Starfield

Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.

Developer: Bethesda Game Studios
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Franchise: —
Release date: Sep 5, 2023
Store page updated: Aug 13, 2026
Price: $49.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

50.5/ 100

Based on 411 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating

Recent 😐 Mixed 59% of 377

All time 😐 Mixed 57% of 175,409

“reviewer loves playing the game as a relaxing escape after work”

How it holds up

−50+5

Gameplay

-0.53

Freedom -0.52 · Room to explore, build, and play your own way

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Story & World

-0.82

Story -1.06 · Plot, quests, writing, and the ending

“bland story, forgettable writing, choices feel meaningless” (46)

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Content Volume

-1.13

Variety -3.11 · Fresh content and situations versus repetition

“every planet, outpost, settlement looks identical with same loot” (49)

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Visuals & Sound

+1.31

Visuals +1.56 · Graphics, art style, and animation

“Star Wars Genesis mod is absolutely stellar” (43)

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Multiplayer

-0.38

Not enough data — only 4% of reviews mention this.

Playing together -1.57 · Fun of playing with friends, teammates, or rivals

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Pricing & Fairness

-2.34

Pricing -2.21 · Whether the price, DLC and microtransactions are reasonable, and how much paying gives you an edge

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Tech & Support

-1.95

Performance -2.39 · Frame rate, optimization, and loading times

“excessive loading screens constantly break immersion and gameplay flow” (37)

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time

since launch, by month · major update

Sep 2023Sep 2026

Reviews

per day · 372 reviews, peak 23/day

Aug 21Sep 18

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.