Starfield: Shattered Space Reviews
Starfield: Shattered Space is a compelling but messy addition to Starfield and could be recommended to Starfield fans.
Shattered Space is a fun and meaty addendum for those who enjoyed what Starfield's base experience had to offer, but those hoping for any significant improvements will be left disappointed.
The kindest thing I can say about Shattered Space is that it's "just more Starfield", and if you wanted more missions and story content, then this expansion delivers. However, if you didn't enjoy the base game very much, Shattered Space doesn't provide much reason to return. If you wanted a colourful new planet to roam around and a couple of new scripted story missions to expand your experience with Starfield, Shattered Space certainly provides that. However, with few particularly unique missions that stand out from the main game, and an overall lack of new mechanics, interesting new narrative content, or polish, only the most diehard of Starfield fans are likely to get much out of it.
The general perception, a year after the launch of Starfield, was that Shattered Space and all the interventions of the post-launch development team would have served to right the boat, as has happened too many times in recent times. Yet, on these pages, Starfield had been able to earn a flattering vote, which did not disregard, however, a series of problems that the product had highlighted. In approaching Shattered Space, then, your point of view is fundamental: if you were disappointed by the Bethesda title thirteen months ago you won't find anything here that can change your mind, except for a more focused world that does not force you to continuous travel in hyperspace, damaging the pace of the game.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Overall, Shattered Space is a decent expansion that introduces a deep story along with a dark planet featuring larger quests and new enemies. While it's enjoyable, it doesn't bring anything groundbreaking and feels more like an additional dose of the familiar rather than offering something truly new to the game.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Starfield: Shattered Space takes you to a "shattered space", and I mean it literally. This is probably the most unstable, unpolished DLC that Bethesda has ever released. It doesn't improve the original game's experience by any means but rather drags it further down. If you want to play Starfield, just play Starfield and forget about Shattered Space. You won't miss anything.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Starfield: Shattered Space is a big disappointment in almost every way. We loved the base game, for all its flaws, and we were willing this to be the big, exciting DLC drop that'd make us love it all over again. However, what we've got here is a very average narrative expansion that fails to add any big choices, upgrades, new enemies, biomes, loot or anything that could potentially excite or draw in new players. It's buggy, janky, badly acted in places, and there are a myriad of bugs and performance issues to be ironed out. What a missed opportunity.
The Shattered Space expansion can be seen as a step in the right direction, aiming to address previous shortcomings. However, it still relies heavily on the same formula and structure as Starfield and doesn’t bring anything particularly new or unique. Its storyline is brief and resembles the side missions from the base game, lacking depth and excitement. The short adventure offers little impact on player choices, which have no lasting consequences. On the gameplay side, especially in terms of exploration, the expansion delivers a pleasant experience with its detailed, beautiful world. Fans of the studio’s previous works will likely enjoy the rich environment. Ultimately, despite its highs and lows, the expansion does not justify its $30 price tag, making it advisable to wait for a discount or price drop if you’re considering it.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Starfield did not entice me to stay as long as any of my beloved favourite Bethesda titles. So after a year, I have hopes that some spit and polish has been put into their new expansive DLC, ‘Starfield: Shattered Space’ to light a fire under my ass to get back into it.
Starfield: Shattered Space is an overpriced, disappointing expansion that adds little to the game aside from some neat weapons. There’s too much talking, not enough shooting, and an underwhelming amount of content for its asking price of $29.99 USD. It’s a serious drop in quality from what Bethesda was able to do more than a decade ago.
A year after the release of Starfield, Bethesda returns with Shattered Space, a DLC that abandons procedural worlds to offer a more contained narrative experience. Exploring Va'ruun'kai feels good and rewards us with a narratively solid story and missions that make us think 'outside the box'. While the new approach and design is more than welcome, the experience as a whole needs something more substantial to reach its full potential.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Shattered Space is a very high-quality expansion, but if you didn't like the original Starfield, it probably won't convince you. However, a lower price tag certainly wouldn't hurt.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
After a year Bethesda finally comes with an extension for Starfield called Shattered Space. What can you expect from it? Especially a lot of the same and there the problem is largely. The vibe that hung around Starfield has since been put out and therefore it all feels like you already know it. A new planet with new missions is what you get back. For people who did not touch Starfield at the time, this is a great opportunity to finally pick it up. Also for the real fans of Starfield. Did you think Starfield was okay, but nothing more? Then you might be better off waiting for the extensions to be there.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
The DLC is held back by bugs that will hopefully be patched in the future, and preferably sooner than later. But even with the eventual updates and fixes, this is still a DLC that adds no spice to the base gameplay. Yet despite not making any big additions to the gameplay, Shattered Space is still a fun time. This consistency is a testament to the DLC's quality, and that of Starfield as a whole. It's for these reasons that Shattered Space is a good reason to dust off Starfield from the backlog and give it another shot.
The story was good, but not excellent. Exploration definitely had a few wins, but still felt largely empty and did not reward players enough. Loot system is still flawed and the added content clearly did not include a whole lot of new weapons. Mainly these are reskinned versions of weapons already introduced to us.
The Starfield expansion had a lot of potential, with a strong and intriguing start. However, it doesn't offer enough additions to be considered a true expansion. The inclusion of only one new planet and a few updates to equipment and weapons don't justify what could have been a simple update.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Shattered Space hits the mark by delivering a worthy expansion to one of the biggest and better mysteries in Starfield. This dive into the legacy of House Va'ruun brings precise criticism to religious fanatism to deliver excellent moments with some of the most beautiful visuals of this generation, which will please fans of Bethesda's most ambitious RPG to date.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Starfield: Shattered Space changes the rules of the game to renew your experience and expand your universe in an interesting way.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Starfield: Shattered Space is the first expansion for Bethesda’s space epic, a piece of content that feels objectively unnecessary in the game’s overall context. Despite the fantastic new settings and the idea of focusing the story on a single moon, which makes exploration more engaging, everything else feels like a clear patchwork of the full game—almost as if it had been cut for time and then brought back a year later to add a few extra hours. If the studio genuinely intends to make Starfield a long-lasting title, they’ll need to deliver additional content that is far more focused and polished than what we’ve seen and played with Shattered Space
Review in Italian | Read full review
A strong opening and a great setting are unfortunately let down by a less than engaging story.