Starbound

The base game is fine. Like it's genuinely just fine. It does what it says, you explore planets, you build stuff, you follow a story that exists and has a beginning and an end and some genuinely interesting lore tucked into it if you actually pay attention, and the different races have way more personality than they…

As an early backer of this game I am crushingly disappointed at where it ended up. It was sold as a big multiplayer Terraria spanning infinite universes and full of great features. (Including server admin tools which we never got which sucks because I was set on hosting public servers for it.) This game is a bit of…

It's a curious, often frustrating experience. The game certainly feels under-cooked when you go in vanilla, but the modding scene is likely so large and robust for that very reason. That being said, there are certain things about it that you can't even get from other games, and the vast, sometimes boring cosmos is n…

Install frackin universe, then its a 10/10 if you like building and tech tree games.

oof, this one's a mess. hitboxes are totally off, like, how do you even miss that badly? the ui is just garbage, super clunky and ugly. story start is so dumb too, just really idiotic. and the character models? straight outta a cereal box, flat and lifeless. devs clearly just gave up on it, haven't seen any updates…

It never quite got fun for me. It tried in a lot of different ways, but there was always some piece of the puzzle missing.