Starbound
Last updated: 2025-05-18
- Vast, explorable universe with great depth.
- Fun, engaging gameplay with customization.
- Extensive modding support and community available.
- Clunky, unbalanced, repetitive combat.
- Game feels unfinished and abandoned.
- Repetitive, shallow story and planets.
- Reviews
(sample size) - 2000
- Helpful reviews
- 56%
- Unhelpful reviews
- 42%
- Protest reviews
- 2%
- 86%Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
- 14%Helpful reviews with negative sentiment
- Positive points
- 2433
- Negative points
- 1328
- Gameplay points
- 442
- Perf. points
- 62
- Rec. points
- 677
- Misc points
- 89
| Point | Description | Importance |
|---|---|---|
| Extensive modding support and community | The game has extensive modding support and a thriving community that creates a wealth of content. Mods enhance the game by adding new features, fixing issues, and expanding gameplay possibilities. Some reviewers feel the game is incomplete without mods. | 63% |
| Vast, explorable universe with depth | The game offers a vast universe to explore, with procedurally generated planets, diverse biomes, and countless quests. Players can spend hundreds of hours exploring, building, and discovering new content. The game world is rich with lore and details, making each playthrough feel fresh and surprising. | 60% |
| Fun, engaging, and enjoyable gameplay | The game is enjoyable and fun, especially when playing with friends in multiplayer mode. Reviewers praise the game's atmosphere, music, and simple yet engaging gameplay. The game offers multiple difficulty modes to cater to different player preferences. | 57% |
| Vast galaxy and space exploration | The game features a vast galaxy system with numerous planets to explore, each with unique alien races, topography, and mini-stories. Players can travel between star systems in a customizable spaceship, encountering diverse biomes, creatures, and resources. The game combines space exploration with sandbox elements, allowing players to build colonies, recruit crew members, and reshape entire planets. | 53% |
| Extensive building and customization | The game offers extensive customization and building options, allowing players to express their creativity. Reviewers often compare the game to Terraria, noting improvements in crafting interface, building mechanics, and character customization. The game provides a sandbox experience with freedom to build bases, villages, or entire space stations. | 43% |
| Appealing and unique art style | The game has a cute, stylized aesthetic with vibrant colors and high-quality pixelated 2D graphics. Reviewers appreciate the game's atmosphere, relaxing gameplay, and unique art style. The game is often described as cozy, comfy, and de-stressing. | 33% |
| Appealing pixel art and narrative | The pixel art is well-done, making the game visually appealing. The game provides a full-fledged narrative where you play as a member of the Terrene Protectorate, embarking on a journey to uncover the mystery behind a catastrophe, adding depth and purpose to exploration. | 25% |
| Amazing and immersive soundtrack | The game features an amazing soundtrack that enhances the atmosphere and fits the sci-fi setting. Reviewers praise the music's quality and variety, noting that it contributes to the immersive experience. Some reviewers enjoy listening to the soundtrack outside of the game. | 20% |
| Frackin' Universe mod enhances game | The Frackin' Universe (FU) mod is a core, actively updated mod for the game, with most other mods supporting or building upon it. The modding community enhances the game, with Frackin' Universe overhauling every aspect and adding significant content. | 11% |
| Positive memories and overall praise | Reviewers express strong positive feelings towards the game, reminiscing about past experiences and fond memories. The game is considered incredible, amazing, and a source of inspiration. However, these points lack specific details about gameplay or features. | 11% |
| Variety of activities and gameplay | The game offers a variety of activities, including fighting, exploration, decoration/construction, crafting, civilization-building, and quests. Players can build colonies, encounter structures and villages, and collect various items. The game encourages creativity, exploration, and hoarding. | 10% |
| Freedom and progression at pace | The game allows you to progress at your own pace and play however you want. There is not a whole lot of grinding for items or currency. The game offers a high degree of freedom and a satisfying sense of progression. | 10% |
| NPC recruitment and colony management | Players can recruit NPCs as crew members by defeating or helping them, adding firepower or support to their ship. Colonies can be expanded with unique NPCs offering quests. The game features a compelling system for recruiting NPCs into the player's team. | 9% |
| Easy and vast building system | Building, wiring, and painting are easy, with hundreds of different blocks and decorations available. The construction possibilities are vast, with numerous block types and styles allowing for diverse builds. The building system allows for fun contraptions using logic circuits. | 9% |
| Compelling and enjoyable storyline | The game features a compelling main storyline that provides a narrative structure. Reviewers appreciate the plot and storyline, noting that it adds depth and purpose to exploration. The storyline is enjoyable and prevents boredom. | 8% |
| Unique and enjoyable boss fights | The game features unique and enjoyable boss fights that require different strategies and modifications. Reviewers find the boss fights well-designed and challenging, with each boss having its own distinct mechanics. The boss fights are more interactive and easier to understand compared to other games. | 8% |
| Procedurally generated weapons and combat | The game features procedurally generated weapons that offer a variety of attacks and designs. Completing quests rewards players with powerful weapons, both ranged and melee, with unique abilities. The variety of weapons and abilities is a strong point, with many different weapons encountered offering unique features. | 7% |