Some had trees covered in eyeballs and virtually no plant life. Before the wipes, my son, daughter, and I each had incredibly unique planets to explore.
But if the starting area is any indication, the possibilities in the game are endless. Not having ventured outside the Alpha sector yet, it’s difficult to say how broad “Starbound” truly is. Think of it as “Grand Theft Furniture: San Galaxia.” The matter manipulator allows you to destroy and place many foreground and background elements, which is an interesting concept even if some say it’s not truly original. The device is your first entry into chopping down trees, digging up dirt, or swiping doors from the first nice home you find in walking distance from where you’ve landed. Your first task is simple: find your matter manipulator in your ship’s lockhold. The pixelated action is not quite 2.5D, but it tries like hell as the side-scrolling game forces you to think about how items like paintings, shelves, and torches are mounted to left, right, and back walls. Planets carry a variety of hostile and peaceful wildlife elements creatures from any of the six races and some NPCs that operate shops tucked into the deepest, darkest corners for only the bravest explorers to discover. You’ve fled your homeworld only to run out of fuel above a randomly-generated planet in the Alpha sector. 4, “Starbound,” depending on how you start and how far you get before losing your progress, is the story of one of six races of creatures – humans, birds, apes, fish-like aliens, robots, and plants.
Had they dropped any bones, I would have decorated my new mantle with their skulls. I took that as a threat and they didn’t last long. In fact, when I was dropped onto what I assumed was my home planet on Tuesday, I was surrounded not by the comforts of home but by three cloaked individuals swearing to cleanse, whatever Alpha sector planet I was on, of all heathens. Since I started playing earlier this month, “Starbound” has experienced at least one game-wiping update and another earlier this week that left many with only the clothes worn and materials carried on their backs. Half of the fun and frustration in digging (or should I say matter manipulating) my way through the galaxies-wide sandbox game is discovering whether what I had built, earned, or stolen would be there in the morning. Chucklefish, the indie creators of PC-based “Starbound,” makes no reservations about what to expect when playing the beta version of their first-ever game.
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