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StarMade
How it's like Minecraft:
Block-based builder like Minecraft with a focus on spaceships like
Kerbal Space Program,
but much less punishing and with a first-person, exploration angle.
Take the space focus of
Starbound,
add the first-person voxel exploration and crafting of
Minecraft and the spaceship design idea of
Kerbal Space Program,
and you get the indie
game
StarMade.
While not as polished as any of those three, StarMade is also not as punish-
ing or hard to pick up, and it does an excellent job of combining the things that make those
games fun into something all its own.
Another early access game,
StarMade
puts the player into a vast universe as an astronaut
with the ability to mine the worlds, asteroids and other space-faring objects around them,
turning them into whatever kind of ship they'd like to fly about in. It also features space
stations, factions, planets you can fly straight up to, land on and walk about and even guns
(something only possible in Minecraft with mods).
A surface shot of the planet from
page 104
,
each planet actually has its own resources and even gravity,
which doesn't activate until you get close.
The galaxy of
StarMade
truly is vast and fully explorable, and unlike
Kerbal's
shipbuilding
system that uses pre-made pieces, or the hand-drawn ships of Starbound, the customization
level for spaceships in
StarMade
is truly extreme. If you can think of how to make it happen
with blocks and the other many small pieces available in
StarMade,
you can build it in the
game.
