Starbound

好玩的沙盒之一

I am honestly so sad that Chucklefish abandoned this game. My partner and I have had a LOT of fun with Starbound. I have about 293 hours in it so far. We finished the entire game together once, and later came back and played it again with mods. And there is a reason we kept coming back. I love how much there is to do and how differently you can choose to spend your time. I love farming and having animals, building homes together, traveling from planet to planet, going on fun hunts and never quite knowing what we're going to discover next. Finding new villages and tribes, meeting different races and discovering their cultures makes exploring the universe genuinely fun. Personally, I absolutely love the versatility of the bees. 🐝 I became a true little beekeeper and loved experimenting with all the different possibilities. At one point I caught myself doing that for several days in a row while my man was busy building us another home somewhere on a completely different planet. And I think that says a lot about what makes Starbound special as a co-op game. We can play together without having to do the exact same thing every second. He can disappear into a building project while I tend to my farm, animals or bees, and then we meet up again and go exploring or hunting together. You can follow the story, but you can also spend hours simply creating your own life and adventures in this enormous universe. I personally wouldn't play Starbound alone, because sharing all of this is a huge part of the fun for me. There is something wonderful about landing on a new planet together and having absolutely no idea what you're going to find there. Co-op does glitch sometimes, and that's one of the reasons it frustrates me so much that active development stopped. There were still things that could have been fixed and improved. And after we finished the game and eventually started playing with mods, it became even more obvious just how much untapped potential Starbound still had. It is so much more fun with mods. The modding community expanded the game in ways that make me wish Chucklefish had continued developing it and integrated some of those ideas into the official game. That's why I understand the many players who say Starbound could have been so much more. It absolutely could have been. But I still absolutely recommend it. We finished it. We came back. We discovered new things, built homes, farmed, raised animals, explored countless planets, went on adventures together—and then we discovered an entirely new side of the game through mods. Almost 300 hours later, we've had an incredible amount of fun with this strange little universe. I just wish Chucklefish hadn't abandoned a game with so much life and potential still left in it. Starbound deserved more. 🌌