Planet Raiders is an abstract strategy game. The action takes place on a space-like board with 4 planets at the peripheries (populated by aliens) and player's spaceships in the middle. The objective of the game is to recover the spaceships. In order to do this each player has 3 raiders and 5 rockets. Using these he has to form the crew of the ship by making prisoners enemy's raiders and recovering aliens scattered on the planets. Once a crew is formed, the player must be the first to bring one of his raiders on his ship to win.