Starbound

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A great and ambitious game. As it stands, the game most resembles terraria but with an emphasis on building and exploring and less on combat. The game has already undergone an major overhaul in the past 6 months and the developers are getting ever closer to full release now that everything engine-related has been finished. Mind you there is a very vocal community that is very hostile against the devs for always extending deadlines and almost despise the game, but the devs have admirably continued to give constant, almost daily updates on the progress and frequently consult the community on the ongoing development. It will definitely eat up a big chunk of your free time

There are fans raving about "Starbound", but they're really fans of the hypothetical game that early-access buyers were promised years ago. What's really there is some basic gameplay that's less interesting than "Terraria", and features suggesting that maybe, one day, there might be a story and planets that aren't random, boring, and effectively identical. The devs posted last year that the game is "basically done" except that people are holding them to an especially high standard. Example: early on we saw a story intro for one of the races. It's still not in the game. In fact the story's still barely there for any race, and nothing you do (prison raids, attacking evil ape bases, &c) has any effect on the overall setting. The "frequent status updates" have generally been posts like "Look, we made custom pet collars!" (Check out their site to see for yourself.) To be fair, they've been hinting at future story missions in the last few days, but this is after years where the devs went from "near-daily content updates" to "frequent updates to an Unstable branch" to "rare Unstable updates, frequent 'Daily' updates." The two "big" "overhaul" features in the last year are a slight change to combat, and being able to create basic settlements that summon NPCs. It's something, yeah, but you're still paying for an incomplete and not terribly interesting game. Try "Terraria" instead.

I'd like to say thank you to devs. I am also a dev and I know how hard to keep such a big project. And they have done a very big job since beta. I am happy to support this people, and I hope you will, too.

Too many annoing things from beginning comparing with polished Terraria. For example you cant use few items simulatenously and you should switch between tools, light source and weapon explicitly, you should put torches in dark because torch makes light only placed. There is no minimap. Too slow mining. And so on. I gave up early game.