
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, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
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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, underwater arcade, or even a space station.

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 items, races, planet types, dungeons, and quests - the possibilities are limitless.

Choose from one of 7 playable races and customize your character
Save the universe in an epic story campaign featuring colorful 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 however you'd like it

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Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 92 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
Themes across 89 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
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Boring and unfinished. Planets feel inconsequential and the shoe horned narrative grinds the pace down to a halt. Boss fights are DPS checks with finicky attack patterns that you can't quite dodge accurately. Enemies are quite basic (melee, ranged only). View port is too constricted by default. Wish the zoom feature worked further out without lagging my device. I'm inclined to believe the memory links are real. Have crashed and lagged (in single player) over longer playthroughs a few times unexpectedly. Modding is a life line (frackin universe especially), but the skeleton of this game is very hollow. Underpaid artist controversy doesn't help.
boring and DUMB
Прикольная террария в космосе. Главное не трогать песок в мультиплеере
pretty good game,
陨落的神,靠用爱发电的mod苟延残喘 呵呵鱼nmsl
42
遗憾的神作
my pretty, little, dead game
Unironically pretty good even though it's confusing :D
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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