
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
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Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Every market we collect.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 1/day in the week to Sep 1 → 1.29/day in the week after.
About

In Starbound, you create your own story - there’s no wrong way to play! You may choose to save the universe from the forces that destroyed your home, uncovering greater galactic mysteries in the process, or you may wish to forego a heroic journey entirely in favor of colonizing uncharted planets.

Settle down and farm the land, become an intergalactic landlord, hop from planet to planet collecting rare creatures, or delve into dangerous dungeons and lay claim to extraordinary treasures.
Discover ancient temples and modern metropolises, trees with eyes, and mischievous penguins. Make use of hundreds of materials and over two thousand objects to build a sleepy secluded cabin in the woods, a medieval castle, underwater arcade, or even a space station.

Starbound has been built from the ground up to be multiplayer and easily moddable. You have the tools to make the universe your own and modify the game to suit your play style - add new items, races, planet types, dungeons, and quests - the possibilities are limitless.

Choose from one of 7 playable races and customize your character
Save the universe in an epic story campaign featuring colorful characters, bosses, dungeons, and quests!
You're the captain of your very own starship! Decorate it, expand it, and use it to explore a procedurally generated universe
Colonize uncharted planets and collect gifts from your tenants - if they like you, they may even ask to join your ship crew!
Three game modes - Casual (no need to eat), Survival (eat to survive/drop items on death) and Hardcore (permadeath)
Craft thousands of objects - building materials, armor, weapons, furniture and more
Capture unique monsters to fight alongside you
All content is available in online drop-in/drop-out co-op
Built from the ground up to be easily moddable. You have the tools to make the universe however you'd like it

Add-ons
Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
Sums Steam only; Xbox, GOG publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
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Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 999 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Low effort devs deserve low effort reviews.
The game is repetitive with scanning objects from different planets and going into an instance for the entire game. It's last update was back in 2019 and there has been silence after it, i would leave a positive review on this game but the modders put more love into this game compared to Chucklefish. You're better off playing Terraria.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 5975.67/day in the week to Jul 17 → 13.29/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English**languages with full audio support
| $14.99 |
| 753ratings |
| 76% |
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Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 1K reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
You need to mod the ♥♥♥♥ out of this game to actually enjoy it but overall is a very entretaining game if you like doing anything but the main objectives
[b] Do not buy this game. [/b] By itself, it is... alright. The story is shallow and the randomly generated planets get tiring after a while (although I hear the building is great!). On its own, I would give it a 6/10. However, community mods make this game far better. These mods don't fix some of the fundamental issues with the game (for example, how your ship can get corrupted if you put too much stuff on it), but they add a lot more life to the game. Unfortunately, this game has one of the worst histories I've learned about (unpaid child labor with the never-fulfilled promise of a job) with and was just abandoned one day. Look to other games for a space fantasy, don't get into this one.
Лучшая игра на свете. Лучшая музыка, люблю всем сердцем
旧游补评 115 游玩时期:2019 令人怀念的沙盒游戏热衷时期
The game set out to target some pretty lofty goals. When it was unable to meet those during development they re-adjusted to something much lower and much more mundane. Unfortunately, the truth is that Starbound isn't a very good game. It looks pretty at times, but practically every system in the game feels underdeveloped andd awkward. Combat? Very awkward and not very fun. Building? It has some QoL over other similar games, but then have a bunch of other limitations introduced instead that makes it a pain in the arse. Questing and adventuring? The content that is there is just rather shallow and in dire need of large expansions. The main quest and story? The story is pretty bland and bad, and the gameplay portions of it don't offer much. Frankly, there's just better games out there. If you're here then you likely already know Terraria, but if not, I recommend going for that instead.
我恍惚了。 此刻我有点电子ed,坐在电脑前不知道该做什么,只有电脑的风扇在这寂静中提醒我时间在逝去。 那单调的、不息的嗡嗡声似乎在记忆中存在过,牵着我回到了多年前的暑假。那是我升初一的夏天,用着家里核显的老笔记本,笨拙地在创意工坊解决了汉化的问题,才得以迈入starbound的大门。我在这个宇宙中单纯的探索、收获、感动、惊喜,在我记不清的日子里驰骋于星海之中。 在一个平凡的午后,电脑放在茶几上,饱餐一顿的我躺在边上的沙发,一种不息的嗡嗡声始终环绕着,四下寻找才发现是飞船上的织布机在有节奏地织着布。我很想起身离它远点,又懒得动,躺着、听着又看着夏日的阳光从阳台伸出来,心头什么也没在想。 夏天的另一个日子里,我破解了古代语的奥秘,把它们写成密文发给好友,期待着他的疑惑,只有那些早已消逝的蝉在见证。 我再没有那样的感觉。
WHERES SKIP BUTTON I DONT WANNA WATCH RANDOM SOME ♥♥♥♥
Developers abandoned the game, went radio silent, and then finally said something just so they could milk money off whatever players they have left. And that's ignoring all of the issues involving this game's development and unpaid work. Modders have done more for this game than Chucklefish ever could. Don't expect much from the base game.
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