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Yet Another Climbing Game
Game
Game2017
Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition
Developer Team Jolly Roger
In this turn-based strategic artillery game, players wage interplanetary wars by developing their home planets and firing massive barrages through the unpredictable gravity fields of the solar system. From the Steam store page
189 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Oct 13, 2026 · last updated Oct 13, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
83
LovedLoved
135 positive · 27 negative
95% range 77–88%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 135 | 27 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 3 | 0 | 22 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
647 of 765 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
84% recommend · 139 yes, 26 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 165 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (799 of 940 positive).
Players praise the game's originality and unique blend of puzzle, strategy, and city-building. [1][2][3] Some reviewers find the game buggy and frustrating, especially in multiplayer. [4][5] The game is described as a hidden gem best enjoyed with friends. [6][7][8]
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- [4]
Its a fun game, but its very buggy and darn frustrating. on local games, after a few hours, your own cities start getting hit by your own weapons?!? there must be some sort of critical bug that causes damage to enemy planets to reflect to you, but it makes long games hard. The games last too long unless you fiddle with the rules. shot curves sometimes behave different than projected, as if there were planets in …
- [1]
It's sadly rare that a game is so original that it functionally has no genre, but this is one of those rare gems. You are the indisputed ruler of a planet and its resources in a solar system filled with other inhabited planets who have decided, inexplicably, to commit universal genocide. There are no politics, no diplomacy. You must built weapons facilities, intelligence, counterintelligence, and countermeasures on …
- [10]
If you are willing to put some time into a missile launching simulation game and learn it, then I can recommend picking this one up. This game is extremely polished and well-presented. I found the UI intuitive, considering how much detail is in there. The game has a learning curve, as each weapon has their own upgrades and play-styles. Beautiful game. The shading, colors, and UI create the atmosphere for a fun, but …
- [3]
Interplanetary is a turn based... aim game? Remember those old browser games where you'd have an arrow and you'd try to hit the enemy? You'd shoot your arrow, see where it went and on the next turn you'd give more or less power, you'd aim higher or lower. Its that type of game. It starts pretty slow with everyone trying to build their own planets, gather resources, protect their cities and sooner or later people …
- [2]
This is a puzzle game and a city builder in one. The puzzle is figuring out the right orbits etc to make. The game doesn't tell you that. And then you have to manage how things are placed, built etc. While managing the fallout from your opponets. I just want to know why I am drawn to games like this and yet ♥♥♥♥ like Fifa gets like 40 games. How can you get so addicted to the same gameplay loop? Am I the special kid …
Summarised from 34 of the 190 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 10, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
84% of the 165 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition. The complaint that keeps coming up: buggy and frustrating, especially in multiplayer. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
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60 of 189 · most liked firstHappy late Drake Interplanetary Day! In celebration for the best manufacturer in the game getting it's highlight at IAE I have made an extra long lore video on Drakes ENITRE lore and history. Enjoy! #StarCitizen youtu.be/RuLDO-K11e4
neutral · AI labelView post →[Epic] *Citizen Sleeper*, indie cyberpunk RPG. ## ROLEPLAYING IN THE RUINS OF INTERPLANETARY CAPITALISM One of 2022’s most acclaimed indies, the Game Awards-nominated Citizen Sleeper is a Tabletop-inspired narrative RPG set on Erlin’s Eye, a ruined space station that is home to thousands of people trying to survive on the edges of an interstellar capitalist society. You are a sleeper, a digitised human consciousness in an artificial body, owned by a corporation that wants you back. Thrust…
neutral · AI labelView post →my indie game Peaches Interplanetary is officially out on Steam!!! 🍑🌌🌟 it's full of cozy environments, fun interactions, and lots of pink pixel art ^^ store.steampowered.com/app/2979440/...
positive · AI labelView post →If you've ever shared your hard work and felt like it went under-appreciated, remember that Interplanetary Spark from Yakuza 0 got used for like three fights before being discarded for the rest of the game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Waffles Day 🍑⊹ ₊ ⟡ ⋆ artwork inspired by the beautiful @vulpixis.bsky.social's game Peaches Interplanetary #VgenComm #artcommission
neutral · AI labelView post →no sex :( but there's nukes :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"E.T.: Interplanetary Mission is a 2001 action platformer video game developed by Santa Cruz Games [...] In 2025, an Easter egg insulting terrorist Osama bin Laden was found at the end of the credits"
neutral · AI labelView post →Hello! For Ludum Dare 58, cassowary games inc. in cooperation with the Project for Interplanetary Cultural Exchange is proud to bring you a port of the famous Stamp Collector Game from Planet Q. cassowary.itch.io/stamp-collec... #gamedev #indiedev #ludumdare58
neutral · AI labelView post →My 2023 in game design: - Released Champions of Wrath and Sorrow, Astounding Interplanetary Adventures Cosmic Edition, Dead Gods, Ruins of the Dread Bishop and Moon's Haunted. - Contributed to Dolmenwood, Secrets of the Golden Throne, Darkness of the Demimonde - Completed The Terror Beneath
neutral · AI labelView post →It isn't a war crime if you WIN
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I just finished "Peaches Interplanetary" and had a fun time! A very short cozy game about a peach farm in space. EVERYTHING has fun flavor text. Plays like a short story but controls like a top-down adventure. Only $1 and 20% off this week store.steampowered.com/app/2979440/ #cozygame #indiegame
positive · AI labelView post →This is quite possibly my fav update since we launched 1.0. The Astroneer team really brought it with this one. Megatech feels like a marquee moment for the game in what it does and offers to its players, both in the paid DLC and the free update. Interplanetary delivery system is 😘👌🏻
positive · AI labelView post →Very nice simulation. Oye Nuke them Inyalowda bastards. Beltalowda Beratna Tenye wa chesh gut
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's sadly rare that a game is so original that it functionally has no genre, but this is one of those rare gems. You are the indisputed ruler of a planet and its resources in a solar system filled with other inhabited planets who have decided, inexplicably, to commit universal genocide. There are no politics, no diplomacy. You must built weapons facilities, intelligence, counterintelligence, and countermeasures on the surface of your planet to protect it from projectiles launched through the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One person dying is a tragedy. Ten billion people dying is a statistic.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a puzzle game and a city builder in one. The puzzle is figuring out the right orbits etc to make. The game doesn't tell you that. And then you have to manage how things are placed, built etc. While managing the fallout from your opponets. I just want to know why I am drawn to games like this and yet ♥♥♥♥ like Fifa gets like 40 games. How can you get so addicted to the same gameplay loop? Am I the special kid here who is acting the reddit mod here? Yes. But I am right! I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🐟 ROLE ANNOUNCEMENT! 🐟 Like mermaids? Robots? The horrors and wonders of the deep sea? Interplanetary longing? Then do I have the game for you! I had the absolute privilege of voicing the female MC voice in Other Spheres. Check it out and share your thoughts! butterflyrocket.itch.io/other-spheres
neutral · AI labelView post →Nuke your friends.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I found lots of shared code - and secrets - between *E.T. Interplanetary Mission* and *101 Dalmatians II* for PlayStation. No message condemning Osama bin Laden in the credits for the Dalmatians game, though. 32bits.substack.com/p/under-the-...
neutral · AI labelView post →If you are willing to put some time into a missile launching simulation game and learn it, then I can recommend picking this one up. This game is extremely polished and well-presented. I found the UI intuitive, considering how much detail is in there. The game has a learning curve, as each weapon has their own upgrades and play-styles. Beautiful game. The shading, colors, and UI create the atmosphere for a fun, but also challenging game. Recommended for space game lovers.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its a fun game, but its very buggy and darn frustrating. on local games, after a few hours, your own cities start getting hit by your own weapons?!? there must be some sort of critical bug that causes damage to enemy planets to reflect to you, but it makes long games hard. The games last too long unless you fiddle with the rules. shot curves sometimes behave different than projected, as if there were planets in invisible orbits altering their paths. The building requirements are balanced for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love game design traditions! It's the year 2370! Humanity controls many planets. Interplanetary travel is commonplace. What is the best weapon in close combat? A double-barreled shotgun!!! 😆 😆 😆
neutral · AI labelView post →Hidden Gem. Great game with some buddies.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Astounding Interplanetary Adventures! is a rules lite game of retro futuristic action in the vein of Flash Gordon and Buck Rodgers trollish-delver-games.itch.io/astounding-i...
neutral · AI labelView post →Fired about 16 railguns at a planet I'm moving along with and stupidly tried to arc about 7-8 railguns with the +2 extra projectiles upgrade and proceded to watch as they all hit my own planet.Fun game, however AI can be rather BS with their shots but it's AI. Otherwise they'd be Stellaris levels of stupid.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's also available in the High5 System Bundle, so get this, 2 mission books, the Cyber Streets game and the High5 trifold pamphlet at a reduced price! Players take on the roles of Specialists in a Fireteam of the Interplanetary Combine, a government body in constant conflict with the universe.
neutral · AI labelView post →An absurd allegory for the nature of humanity.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very fun silly game to play with friends Thermonuclear bombs teched, woe be upon ye
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To start off, the central idea of this game is very interesting; a solar system full of planets in a battle-royal to the death is *very* compelling as a concept, and the bones of the game are fundamentally pretty good; there are a variety of weapons systems with different buffs and debuffs, counters for those systems, and an intelligence system that lets you potentially leapfrog ahead of your opponents with clever planning, along with a counter-intelligence system to defeat that approach. The…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The systems of the game frequently break when playing multiplayer. Buildings need to be powered, but every game there will be buildings that cannot be powered. Buildings will need to be repaired/rebuilt, but clicking repair/rebuild will deduct the resources to repair/rebuild it without repairing/rebuilding it. These problems increase in frequency as the game goes on. It's a total waste of time playing a match when one of the players will inevitably fall behind or even lose because the game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This isn't actually a real game, I don't know what it is but its not real
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun way to lose your Friends if you still have them.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Interplanetary?! I have been gone from the game for far too long.
neutral · AI labelView post →Really good game but its quite short so i would recommend buying it on sale
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Enhanced Edition is not balanced against AI. At the Easy level, AI destroyed 2 of my cities in 20 turns, while I was only trying to build up my cities, and haven't even got one shot off. Tried against only 1 AI opponent, as well as a full field of AI opponents. All set to Easy. Also, with the graphics set to Max or Minimum, Vsync on or off, etc. (tested everything) you get this really bad graphics artefact that look like TV static across the middle of the solar system. This is on a top…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Best $3 I have ever spent. Get a group of boyz and have a few sessions.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is undoubtedly one of the best games to play with friends. I can not recommend this game enough especially considering the sale price. Please for the love of everything holy buy a copy for yourself and a few for your loved ones, heck even get a few copies for your enemies. Thanks so much for your work Team Jolly Roger!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Interplanetary is a turn based... aim game? Remember those old browser games where you'd have an arrow and you'd try to hit the enemy? You'd shoot your arrow, see where it went and on the next turn you'd give more or less power, you'd aim higher or lower. Its that type of game. It starts pretty slow with everyone trying to build their own planets, gather resources, protect their cities and sooner or later people start building guns and they start shelling other, distant planets hoping that the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →dont ever step foot in the solar system bro you hear we got mirvs bro
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Boy howdy do I not know how orbits work
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Strategy and resource management meets interplanetary war crimes and golf.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🔍 Let's Play Farlands —Ep 01 A New Life on a Different Planet 🪐 Interplanetary Farming Sim 🧑🌾 📅 Aug 11, 2026 🕑 02:00 PM PHT| 06:00 AM UTC| 02:00 AM ET| 11:00 PM PT (Aug 10) Starting a fresh cozy life across the galaxy with sci-fi farming #Farlands #PNGTuber
neutral · AI labelView post →My fave was "Interplanetary Fruit Fly" which was a Defender clone if I remember right, and there was a fantasy MUD-type game that I edited and essentially reskinned to be a Star Wars game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Prolly the best "fair" RTS to play with the homies
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →E.T. Interplanetary Mission (PS1) - Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) youtu.be/B9MZ0lmZ4pg #gaming #retrogaming #GamersUnite
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun with friends, sadly not alot of players left on it. Hope they release a follow on.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Interplanetary is the Superior Party Game | ENVtuber youtu.be/mdV6Tz43ImE featuring @altravevt.bsky.social and @dzxi.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Interplanetary wildlife in the PlayStation game No Man’s Sky looks like that!!!
neutral · AI labelView post →tune up game for Florida Interplanetary
neutral · AI labelView post →great tactical game. besides having to level up with various research, which i feel tha AI player has the fullest advantage on medium, you also have to consider orbital dynamics for ballistic weapons. my 2nd match was 6 hours long, so once you start, be ready to be there a while.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't wait to grow up so I can commit war crimes and atrocities just like you can in this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dense Poor UI Lack of info about the impact of any particular tech or module Tech is hard to scan through for what may actually be useful - as far as I can tell nothing that helps show future movement of bodies or help target with that in mind, which is mind boggling.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Railgun Spam :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love this game, I played >50hrs in the non-enhanced version and this one is even better. However unfortunately its one of the most unapproachable things because of the Technology system which is just "Analysis Paralysis - The game" The Planetary management is amazing, the art is simple and concise. shooting projectiles into space tracking the enemy orbit is as satisfying as it gets. This feels like a genre defining game that only just fell short of realizing its potential due to some…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →hit myself with a "tracking" missile while watching the AI loop railgun shots around the sun 4 times and still land on my buildings/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Drake Maye can't fool me, I've seen some passes that only make sense if he was practicing for 16% gravity conditions of the 2040 NFL Interplanetary Series first Moon game
neutral · AI labelView post →Unfortunately, i *think* we've missed the boat on this one. If you have 4 to 8 friends you'll have a great time though - but the online element is barren now. Game just got an update, but unfortunately - I'm yet to see any online lobbies going - but watch this space! One of those backlog games that sat there too long :( Shame, because it's pretty good - quite unique and has good strategy. The problem is that the AI doesn't cheat, but through random chance or odds - they can land shots on…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"if in doubt, send 10 gorillion MIRVS at the closest planet" - Sun Tzu , The Art Of War
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →golf with friends if the objective is to stop being friends. play modded, fixes most of the bugs and you can have six suns.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Imagine piloting a giant sail man-o-war, bristling with guns, readying and then unleashing deadly broadsides upon your enemies. Well, instead of ship you got a fullsize planet. Build railguns, laser and nuclear missiles to fire at other planets in same solar systems (gravity!), develop infrastructure, research even deadlies railgun, solar lasers or comet engines. Lots of fun to be had, especially with friends.
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