From underground secrets to space combat, there’s a vast vision in that list, which is only just beginning to be realised: a huge playground, an enormous world to discover and for players to impose their own ideas upon. It is an incredibly ambitious project, especially for a small team like Chucklefish, and that’s nowhere more evident than in lead developer Tiy Brice’s post last month about what the future holds for the game. There’s a raft of survival mechanics layered on top of increasingly complex mining, crafting and building systems, and that’s before you get started on the procedurally generated monsters. Along with the instrument system, there’s the hunger system, the farming and cooking abilities, and the way you get cold at night and extremely cold on moons. It’s dizzying in its details already, to the point where simply attempting to list all the systems in the game would make this article read like a wiki entry. “I hope we would be seen as helping to define the tropes of this new genre.” It’s not about games copying each other, but building on each other.”ĭeveloper Bart van der Werf agrees. But actually it’s becoming more of a genre. “People will always draw similarities - it’s this in space or it’s that in 2D - when anything new comes out. Community manager Molly Carroll says the comparisons are probably inevitable. And it’s proud to wear its influences on its sleeve. Starbound owes a great deal to a few enormous, procedural games that have preceded it, particularly Terraria and Minecraft. And playing the trumpet, of course.Įach planet offers a lush landscape to explore Photograph: /PR Photograph: PR
It’s about killing all the robots, converting their vaults into a multi-level farm, and throwing a feast for everyone who shows up. Like Minecraft, it’s at its most enjoyable when you can do these things with your friends, and make stories together. It’s more even than a game of survival on unforgiving worlds. You might just find a calm spot to do a bit of mining, and only later discover strange caverns of flesh deep, deep underground.īut it’s more than a game of exploration and discovery.
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You might find dungeons - deep underground structures full of angry floral people with cattle prods or apes with laser guns - or villages, full of similar characters but much, much less angry. You might find a lush green forest world full of trees with eyes, or a desert world where bird-people stand guard over a mausoleum. The worlds are persistent but randomised, each one distinct and fascinating. Starting out with just a ship, a matter manipulator that gathers resources painfully slowly, and a vague sense of optimism, you’re given a small starting planet within a small solar system in an impossibly vast universe.
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At first glance Starbound, which sold its millionth copy a couple of weeks ago despite only being available in early beta form, is all about striking out into a strange and almost unwaveringly hostile universe.
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