Posted on: May 30, 2025
raziel_malakai
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excellent game, tranquil and fun
played this on release for dozens of hours and now years later playing it all over again with my son :)
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Starbound
Description
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below and gather the resources you need to repair your ship and set off to explore the vast, infinite universe…
In Starbound, you create your own story - there’s no wrong way to play! You may choose to save the universe from the forces that destroyed your home, uncovering greater galactic mysteries in the process, or you may wish to forego a heroic journey entirely in favor of colonizing uncharted planets.
Settle down and farm the land, become an intergalactic landlord, hop from planet to planet collecting rare creatures, or delve into dangerous dungeons and lay claim to extraordinary treasures.
Discover ancient temples and modern metropolises, trees with eyes and mischievous penguins. Make use of hundreds of materials and over two thousand objects to build a sleepy secluded cabin in the woods, a medieval castle, or an underwater arcade.
Starbound has been built from the ground up to be multiplayer and easily moddable. You have the tools to make the universe your own and modify the game to suit your play style - add new races, biomes, dungeons, and quests - the possibilities are limitless.
In Starbound, you create your own story - there’s no wrong way to play! You may choose to save the universe from the forces that destroyed your home, uncovering greater galactic mysteries in the process, or you may wish to forego a heroic journey entirely in favor of colonizing uncharted planets.
Settle down and farm the land, become an intergalactic landlord, hop from planet to planet collecting rare creatures, or delve into dangerous dungeons and lay claim to extraordinary treasures.
Discover ancient temples and modern metropolises, trees with eyes and mischievous penguins. Make use of hundreds of materials and over two thousand objects to build a sleepy secluded cabin in the woods, a medieval castle, or an underwater arcade.
Starbound has been built from the ground up to be multiplayer and easily moddable. You have the tools to make the universe your own and modify the game to suit your play style - add new races, biomes, dungeons, and quests - the possibilities are limitless.
- Choose from one of 7 playable races and customize your character
- Save the universe in a story campaign featuring unique characters, bosses, dungeons and quests!
- You're the captain of your very own starship! Decorate it, expand it and use it to explore a procedurally generated universe
- Colonize uncharted planets and collect gifts from your tenants - if they like you, they may even ask to join your ship crew!
- Three game modes - Casual (no need to eat), Survival (eat to survive/drop items on death) and Hardcore (permadeath)
- Craft thousands of objects - building materials, armor, weapons, furniture and more
- Capture unique monsters to fight alongside you
- All content is available in online drop-in/drop-out co-op
- Built from the ground up to be easily moddable. You have the tools to make the universe your own - add new races, biomes, dungeons, and quests
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24.5 hMain
58 h Main + Sides
162.5 h Completionist
52 h All Styles
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IGN
9.1/10
Starbound excels as a crafting and exploration game, as a 2D platformer with varied and engaging combat, and as a Zelda-esque story RPG with a detailed world and memorable alien cultures to interact with. The sheer volume of different kinds of locations to discover, items to craft and build great structures with, and flashy ways to vanquish aliens prevent any part of the experience from getting boring quickly.
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8.5/10
If you’re a fan of games like Minecraft and Terraria, Starbound is not to be missed. It can keep you enchanted for hours, whether you’re playing solo or on a server with friends
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84/100
A charming space sandbox that will keep you busy and entertained for hours.
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Posted on: October 21, 2018
I3uryme
Verified ownerGames: 100 Reviews: 28
Love it
I have spent quite awhile in this game, have I went over board and done every possible thing and explored every possible thing? no. What I did find was something unique to get me away from terraria and into a more scifi setting with tons of awesome stuff to do. Loot, explore hundreds of randomly gen planets, meet awesome alien races, and raid space ships, oh and dont forget build your own mech. Idk I didnt follow this game until about last year and Im not a hardcore gamer like I use to be but I find this game satisfying.
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Posted on: March 23, 2023
Mordeth_Kai
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 11
Spectacular sci fi sandbox
I don't like pixel games. I don't like platformers. I love Starbound which is both. The sandbox elements, the RPG progression, the wide variety of activities, even the story, all come together for an amazing experience. The only downside is the limitations of randomly generated levels that result in a degree of sameness. Fortunately there is a lot of variety in the content, especially when digging through different biomes. Plenty of easter eggs, and hidden rarities, like the gnome gun that shoots rainbows I found on my last playthrough. The game also makes a solid effort at post-game content and progression with dungeons resulting in some difficult boss fights. I am glad my friends convinced me to give this a try as it is not something I normally would bother with, and I definitely recommend it to anyone who enjoys crafting and sandboxes, or likes platform shooters.
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Posted on: March 13, 2018
arugulaKhan
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 58
Sooooo fuuuuull
Wait, wait. Let me get this straight: I get to play a robot, stuck mindset-wise in the middle ages? I own a spaceship? And my own mecha-power-armor-thingy? And a house -- I get to build my own house? And farm chili peppers? And scrounge stuff of ocean floors? And build a space station? My spaceship can get bigger? AND I GET MY OWN PIG? MY VERY OWN PIG?!? Oh -- and I get to do all this in coop. Yeah, I think that might just do it.
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Posted on: June 19, 2019
Sr_Estegosaurio
Verified ownerGames: 43 Reviews: 3
A reaaly good game (whit friends)
The game is like terraria but whit much more content, is fun explore new places and survive. The game is much better whit friends.
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