Planet Pioneers

About this game

Sit back, relax and prepare new planets for humanity in Planet Pioneers.
Place tiles strategically, fulfill various settler requests and keep planet pollution low along the way. When the settlers are satisfied, you can hand the planet over and continue with the next one. Each planet has their own challenges to overcome, but all of them are peaceful without any time pressure applied.



Planet Pioneers is intended as a casual game which you can touch occassionally. All comes down to your building placement decisions. In the beginning, this is still quite easy. The difficulty increases over time by having ever-increasing planet sizes, more building types and higher demands from your settlers. At the end you get a highscore which you can try to beat in the next round.

What Planet Pioneers offers

• Strategic tile placement on planets
  
• Endless procedural planets with individual difficulties to play on
  
• Quests by settlers for extra points
  
• Relaxing and calming gameplay
  
• Good replay value, can be picked up from time to time, trying to beat your last highscore

What Planet Pioneers does NOT offer

• 4X Strategy
  
• Detailed resource management
  
• (Space) combat / armies
  
• Multiplayer
  
• Lootboxes, battlepasses and other money-draining stuff

Latest news

• Patch Notes·26 Feb 2025Official

  Patch 1.0.2 - Mostly tile placement fixes

  Bugfixes FIXED: Polar stations do not get positive effect from penguins when they are in pastures FIXED: Bug caused by previous patch which enabled the new planet button too early starting with second planet FIXED: Tile placement still going on while selecting packages or in another menu FIXED: Tile preview not always going away after selecting a different tile for placement Other changes UPDATE: Highscore will now be saved in Steam any time you enter the main menu UPDATE: Settings are now saved in the savegame
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• Patch Notes·20 Feb 2025Official

  Patch 1.0.1 - Mostly bugfixes for Animal effects and localization

  Hi all and thanks for beginning to play my game :) I found the following bugs over the first days while watching streams / videos and now fixed them (Keep creating videos so I can debug even further!) Bugfixes FIXED: Camels and penguins were not affected by all relevant tiles around them UPDATE: penguins now officially don't have effect by pastures (just the other way around) FIXED: If you get below 100% pollution without a tile which changes your points balance (e.g. a forest), the new planet button will now correctly show up FIXED: Starting a new game did not work when you close the game during the game over screen, restart the game and click on new highscore game Translation updates FIXED: Llama not translated correctly FIXED: Game over screen points not translated correctly
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• Announcements·17 Feb 2025Official

  Planet Pioneers release

  After more than 1 year in development, you now finally receive Planet Pioneers as full release 🥳 To keep things transparent, here are some details if you are still unsure if it’s worth the price. What are the main changes compared to the demo? Planet size progression (Planets become bigger and more difficult over time) You can turn off pollution if you want Free build mode (including configurable planet generation) Desert and ice planets Multiple new tiles, including a few tiles with wider range Updated tutorial setup Saving the progress (only allowing one savegame at a time) Steam achievements and highscores Some balancing A lot of bugfixes (obviously) and quality of life changes What might be included in a future version (NOT promised): Full controller / Steamdeck support (so far the feedback in tests was that the placement with controller is too tedious) More variance for common buildings Dedicated Linux build If you have any feedback / questions, feel free to post them here or in the community hub!
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• Patch Notes·9 Oct 2024Official

  Demo v0.4 - New quest types

  General changes Added information about quests when hovering over them Updated how coins fly towards the package overview Added credits Added support for tiles with bigger score range Zoom is now smoother New quest types: Place tiles of a specific tile group Connected tiles New / updated tiles added watering animation for fields added mall as first tile getting score changes from not only immediate neighbors
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• Patch Notes·15 Aug 2024Official

  Demo v0.3 - Coming to life update

  General changes - Added robots moving around on tiles - Updated tile info to show nicer on which biomes tiles can be placed (if limited) - Added ability to place pastures and animals on them - Minor UI changes - Increased difficulty, especially after each planet switch New buildings / tiles - Research station - Animal farm - Pasture - Cows - Llamas Bugfixes - Fixed bug that score was wrongly displayed after reverting a tile placement - fixed bug that forests and palms could be placed on existing forests / palms - fixed display bug showing slightly negative percentages for score and pollution on planet switch
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