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Shared: Colony Building

Seven alien races, procedurally generated galaxies, and a sandbox that respects your attention span, Starbound is the space explorer's Terraria, for better and occasionally worse.

Shared: Farming Sim

Wrangle, feed, and crossbreed slimes on an alien ranch in this endlessly cheerful first-person sim that somehow makes spreadsheet farming feel like a vacation.

Shared: Relationship System

Proof that dying can be the best part of a story: Hades turns every failed escape attempt into a character beat, and the combat is sharp enough that you will want to fail a few more times just to try the shield next run.

Shared: Crafting Progression

A low-stakes space exploration sandbox where terraforming alien planets feels genuinely tactile. Build, dig, and breathe in the silence between stars.