Starbound has always tried to balance procedurally-made content with hand-made content, and while they've done great work, it just still doesn't come together well. The problem is that the procedurally-made content quickly becomes tedious and repetitive. The hand-made story line gives you a greater sense of purpose, but it seems like they went to every effort to do anything to avoid making a storyline themselves. The result is a bunch of scenarios that end with either nothing except a bit of worthless loot, or a new quest marker to start it over again in a slightly different place.

If you still want to play Starbound, just know that you won't get a satisfying ending - you'll just stop playing when the endless stream of randomly generated game stops being fun. Otherwise I'd recommend Terraria instead - it's the same gameplay style but most of the content is hand-made and actually gives you a sense of purpose.

Starbound has always tried to balance procedurally-made content with hand-made content, and while they've done great work, it just still doesn't come together well. The problem is that the procedurally-made content quickly becomes tedious and repetitive. The hand-made story line gives you a greater sense of purpose, but it seems like they went to every effort to do anything to avoid making a storyline themselves. The result is a bunch of scenarios that end with either nothing except a bit of worthless loot, or a new quest marker to start it over again in a slightly different place. If you still want to play Starbound, just know that you won't get a satisfying ending - you'll just stop playing when the endless stream of randomly generated game stops being fun. Otherwise I'd recommend Terraria instead - it's the same gameplay style but most of the content is hand-made and actually gives you a sense of purpose.