As someone who clocked over 1300 hours into the game I'll say this.... If you don't mind relying on mods to unlock a game's true potential then you'll enjoy this game nonstop like myself. If it bothers you that you need mods to gain fulfillment from this game then look elsewhere. The base game sadly isn't very good with a mediocre story that forces you to do mundane repetitive tasks, however with mods such as Sandbound, Frackin Universe, Instant Crafting, Make the universe a cuter place, Troubled Waters, Difficulty Plus/Overhaul, Optional Story etc. makes Starbound into a fun and awesome game, you're no longer chained down by the story and you can explore, craft build however you like and you can fight many bosses without going through a story mission to access the boss, which really brings out what Starbound should be vanilla, sadly it's not, but it's not bad relying on mods to gain maximum fun out of it seeing that's something I've been reliant on for various games before playing Starbound, in any case though that's just me and my two cents. You may disagree with me and that's fine, but I just wanted to throw my review out there is all. Cheers!

As someone who clocked over 1300 hours into the game I'll say this.... If you don't mind relying on mods to unlock a game's true potential then you'll enjoy this game nonstop like myself. If it bothers you that you need mods to gain fulfillment from this game then look elsewhere. The base game sadly isn't very good with a mediocre story that forces you to do mundane repetitive tasks, however with mods such as Sandbound, Frackin Universe, Instant Crafting, Make the universe a cuter place, Troubled Waters, Difficulty Plus/Overhaul, Optional Story etc. makes Starbound into a fun and awesome game, you're no longer chained down by the story and you can explore, craft build however you like and you can fight many bosses without going through a story mission to access the boss, which really brings out what Starbound should be vanilla, sadly it's not, but it's not bad relying on mods to gain maximum fun out of it seeing that's something I've been reliant on for various games before playing Starbound, in any case though that's just me and my two cents. You may disagree with me and that's fine, but I just wanted to throw my review out there is all. Cheers!