Starfield

 Xbox Series X
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6.4

Mixed or average reviews- based on 6232 Ratings

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  1. ROSVER
    Sep 7, 2023
    4
    Even though this game had a lot potential, and story content has been better for a bgs game. However, there is no classic open world feeling anymore in Starfield, which is sad.
  2. Umuruk
    Sep 7, 2023
    4
    One of the most unfun things I've played in the last 10 years. Worst purchase I've made in 2023
  3. Otter89
    Sep 7, 2023
    4
    Got a free premium code with a GPU purchase. So no monetary investment.

    As many many others have stated, the game soon loses its magic once you see the same POI for the 3rd time in a day, the main story lacks any wow factor at all. The loading screens soon grated on my patience after having to watch my ship boost into outer space rather than let me do it, Companions lack any    Got a free premium code with a GPU purchase. So no monetary investment.

    As many many others have stated, the game soon loses its magic once you see the same POI for the 3rd time in a day, the main story lacks any wow factor at all.
    The loading screens soon grated on my patience after having to watch my ship boost into outer space rather than let me do it,

    Companions lack any interesting qualities to make me bother taking them with me.
    The graphics look good for what we expect in 2023 but I have read reviewers speak gospel on these textures, and to be frank I have got the game cranked to the max and it's not breathtaking, It's just nice, the lip sync on dialogue can be spot on, or resemble a dubbed anime with the lips failing to match.

    Exploration, this is just a boring walk across a ProcGen planet outside of the main hub planets, once you've been to one, you've pretty much seen it all.

    Weapons and combat, this lacks any real "meat" to it, enemies are utterly braindead and will stand in the open letting you slot them over and over, when they're not glitching on boxes and loose terrain objects.

    Space Combat is a complete farce, not so much dogfighting as it is either instakilled by higher leveled AI ships or it's a slaughter once you unlock Class C ships.

    I frankly cannot recommend this game, even if you love Fallout or Skyrims offerings, because this offers nothing new.    … Expand
  4. Lilmaven
    Sep 7, 2023
    4
    It's a decent game that's a horrible Bethesda game. I'm not sure where the full 8 years of development went.

    Pros - Main story and aesthetic
    Cons - LOADING SCREENS, general graphics, character models, character dialogue, ship building, ships combat, general combat, bland planets, boring exploration,
  5. mrmajor
    Sep 7, 2023
    4
    The story is non-compelling, gameplay monotonous, menus and leveling are a step backwards, and the NPCs are lifeless. Excellent music as with most Bethesda games. I'll be shelving this one until the mod community improves it.
  6. Erik1986
    Sep 7, 2023
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Juego hermoso jugabilidad de 10 no lloren niños de playstiercol vayan a jugar con su ****… Expand
  7. CharlieTheDummy
    Sep 7, 2023
    4
    This game is wide as an ocean but deep as a puddle, outside few decent sidequests its basically once again a fallout 4 reskin, Looter shooter with barebones rpg elements.
    I wonder what developers been doing for so many years because this game dont look like it was in development for 7 years
    Game is once again held by awful Emil Pagliarulo writting, poor graphics,outdated engine and 0 new    This game is wide as an ocean but deep as a puddle, outside few decent sidequests its basically once again a fallout 4 reskin, Looter shooter with barebones rpg elements.
    I wonder what developers been doing for so many years because this game dont look like it was in development for 7 years
    Game is once again held by awful Emil Pagliarulo writting, poor graphics,outdated engine and 0 new ideas.
    Studios needs to evolve but bethesda has been in stagnation ever since Fallout 4 release
    Mid game gets mid score    … Expand
  8. Joovez
    Sep 7, 2023
    4
    It's not interesting to play starfield. I just couldn't stand more than 3 hours in this game. This is absolutely not interesting both from the point of view of the plot and from the point of view of gameplay. There is no space in this game. As well as the open world.
    Add here the promises that we were showered with during the presentation of this game and you will understand that we were    It's not interesting to play starfield. I just couldn't stand more than 3 hours in this game. This is absolutely not interesting both from the point of view of the plot and from the point of view of gameplay. There is no space in this game. As well as the open world.
    Add here the promises that we were showered with during the presentation of this game and you will understand that we were lied to, we were deceived.
    Bethesda has created a mod for Fallout 4. And the concept itself stretches back to the time of Morrowind.
    You should not buy this game at least because you do not want to support such a hack.
    The Bethesda company is parasitic on its previous achievements.    … Expand
  9. Sealow
    Sep 8, 2023
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 50 hours+ in with the main quest completed twice and 2 faction quests fully completed. A very disappointing execution, very bad main story execution, tons of unnecessary travel waiting with no gameplay purpose, really bad world building, effectively 0 meaningful freedom in quests and storyline. Main story quest is effectively just 15 hours of doing the exact same thing over and over again. The worst part is that is that the locations are super generic and uninteresting locations. There is only one good quest in the entire main story quest line that features a research facility that is switching between dimensions. This quest is the only good quest in the game and it’s such a stark contrast against the extremely unambitious delivery for rest of the game.

    Travelling takes forever. I wish this was a fast travel simulator like it’s often mocked for being. The reality is that the travelling is painfully slow despite a 4090 and NVME2 maxed out PC. They add tons of painfully slow landing sequences. You can’t fast travel directly to the planets surface but you must instead travel to its orbit first. You must get scanned for contraband in almost all of the meaningful solar systems which also takes even more time. You also have to wait for you grav drive to power up for upwards of at least 6 seconds out of memory. The worst part is that it serves so little purpose, you almost never get attacked by other spaceships. While any meaningful orbit interactions / quests could’ve been much better executed by just having them appear in the solar system map view as a distress signal. 0 meaningful choice or interesting gameplay in quests. Compared against Cyberpunk the ability to approach a quest in multiple different ways is just non existent. No proper stealth, no different approaches to the objective and instead just a simple speech check at the very end of a quest to skip 10s of combat. Abysmal non existent world building instead of the cool and extensive world building we saw in Fallout 4. The days of exploring the wasteland and coming across tons of cool structures and settings are gone. You got a few small cities that are hard to traverse with not a lot of substance. If you ever hope to come across a cool building with tons of enemies anywhere you’re going to be disappointed. It’s going to be same looking space building facility you see everywhere else. With the same generic 4x4 meter building block set.

    7-8 years of development for this? 66% of the game is spent running in barren planet with 0 meaningful world building and tons of artificially added waiting screens. The rest of the 33% is generic combat with the most linear dialogue and quest options imaginable. To call this game too ambitious is not doing it service. This is a very unambiguous game with even worse delivery.

    As for bugs I encountered 2-3 bugs that soft locked the main quest as important characters would start to float up in the air, etc. in all cases I was able to reload the save and run up to the person I needed to talk to before they floated into the planets atmosphere. Not too bad on this front for a Bethesda game.

    As someone who is a massive fan of fallout new vegas and a big fan of Cyberpunk this was a massive disappointment. The game designs and direction is incredibly outdated and I have to be honest that for Bethesda to be one of only 2 game studios producing massive first person RPGs like this is leaving me sad. If you are new to the genre and not that big of a RPG fan then maybe 6/10 can be a fair rating. But if you are a massive fan of fallout new vegas, fallout 4, Cyberpunk and were hoping for a big leap forward. Then you’re in for the opposite, it’s a far worse experience than even fallout 4. The 4/10 is for the people that never wanted a looter shooter no man’s sky but an actual RPG with a good story and meaningful freedom.    … Expand
  10. overmorb
    Sep 8, 2023
    4
    Its awfulest mix of all gamedesign features you can imagine
    lifeless, boring, rather unoptimized even on high end pc
    Pure degradation - F4 and skyrim were better on so many levels on the date of release Only one thing in all freaking game is ok - boarding ships in space - thats it - and its not like wonderful - its JUST OK . And yeah - no rover or hovercraft or flying above the planet    Its awfulest mix of all gamedesign features you can imagine
    lifeless, boring, rather unoptimized even on high end pc
    Pure degradation - F4 and skyrim were better on so many levels on the date of release
    Only one thing in all freaking game is ok - boarding ships in space - thats it - and its not like wonderful - its JUST OK . And yeah - no rover or hovercraft or flying above the planet or normal transfering around location - just teleport if you want faster - Todd failed to make most important thing for exploring game. Imagine this - starcitiezen and andromeda are better games. NMS better game, comparing this
    graphics - 6.6(6)/10 - meh - nothing special
    shooting on foot mechanics/fights - 5/10 - space fus ro da. Very dumb ai
    spacemechanics flight dogfights 1/10
    Ui/HUD-2/10 - its awful
    music - 2/10 - its just misplaced its not for this game
    plot/narrative - 2/10 - It was all the dog's dream.
    exploring/inventory/trading 3/10
    ship constructor - 5/10 - the only thing mods can fix i guess
    gameworld/content/location/maps - 3/10    … Expand
  11. Alonsorossi
    Sep 8, 2023
    4
    Boring, linear, characters without charisma. It looks like a game from 2010.
  12. Sam_Morrou
    Sep 8, 2023
    4
    I was waiting for this game, even bought an early version of Starfield, but as soon as I started playing, it turned out that the game is poorly optimized for PC, often hangs, at any graphics settings, as well as often there are problems with sound and dialogues in the game. I would very much like to see the game finalized, and it became playable. The game is good in principle, but thereI was waiting for this game, even bought an early version of Starfield, but as soon as I started playing, it turned out that the game is poorly optimized for PC, often hangs, at any graphics settings, as well as often there are problems with sound and dialogues in the game. I would very much like to see the game finalized, and it became playable. The game is good in principle, but there are many nuances that the developers should have fixed.… Expand
  13. Ashimanski
    Sep 8, 2023
    4
    They promised us one thing, but did something else. As a space simulator, Starfield is simply terrible.
  14. nico_portaneri
    Sep 8, 2023
    4
    El juego donde explorarás más menús y pantallas de carga que aquello que el juego ofrece. Si bien el juego mejora todo lo que los anteriores ya nos daban, tanto Fallout como TES, juegos de los que soy muy Fan, aquello que más promete como lo es la exploración espacial se siente más vacío que nunca, puesto que es difícil incluso decir que es un mundo abierto con una pantalla negra por cadaEl juego donde explorarás más menús y pantallas de carga que aquello que el juego ofrece. Si bien el juego mejora todo lo que los anteriores ya nos daban, tanto Fallout como TES, juegos de los que soy muy Fan, aquello que más promete como lo es la exploración espacial se siente más vacío que nunca, puesto que es difícil incluso decir que es un mundo abierto con una pantalla negra por cada movimiento que quieras hacer.

    Así mismo, todo lo que estaba bien siguen siendo cosas que en 2011 ya nos podían ofrecer, asi como parece desastroso que dejen el trabajo de arreglos y mejoría del juego a cargo de los modders. Definitivamente, una decepción para todo fan de bethesda como lo soy, todo aquel que esperaba una innovación al menos.    … Expand
  15. Joaovieiragames
    Sep 8, 2023
    4
    Um game que prometeram tanto, com tantos anos de desenvolvimento, milhões gastos pra entregarem um game totalmente feio é quebrado. Tão de brincadeira com o dinheiro dos fãs, dos consumidores.
  16. Solsh
    Sep 8, 2023
    4
    After having beaten the game and putting around a ton of hours into it so far, I have to say that while it's a fun game, I'm sorely disappointed overall.

    Starfield is extremely disappointing through the lens of Bethesda's past history, as it's massive regressions and streamlining of the Bethesda design philosophy makes it feel a lot more empty in a lot of regards. Stuff like the loss of    After having beaten the game and putting around a ton of hours into it so far, I have to say that while it's a fun game, I'm sorely disappointed overall.

    Starfield is extremely disappointing through the lens of Bethesda's past history, as it's massive regressions and streamlining of the Bethesda design philosophy makes it feel a lot more empty in a lot of regards. Stuff like the loss of AI Schedules, looting changes on both NPC's and general "clutter", a terrible map for the surrounding area/city, the overall reliance on fast travel due to the way traveling and the instances work, space being a buffer instance where there's a small chance of something happening, but it's just there to get a view of the planet before you land on it, sandwiched between 2 loading cutscenes. (Biggest gripe, world feels so broken up and even on planets extremely empty.). A ton of the Bethesda "staples" are cut down to such a degree that it's hard for that level of immersion to "click" in the same way their games have since Morrowind to around Fallout 4. The very basic looting and equipping (We have now fully regressed into having a grand total of 3 equipment slots for armor with 2 additional slots for clothing.) The armor models comes in 2 different sets repainted, and guns are a weird step in a different direction from Fallout 4's customization, as there is much less of a reliance on it here. It's a weird mix of what feels like a blend of laziness, streamlining, or even rushing that I can't quite put my finger on for a lot of these sorely implemented features.

    It's both little and big things that make me sad seeing one of my favorite developers streamline their games from tremendous RPG adventures, to instanced mindless looter shooters.

    The game is fun despite all this. It has a lot of strengths, keeping at least a large chunk of the Bethesda charm in the jank that stems from the engine. Combat is the best feeling it's ever been. The soundtrack is absolutely outstanding and captures the world completely. Spaceship building is a blast. The new persuasion system is a massive win. The story and side content has been fun, but suffers from the very basic writing Bethesda suffers from.

    Overall, It's in a weird place where I really can't recommend it unless you were a massive fan of Fallout 4 and want more of it, or just really enjoy the modern Bethesda design philosophy. It's a shame Bethesda gets the "mods will fix it" pass, Bethesda should be making better games. They've arguably gone downhill in most ways. Another reason is performance, at least on PC. There's no good way to recommend a game where even on a high end rig you're facing an unoptimized mess.

    Can't wait to see where the game goes in the future, but with it's overall disappointing and streamlined nature, I would find it hard to see myself coming back to this game over and over again in the future like I have with previous their games back to Morrowind. Who knows if things will be fixed or changed, or if my opinion will change. YMMV    … Expand
  17. 2A_Gamer
    Sep 8, 2023
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Man this game is boring definitely not a game of the year. The graphics don’t look that good it looks last gen. The opening to this game is a drag get pass the first 8-10 hours and then it’s just a ok game.… Expand
  18. Qdesp
    Sep 8, 2023
    4
    Graphics - Subpar
    Combat - Clunky, unrefined, frustrating
    Animations - XBOX 360
    Flight - Limited area plus loads of loading screens
    Story - meh
  19. ozparlak
    Sep 8, 2023
    4
    The game fell far below my expectations. Reasons:

    Graphics are bad.
    Exploration is missing.
    AI sucks.
    You can only use the spaceship in space.
    Missions are boring.
    Bethesda shouldn't make games. We can't play exclusive games because of you! Do you want me to go and buy PS5?
  20. Henrique30081
    Sep 8, 2023
    4
    Jogo muito bom para quem curte jogos da Bethesda, o início pode ser meio lento e chato mas depois de algum tempo melhora muito, além disso o jogo não ensina muitas mecânicas e a melhor forma de descobrir é conversando com outros players.
    Na questão de bugs tive alguns, mas nada que atrapalhasse muito.No geral é um jogo muito divertido pra quem curte o estilo de jogo da Bethesda.
  21. Alex_97
    Sep 8, 2023
    4
    Could have been more realistic. Whenever you aim with a weapon at an npc it just ignores you.
  22. PotatoJuice127
    Sep 8, 2023
    4
    Boring combat, dead empty worlds, infinite loading screens, terrible animations, and meh story writing. Overall doesn’t make an enjoyable game, especially not the “system seller” it was supposed to be. Thanks Bethesda for false promises.
  23. rogermax515
    Sep 8, 2023
    4
    Jogo muito abaixo do esperado, npcs horriveis, fraco em todo aspectos, pura enganação...
  24. michaelrp
    Sep 8, 2023
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Prometeram muita coisa e não entregaram nem a metade do que foi prometido. Gráficos bonitos só da nave, do resto faltou dedicação dos criadores do jogo, tais como: física da agua que o personagem nem se afunda quando cai de uma certa altura, inteligência artificial dos inimigos e NPC's uma porcaria, as folhas das arvores servem de plataforma, a vegetação nem se mexe quando o personagem passa por ela, os planetas vistos pela nave no espaço são apenas imagens em PNG sem interação nenhuma, loadings infinitos e pra tudo o que for fazer, exploração de mapas somente para recolher pedras e de vez em quando aparece algum inimigo, cansativo, sem graça, e sem contar nas expressões faciais dos NPC's que parecem bonecos de massa no corpo do robocop e por fim depois que acaba a história principal tem apenas o seu boneco feio conversando com você e os créditos aparecem na tela, mais nada. Esse jogo pra ficar bom tem que melhorar MUITO.… Expand
  25. 141Ghost141
    Sep 8, 2023
    4
    It's a Bethesda game with little space exploration and a lot loading screens.
  26. RaspReviews
    Sep 8, 2023
    4
    Starfield is not a great game. Some people are comparing this game to Skyrim…I disagree. Skyrim was fresh and innovative for its time. The story, world and gameplay drew you in. There is nothing innovative in Starfield, and nothing really hooks you or leaves a lasting impression.

    Pro: 1. It’s a Gamepass game Cons: 1. Soulless environments 2. Bland story 3. Way. Too. Many. Loading    Starfield is not a great game. Some people are comparing this game to Skyrim…I disagree. Skyrim was fresh and innovative for its time. The story, world and gameplay drew you in. There is nothing innovative in Starfield, and nothing really hooks you or leaves a lasting impression.

    Pro:
    1. It’s a Gamepass game

    Cons:
    1. Soulless environments
    2. Bland story
    3. Way. Too. Many. Loading screens.
    4. Over-encumbered CONSTANTLY
    5. Bizarre flight system
    6. Getting places is a chore
    7. Skill progression tree is boring
    8. AI is brain dead    … Expand
  27. AvatarL20
    Sep 9, 2023
    4
    Siendo sincero me parece muy conformista la gente de hoy en día ya que cada vez es más fácil aceptar juegos muy mediocres con notazas, como se nota que a la hora de calificar los juegos hay dinero de por medio y muchas mentiras que cuando juegas a un juego como este o cyberpunk, te llevas una decepción decepción. Espero que estas cosas cambien, ya que me esperaba que este juego iba a serSiendo sincero me parece muy conformista la gente de hoy en día ya que cada vez es más fácil aceptar juegos muy mediocres con notazas, como se nota que a la hora de calificar los juegos hay dinero de por medio y muchas mentiras que cuando juegas a un juego como este o cyberpunk, te llevas una decepción decepción. Espero que estas cosas cambien, ya que me esperaba que este juego iba a ser más parecido a un star citicen que a un fallout 4 por su ambientación. Si seguís la historia principal no os decepcionará el juego pero, como queráis ir a por más a veces os sentiréis que perdéis el tiempo por el mundo tan vacío.… Expand
  28. Kl3inerFuchs
    Sep 9, 2023
    4
    Ich weiß nicht was einige Spieler haben, klar es ist ein exklusiv Titel bei Microsoft aber die Entwickler sagten bekanntlich auch das sie das Spiel nur erstmal auf Microsoft laufen lassen wollen da sie das Spiel noch weiter verbessern wollen, also ist es nicht ausgeschlossen das es noch zur playstation kommt. (Abgesehen davon wenn man sich da beschweren will sollte man erstmal auf dieIch weiß nicht was einige Spieler haben, klar es ist ein exklusiv Titel bei Microsoft aber die Entwickler sagten bekanntlich auch das sie das Spiel nur erstmal auf Microsoft laufen lassen wollen da sie das Spiel noch weiter verbessern wollen, also ist es nicht ausgeschlossen das es noch zur playstation kommt. (Abgesehen davon wenn man sich da beschweren will sollte man erstmal auf die ganzen Titel schauen die sony exclusiv hat...)

    Jetzt aber zum Spiel, klar die Story ist hier und da noch überarbeitungsfähig, allerdings gab es auch genug Spiele die nicht einmal dieses Level beim Release erreichen.

    Die Flugsteuerung ist gewöhnungsbedürftig, ich fühle mich ein wenig sehr an die Hand genommen vom Entwickler da ich nicht selbst landen oder starten kann, ich wünschte mir an der Stelle sie hätten sich mit den Entwicklern von elite dangerous zusammen gesetzt.

    An sich macht das Spiel trotz allem echt Spaß und das schiffs Design der normal kaufbaren Schiffe ist mega gelungen allerdings ist durch die eingeschränkte flugerfahrung das alleinige Design relativ egal.

    Story an sich ist cool gemacht, wenn die Kommunikation mehr Emotionen zeigen würden würde alles auch besser rüber kommen und es würde einen mehr mitreißen.

    Aber zu guter letzt würde ich sagen trotz allem ein Spiel was es wert ist gespielt zu werden und wenn noch weitere Elemente hinzugefügt werden könnte ich wie bei skyrim mit den richtigen mods tausende von Stunden spielen    … Expand
  29. Rakavot
    Sep 9, 2023
    4
    As an avid Bethesda fan, I was very excited for a Bethesda RPG in space. Unfortunately, this game commits one of the greatest sins any form of entertainment can make, its extremely boring.

    The gun-play is improved from the fallout series but the classic Bethesda exploration and even quest design is just flat out not here. Many main quests early on are just simple fetch quests to generic    As an avid Bethesda fan, I was very excited for a Bethesda RPG in space. Unfortunately, this game commits one of the greatest sins any form of entertainment can make, its extremely boring.

    The gun-play is improved from the fallout series but the classic Bethesda exploration and even quest design is just flat out not here. Many main quests early on are just simple fetch quests to generic dungeons that are reused as generic points of interest. My first point of interest I explored outside of quests was re-skinned on a different planet as a main quest dungeon minutes later. How is that acceptable? The faction quests are mostly fun and interesting but the lack of RPG choices in many scenarios is noticeable. Exploring planets is tedious and they feel largely uninspired. The 1,000 planet "selling point" is a huge detriment to the Bethesda formula many of us love due to the inherent downsides of procedural generation. Rarely in this game will you run across a cool new story or dungeon outside of the main quest hubs.

    The perk system is lazy as the "challenges" are not challenges. They are simply just utilizing the skills you just purchased 5, 10, 20, 50 or 100 times.

    There are pieces here for a really great game but much of the game, especially early, is a slog and that saddens me given how much time seems to be have been put into this game from the Bethesda team.    … Expand
  30. PentaBill
    Sep 10, 2023
    4
    Purchasing and playing a Bethesda game always comes with some caveats. You know the combat will be janky. You know there will be bugs, ranging from amusing to game breaking. You know the graphics will be rather subpar compared to contemporary titles. You know both the companion and enemy AI will be less than impressive, to put it mildly. You know performance, particularly on PC, will notPurchasing and playing a Bethesda game always comes with some caveats. You know the combat will be janky. You know there will be bugs, ranging from amusing to game breaking. You know the graphics will be rather subpar compared to contemporary titles. You know both the companion and enemy AI will be less than impressive, to put it mildly. You know performance, particularly on PC, will not be proportionate with the aforementioned subpar graphics. You know there will be an over-reliance from Bethesda on the modding community to fix these things. All these caveats are present in Starfield, but what has traditionally made these caveats tolerable in past BGS titles is the unparalleled sense of exploration that the games engender. Unfortunately that sense of exploration does not exist in Starfield.

    Whether crossing the Commonwealth or traversing Tamriel's terrain you never knew what was going to be over the next hill or around the next bend. Just try to remember the sense of wonder and awe you felt in Skyrim when you first came across Blackreach. With Starfield, a game ostensibly about exploring space, that sense of exploration, wonder and awe is all but gone. Imagine if every point of interest in Fallout 4 or Skyrim was locked behind 4-5 loading screens and only reachable through fast travel (or by running several hundred meters across a barren landscape) and further imagine if virtually every point of interest was copied and pasted using the same assets, same layout and same enemy spawn points. That is Starfield's planetary exploration in a nutshell. 1,000 planets across a large section of a galaxy, all with identical mining facilities, labs, geological formations and enemies. It's soulless, boring, repetitive and lazy. Once it quickly loses its luster what you're left with is a rather boring conversation and loading screen simulator with occasional bursts of combat (which, to their credit, has improved somewhat due to help from the folks that made Doom - though this was an extremely low bar to clear). It's almost as if Todd got tired of hearing his games described as "wide as an ocean, shallow as a puddle" but rather than making those critics eat their words he double downed on that design philosophy out of spite instead.

    Will the game perform better and have conspicuously missing quality of life features in a year due to the diligence of modders? Probably yes. But I have a hard time imagining modders being able to replicate that sense of exploration and adventure previous BGS games offered. Such a shame.    … Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 81 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 69 out of 81
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 81
  3. Negative: 1 out of 81
  1. Gamereactor Finland
    Nov 1, 2023
    70
    It's a big game, but starts way too slowly, and may never get interesting.
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  2. Gamereactor Spain
    Oct 16, 2023
    90
    It is true that you'll find a good number of barren wastelands with little to do other than extracting some resources and take off to more interesting places, but again it really depends on how you want to play. There's so much to do, so many systems and abilities to explore, missions to complete, spaceships to loot, and species to catalogue, that I honestly don't think there's anybody who thinks that exploring every square meter of this universe is the better way to enjoy Starfield.
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  3. The Loadout
    Oct 15, 2023
    80
    While it has weak spots and doesn’t push many boundaries, Starfield is still an excellent RPG experience. Bethesda has once again mastered the things it built its reputation on – world building, quest design, and deep customization. However, it’s found new things to excel at too, with exciting combat and a novel implementation of New Game Plus.
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