PLEASE tell me there are others on PXR that have at LEAST heard of Starbound.

Where do I even begin? Its such a spectacular game, and the full version is almost complete!

Starbound is a game similar to Terraria and several other similar games, only that EVERYTHING is procedurally generated. Well, most everything, anyway. What is procedural generation, you ask? Basically it's just...

Well, let's use monsters for an example. For each planet, monsters are randomly generated. The game selects from quadrupeds to bipeds, then determines what the head, body, and tail / rear will look like using random selection from lists of body / head / whatever types. What attacks a monster has depends on these body parts, as well.

But its not about the monsters. Firstly, even though these things are all generated randomly, a coordinate system exists. So for instance, Planet 1 would be the same on my game as it would be on your copy of Starbound, so long as the coords are the exact same.

You wander around space and jump from planet to planet to do whatever. Collect resources, farm, build, all sorts of stuff.

The game is 2d, but the sprites are soft and beautiful, unlike Terraria. I'm sorry, but the pixel art in Terraria sucks ***.

Truth is, there's a **** ton of things you can do in this game.

Its in beta right now but its REALLY far along. As of now I believe its only 15 bucks, but they plan on jacking the price up as soon as the full version is released.

The first version of beta was released on December 4, 2013! Christ, can you believe its been THAT long??