Starbound

Overall the game is pretty fun. It gets boring after a while, but it's quite fun.

A fun OSR with some real challenge I like it

The game is more than Terraria in space, but the ideas are similar. I really enjoy the crafting and quality of the work, and whole heartedly recommend for those into the crafting/survival 16 bit games. One little quibble I have is that the game has pretty low system requirements but cannot be played in emulation on a Windows on ARM device. I can play games like Torchlight 2 andGrim Dawn on the device, but Starbound always just says it can't run.

I just had to get a refund for this. I was looking forward to the day I finally buy it. I love space exploration and I love pixelly platformers. Naturally this game sounded perfect to me. But then, I installed it and immediately after starting it for the first time I was subject to unjustifiable slowdowns even on the main menu before I made my character. I quit the game, searched high and low for pointers on improving the performance. Disabling vsync via editing a config helped abit, as did decreasing the resolution drastically and disabling coloured lighting; the game felt playable finally. But not long after acquiring the first important item, I was subject to the game slowing down like nothing was fixed to begin with. This shouldn't happen when my computer exceeds the recommended specs. So I read further about this (with more than a few separate search results this game's issue with performance seems to be a pretty common problem) and came to two possible interesting yet shitty conclusions: -the game was initially developed on linux and it apparently works perfectly on that operating system but I have to find more reasons than playing one game before I invest into it (as much as Windows 10 sucks in every conceivable way apart from familiarity) and: -the 64-bit executable has issues with memory leaks which causes these slowdowns. Apparently the 32-bit version doesn't have this issue and works much better, but I can't confirm that myself when it doesn't seem to be readily available. All I can find is gog exclusively installing the 64-bit version. No evidence of 32-bit anywhere. It isn't even an option as a separate offline install; just the installer itself and old patches to be found. This game looks amazing, but until the devs address these issues properly I'll put my money elsewhere.

A lot stuff promised a lot of years ago, too few implemented. Still looks good, but it is an unfinished, generic and repetitive product. Granted, Starbound has better graphics than Terraria, but you know, they are not Shadows of Mordor, graphic excellence is not what you seek in a game like this... and content wise, in my humble opinion, Terraria has a ton more content and interesting things to do, so if you are looking "Terraria in the Space" with missions and end goal and everything be aware: years passed by and the promised content may be lost in Space... Maybe in another 3 or 4 years...