Every Monday we send Brendan into the alternate dimension of early access to see what silliness resides there. This week, the cubic planets of Stellar Overload [official site].

The game formerly known as Planets hit Steam this month after a while in the wilderness of alpha. The idea is simple enough: take Minecraft, add a dollop of story, and fold the world into a cube. Then populate the skies with other cube planets with rocky, watery, snowy, or deserty environments. That sounds like a sure thing (it certainly looks very pretty). But does it live up to its potential in our spherical world, which is already dangerously overpopulated by Minecraftbuts?

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Cubical Drift’s Stellar Overload [official site] looks a whole lot like Cube World or Minecraft, though it looks slightly better than either of those games, at least in the aesthetics department. Kickstarted under the name Planets³ in 2014, the game and its cubic planets finally arrived on Steam Early Access this week, so it’s ripe for the trying. … [visit site to read more]