You'll climb back up within minutes, toting a meagre haul of cheap ore back to town and selling it for cash that pays for items, with a cumulative total unlocking fresh upgrades at certain milestones. Your first trips underground are short and uneventful: your lantern will run out of light fairly quickly, while the dormant enemies that burrow towards you should you disturb them can take hefty chunks out of your small health meter. The first half-hour even carries faint echoes of Terraria's lonely, laborious opening stages, as robot hero Rusty slowly chips away at the rock and dirt beneath a sparse desert settlement, hoping to uncover the remnants of a long-dead human civilisation. The sound design is wonderful, somehow communicating not just the noise of a drill as it pierces rock but the feel. Toss in a pinch of Spelunky's cheerful craftiness and stern challenge and the result is one of the best 3DS downloads to date. Driller's careful path plotting and limited resources. Well, more fool me, because SteamWorld Dig is an unexpected joy, a winning blend of Metroid's exploration and atmosphere with the tension of Mr. I'll admit, I dismissed it on sight: though it looked nice enough, it reminded me too much of the disappointing Dillon's Rolling Western, if only for the Morricone-esque whistling on the soundtrack. Servers can either be locally hosted, or setup as a dedicated server, you can also rent a starbound dedicated game server from a Starbound Game Server Providers.Few would have been aware of SteamWorld Dig's existence before the last Nintendo Direct saw Satoru Shibata rather casually announce that it was to launch on the eShop immediately after the end of the presentation. To play Starbound in multiplayer, you need to find the IP address of a server. Multiplayer is a feature available to the players of Starbound. Starbound is an idea that may well been motivated by Terraria but was in no way meant to replace or continue Terraria. No, Starbound is not a sequel to Terraria. The difference is usually not very long and it is, as it says, unstable. Don’t expect to be able to use it to play updates early. It’s where updates go to get bugfixed before moving to normal Starbound. The gameplay is similar, and the key differences come from Starbound’s questing, spaceships and the ability to travel between planets within the game. Starbound is not a sequel, but many people call it a spiritual successor to Terraria. In short, it would be dishonest to call it dead or dying. The game may or may not receive further updates (being considered finished in 2016), but the player count has remained fairly steady. Starbound’s consistent player count has been more-or-less the same (with occasional spikes) since 2014. In addition, the shading adds more depth and shadows, which contributes to a sleeker gameplay experience. For a pixelated game, it’s far less pixelated than Terraria. As the newer game, Starbound’s graphic quality is superior. It is currently being optimised for console which means there’s a feature freeze right now. “ The game isn’t dead, it still has a thousands and thousands of players. The story follows a Steambot named Rusty, who moves to a run-down town called Tumbleton after receiving the deeds to his uncle’s mine. The game takes place after SteamWorld Tower Defense and by this time, all the remaining Shiners (humans) have gone underground. Steam world dig 2 has about a 4 hour long campaign.