Planet Crafter is a highly enjoyable experience, at least for the first part of the story. You'll likely start getting bored later as you wait for enough plants to grow to get to the higher levels, but it's a small fault in a true survival game.
I remember playing this ages ago, and it still doesn't disappoint. The humor can be a bit crude at times, but it simply wouldn't work if it wasn't there, and you will find some funny gags within, including multiple songs, silly character quirks, and chicanery galore. Not to mention the 4th wall breaks when the Bard interacts with the Narrator. The only place this game really falls short is that it's linear, which leads to rather limited replayability.
If, like me, you don't have a lot of luck you will grow to hate this game in its current state. The biggest problem is the RNG doesn't like matching up with what it actually says in game for quest success chances and service success chances. It's not uncommon to fail 4 or 5 chances in a row even with a 70% chance, while under 50% chances seem to succeed about half of the time compared to what they say. On one test run I did, I counted all the chances over 70% and divided accordingly, resulting in a success rate of 53%, which would have been even lower but some of those chances were over 90%. The concept itself is unique and could be a lot of fun, but whether you win or lose isn't based on skill. It all comes down to luck making this more of a slot machine simulator with a bit of uninteresting story backing it.
