While most aren’t hard to handle, you still have to stop what you’re doing and deal with them in a very simple and repetitive hack-and-slash (or point-and-shoot) fashion. Most planets are crowded with alien creatures, and while exploring and mining you constantly come into contact with them-and nearly all of them attack on sight. Thing is, with the exception of boss fights in quest missions, there just aren't many interesting things to do with these neat weapons, and combat is both the most common activity and the weakest element in Starbound. It’s an adorable yet deadly finishing move. If an enemy gets in my face, I blip away leaving only a big boom in my place.
Some weapons even have special powers, such as my current favorite, a two-handed broadsword which has a blink explosion ability. There’s a pleasing variety of weapons including swords, axes, guns, grenade launchers, darts, bows, rocket launchers, and bombs. Very little of this progression is explained in-game, so if it’s your first time playing you’ll probably be visiting wikis and forums as regularly as you visit new planets. Even your crafting tables themselves can be upgraded to allow you access to newer and better gear. Craft better armor, improve your mining tool’s range and power, unlock new tech that allows you to double-jump or turn yourself into a spiked rolling ball, and create protective suit modules that let you visit planets cloaked in radiation and deadly temperatures, which give you access to new resources you can use to build and upgrade even more. Not every planet is interesting, but enough of them are to make exploration worthwhile and fun, and occasionally surprising.Īs you travel, explore, and gather, you begin to upgrade just about everything in the game. There’s plenty to discover: colonies of friendly aliens living on the surface, forgotten civilizations hidden underground, flying pirate ships, indestructible ghosts, even tiny neighborhoods of gnomes guarded by patrolling robots.
There’s a massive and sprawling universe out there filled with planets to visit: some green and leafy, some arid and sandy, some mostly covered in ocean, some radioactive, swimming in lava, or covered in ice.
Like Minecraft or Terraria, the pixelated sandbox of Starbound involves plenty of mining, gathering of resources, inventory management, buying, selling, farming, stealing, and crafting.
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