The player takes over the role of a spaceship pilot who is stranded on an alien planet.

The aim is to escape from this planet by finding his or her captured and disabled spaceship.

Crash magazine wrote that the game was "good value", complimenting its tone as "atmospheric" and "chilling".

[6] British magazine Home Computing Weekly reported that Planet of Death followed a traditional adventure format.

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