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''[http://playstarbound.com/about/ Starbound]'' is an upcoming [[Wide Open Sandbox]] space game that can best be described as ''[[Terraria]]'' [[In Space]], and is being developed by roughly half of the ''Terraria'' development team. Players will flee their destroyed homeworld, land on a mysterious space station, and from there, visit [[Randomly Generated Levels|randomly generated planets]] to research technology, meet new people, and explore the universe.
''[http://playstarbound.com/about/ Starbound]'' is a [[Wide Open Sandbox]] space game that can best be described as ''[[Terraria]]'' [[In Space]], and was developed by roughly half of the ''Terraria'' development team. Released in 2016, players flee their destroyed homeworld, land on a mysterious space station, and from there, visit [[Randomly Generated Levels|randomly generated planets]] to research technology, meet new people, and explore the universe.


[https://store.steampowered.com/app/211820/Starbound/ It is available] on [[Steam]].
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=== ''Starbound'' has been confirmed to contain examples of these tropes: ===
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* [[After the End]]: "Starbound begins with you fleeing your homeworld in a space shuttle, just as it’s destroyed by an unknown enemy."
* [[After the End]]: "Starbound begins with you fleeing your homeworld in a space shuttle, just as it’s destroyed by an unknown enemy."
* [[Cool Starship]]: A whole space station with a dock.
* [[Cool Starship]]: A whole space station with a dock.
* [[Development Hell]]: Had a storied development.
* [[Funny Animal]]: The Avian race, with a [[Feather Motif]].
* [[Funny Animal]]: The Avian race, with a [[Feather Motif]].
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: With "a factory capable of producing mechs" to ride.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: With "a factory capable of producing mechs" to ride.
* [[Infinite Flashlight]]/[[Ten-Second Flashlight]]: There will be flashlights in the game, but we don't yet know which kind they will be.
* [[Infinite Flashlight]]/[[Ten-Second Flashlight]]: There will be flashlights in the game, but we don't yet know which kind they will be.
* [[Pop Star Composer]]: Averted. [[Toby Fox]] claims creation for an hour of music that was ultimately not used.
* [[Procedural Generation]]: For planets and visual details like trees' appearance.
* [[Procedural Generation]]: For planets and visual details like trees' appearance.


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Latest revision as of 03:32, 31 March 2024

Starbound is a Wide Open Sandbox space game that can best be described as Terraria In Space, and was developed by roughly half of the Terraria development team. Released in 2016, players flee their destroyed homeworld, land on a mysterious space station, and from there, visit randomly generated planets to research technology, meet new people, and explore the universe.

It is available on Steam.

Tropes used in Starbound include: