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Starfield is a 2023 Adventure, Role-playing (RPG), Shooter game rated 6.5/10 from 175.2k ratings, with a main story of about 16h, available on PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S.
Okay: 6.5/10 across 175.2k ratings. Decent score — check if the gameplay loop clicks for you.
Leans into Adventure, Role-playing (RPG), Shooter, with a main story around 16h. Check if that style and time commitment fit you.
22 media reviews
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.
Read full review ↗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.
Read full review ↗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.
Read full review ↗Starfield shares plenty of DNA with Skyrim and Fallout 4, but ultimately falls short of both.
Read full review ↗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.
Read full review ↗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
Read full review ↗The technology may fail, but the human experience as a messy, impetuous thing remains. Because of that, “Starfield” makes the right sacrifices.
Read full review ↗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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