in two flavours: large turrets which never run out of ammunition but have to be placed on a flat surface, and small place-anywhere guns which periodically need more ammo or electricity. Given the many dangerous predators that call Maria home, a few turrets are a must for any successful colony.
54	* SetAMookToKillAMook: Wild animals will sometimes attack each other, leaving the resulting corpses for the player to loot.
55	* SettlingTheFrontier: The player and friends' original goal in Story Mode, played straighter in Adventure Mode.
56	* ShoutOut: The [[http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/237870/header.jpg?t=1478613634 Steam Page official art]] is eerily similar to [[http://www.geekoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/image.jpg the box art for]] ''VideoGame/AnotherWorld''.
57	* TheSiege: Near the end of Story Mode, waves of Pajan soldiers [[spoiler: demanding nuclear weapons to deploy against the Pujans]] attack the player's colony with their robots in tow. No matter how the player fights back, [[spoiler: a handful of colonists will die]] during the onslaught, but [[spoiler: a brigade from the nearby [[TheCavalry Pujan]] town arrives]] to bail them out.
58	* SprintMeter: A stamina metre limits the player's running, jumping and whatnot. Mining and logging also drain stamina, but the player can keep doing these activities at a reduced pace.
59	* SuperPersistentPredator: Some aggressive animals will chase the player for hours, even when mortally wounded.
60	* SurvivalSandbox
61	* SyntheticPlague: In Story Mode, a virus engineered decades ago by [[spoiler: aliens from outside the system]] was responsible for [[spoiler: crippling both the Pujans and the Pajans]], as well as causing the player's colony a lot of strife.
62	* TerrainSculpting: It is possible, if time-consuming, for players to level a mountain. Or build a mountain.
63	* WakeUpCallBoss: In the campaign, the player faces an early one in the form of three Red Koronas, fierce GiantFlyer[=s=] who can endure dozens of arrows and dish out devastating damage. The two free sentry turrets from Chen can just about see you through the fight, but then, with slightly better gear if you're lucky, you'll be thrown against three even deadlier, more resilient [[FromBadToWorse Firebears.]]
64	* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: Keen-eyed players will note that nearly every animal you see have six limbs.
65	%%* WideOpenSandbox
66	* WrenchWench: Story Mode has a couple:
67	** Adisa Mostafa is a skilled engineer who teaches the player how to use the creation editor, and subsequently helps design [[spoiler: an airship to reach the Newton continent.]]
68	** Ava Azniv can work magic with robots and computer systems.

Context VideoGame / PlanetExplorers