When the first Early Access build of Starbound hit in 2013, it was a mess. The game had a fairly rocky “early access” journey but after spending some time with the final build, but it looks like it has finally become the game we were promised all those years ago.
Announced all the way back in 2012 as a “spiritual successor” to smash-hit “ Minecraft-but-2D” builder Terraria, it excited fans of the collect-explore-build genre by promising us a Terraria-like experience crossed with the freedom to explore a procedurally generated galaxy.
