Some people say that this game resembles Terraria or that it's a lesser Terraria, and I absolutely disagree, the 2 games have their own qualities and their own faults, only the graphic style resembles it. Starbound is an excellent game not for its story but for its gameplay, I didn't play it during its beta I bought it on steam on January 29th 2019 and I played it in cracked version before that in 2018. I currently have +300 hours of games on steam and in total I must be around 400/450 hours.
I digress, Starbound is a game with a lot of replayability (maybe as much as Terraria on some points but I'll get to that.) Admittedly the game in Vanilla is rather repetitive after one or two saves and becomes boring with some of its quests, which is why you have to turn to mods. We're lucky Starbound has a huge community active in the modding scene, and even today new mods come out every day, some good, some bad.
With the right modpack or even just friends, the game can become a lot of fun for the price (knowing that it's possible to get it cheaper on certain sites or during sales). I'm currently playing a game with a rather large modpack (Definitive Diverse Universe {Redux} by Kombosabo (a modpack with over 500 mods and still supported by the modpack's creator)) which is also multiplayer compatible.
Starbound is a game where, unfortunately, you don't have to concentrate too much on the story itself but where you have to play as you wish, the game is fun as long as you have a certain imagination, even if I admit that it wouldn't appeal to everyone. I hope my Starbound review helps a few people to finally buy it or play it again.
I digress, Starbound is a game with a lot of replayability (maybe as much as Terraria on some points but I'll get to that.) Admittedly the game in Vanilla is rather repetitive after one or two saves and becomes boring with some of its quests, which is why you have to turn to mods. We're lucky Starbound has a huge community active in the modding scene, and even today new mods come out every day, some good, some bad.
With the right modpack or even just friends, the game can become a lot of fun for the price (knowing that it's possible to get it cheaper on certain sites or during sales). I'm currently playing a game with a rather large modpack (Definitive Diverse Universe {Redux} by Kombosabo (a modpack with over 500 mods and still supported by the modpack's creator)) which is also multiplayer compatible.
Starbound is a game where, unfortunately, you don't have to concentrate too much on the story itself but where you have to play as you wish, the game is fun as long as you have a certain imagination, even if I admit that it wouldn't appeal to everyone. I hope my Starbound review helps a few people to finally buy it or play it again.