Starfield
Last updated: 2025-05-20
- Visually stunning space exploration with freedom.
- Extensive ship building and rewarding progression.
- Compelling stories, characters, and faction storylines.
- Repetitive procedural generation diminishes exploration.
- Weak main storyline is unengaging.
- Technical issues and clunky UI are present.
- Reviews
(sample size) - 2000
- Helpful reviews
- 80%
- Unhelpful reviews
- 16%
- Protest reviews
- 4%
- 66%Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
- 34%Helpful reviews with negative sentiment
- Positive points
- 4531
- Negative points
- 5561
- Gameplay points
- 1080
- Perf. points
- 454
- Rec. points
- 1940
- Misc points
- 413
| Point | Description | Importance |
|---|---|---|
| Compelling stories, characters, and freedom | The game offers compelling stories through main quests, side missions, and faction storylines, enhanced by well-developed characters, excellent voice acting, and meaningful dialogue choices. The narrative is further enriched by plot twists, moral dilemmas, and a sense of freedom, allowing players to shape their own path and experience a personalized journey. Modding capabilities add even more content and customization options. | 54% |
| Visually stunning, immersive space exploration | The game delivers stunning visuals, detailed environments, and a captivating art style, creating a deeply immersive space exploration experience. The soundtrack and sound design further enhance the atmosphere, while ship customization and space combat provide engaging gameplay features. The game's overall aesthetic and attention to detail contribute to a sense of wonder and discovery. | 52% |
| Extensive and engaging ship building | Ship building is a major highlight, offering extensive customization options and creative freedom. Players can design unique ships, modify their components, and decorate the interiors, creating a personalized home base in space. The ability to acquire ships through various means, such as purchasing or capturing them, adds another layer of depth to the gameplay experience. | 26% |
| Rewarding progression and freedom | The game provides a rewarding sense of progression through its skill system, adjustable difficulty settings, and diverse gameplay options. Players can enjoy a casual-friendly experience with plenty of replay value, freedom to explore, and opportunities to experiment with different playstyles. The game's engaging core loop and satisfying progression system make it easy to get lost in the experience. | 21% |
| Varied and engaging quest design | The game offers a variety of well-designed quests, including faction missions and side quests, that provide engaging content and unique experiences. Players appreciate the lack of game-breaking bugs and the availability of companions to recruit. The game's overall design and attention to detail contribute to an enjoyable and immersive experience. | 17% |
| Familiar Bethesda gameplay in space | The game successfully integrates popular mechanics from previous Bethesda titles like Fallout 4, such as weapon upgrades, base building, and character customization, into a vast sci-fi universe. The gunplay is improved, and the role-playing elements are more impactful, offering a seamless sandbox experience with a familiar yet distinct Bethesda vibe. The game's modding potential is also a significant draw. | 16% |
| Improved performance and bug fixes | The game has received numerous patches and updates that have improved performance, fixed bugs, and added quality-of-life features. The game is now more polished and enjoyable than at launch, with smooth gameplay and decent graphics. The developers have listened to player feedback and continue to support the game with ongoing improvements. | 14% |
| Endless quests and exploration | The game offers numerous quests throughout the universe, with choices that can influence the outcome. Players can explore uncharted planets, discover alien cities, and unravel the secrets of an ancient civilization. The game provides many gameplay possibilities from the start, allowing players to choose their activities and pursue the main story at their own pace. | 8% |
| Satisfying and flexible combat | The game features satisfying on-ground combat with believable enemy behavior and powerful weapons. The combat is flexible, with options to approach or avoid conflict using various skills, powers, and weapons. The gunplay is fun and a step up from Fallout 4, with improved combat AI and a variety of ways to play. | 7% |
| Rich and engaging faction storylines | The faction storylines are described as rich and engaging, with the faction system being impressive and allowing involvement in political conflicts and shady dealings. The faction questlines are better than in previous Bethesda games, with the UC Vanguard and Crimson Fleet stories being highlights. The game allows for role-playing with different factions in each run. | 7% |
| Interesting setting and atmosphere | The game's setting, while initially unappealing, can become enjoyable once accepted, with varied environments and their own atmospheres that affect gameplay. The reviewer liked some of the weapon and armor designs and finds the gunplay decent. The game has atmosphere and the potential to be fun. | 7% |
| Satisfying gunplay and controls | The game is a favorite shooter due to its controls, with the shooting mechanics, especially in zero gravity, being realistic. Gunplay is very good, with a lot of weight behind each gun and different handling. The weapon feel is good, and the initial overwhelming number of weapons becomes manageable once the player focuses on a few. | 7% |
| Fun exploration and outpost building | Exploration is fun, despite repetitive outpost designs, and outpost building can be very fun but is limited without the usage of mods. The reviewer found the outpost building element to be unexpectedly engaging, spending a significant amount of time on it. Resource gathering at outposts can be enjoyable. | 6% |
| Well-written story and dialogue | The writing is genuinely well done, with the main storylines ranging from okay to really good. The dialogue is well-written, and the story is solid. The main story's premise and conclusion were enjoyable, and the overall writing quality is high. The voice acting is great, and the main storyline was fantastic. | 6% |
| Varied and dynamic combat scenarios | Zero G combat and ship combat add variety to combat scenarios, with the battles being wild, both in close combat, fist fights, shooting fights, and space battles. Powers, jetpack use, and high-, low-, and zero-gravity environments add variety to combat. Ship combat and ground combat are enjoyable. | 5% |
| Detailed character creation | Character creation is highly detailed, allowing customization of facial features, body type, and even walking style. Characters are well-modeled, aside from exaggerated facial expressions. The game offers a good opportunity to create an individual character build. The level of detail in character creation and development adds a personal touch. | 5% |