The Planet Crafter arrives on PS5 July 21

Miju Games will release The Planet Crafter on PlayStation 5 on July 21. The game is a non-violent survival sandbox that supports single-player and cooperative play and centers on terraforming, resource management and exploration.

Players must monitor oxygen, food and water. The developer warns that early mistakes in planning can lead to fatal outcomes. Miju Games has described the game as free of monsters and jump scares, with hazards coming from the environment and system failures rather than enemy encounters.

Terraforming relies on player-built infrastructure. Heat pumps and deep drills are used to raise atmospheric pressure and temperature, and those changes alter the playable landscape. Miju Games gives examples such as glaciers melting to reveal new valleys and tree growth creating natural bridges to previously inaccessible areas.

The studio said some long-term systems operate while a player’s power grid supplies them, an element the team linked to idle-game mechanics. “When you build terraforming machines they keep operating as long as your grid has power,” the developer wrote, noting that passive progress can allow players to explore while machines continue terraforming work.

While machines handle long-term environmental change, players are expected to search for relics from past expeditions, prospect for rare minerals in meteorite fragments and catalogue life forms that emerge as ecosystems develop. Players can construct and expand bases alone or invite friends to cooperate in the same environments.

Miju Games described the initial landscapes as stark and said they become more habitable as terraforming milestones are reached. The studio stated it looks forward to seeing player-built bases and community use of cooperative features when the game arrives on PlayStation 5 on July 21.