XX Pleased Giraffe XX

At first Starbound was a game I bought, in VERY early access because I loved Terraria and also enjoyed Minecraft a bit. Starbound promises nerly limitless exploration, thousands of worlds to venture and gut for ore and trees. Each world is of some type. An enermous volcanic planet can have icy pools of poison or precios liquid fuel at its surface. A mile below the surface could lie an ancient Avian tomb or dungeon. Fallen travelers could have left their goods stowed away safely, or not, in small tombs deep beneath the surface, just begging to be rediscovered, only to find it contains a bandage and 5 red flares.

The soundtrack on this gem is.. unlike any game, EVER. It blows my mind. It's full of emotion, wonder, and sadness. I get chills from the music for this game.

Starbound was incredibly fun from the start. the story was all but existent, but the core gameplay was there. I spent many many hours offline playing with my brother on LAN. (I have at least two hundred more hours than steam reflects)

Eventually we stopped playing as much. We'd hit the "end" of the game, went through character and world wipes as the Chucklefish team expanded and improved the game experience.

I released a neat-ish mod in March 2014, and soon after stopped playing; everyone was waiting for the next big update.

I played a few times afterward, seeing the early removal of pickaxes as the main mining method. The ship's state of early disrepair. And again stopped.


Fast forward to last week. I'm sitting here at the computer and see ' "XXXXXXXXXX" is playing Starbound ' in the corner, and I think: "Okay, sure.."

I'd stopped following the dev updates months ago. Busy life and all. Launching the game presented a professional and information rich Game launcher (better than before) and after launching; the all new dev logo, a cuter load screen.

I'll do a TL;DR from here.

I started an avian character as I had always. I began the game, and repaired my ship. I expected to find nothing interesting in the world below.. But again I was mistaken and sunk many many hours into a newly polished, beautiful sounding, playing, looking game.


I cannot wait to see what they bring to the future.

XX Pleased Giraffe XX At first Starbound was a game I bought, in VERY early access because I loved Terraria and also enjoyed Minecraft a bit. Starbound promises nerly limitless exploration, thousands of worlds to venture and gut for ore and trees. Each world is of some type. An enermous volcanic planet can have icy pools of poison or precios liquid fuel at its surface. A mile below the surface could lie an ancient Avian tomb or dungeon. Fallen travelers could have left their goods stowed away safely, or not, in small tombs deep beneath the surface, just begging to be rediscovered, only to find it contains a bandage and 5 red flares. The soundtrack on this gem is.. unlike any game, EVER. It blows my mind. It's full of emotion, wonder, and sadness. I get chills from the music for this game. Starbound was incredibly fun from the start. the story was all but existent, but the core gameplay was there. I spent many many hours offline playing with my brother on LAN. (I have at least two hundred more hours than steam reflects) Eventually we stopped playing as much. We'd hit the "end" of the game, went through character and world wipes as the Chucklefish team expanded and improved the game experience. I released a neat-ish mod in March 2014, and soon after stopped playing; everyone was waiting for the next big update. I played a few times afterward, seeing the early removal of pickaxes as the main mining method. The ship's state of early disrepair. And again stopped. Fast forward to last week. I'm sitting here at the computer and see ' "XXXXXXXXXX" is playing Starbound ' in the corner, and I think: "Okay, sure.." I'd stopped following the dev updates months ago. Busy life and all. Launching the game presented a professional and information rich Game launcher (better than before) and after launching; the all new dev logo, a cuter load screen. I'll do a TL;DR from here. I started an avian character as I had always. I began the game, and repaired my ship. I expected to find nothing interesting in the world below.. But again I was mistaken and sunk many many hours into a newly polished, beautiful sounding, playing, looking game. I cannot wait to see what they bring to the future.