Starbound
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 and gather the resources you need to repair your ship and set off to explore…
Starbound is an adventure developed by Chucklefish Games, released 22 July 2016 on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Linux and Mac. This page lists 6 cheat codes for it.
What Starbound is
Starbound is an adventure game developed by Chucklefish Games and released in 2016. It is available on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
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 and gather the resources you need to repair your ship and set off to explore the vast, infinite universe…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, sandbox, science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 51 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Starbound holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 19 points above the year average. Players rate it 79, 8 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 51 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM and 256 MB graphics memory and directx 9.0c compatible gpu. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Starbound launched on 22 July 2016, within three weeks of No Man's Sky, Abzu, Overcooked! and Batman: The Telltale Series. It reviewed better than all of them. It was a Xbox Series launch-window title.
Released around the same time: No Man's Sky, Abzu, Overcooked!, Batman: The Telltale Series.
Cheats and codes
We have tested and published 6 cheat entries for Starbound — 6 console commands. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel. See all 6 videos →
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Starbound cheat codes
Open the chat console
Commands are typed into the chat box, not a separate console.
Press Enter during play.
Enable admin mode
Required before any other command below.
Type it into the chat box.
Only works in a world you host or on a server where you are an admin.
Spawn an item
Spawns the named item in the given quantity.
Requires /admin first.
Spawn a monster
Spawns the named creature at your cursor.
Requires /admin first.
Quick answers
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