Posted on: September 16, 2024
Palad_n
Verified ownerGames: 41 Reviews: 5
Just good.
Needs to be polished on some aspects.
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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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Time to beat
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
Read full review »PC Gamer
84/100
A charming space sandbox that will keep you busy and entertained for hours.
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Posted on: June 14, 2025
Seboops
Games: 8 Reviews: 3
Graphics eh, Gameplay pretty good
So far I've liked the gameplay and the combat is pretty fun. The graphics get the job done but aren't stellar. I do like that there seems to be a lot to discover, so I'm hopeful for what is to come.
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Posted on: December 21, 2021
jugadorgog344
Games: 25 Reviews: 2
Nice game
I played this on linux. It is a great game with nice 8bit graphics and open worlds. I also love the scifi in it.
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Posted on: March 24, 2019
piesm
Verified ownerGames: 73 Reviews: 3
Really good game
I think this game is really good and fun. If you like games about exploration and space this game if for you. Main story line isn't that long, but with mods you can make it longer. And this game is easy to modify so you can make your own mods very easy.
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Posted on: June 8, 2020
Balduranne
Games: 294 Reviews: 24
Fun in its own regard.
I used to hate this game because of its development cycle and how shady the developers are, but years later once I stopped caring about all of that... The end product is pretty fun. It won't blow your socks off, and Terraria does look better in comparison, but it also fills a separate exploration niche. Terraria also took a turn for the worse with developer hubris so Starbound is looking better than ever.
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