Players can create an unlimited number of objects, including weapons, armor and different vehicles in any form with stats depending on their ingredients/materials, and to do this anywhere.

This sandbox game makes use of a new OpenCL system on the Unity engine, which enables players to alter the terrain and create objects.

Players are free to choose how to play the story, they can fight or be peaceful, build a farm, make food, keep the colonists alive, negotiate with the sentient aliens or defend the perimeter from the local life forms.

In builder mode, players have access to infinite resources, items and equipment in the game through the inventory menu, and can place or remove them instantly.

In order to survive in this new world the survivors will have to explore, gather, build, create, fight or befriend the planet inhabitants, and ultimately, establish a lasting new home.

The Planet Explorers - Official Soundtrack is composed by Aakaash Rao and features woodwind players Sandro Friedrich and Lucian Nagy, cellist Deryn Cullen, and singers Zefora Alderman and Graham Foote.

[4] The soundtrack contains 14 tracks and has been be made available on Valve's digital distribution platform, Steam, as downloadable content for the main game.

Many publications and individual people have referred fondly to Planet Explorers and praised the game's creative aspects and unlimited options of customization, including PC Gamer,[10] Rock, Paper, Shotgun[1] and RatSplatGaming.

PC Gamer's Emanuel Maiberg described an early iteration of the in-development game as "There are hundreds of hours of entertainment to be had with Planet Explorers if you want put in the time to extract them but it's too unattractive to bear for that long."