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massively multiplayer online role-playing game
Starbase
By Frozenbyte, released 1 Jan 2021
- Microsoft Windows
- first-person shooter
- massively multiplayer online game
- space flight simulation game
What it is
Starbase is a massively multiplayer space game from Frozenbyte focused on building ships and stations, exploring, gathering resources, crafting, trading, and combat. Its setting is a persistent online universe shared with other players, where groups can mine asteroids, haul cargo, establish stations, and build automated factories. The game emphasizes designing networks for electricity and data as well as constructing vessels that face collision and corrosive damage. Its environment is fully destructible, using voxel and fracture damage mechanics; objects can be destroyed or disassembled with suitable tools and weapons. Steam lists multiplayer, MMO, PvP, online PvP, and Family Sharing. Starbase is listed for Windows, and its Steam genres include action, massively multiplayer, simulation, and Early Access. Frozenbyte is both developer and publisher. The year information lists 2021, and the listed release date is July 29, 2021.
What players like, and what they don't
- Persistent multiplayer universe
- Ship, station, and factory building
- Fully destructible environment
- Resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat
- Windows is the only listed platform
- Steam lists it as Early Access
- Multiplayer-focused; no single-player feature is listed
Who it suits
It suits players who want to build and design ships, stations, or factories in a shared online space. Groups interested in resource gathering, trading, and combat may also find its multiplayer focus a fit.
Starbase centers on player-built infrastructure and activity in a shared, destructible universe. Its listed scope includes combat as well as crafting and trading, while Steam marks it Early Access.
