Starfield

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85

Top Critic Average

83%

Critics Recommend

Game Rant
5 / 5
PC Gamer
75 / 100
Eurogamer
3 / 5
IGN
7 / 10
TheGamer
4 / 5
GamesRadar+
5 / 5
Game Informer
8.5 / 10
GameSpot
7 / 10
Creators: Bethesda Softworks
Release Date: Sep 6, 2023 - PC, Xbox Series X/S

Starfield Review Summary

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Expansive open world

Engaging combat and role-playing quests

Freedom of exploration

Starfield is an expansive sci-fi RPG from Bethesda Game Studios that offers a vast open world to explore. The game emphasizes freedom, allowing players to pursue side quests and space exploration at their own pace. Critics have praised the engaging combat, captivating narrative, and ambitious scale. However, some feel the game lacks innovation, with technical glitches and repetitive tasks pulling down the overall experience. Its vast universe can also feel disconnected and shallow at times, despite the large scope.


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Starfield Direct – Gameplay Deep Dive


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Critic Reviews for Starfield

Starfield delivers on everything it promised and then some.

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

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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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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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I came into Starfield wanting to explore the stars, and I got a brilliant sci-fi story instead. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little disappointed.

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

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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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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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Industry Coverage

Ex-Starfield Dev Comments on the Game's Loading Screens

Ex-Starfield Dev Comments on the Game's Loading Screens

A developer who previously worked on Starfield comments on the loading screens found in Bethesda's most recent open-world exploration game.

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Even A Former Starfield Dev Was Surprised By All The Loading Screens

Even A Former Starfield Dev Was Surprised By All The Loading Screens

An ex-Starfield developer was surprised the game launched with so many loading zones.

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This Starfield Player Spent 1,000 Hours Getting To Level 1,000, For Some Reason

This Starfield Player Spent 1,000 Hours Getting To Level 1,000, For Some Reason

It took them over a century of in-game time to reach that milestone.

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Veteran Starfield Player Shares Their Hilarious Intro Strategy

Veteran Starfield Player Shares Their Hilarious Intro Strategy

A veteran Starfield player shares a hilarious strategy for quickly overcoming an unavoidable part of the game's intro mission.

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