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Starbound - Review @ theEscapist

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by RPGWatch, Jul 24, 2016.

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    [​IMG]theEscapist has reviewed the Sandbox Adventure RPG Starbound:

    Starbound Review - Terraria in Space
    It's been a long journey for Starbound. Announced all the way back in 2012 as a "spiritual successor" to smash-hit "Minecraft-but-2D" builder Terraria, it excited fans of the collect-explore-build genre by promising us a Terraria-like experience crossed with the freedom to explore a procedurally generated galaxy. The game had a fairly rocky "early access" journey but after spending some time with the final build, but it looks like it has finally become the game we were promised all those years ago.

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    All that said, Starbound has come a tremendous way from its first Early Access release. Back then I would have had a hard time recommending the game to anyone besides the most hardcore of fans, but now I can happily recommend it to anyone with even a passing interest in the construction game genre that Minecraft kicked off.

    Bottom Line: It's a bit rough around the edges, and the first few hours are a slog, but Starbound is a deep and vast constructor with a killer soundtrack.

    Recommendation: If you're looking for a spiritual successor to Terraria, you have found it.

    Score: 4/5
     
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