The game was officially released out of early access on 22 July 2016. The soundtrack was composed by American composer Curtis Schweitzer. Starbound is written in C++ and uses a custom game engine. The game entered an early access beta on Steam on 4 December 2013, receiving over $2,000,000 in pre-orders prior to its launch. īy May 2013, the Starbound pre-order had reached all three of its stretch goals by raising over $1,000,000. Within 24 hours of the pre-order opening, over 10,000 people backed the game, contributing over $230,000 to fund the game's development. Tier options included a copy of the game, an invite to the beta, and a download of the game's soundtrack, as well as game-related 'rewards', such as naming an in-game non-player character, designing a hat or weapon, and having a statue of oneself designed to be placed in the game. Starbound was announced by Chucklefish director Finn Brice in February 2012, with a tiered, Kickstarter-style, pre-order opening via the Humble Store on 13 April 2013. One of the main uses for mechs is the exploration of outer space areas, such as asteroid fields and space ships.

You can also equip various bodies to the mechs, which set how much energy and health your mechs have. Mechs are modular and allow the player to equip various weapons and tools such as guns, shields, and drills. In update 1.3, mechs were added to the game. The story uses a formula that consists of sandbox exploration to scan a set of items, such as human items, then going through a story dungeon to fight a boss. In update 1.0, a story was added to the game. The player also has the ability to farm and sell crops, build buildings, and charge rent to tenant NPCs who can live in those buildings. Player class is defined by items that the player is wearing. The game features story-based missions, quests, free world exploration, enemies to fight, and the ability to interact with and terraform the environment. Many gameplay elements and features, such as items, enemies, and planets, use procedural generation in order to provide a variety of content. Players can navigate, explore and mine procedurally-generated terrain (left) to gather resources and create settlements, including constructing houses and leasing rooms to NPC tenants and villagers (right). The interior of the ship is also fully customizable, with items and blocks able to be freely placed within the ship.Įxploration and settlement gameplay in Starbound. The space shuttle acts as the player's vehicle while exploring the galaxy, containing a teleport pad the player can use to teleport down to the planets the shuttle is visiting, a ship locker for storing items, a fuel panel for refueling the ship and a cockpit for piloting the ship. Starbound contains both quests and story driven missions, buried inside its vast sandbox universe. The space shuttle orbits a habitable planet and an adventure begins that takes the player hurtling across the universe. With nothing to guide it, the shuttle shoots into space without direction, becoming lost in a sea of stars.

Starbound begins with the player inside a spacecraft after the destruction of Earth, home of an intergalactic peacekeeping organization known as the Terrene Protectorate, while just having graduated from its ranks. Starbound was released out of early access in July 2016 for Windows, OS X, and Linux, and for Windows via Xbox Game Pass in December 2020. Starbound takes place in a two-dimensional, procedurally generated universe which the player is able to explore in order to obtain new weapons, armor, and items, and to visit towns and villages inhabited by various intelligent lifeforms. Starbound is an action-adventure video game developed and published by Chucklefish.

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