The comparison that it's terraria in space holds pretty well, but I think it's unique enough to stand on its own.

It's less boss oriented and more sandbox. Instead of just one world you have virtually infinite planets that you can link together and teleport between, with your ship serving as an intermediate space which you can also expand and build on (although not to the same extent as the planets). If you find yourself visiting a planet frequently enough and you have the resources (and trust me, it's not cheap), you can even place a teleporter so you don't have to beam to your ship, although beware that you won't be able to remove it thereafter without destroying it.

That's not to say there are not bosses and interesting combat mechanics; there are. It's just not what you may be used to. For instance, weapons are either one-handed or two-handed, depending on whether they have a built-in secondary ability, so one-handed weapons tend to be more flexible, whereas two-handed weapons are generally more powerful. The ranged weapons use energy in much the same way as terraria's magic weapons use mana, but unlike terraria, pretty much all armor offers boosts to your energy capacity.

Bosses are also different, but not so much in combat as in how you encounter them. Unlike terraria, you don't just summon a boss by using an item, but rather you must complete a sort of dungeon that resets if everyone in it dies, much like a party wipe in an instanced encounters in games like WoW. There will usually be a checkpoint before the boss though, so you can keep trying as long as you have resources to keep trying. (It's also easy enough to spawn in items if you get desperate, although obviously that's considered cheating. I may or may not have done this to get through my first encounters with bosses 2, 3 and 4, but in my defense I have a spinal cord injury so the fact I'm able to play at all is a testament to modern technology...)

All in all, whether you see this as a new twist on the general concept of terraria or a game of its own is irrelevant. It is a VERY good game and I've barely played anything else since I bought it. 9.8/10

The comparison that it's terraria in space holds pretty well, but I think it's unique enough to stand on its own. It's less boss oriented and more sandbox. Instead of just one world you have virtually infinite planets that you can link together and teleport between, with your ship serving as an intermediate space which you can also expand and build on (although not to the same extent as the planets). If you find yourself visiting a planet frequently enough and you have the resources (and trust me, it's not cheap), you can even place a teleporter so you don't have to beam to your ship, although beware that you won't be able to remove it thereafter without destroying it. That's not to say there are not bosses and interesting combat mechanics; there are. It's just not what you may be used to. For instance, weapons are either one-handed or two-handed, depending on whether they have a built-in secondary ability, so one-handed weapons tend to be more flexible, whereas two-handed weapons are generally more powerful. The ranged weapons use energy in much the same way as terraria's magic weapons use mana, but unlike terraria, pretty much all armor offers boosts to your energy capacity. Bosses are also different, but not so much in combat as in how you encounter them. Unlike terraria, you don't just summon a boss by using an item, but rather you must complete a sort of dungeon that resets if everyone in it dies, much like a party wipe in an instanced encounters in games like WoW. There will usually be a checkpoint before the boss though, so you can keep trying as long as you have resources to keep trying. (It's also easy enough to spawn in items if you get desperate, although obviously that's considered cheating. I may or may not have done this to get through my first encounters with bosses 2, 3 and 4, but in my defense I have a spinal cord injury so the fact I'm able to play at all is a testament to modern technology...) All in all, whether you see this as a new twist on the general concept of terraria or a game of its own is irrelevant. It is a VERY good game and I've barely played anything else since I bought it. 9.8/10