

They can't actually fly, but hope to achieve it in the afterlife. This has caused some stir of rebellion to rise up.Īvian - Bird people! The avian are a religious warrior race. Some apex are chosen by the leadership to undergo unknown experiments and are never seen again. Humans - How standard! Precise details about human history in this game aren't really worked out, but why not have them.Īpex - Apes in space! Culturally the apex are very science driven, aiming to better all apexkind. More information is available in excruciating detail in the "Game Details" link up top. Farming! Hey, in this game you'll actually have to eat, and why not farm for food?.Internet streaming! You can stream your gameplay directly from ingame to Twitch TV!.Size of worlds, how many worlds, and player count will all depend on machine power, and dedicated servers are a thing. More expansive multiplayer! When you join a multiplayer server, you will arrive on the hub, and can go to any planet regardless of where other people are.Procedural generation! Damn near everything in the game is procedurally generated, be it creatures, worlds, and the stats of items and their aesthetic.Mechs! You can build mechs of varying purposes onboard the space station and deploy to worlds, stompin' around like a boss.Simple objects can be crafted on the field, but more advanced blueprints like for mechs will require you to work on the space station. More expansive crafting system! Aside from more things to craft by a large margin, you learn more crafting recipes from NPCs you help or rescue.Space stations! This is your hub to your game, where you can travel to other worlds from, be safe on PvP enabled servers, and perform more crafting tasks in the research lab.You can leave it, explore other worlds, and return. Multiple worlds! You don't just generate one world and work with it alone.Multiple races to play! There aren't any inherent traits like stats that differentiate races, but complete sets of gear belonging to a race's aesthetic / theme provide bonuses.Slopes! There is sloped ground in the game rather than just sequential tiles rising and falling.There is something of a story to the game, with background details depending on what race you play as, but the shared theme is that you are trying to rebuild your life after your home planet is destroyed.įor those that have played Terraria, this game is leaps and bounds more content and system filled. You fight space creatures, build on and terraform worlds, and generally explore. Starbound is an upcoming multiplayer 2D sandbox adventure game, due to release at an unknown date in 2013. Like the thread title says, it's Terraria in space! But not everyone knows what Terraria is so it needs some explaining. Main Page - Game Details - Character Creator (wip)
