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Craterbound
Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“I can easily tell that this game had a lot of thought put into it, and while some people may see a semi-functional prototype game, I can see how this game has the immense potential to succeed and to become a proper game, and how it could compete with other big games of its type.…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“Minimalistic, but interesting game Pros: 1. Runs on linux https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=1689773788 2. High FPS 3. First person, crafting, base building, deformable terrain 4. If you don't build a turret, asteroid could fell on your base 5. No idea how, but this game was free…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“I've been trying to get into this game and I'm on the verge of ditching it completely. This game has not been properly planned to the point that getting started gathering resources so you can build relies on you building things so you can gather resources. No aluminium, no…”
— a player, Steam review · 28 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Small QoL/Bug Patch 1.1.2
Bug Fixes: - Crates/Cargo no longer reset the scrollbar to the top after depositing - Newly spawned enemies will no longer float (worst bug in the game as of now) QoL: - Night time lasts much less tha
Less Rage Update - 1.1.1
Welcome to the Less Rage Update! Craterbound has definitely had a bit of a rocky start, with many of our players understandably not knowing how to start the game, find bosses, defeat the tanks, etc. C
Update 1.1.0 - Tank Refactor and QoL
Welcome back Craternauts, I believe following this update many of you will find Craterbound much easier to play. Tank Changes: Tanks are now killable without EMPs. The player must shoot the tank until
1.0.1 Suggestions + QoL Patch
QoL Balance Updates: - Made laser tanks not spawn until players are capable of defending themselves with EMPs - Made laser tank chase radius much more reasonable - Made laser tanks stunnable for more
Craterbound Late-Beta Testing
Craterbound is releasing June 15th, 2022! After more than a year of development, Craterbound is almost ready for its release into Early Access next week! Following its release, multiple QoL and bug pa
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World · Space · Exploration · Combat · Base Building · Crafting · Action-Adventure · Sci-fi · First-Person · Space Sim (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Stats · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Achievements | 15 |
| Official site | https://craterboundstudio.wixsite.com/website |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: 64-bit Windows OS Processor: Intel Core i3 or better Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia 750 or equivalent - Low Settings DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 3 GB available space Additional Notes: Craterbound is designed to run on a toaster.