Starbound

Really fun and good, even more with mods, but it would have been better with more updates. Sniff

The worlds in this game can be scary, dangerous, and even chaotic, and yet the atmosphere is quite peaceful and the music beautiful. Nevertheless, it's all so amazing and worthwhile when you are surviving with that one really special individual by your side.

I don't get why people hate this game, or why it never seems to have many players. I'll put about a hundred hours into it, put it down and pick it up a year later and still have a great time.
granted, I downloaded FU.
But still, free mod, in the workshop.

sates my autism itch
10/10
highly recommend

I do say this is No Man's Sky but 2D, Controls aren't 100% but once you get used to it then this Game is Top Notch

This game is amazing, it involves space. there are many planets to visit and you can build in those planets and start settlements there.

Starbound is objectively very flawed game. The combat is tedious. The story is uninspired. The progression is even less interesting than Minecraft's. The story missions, while cool the first few times, get old quick, and do I need to even mention the developer controversies responsible for this game's abandonment?

And yet, five years since it's last major update, it still has an active community of modders and players.
They must have done something right for me to have sunk over 400 hours in this horrid thing.
In Starbound's defense, it does do a lot of cool stuff. Its not just Terraria with furries.

There just aren't any games like it tbh. It's still fun to be able to fly around to planets and explore. There's a lot of stuff to find. The moon planets are also pretty fun. The character creator is amazing and extremely moddable.

Further I'm particularly fond of its building and mining mechanics. The foreground and background layers using the same tiles is a welcome change from Terraria's walls. The sci-fi setting is more appealing to me, and the game has very many blocks and objects to play around with. And I definitely prefer the matter manipulator to the terrarian's pickaxe.

Overall, I would still recommend this game, but wait for a sale.

Pretty cool, like a 2d no mans sky with alot of terraria and Minecraft elements can't wait to dive deeper into it!

Infinite worlds with friends and enemies on all of them. A questline, side quests, a litany of things to craft, and a huge variety of blocks to build with. Outstanding modding community. Well worth its price.

This was my best side scroller experience the story is really good and the combat is great it is a little harder when your playing with a steam deck like me but the game is fantastic

A world with endless possibilities and a great storyline. Overall very well balanced! 10/10

Great Game. I want chucklefish to remake it, or give it something new. It does eventually get repetitive, but its great. 9 years later I still come back to its amazing soundtrack, and fun pixel art. the randomly generated weapons can be a little broken, but its kinda funny that way. Every race has great lore, and designs.

This game is a must play.

It's kind of a re-imagining of Minecraft but with much more to do see and consider. Feels like a true adventure. Multiple challenges, quests, lore, etc. I occasionally get a little bored with what I'm doing, but there's ALWAYS more to discover around the corner if I only take a break for a bit.

I love this game. this is probably one of my favorite games of all time. but man, I can't bring myself to recommend this game in the slightest.

this game is so incredibly bare bones without mods. it's such a nothing game. with mods this game is incredible! I've loved every hour I've sunk into this game because the community makes it great. but that's not what a game should be. the base game should still be enjoyable on its own. mods just enhance the experience or make it fresher for old players. this game feels so rushed and unfinished that you NEED mods to enjoy it.

so even though I've spent hundreds of hours in this game and I love it to pieces, I can't recommend it. it's a good game, just only if you are willing to add mods to it, which I don't think should be a caveat in the first place.

Listen, i'm not going to tell you what to think about this game but for me Starbound is a nostalgic game.
Every time I play this game i have a big ass smile on my face.
Sure it doesn't get updates anymore, but who cares!
It's finnished it doesn't need more content, you will never have fun in any game if you constantly criticize every single thing about it!

After finishing the game I can definitely say I had a good time. With its variety of planets and differing side-quests it's definitely a game worth checking out. The only thing is I'd say that if you're looking for a terraria-like experience then maybe look elsewhere cause while it's similar in some ways it's whole gameplay loop is completely different. Still a good time though especially with friends. 7.5/10

AWESOME. Worth 15 bucks any frickin day, after about 100 hours I decided I wanted more content and got the Frackin' Universe mod which makes the game even BIGGER, when I hadn't even seen or achieved everything yet. Honestly, the storyline is boring and I'd rather just progress without it. It won't ruin the experience, but just know if you're new, the pleasure of the game is not in the story but in the variety of different things you can do or grind.

It's very much like Terraria, but in outer space. Quite easy to start, with helpful but not too pushy tutorials. Charming pixel art graphics, nice colours, diverse planets and a lot of things to build, craft and farm.

you got a lot of stuff in the game : add arcana and arcana add ons to it : good day to you all

It's interesting. I like the building and exploring. Like most games I'm not great at the fighting.

a game made from broken promises and unpaid labor. incredibly boring "chosen one" story line. has been abandoned by its developer for years with no new content in sight.

still fun though
the mods save this game

So far it feels decent, just wished I had some magic to work with, elemental swords and guns are fun but magic is almost always more enjoyable.

Hunting spear feels useless, why not just drop the meat on regular kills but 25% drop chance?

A single moth ruined my whole plantation in only a dozen minutes without supervision. Built a whole dirt house over it like it's Minecraft on your first night.

Cooked meat looks too close to the raw variant, which I've accidentally ate raw meat and recieved way too much damage for just a slice.

Some texts and every dialogues are quite small in 1440p, there should be an option to make them 2x size. It's annoying to squint at 30cm from my 27 inch monitor just to follow the story and read item descriptions.



It's similar to a game I've played which had a level and skill system: "Realms of magic". Just wished it kind of had the same progression since you just kill and farm everything at an industrial rate.

Might update later, I'm way too early to make any conclusions.

Terraria in space! :)
There's a bit too much procedural generation for my taste, but overall it's quite impressive.

A pretty charming little game with a lot of heart, that shares similarities with Terraria. The story is pretty interesting and all of the npcs and races have some interesting lore. The game does unfortunately lack a lot of content. The game apparently had a trouble development and didn't ship with a lot of promised content.

That being said, what is here though is really nice, and there is an avid modding community in the steam workshop to fix any problem you might have with the game. There are also a ton of content mods to pack the game full of extra fun stuff. There are several overhaul mods, such as Francin Universe, that change everything from the ground up making for really fun replays.

I highly recommend this game, you will get your money's worth.

Great game, and you can add mods to make it to your liking.

Escapism. The final frontier.

There are few games that immediately wash the real world away like so much dust when you click on the cheery little icons. This is one of them. There are flaws, no doubt, and a turbulent history behind the making of this game, but none of that changes the fact that Starbound is one of the few things that makes life just a little easier to bear. In space, no one can hear me scream. Trust me, it's better that way.

Really fun game with a lot to explore and see. The planets are beautiful and being able to explore space is really fun. Would recommend this game for anyone who likes space and exploring a lot.

This is a fun game you get to travel to different planets and see other races and make colonies s of your own, the only thin i wish was more to do on Starbound once you completed all the missions oh and i forgot to say you can add mods wich is sick, i would recommend you try this game if your into space exploration games.

This game bridges the simple to the entertaining. It's simple enough that most can play while being engaging with dropped items and all available crafting. It's a cute game

I saw this game on youtube and it said that this game was 'unplayable' and 'unenjoyable' I very much think that this game is amazing it's basically just Terraria but you can go to space

Ignore the haters. Starbound is an amazing game with a huge variety of blocks to build with, a ton of fun content, and great mechanics. I couldn't recommend it more!

It's like Terraria but in space! My only complaint is planet variety and combat diversity. There is little to none.

Its a fun game, what hold it back it the lack of controller support. I haven't really gotten very far but what it lacks in interface. It more then make up for it in imagation.

awesome game to pop on and relax with some combat elements and good crafting.

I really wanted to love this game, I had so much hope that this would be Terraria+ but the universe feels empty and very quickly you just want to drop the game or at best finish the story at most.

I really wanted to like this game. This game is trying to be terraria and no mans sky at the same time, which is ambitious. However, it fails miserably. I'm going to make lots of comparisons to terraria since its obvious that it was the inspiration for this game.

What I liked:
1. Amazing pixel art, soundtrack
2. Interesting level designs and dungeons

What I disliked:
1. Shitty progression where you just move from tier to tier, and the power ups you gain are just through new ores or quest rewards. In terraria, I genuinely feel more powerful each time I move up a tier. Each tier in terraria is fundamentally different from the previous tier. You get speed, flight, teleportation etc. Here I get to do slightly more damage and face the same enemies just slightly buffed

2. Procedurally generated planets are cool for a while but the novelty wears off quick. Each planet starts to resemble each other after a while of gameplay.

3. I like that the devs tried to implement different planets with different conditions but it does not help with "freshness" and each planet is just the old planet with another restriction (e.g. radiation, heat, poison)

4. Shitty quests and shitty quest rewards. The side quests you can take from NPCs are either escort quests, fetch quests or gardening quests. The quests are a chore to do and the reward is a reward bag that can possibly grant you a singular manipulator upgrade module. Higher tier upgrades need 30 of those. Don't get me started on the tech perks for your character, and ship upgrade modules.


5. Shitty elemental damage system that is not explained AT ALL. Sometimes my gun does 3 damage and sometimes it does 30 damage. Given how you don't craft most of the weapons you use, you are just stuck with one or two strong weapons that you find.

6. The entire "mech" questline seems like a sinkhole where you are just doing space quests to get more stuff to upgrade your mech so you can do more space quests -> circular logic

7. The lack of mobility is INSANE. Trying to get from the bottom of the world back to the surface is a fucking chore that isn't helped by the 2182010 enemies that spawn and have crazy knockback. In terraria, you literally get access to recall potions that bring you home 10 minutes into booting up into a new world.

8. Shitty main storyline quest that involves lots of scanning different shit that i'm supposed to be paying attention to while fighting enemies that kill me in 2 hits. Finished scanning this shit? Retrieve this shit. Ah you are done retrieving it? Go scan more of this shit. Did I mention its complete RNG that you run into the race that you need to scan things for?

9. You don't get to choose your playstyle. In terraria, you get to choose between 4 classes, and it is completely up to you how you allocate your resources into a certain class. In Starbound, you are playing as the "class" with the strongest weapon you just found. Is there even a class system?

Love the game, it's great to see that pixel art is still well received in games.

Abandonware that sadly does not fulfill any of the developer promises.
Starbound is a ocean that is a puddle deep. Beyond the pretty graphics and the few neat mechanics the game showcases, it's ultimately an unintuitive, clunky, and unrewarding game which doesn't respect your time.

It didn't used to be this way, but Chucklefish has decided that a hamfisted attempt at a story, and stripping the player of exciting tools over the course of several agonizing updates, is the way the game was meant to be played.


Chucklefish is a disgusting & morally bankrupt company which has abused & exploited workers.
Modders are continuing to keep this game alive, and have an indefinitely more robust skillset towards making Starbound the game it was MEANT to be.

Also, make sure to get the game for free, don't give Chucklefish a penny.

Abandoned by the devs, and failed to meet development promises. Employees working on the game were exploited, and it's easy to pirate.

Its better then Terraria on my opinion.

The game just need some mods to be interesting and playable.
Also friends, you need them for sure or you will be bored, trust my words.

This game is the absolute KING of cheap, unfair deaths. Fall damage is OP and enemies are arbitrarily powerful. Strongly recommend Keep Items On Death and Keep Pixels On Death mods. The game is an unfair grinding slog without them, but with them the game is greatly enjoyable.

Least fun version of terraria, but good nontheless

its kinda like playing minecraft for the first time and you have to figure everything out. its such a cute game

Im only a few hours in but this is totally worth it for the price. I hope the different races offer unique abilities and reasons to play as them aside from the different sprites but so far liking this game to kill time at night when I dont want to do my other hobbies.

I hate the story but the community develop a "Skip the story" I love this mod so if you want to skip the story download this mod and SKIP ALREADY, I hate so much the story and the first mission!

not a terraria clone at all. i was thinking like that at first too but it's really not even close. it sets itself to be so different and unique, it is literally a whole nother game, and it's so peak too.

An absolute gem of a game! Starbound is like Terraria meets No Man's Sky, blending deep exploration, crafting, and adventure across countless unique planets. Whether you're building a cozy colony, delving into ancient ruins, or just customizing your spaceship, there's always something new to discover.

The pixel art is charming, the soundtrack is atmospheric, and the freedom to explore at your own pace makes every session feel fresh. If you love space, creativity, and endless possibilities, this game is for you!

mods, mods, and more mods.

Very half-assed. The story is unbelievably boring and the novelty of procedurally generated planets doesn't really awe you if you ever played in another procedurally generated world and know how shallow they are.

I dig this game! Literally. I struggle with the controls, I can't get past the ship repair mission because the enemies keep murdering me. So I just went to the first planet, started digging down into the lava core, back up to the surface, and realized my tunnel loops around the planet. I got enough tar sands and gold in my inventory to retire on a nice warm planet, drinking cocktails all day long. I guess I win.

it is a fun game even better with the abundant amount of mods this game has.