{"id":7972,"date":"2026-06-23T15:07:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starsreach.com\/?p=7972"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:07:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:07:24","slug":"pc-gamer-second-coming-of-the-sandbox-mmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starsreach.com\/es\/pc-gamer-second-coming-of-the-sandbox-mmo\/","title":{"rendered":"PC Gamer (Segunda venida del sandbox MMO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"elk-7c1c85b6-9b8c-4334-8486-a521ae4f8001\">It&#8217;s rare that I&#8217;ll open up a preview about a game by saying &#8220;hear me out&#8221;, but in the case of Stars Reach, it&#8217;s appropriate. I will readily admit, upon a cursory glance of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1925650\/Stars_Reach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1925650\/Stars_Reach\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-hawk-tracked=\"hawklinks\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1925650\/Stars_Reach\/\">Stars Reach&#8217;s Steam page<\/a>, that my inner cynic (who I try not to pay too much attention to) had written it off as a bog-standard, boilerplate survival game with MMO elements.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ad-unit-1\" class=\"ad-unit\"><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m not here to tell you that Stars Reach will knock your socks off\u2014it is a deeply ambitious thing that might burn up in atmosphere\u2014but it&#8217;s certainly far more interesting than its trailers give it credit for. And that&#8217;s not even to knock the people who made them. It&#8217;s a difficult game to describe, one that&#8217;s trying to spin a lot of plates at once, and revive a genre of MMO that&#8217;s fallen by the wayside.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"hawk-root\" data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" data-result=\"missing\"><\/aside>\n<p id=\"elk-7c1c85b6-9b8c-4334-8486-a521ae4f8001-2\">I recently had the pleasure of interviewing its creator, Raph Koster (who worked on Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies)\u2014he described it to me as a blend of SWG, RuneScape, Eve, and Ultima Online. The makeup of Stars Reach is a web of procedurally-generated planets that players can lay claim to and establish rules over.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/mmo\/stars-reach-could-be-the-second-coming-of-the-sandbox-mmo-with-player-built-cities-and-40-star-wars-galaxies-style-professions-to-give-me-hope\/\">Read more over on PCGamer&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s rare that I&#8217;ll open up a preview about a game by saying &#8220;hear me out&#8221;, but in the case of Stars Reach, it&#8217;s appropriate. 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