Posted on: January 1, 2019
Nickshades
Games: 36 Reviews: 1
starbound is a good game
starbound is a great game all of the differint things you can do are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO fun but it is just a little short
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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: August 1, 2016
lenpup
Verified ownerGames: 51 Reviews: 1
Metroidania + Terraria with Style!
The low reviews.. they must be old! This game is incredible with 1.0 release. Absolutely addicted and amazed every moment. At first I thought I was playing Terraria with a different theme.. and then the game just blew open. Wow! This game is an incredible value at $14.99. It's big and full featured, well rounded and accessible, and uniformly FUN! To be honest, I'm playing in Casual mode because I *HATE* losing all my stuff because I got too adventurous. And this game will kill you. I just wish the need for food could be toggled in Casual mode.. and I think I might have just found my first and only complaint thus far. More later, I gotta get back to it!
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Posted on: September 13, 2016
eddee
Verified ownerGames: 509 Reviews: 51
Andy
I do not understand why so many people have given this game such bad ratings. The game was in beta development until it's 1.0 release around July/August 2016, so of *course* features would be incomplete, removed, added back in, and/or balanced. If you like Terraria, then you should definitely give this game a go. Mods make this game effectively limitless in size, as I am sure players of Terraria mods will understand. There is actually only one point of critique I have of the developers, and that is with regard to Windows XP. While I can run Terraria with no problems whatsoever on my 3.0 GHz Dual Core Windows XP computer, Starbound pitches a holy fit and I get 1 frame per every 5 seconds (that is correct, one frame per multiple seconds) whenever I get near a village or populated area. However, it was impressive that the dev team attempted to make Starbound playable for those of us who don't like updating Windows. Putting Starbound on my Windows 7 8-core machine made everything work wonderfully, so my only criticism is that Starbound is much more of a computer hog than Terraria. Other than that, you have GOT to play this game!
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Posted on: September 29, 2020
HyperionHelios
Verified ownerGames: 17 Reviews: 1
It's just amazing
I downloaded a previous version of this game a while ago and just recently acquired it once more. I can't be more satisfied with my purchase.
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Posted on: July 24, 2016
0ptr
Games: 372 Reviews: 1
A Great Game!
I've played Starbound (Steam) quite some time, convinced others to buy it, too. Starbound is fantastic, but it doesn't satisfy the hype surrounding it. It doesn't has to. Don't let yourself be fooled by this "oh I've been expecting something else". This game is a lot of fun, especially with some friends on the same server. I would buy it over and over again. I bought it on Steam, and I will buy it on GOG again. Huzzah Starbound!
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