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Planet's Edge: The Point of no Return is a science fiction role-playing game released for MS-Dos in 1991, developed and published by New World Computing, Inc. The game combines space flight, turn-based ground combat, and real-time ship engagements within an open-ended interstellar setting. Players view the action from a top-down perspective as they navigate a scenario where Earth has vanished, leaving a lunar colony to mount a rescue mission.

The player controls a team of four predefined specialists: a pilot, a weapons officer, an engineer, and a medic. Beginning on a moonbase, the player manages facilities like a shipyard and research lab before embarking into a vast star map. Progression is driven by gathering clues and specific items from non-player characters across various planetary settlements, often using these objects in other locations to solve environmental puzzles. Ground exploration occurs in enclosed map areas where turn-based combat can typically be avoided, while space travel involves piloting a ship in real time between dozens of star systems, orbiting planets, and engaging in action-based ship-to-ship battles.

Key gameplay systems include resource management and technological development. Players can mine planets for raw materials like metals and organics, which are transported back to the moonbase to manufacture better equipment or upgrade the spacecraft. The game also features a trading system where cargo can be bartered or used in attempts to bribe hostile alien factions. Recovered alien blueprints can be researched to unlock new ship models. Character advancement is handled not through experience points but through the acquisition of superior weapons and armor for the crew.