Starbound contains a lot of mechanics that make it addictive to play. Starbound is a borderline game, and is not art due to the status of the game’s completion and lack of certain art/aesthetic elements. Starbound does a lot of things well as a game and as art, but as an overall work, Starbound is truly neither. Starbound is similar to another game called Terraria, but takes the game to a space setting where traveling to different worlds allows the player to explore a lot more than Terraria, where you can only explore one planet per save file. You can do quests like defeating certain monsters to upgrade your technology which allows you to build higher tier armor and weapons and go to more dangerous planets in different galaxies. In the game, you are stranded on a planet and have to mine ore, collect other supplies, and build things to repair your spaceship to explore other planets.
Starbound is a rpg/exploration game made by the indie developer Chucklefish.
