Planet Centauri

Item: Planet Centauri
Rating: 45
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-09-29

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Summary

Highly enjoyable with promising potential
Active and responsive development
Deep, complex systems, distinct from Terraria
Unpolished and incomplete game experience
Poor combat and frustrating crafting
Confusing for new players

Emotions

Disappointment24%Frustration20%Satisfaction17%Hope10%Excitement8%

Reviews (sample size): 295
Helpful reviews: 75%
Unhelpful reviews: 21%
Protest reviews: 3%

45%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
55%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 626
Negative points: 940
Gameplay points: 262
Perf. points: 22
Rec. points: 203
Misc points: 265

Point	Description	Importance
Highly Enjoyable & Promising Game Description Players find the game very entertaining, fun, and addictive, offering many hours of gameplay. It's seen as a worthwhile purchase with significant potential, even in early access, due to its unique features and engaging content. Importance 51%	Players find the game very entertaining, fun, and addictive, offering many hours of gameplay. It's seen as a worthwhile purchase with significant potential, even in early access, due to its unique features and engaging content.	51%
Active & Responsive Development Description The game is praised for its active development, consistent updates, and the developers' responsiveness to community feedback. This dedication contributes to the game's polish, depth, and strong future potential. Importance 33%	The game is praised for its active development, consistent updates, and the developers' responsiveness to community feedback. This dedication contributes to the game's polish, depth, and strong future potential.	33%
Deep & Complex Systems Description The game offers a surprising amount of depth and complexity through numerous layered systems, including skills, magic creation, gear refining, and character progression. This provides significant replayability and challenges for players to master. Importance 21%	The game offers a surprising amount of depth and complexity through numerous layered systems, including skills, magic creation, gear refining, and character progression. This provides significant replayability and challenges for players to master.	21%
Distinct from Terraria/Starbound Description While drawing comparisons to Terraria and Starbound, the game successfully establishes its own identity with different mechanics, more detailed graphics, and unique features like monster transformation, offering a fresh experience. Importance 20%	While drawing comparisons to Terraria and Starbound, the game successfully establishes its own identity with different mechanics, more detailed graphics, and unique features like monster transformation, offering a fresh experience.	20%
Unique Monster Transformation System Description A standout feature is the ability to capture nearly any monster and transform into it, utilizing its unique abilities. This mechanic is highly praised for adding depth, fun, and strategic options to gameplay. Importance 19%	A standout feature is the ability to capture nearly any monster and transform into it, utilizing its unique abilities. This mechanic is highly praised for adding depth, fun, and strategic options to gameplay.	19%
Rewarding Loot & Progression Description Players appreciate the loot, pet, and leveling systems, especially the gear rarity and leveling mechanics that reward grinding for powerful items. The combination of procedural content and scripted dungeons also enhances the experience. Importance 12%	Players appreciate the loot, pet, and leveling systems, especially the gear rarity and leveling mechanics that reward grinding for powerful items. The combination of procedural content and scripted dungeons also enhances the experience.	12%
High-Quality Pixel Art & Animation Description The game's visual style, particularly the pixel art and animations, receives high praise. Enemies are cleanly animated, and the overall aesthetic is described as gorgeous, beautiful, and pleasing to the eye. Importance 12%	The game's visual style, particularly the pixel art and animations, receives high praise. Enemies are cleanly animated, and the overall aesthetic is described as gorgeous, beautiful, and pleasing to the eye.	12%
Engaging Combat System Description Combat is described as fast, responsive, and sophisticated, with a good variety of monsters and bosses. It differentiates itself from similar games by focusing on player ability and skill tree progression. Importance 11%	Combat is described as fast, responsive, and sophisticated, with a good variety of monsters and bosses. It differentiates itself from similar games by focusing on player ability and skill tree progression.	11%
Innovative Custom Magic System Description The custom magic creation system is a major selling point, allowing players to craft personalized spells by choosing parameters like damage, projectile size, and trajectory. This system is deep, powerful, and encourages experimentation. Importance 11%	The custom magic creation system is a major selling point, allowing players to craft personalized spells by choosing parameters like damage, projectile size, and trajectory. This system is deep, powerful, and encourages experimentation.	11%
Permanent Stat Bonuses from Food Description A unique and well-received feature is the farming/cooking system, where consuming a new food item for the first time grants permanent stat increases. This makes cooking useful and adds a delicious layer to character progression. Importance 9%	A unique and well-received feature is the farming/cooking system, where consuming a new food item for the first time grants permanent stat increases. This makes cooking useful and adds a delicious layer to character progression.	9%
Extensive Gear Customization Description The game offers deep customization for weapons and armor, allowing players to enchant, upgrade, re-roll stats, and use runes. This system provides many ways to maximize gear and tailor equipment to playstyles. Importance 8%	The game offers deep customization for weapons and armor, allowing players to enchant, upgrade, re-roll stats, and use runes. This system provides many ways to maximize gear and tailor equipment to playstyles.	8%
Engaging Sandbox & Building Description For players who enjoy RPGs, sandboxes, and building, the game offers extensive opportunities to dig for resources, craft, build bases, and creatively interact with the 2D world. Importance 6%	For players who enjoy RPGs, sandboxes, and building, the game offers extensive opportunities to dig for resources, craft, build bases, and creatively interact with the 2D world.	6%
Intuitive Weapon & Inventory Design Description Players appreciate the intuitive design allowing them to hold a weapon while still using tools. The game also features specific weapon skills and an absurdly large inventory, reducing the chore of looting. Importance 6%	Players appreciate the intuitive design allowing them to hold a weapon while still using tools. The game also features specific weapon skills and an absurdly large inventory, reducing the chore of looting.	6%
Creative & Unique Dungeons Description Dungeons are a fun aspect of the game, described as creative and unique in atmosphere and trap layouts. Exploring caves and hidden dungeons provides engaging challenges. Importance 5%	Dungeons are a fun aspect of the game, described as creative and unique in atmosphere and trap layouts. Exploring caves and hidden dungeons provides engaging challenges.	5%
Diverse Biomes & Progression Description The game features many biomes, each with its own themed dungeon and unique mobs, contributing to character progression. Different weather and biomes offer immersive and varied experiences. Importance 5%	The game features many biomes, each with its own themed dungeon and unique mobs, contributing to character progression. Different weather and biomes offer immersive and varied experiences.	5%

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