Q 01/05

Which planet do giant tentacles destroy in Starbound's opening mission as the player escapes by ship?

A) Mars

B) Avos

C) Earth

D) Venus

Answer · why

C) Earth

Earth falls in the intro, wiping out billions of lives and most of the order the player is about to graduate into, whose members had gathered at its h...

Q 02/05

Which playable Starbound race has a Wild West culture and train-like starships?

A) Avian

B) Human

C) Novakid

D) Floran

Answer · why

C) Novakid

Novakid joined the game only because pre-orders passed $500,000, the first stretch goal, and they are the one playable race never handed an artifact.

Q 03/05

Which animals in Starbound work as mercenaries and follow a UFO-piloting pirate boss?

A) Foxes

B) Frogs

C) Raccoons

D) Penguins

Answer · why

D) Penguins

Penguins become hireable crew once Dreadwing is beaten: the Beakeasy bartender then sells dubloons, and one dubloon buys one mercenary for the ship.

Q 04/05

On which earlier 2D sandbox game did Starbound's lead developer work as the main sprite artist?

A) Terraria

B) Minecraft

C) Stardew Valley

D) Spelunky

Answer · why

A) Terraria

Terraria was his job at Re-Logic until about January 2012, and reviewers such as IGN later compared Starbound's crafting, exploration and combat with ...

Q 05/05

Which Starbound race is stuck in a medieval society and opens each sentence with a word of emotion?

A) Glitch

B) Hylotl

C) Apex

D) Floran

Answer · why

A) Glitch

Glitch are robots built by an unknown race to simulate organic society, but something went wrong and they never advanced past stone castles and farmin...

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