Starbound, though not exactly a brand new PC title, is still in its beta stages and is available on Steam for fifteen dollars. If you’re familiar with Minecraft or Terraria, you’re familiar with the forage and build to survive mechanic. You need to collect food to avoid starving to death, you need to make shelter to be protected from hostile mobs (creatures), and something that I personally enjoy quite a bit, that Minecraft doesn’t in fact have, is needing a campfire when outside at night to avoid freezing to death. Now, when I say Minecraft doesn’t have that, I’m not saying that other than that, they are perfectly the same, because they’re not. Unless I just haven’t encountered it yet, Minecraft does not have acid rain, whereas Starbound does. There are also many cool weapons and mobs that (surprise surprise) are not in Minecraft. Starbound also has quests, which unless you call the Minecraft achievements quests, are not in Minecraft unless it is modded. As far as I can tell, the weapons in Starbound have unlimited durability, where as in Minecraft, they unfortunately do not.
In Starbound, you start out on your ship, which in all honesty, is the safest place you can be in the entire game, unless there are attacks on your ship I simply haven’t experienced yet. As far as I know, nothing hostile can happen to you on your ship, making it the ultimate safe haven as you are still able to place things on the floor of your ship, such as a crafting table or chest, and are indeed able to craft thigns while in your ship as well.
Unfortunately, the play time I have had is limited, though I believe I have played enough of it to accurately write this review. Since the game is highly quest driven, I do not want to say all too much that gives away the game to avoid potentially spoiling it for you, though I will say that my current sword shoots bubbles. They don’t deal damage, but bubbles are still bubbles.
In Starbound, you start out on your ship, which in all honesty, is the safest place you can be in the entire game, unless there are attacks on your ship I simply haven’t experienced yet. As far as I know, nothing hostile can happen to you on your ship, making it the ultimate safe haven as you are still able to place things on the floor of your ship, such as a crafting table or chest, and are indeed able to craft thigns while in your ship as well.
Unfortunately, the play time I have had is limited, though I believe I have played enough of it to accurately write this review. Since the game is highly quest driven, I do not want to say all too much that gives away the game to avoid potentially spoiling it for you, though I will say that my current sword shoots bubbles. They don’t deal damage, but bubbles are still bubbles.