Steam reviews

Very Positive

90% of 122,972 reviews

Critic scores

Metacritic

Generally favorable

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STARBOUND

Starbound has 679 concurrent players on Steam right now. Its 24 hour peak is 732 and its all-time peak is 732. Data refreshes every 5 minutes from the official Steam Web API.

DEV · Chucklefish2016

You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...

Niche but breathing. Best chance to find others at peak hours.
Currently at 93% of the all-time peak of 732 players.
Last updated 2 years ago: 1.4.4 Hotfix Patch Notes.

Playing now

679

24h peak

732

24h change

▲ 0.7%

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GALLERY & TRAILERS

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ACROSS PLATFORMS

STEAMLIVE

Current

679

24h peak

732

All-time

732

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No public concurrent-player API exists for these platforms. Other sites guess by scraping achievement timestamps or leaderboards. We won’t make up numbers. If the platforms ever ship a real API, real numbers will show up here.