Starbound

Once I felt ready, I spent one fuel traveling to a nearby snowy planet and setting up base there. It was a cool experience to have. The special effects behind space travel in this game are exhilarating!

Steam had a great game that was definitely in my interests: Starbound. I ended up going on a small side quest playing this game for hours—according to Steam, ten hours.

The first impression I had was how futuristic it was! I started alone aboard a nomadic spaceship. The ship was complete with a few basic consoles I could use and no fuel.

Another impression was how there was no way to change the controls, so I had to spend the first few hours struggling with awful key arrangements which I was obviously not used to. Eventually, I got frustrated enough to look online and figure out in the geekiest way to change the controls by looking in the configuration files. It all worked out in the end!

This game has a steep progress climb. It’s really challenging to move up in the game. After the small tutorial, and the battle with a penguin space pirate, I was left alone to my devices to figure out what to do next. 

The space pirate utterly destroyed my burrow, I had to repair it, but that didn’t take too much time. Then I spent some time searching for leather so I can make some armoring and warmth from the cold climate. Later, I spent tremendous amounts of time mining for ores and exploring the planet. I briefly went to a nearby snowy planet. And then I finally got enough fuel to travel to another solar system…this is exciting! All this took ten hours—this show how steep it takes to climb and progress.