The Planet Crafter launches on PS5 July 21

The Planet Crafter, the terraforming survival game from Miju Games, hits PS5 on July 21. Studio developer Amélie confirmed the date alongside a breakdown of what makes the game tick.

The Planet Crafter pitches itself as a chill, non-violent survival experience — no monsters, no jump scares, nothing lurking in caves. You still have to manage oxygen, food, and water, and pushing those limits too far early on will kill you. But the real loop is terraforming: build heat pumps, drill into a planet's core, raise atmospheric pressure and temperature, and watch the world physically change around you. A melted glacier opens a new valley. Trees you've introduced grow tall enough to bridge previously unreachable areas. The game supports both solo and co-op play.

One of the studio's stated inspirations is idle games, and that shows in how terraforming machines operate continuously as long as your power grid holds. Progress never stops — which frees you up to explore, hunt for relics from lost expeditions, or prospect for rare minerals in meteorite crash sites rather than babysitting your base.

This is The Planet Crafter's PS5 debut; the game has been available on PC for some time. July 21 is the date to mark.