Starbound

My main beef with the game so far is that it doesn't explain enough of the basics. I figured out how to use some of the crafting stations before I figured out how to craft. That doesn't really make sense to not spell that out. If you have patience to work through some things, it's a fun sandbox game.

(Sorry, i'm not that good in english) WOW. This game got me. I love the Graphics, i like the Crafting System, the exploring, the Characters, the Humor. But, most important - it is like a kind of meditation after a long work day with lots of differnt things to do. Every Penny well spend. Would buy again ... and again ... and again ;)

I remember the day this game was announced, participated and watched the kickstarter reach million dollar goal within 3 weeks of pre-order opening. It was going to be huge - a promise for content that would wow and amaze, that would give us that true space-sandbox-exploration that we wanted. The beta was amazing and fun, with cute names for the versions - Irritated Koala, Indignant Koala, Enraged Koala, then onto the Giraffe versions, where the game began to really shine and become amazing. Glad Giraffe just seemed to reach a standstill - sure development was ongoing, but we didn't see any major stable updates from Dec 2015 to 1.0 launch. And now, a game that ran perfectly fine on my slower computer is bogged down and completely unplayable with 1.0. Not to mention there seems to be ideas that were just scrapped. Wait until the next stable update comes out, then I'd say pick this up. Otherwise... ugh.

I know this review is a bit late in the game but I thought I'd put my two cents in. First off, I'm super impressed by this game's soundtrack. I absolutely adore the track with melancholy piano. I also really liked this game's visual approach. The procedural combinations of background, foliage, block types, and weather create scenes that are nice to look at. The lighting adds a lot too. I went back to Terraria and was surprised to realize how much better Starbound looks. Mechanically, for me at least, this game is largely held up by it's interesting choice of weapons. A game without fun drops takes a huge hit in my opinion. I really enjoyed experimenting with the different weapon types. Exploring is the bread and butter of this type of game and I wasn't disappointed. Although, I do agree with the common complaint that exploring downward could have been taken advantage of better. I'm surprised that the developers didn't give players more reasons to explore the innards of each planet. Once you've mined enough minerals there's very little reason to explore downwards. I found it interesting that there were so many planetary systems to explore but so few of them needed to be explored. Why not ramp up the difficulty curve and hide a single ultra rare drop guarded by a mini-boss in the innards of each planet? The bones are here for an even better game for sure. Something makes me think Starbound II will be an incredible game.

I love starbound and its fun and good.