Starbound
 

What is it?

terraria but better

Idk about better, but it is a fantastic terreria-esque game. The progress from alpha to now is fantastic, and while the story can get a little repetitive, it's still a fun experience alone or with others.

I love to play this game with my best friend Yog

Cool game but it runs like **** on low end computers which is surprising since its a 2D pixel game. I had no problems running Terraria but this game really likes to embarrass my laptop.

The game itself isn't very well optimized for higher end PCs either.

The base game is pretty cool but mods make the game infinity better.

Also Avali FTW.

I found it more immersive than Terraria, which led me to enjoying it a lot more.

It's un-optimized in general lol

Yeah its really annoying, the min-requirements for this game are misleading as hell.

If you barely exceed the min-req you'll still have a **** time running the game.

But I've gotten by ok, but just feels annoying to play sometimes with the absurd lag in some areas.

Some mods I'd recommend are Frackin Universe, Avali, Weapon Assembly, XS Mechs & ZZ Mechs, and Manufacturer's Touch.

Alright, Should I buy it, or would it be too simalr to trarraria, or buy stardew valley, or something esle?

Nah its way different from Terraria, especially from a modding aspect.

Stardew Valley is a totally different kind of game.

If you prefer crafting, cool combat, and exploration, get Starbound.

If you like more casual storytelling, farming and also crafting then get Stardew Valley.

Both are great games.

Starbound is lagging a crap ton. (The 32-Bit one)

Is your system 32 bit?

Well my laptop can't run the normal star bound, so I have to play the 32 bit one.

Should I get this? The reviews are saying its bad since release, I dunno if i hsould.

I thought it was great fun, especially playing with one other person. But I'm someone who enjoys these kinds of games as a general rule, so slightly biased.

It's a really cool game especially with mods.

But it just has terrible optimization.

Ever since the 1.0 release build, it's been running like mud on anything but a decent PC on 64 bit. 32 bit I've heard is still really broken.

I've supported this game since they started asking for funding help, and it's generally been a really fun game to play. Even for roleplaying it can provide an immersive environment. You can get super in to the wiring stuff as well, but I'd be careful with that. It can really lag a PC/server down if you use too much of the non-simple stuff.

I remember one time I spent a good three days last summer building an underwater research center with a control center room for the moderator to mess with people in the building. It was awesome, when my server wasn't melting down from how many stupid complex wiring systems I put in it :p I actually had a fully functioning air lock on both ends of the facility. It was so GODAMN COOL. That was the hardest part of the build if I'm honest. Took so long to get that thing right. It probably had 30 switches of various types attached to it so that the timing, lighting, drains, doors, and all that was timed just so to provide a proper show.

We could do everything from "melt down" a section of the center for a while so people inside the area would be poisoned, to breaking a section of the super thick reinforced wall in a handful of places, which would dump infinite water in to that area of the base until it was fixed. Players also had a little command center so they could disable the automatic locks that the doors would put in place for these events. Every door on the base had a motion and a water sensor connected to them, so that if anybody approached them or any water/lava/poison/fluid was near it, they'd be automatically locked down. Tried doing alarms, but they were causing too much lag and bugging out for some reason. I think it was the 1.02 build.

It was great... I don't think I have the old universe files for that server anymore though. Used to run it on a VM on my PC whenever my friends and I wanted to play for a night. rambles on