Starfield Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-08-22
- Ship building highly praised
- Game is highly enjoyable
- Updates greatly improved game
- Excessive loading screens annoyance
- Game has many bugs
- Main story is weak
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows 8-11GB VRAMnegativeWindows 12-15GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAMmixed
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mixed (5/10)
- Total reviews
- 174,988
- Positive
- 99,55456.9%
- Negative
- 75,43443.1%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 12,085,924
- Estimated revenue
- $604,175,341
- Game price
- $50
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 1561.63%
- Estimated copies lost
- 10,774
- Estimated revenue lost
- $538,592
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 1571.6% Avg playtime 1.2h | 430.4% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 3,73539% Avg playtime 136h | 5,63158.9% Avg playtime 263.4h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 8.8 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 21.6 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 355.1 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,081.1 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
9,566 total
Organic purchasers6,50568.0%
Voted up: 60%
Key activations3,06132.0%
Voted up: 58%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
9,566 total
First impression0-2h2662.78%
Voted up: 29%
Mid game2-10h1,21612.7%
Voted up: 51%
Late game10-20h8779.17%
Voted up: 58%
Endgame20h+7,20775.3%
Voted up: 62%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
69.3%
Global baseline 59.3%
88 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 174,988 total.