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Starfield

Starfield

|United States|Shooter, Adventure

7.5 /10

Pretty good

Super hit!

175.4k ratings
Time to beat
Main
16h
Main + extras
101h
Rating sources
Steam · Player score5.7/10174.9k ratingsIGDB · Critic score8.5/1010 ratingsIGDB · Player score7.1/10339 ratings
OpenCritic · Critic score8.4/10233 ratings
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Why play it

Starfield is a 2023 Shooter, Adventure, Role-playing (RPG) game rated 7.5/10 from 175.4k ratings, with a main story of about 16h, available on PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S.

Starfield is a single-player action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and set in an open-world space environment. Players create a customizable character and explore a region of the Milky Way galaxy spanning approximately 50 light-years, landing on over 1,000 planets with procedurally generated landscapes. Gameplay includes first-person and third-person combat using firearms, explosives, and melee weapons, as well as spaceship construction, outpost building, resource gathering, and crafting. Players recruit companion characters, join factions, and progress through skill trees spanning Physical, Social, Combat, Science, and Tech categories.

Story and worldbuilding

In the year 2330, twenty years after a devastating interstellar conflict known as the Colony War, the player character works as a space miner for Argos Extractors. During a routine dig, they uncover a strange artifact with unusual gravitational properties and experience a powerful vision upon touching it. This discovery draws the attention of Constellation, a renowned group of galactic explorers who believe these artifacts represent one of the greatest remaining mysteries in the settled systems. After delivering the artifact to Constellation's headquarters in New Atlantis, the capital of the United Colonies, the player joins the group in their quest to locate more artifacts scattered across known space. Their search soon draws competition from the Starborn, enigmatic beings with their own claims to the artifacts, raising the stakes of what began as simple exploration into something far more consequential.

Game highlights
Rating momentum

Pretty good: 7.5/10 across 175.4k ratings. Overall vibes are good; safe to add to your backlog.

Play style

Leans into Shooter, Adventure, Role-playing (RPG), with a main story around 16h. Check if that style and time commitment fit you.

Reviews

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IGNDan Stapleton · 31 Aug, 2023
7/10

Starfield has a lot of forces working against it, but eventually the allure of its expansive roleplaying quests and respectable combat make its gravitational pull difficult to resist.

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GameSpotMichael Higham · 31 Aug, 2023
7/10

Bethesda's spacefaring adventure has its moments with impressive scale, satisfying combat, and some worthwhile side quests, but its shallow RPG systems and uninspired vision of the cosmos make for a journey that's a mile wide, but an inch deep.

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EurogamerChris Tapsell · 14 Sep, 2023
6/10

Starfield pairs near-impossible breadth with a classic Bethesda aptitude for systemic physics, magnetic sidequests, and weird vignettes. But in sacrificing direct exploration for the sake of sheer scale, there's nothing to bind it together.

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PC GamerChristopher Livingston · 31 Aug, 2023
7.5/10

Starfield shares plenty of DNA with Skyrim and Fallout 4, but ultimately falls short of both.

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PolygonNicole Carpenter · 31 Aug, 2023

In trying to do everything, Starfield obfuscates its most compelling mysteries.

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GamesRadar+Leon Hurley · 31 Aug, 2023
10/10

With this kind of freedom 'avoiding the main mission' is the main mission.

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Game InformerMatt Miller · 31 Aug, 2023
8.5/10

Go in with the expectation that it will take some time to find your footing in such a vast gameplay space, and there’s a universe well worth discovering here.

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GuardianSimon Parkin · 6 Sep, 2023
8/10

Bethesda's long-awaited space epic is a vast interstellar canvas full of glorious sights to see and intriguing threads to pull – if you can keep patience with its fussy systems

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Washington PostGene Park · 31 Aug, 2023
10/10

The technology may fail, but the human experience as a messy, impetuous thing remains. Because of that, “Starfield” makes the right sacrifices.

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VGCJordan Middler · 31 Aug, 2023
10/10

Starfield is the ultimate Bethesda game. It takes what people loved about Fallout and Skyrim, and casts it across an enormous galaxy filled with captivating characters.

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