

You might even be able to trade with some of them, using Pixels, the game’s currency, which you acquire from defeating enemies and finding small capsules.

But many are inhabited by peaceful races, which remain that way until you start attacking them. All of the worlds are inhabited by monsters and animals of some sort which you will have to fight off.

There are more interesting places to find than you might see in a similar game though. You will start building tools like pickaxes and weapons using the resources you find, allowing you to mine better resources for better tools, and so on. You are then plonked onto your ship which has run out of fuel above an unknown planet.įrom there, you beam down and it very much becomes a standard exploration and survival game. At the start, you choose from one of several different races and decide what you want to look like (I chose the bird race and went with massive mohawk plumage). Some of the promised gameplay elements aren’t in yet, but as it is, it is still good fun to play, especially with friends. The game is in Early Access now, but it seems as though there are new content patches with plenty of tweaks coming out every few days, which is a good thing. “ Terraria in space” sounds like the perfect game pitch to me. Comparisons with Terraria are easy to make, but that’s not a bad thing. This is all stuff I have collected from various planets on my journey across the galaxy in Starbound. Maybe I will throw out one of the bananas, I haven’t decided yet. I tried to make room for my fish tank but it’s just too big. It has two giant stone banana statues, another statue of a scientist, two massive speakers, a piano, a huge throne and a skull on a spike.
