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Developer Bethesda Game Studios
Starfield is a 2023 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. In the game, the player character joins a group of space explorers who must venture 50 light-years around the Sol System to acquire mysterious artifacts. The game features an open world in the form of a volume within the Milky Way galaxy, containing both fictional and non-fictional planetary systems.… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
744 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
54
Mixed
257 positive · 215 negative
95% range 50–59%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 257 | 215 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 43 | 71 | 86 |
| Lemmy * | 3 | 10 | 31 |
| Mastodon * | 3 | 3 | 22 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
66,902 of 119,113 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
54% recommend · 166 yes, 140 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 306 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (99,974 of 175,696 positive).
Some players find Starfield deeply engaging despite widespread criticism. [1][2][3] Others criticize it for shallow exploration, excessive loading screens, and lack of meaningful choices. [4][5][6] Several reviewers note that the game's side quests and mods can redeem the experience. [7][8][9]
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Representative posts
- [4]
I love and hate this game. More so hate because the loading screens kill the immersion for me. Take off from a planet? Loading screen. Travel to a new planet? Loading screen. Dock with another ship? Loading screen. Dock with a space station? Loading screen. Travel to another galaxy? Loading screen. Land on a planet? Loading screen. LOADING SCREENS! This game would be so much cooler if they did what no mans sky did …
- [6]
Look at my hours on this garbage game: trust me, it is not worth it. I am simply mentally ill and Starfield scratches an itch. This game is as wide as an ocean and shallow as a puddle. Your choices barely matter, you will always be limited unless you use so many mods.
- [1]
The gaming community has forgotten how to enjoy games. Since when did we start relying more on the opinions of influencers than on our own? Starfield is probably the most hated game in history, but is it deserved? To write a competent review, you must first identify its genre. We can't just say a game is terrible because “it's not what I personally wanted.” Twenty years ago, a game called TES Oblivion was released. …
- [8]
This game is weird until you put 20h into it. The main story line is mostly crap, but you unlock an essential feature through it Exploration is mostly useless and bad. But: The side quests are the best I've played in any RPG ever. The NPCs are the best written that I've ever seen. You cannot play this like Skyrim. You pick a quest and see it through. This is the way to play this game. And once I understood this I …
- [2]
I don't care what they say. I love playing Starfield. Sometimes I just want to get in a spacecraft and walk around a planet after a bad day at work.
Summarised from 34 of the 455 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
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Starfield sits at 54% positive across 472 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Starfield received "generally favorable" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic. 83% of critics recommended the game on OpenCritic. Leon Hurley from GamesRadar+ praised Starfield for its expansive and immersive world, its varied and creative missions, its solid and stable mechanics, and its graphics. Hurley also pointed out some minor flaws, such as the lack of stealth and pickpocketing skills at the start. Hurley said that Starfield is the best thing Bethesda has done since The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and that it offers endless discovery and opportunities for players who love exploration and freedom. Writing for The Washington Post, Gene Park said that…
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Reactions
60 of 744 · most liked firstWell, today I remembered Starfield exists in my library and it pissed me of to such an extend, that I had to write a review. Note, that I am not the review writing type. If a game disapoints me it just gets ignored forever if I can't return it anymore. So it says a lot, if I make my distaste known on a public forum. While others have torn into the bugs, the uninspired story, the myriad of loading screens or the fact that youre just Dragonborn in space I will concentrate on the fact that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think a lot of people forget that The Elder Scrolls VI was only announced in 2018 (along with Starfield) to soften the blow of Fallout 76 — "Don't worry, even though we're making a multiplayer game we've got single-player stuff coming too!" Sorry to say this game is still more than 2 years away!
neutral · AI labelView post →In a game that kicks each of its NG+ runs with the question, "What choices will you make this time?" its unbearable that there are no choices to make. The only thing you really decide as the player, from run to run, is how much of the content you will do before you hit NG+ because, spoilers: getting to NG+ is the point of the game narratively. Once you know how to do it, you can skip most of the game to get to it, and there's no reason to not just blitz for the NG+ each run because the rest…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The only coverage or discussion I’ve seen for it revolves around a Star Wars total conversion mod that replaces basically everything about the game. I’ve been watching Bethesda YTers and they all did maybe one video on Starfield and then went back to Fallout and Skyrim.
negative · AI labelView post →I bought this game for the Star Wars Genesis total conversion mod, a mod list of well over 100 mods that completely transforms the game into the Star Wars universe. I have never, nor do I plan on EEEEVER playing the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ vanilla version. So, unless you plan to play Star Wars Genesis, don't waste your money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The gaming community has forgotten how to enjoy games. Since when did we start relying more on the opinions of influencers than on our own? Starfield is probably the most hated game in history, but is it deserved? To write a competent review, you must first identify its genre. We can't just say a game is terrible because “it's not what I personally wanted.” Twenty years ago, a game called TES Oblivion was released. But that’s not entirely true, it was actually Skyrim. And a couple of years…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love and hate this game. More so hate because the loading screens kill the immersion for me. Take off from a planet? Loading screen. Travel to a new planet? Loading screen. Dock with another ship? Loading screen. Dock with a space station? Loading screen. Travel to another galaxy? Loading screen. Land on a planet? Loading screen. LOADING SCREENS! This game would be so much cooler if they did what no mans sky did with their traveling. Why don't I play no mans sky then? I am not of fan of no…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the first Bethesda game I’ve found no reason to play. What always made their games stand out was the sense of discovery, and while this one features thousands of planets, none of them come close to the immersive, hand-crafted maps of Skyrim or Fallout 4.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TL;DR: If there is ever a written history of how far a gaming company can fall by ignoring its fans, dismissing what made its own games successful, and producing content that offers quantitatively less with more than twice the budget, size of team, and length of development time from their previous titles, Bethesda will have earned its own chapter, and its title will be "Starfield". Bethesda's writing has been in decline for years. If you want proof of just how bad it is, watch a playthrough…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't care what they say. I love playing Starfield. Sometimes I just want to get in a spacecraft and walk around a planet after a bad day at work.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →imagine being Bethesda, the only thing people want is the next elder scrolls and you spend a decade going "no no that'll come after the super cool thing, you'll LOVE the super cool thing" then the super cool thing is Starfield, a game you probably forgot existed until just now
negative · AI labelView post →I played this at launch, pre-purchased, in fact it was the last game I ever pre-purchased. I am without a doubt the biggest Bethesda fan I know, and this was an insane shift in sentiment for me. How could you let UNLIMITED POTENTIAL go so far south that it impacts the hope and future of your most anticipated game of all time TES:VI? Starfield was my biggest disappointment in game history, bigger than HALO, bigger than WoW, hell; bigger than DOOM: Dark Ages, which was supposed to be an easy…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I know it gets a lot of hate but i always find myself coming back to Starfield. Even after 2000+ hours i keep finding new things.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Haven't played vanilla Starfield. I only bought it to play Star Wars Genesis. I would highly recommend trying it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Look at my hours on this garbage game: trust me, it is not worth it. I am simply mentally ill and Starfield scratches an itch. This game is as wide as an ocean and shallow as a puddle. Your choices barely matter, you will always be limited unless you use so many mods.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i'm just before the end, but now it is full of bugs , i'm stuck and fed up .. probably the first game i bought that i won't finishi and so disgusted i don't even want to see the end .. i'm uninstalling it .. those days we shouldn't give money for this type of unfinished games , or they will continue to disrespect their customers
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Starfield Nominated for "Most Deserving of a 7/10" Category at the Game Awards
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't know how to review things. But I keep getting nags to write this from Steam because I keep playing it so much. Here goes nothing. The new one from the iconic creators of Fallout 3 and The Elder Scrolls series. Bethesda RPGs have a type. I don't know how to describe it, other than to say it works. These games are instantly replayable forever. I'd say it starts out with a big world. Then they add the systems. These are games I want to play forever. Sure, the Main Quest is always good,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Started the Game Completed the tutorial, crashed 2 years later, started the game again on new PC, completed tutorial crashed
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm sorry but this game is still really bad even after the last update. There are so many things still broken from launch - like the mission for the ECS Constant and many more. The new "cruise mode" sounds like a great addition until you are forced into using it with no explanation of how to do that. Added creations cause issues that cause you to lose saved items. You still can't fully trust weapon racks and mannequins to store and display your loot. It's sad really.... UPDATE: I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought Starfield specifically to play the Star Wars Genesis mod, and it’s amazing. If you’re a Star Wars fan, I highly recommend, it completely transforms the game and makes the experience feel special. I wouldn’t recommend buying Starfield unless you plan on playing Star Wars Genesis, because the mod is what truly makes it worth it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A soulless monument to wasted potential Disclaimer: I played it from a shared library. I don’t own the game myself. I tried to like this game. I really did. Even though I played Skyrim more like a fantasy sim than an actual RPG and Fallout 4 as a settlement builder sim, I enjoyed them both. So I thought I would enjoy Starfield as well. I tried to ignore the negative reviews and to try it with an open mind. I kept playing. Every level I told myself “Maybe now it would get fun and interesting.”…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a very poor game, for the following reasons: 1. Outdated and limited engine. We all know that Bethesda has been using the same engine since Morrowind, and it really shows. So many transitions and loading screens - like, constantly. Janky and jerky movements and animations. Bad facial mapping. Clipping and getting trapped on scenery. Limitations on asset numbers and draw depth. 2. The quests are terrible. Fetch quests (fly here, buy me this, bring it back). Hunt quests. Radiant quests.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like Space I like Skyrim And yet I boot this game up every once in a while asking to myself, "Why don't I like this game?" Everything is executed pretty well for the most part, for Bethesda's standards. But I think Starfield is the surest clue that time has passed by this company and they aren't made for this next generation, and I have little hope for ES6. It feels like a game that would've been looked at fondly and given a universal 9/10 if it came out in early 2010's. But the whole…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cyberpunk, for all its faults, was 100% made by people who have lived lives. Who have known poverty, or loss, or sexual desire, or something! Anything! Starfield feels like a game designed by Mormons who have never left their cul de sac and decided to lecture me about The Human Experience.
negative · AI labelView post →I've played all Bethesda RPGS since Oblivion (and went back for Morrowind) and thought the game had come down to a price that it was worth a go, despite all the negative reviews. On the plus side I didn't hit any bugs, another upside of waiting. However the games so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boring. I don't care about the people or the universe at all, coupled with so many loading screens and cutscenes it just seems like I', killing time rather than playing a game. Some of the combat was fun, but then I need to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Starfield is just like space! Cold, lifeless, and largely empty.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In many ways it's like No Man's Sky, but with loading screens. So many loading screens. It's just full of disappointments: The story is meh, and with not much choice, it's closer to a visual novel than an RPG game. You can't fly the ship on a planet. It's just decoration there, and there's unskippable cutscene/loading screen every takeoff and landing Everything you find on a planet is exactly the same as you find on every other planet. Every mining outpost, every laboratory, every…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game just makes me sad man. I really wanted this game to be good, It didn't need to be as expansive as No Man's Sky or as in depth as BG3. It just needed to have an engaging world to explore, and I would have been happy. Stanfield's world is boring. I'm not talking about the fact that most planets are barren and have nothing to do, I was expecting that and I don't mind it. I'm talking about the fact that the inhabited parts of the world, the cities, the outposts, the star stations, are as…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →wow, after 91 hours I think I have to write a review to keep my fellow men and women from wasting their lives. please, go outside, do something else. This game, I really tried to like it. I really wanted it to be fun. but I just cant. It's lazy, boring, and flawed. glitching menus, ships customization that does not work. all half baked ideas that only give you the impression of a door to a spaceship fantasy, when its really a hall of mirrors littered with broken glass and bethesda stole your…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →had great potential, but it is extremely repetitive, npcs have weird eyes, underwhelming story, lack lots of quality of life things, small level of customization, guns are boring and samey, load screens to go almost everywhere, no soul, universe has no life in favor of being family friendly.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Boring, just boring. The game checks all the boxes asked by the marketing department but they forgot to make it fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →god imagine being Bethesda, you go "look we're delaying TE6, the thing everybody actually wants, but the thing we're delaying it for is gonna be mindblowing, it's gonna change the whole SCENE" then you put out Starfield, a game most of you forgot existed until just now
negative · AI labelView post →I came back to give Starfield another go considering some of the new game updates that were supposed to help improve the experience since it launched in 2024. There are plenty of reviewers of Starfield but I hope I have something slightly unique to say. Well, I'm sure this is a surprise to nobody reading this, but I don't think any sort of improvements are going to save it. The whole situation with this game has been sad, because the bones of a good game are here. I've heard that there are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What's your ranking of Bethesda Game Studios' games? Here's mine for today; I haven't played Oblivion: 1. Fallout 3 2. Fallout: New Vegas 3. Starfield 4. Morrowind 5. Skyrim 6. Fallout 76 7. Fallout 4
positive · AI labelView post →Starfield might actually be the only game that legitimately feels like you're looking up at real stars when you look up at the fake stars.
positive · AI labelView post →I really wanted a space Skyrim from Bethesda—spaceships instead of dragons, quests, a great story, and all the little details that make Bethesda games special. I tried to play Starfield twice, but both times I ended up with the same result: it's just boring. When you see the same facility for the third time on the third planet, with the boss hiding in the exact same spot, you'll just uninstall it too.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I meant to write this sooner but I literally could not pull myself away from this game long enough to do so. I avoided this game for a loooong time because of reviews, I was a big Skyrim fan but my main niche is space RPG's, I love NMS and enjoyed spacebourne. But this game, I have not enjoyed a game this much since Cyberpunk, and yes I would rank them together (although cyberpunk a little higher because of Keanue). From what I can tell this thing had a very bumpy start, I can see how if it was…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I actively regret buying it, even with 40% off. i haven't experienced any major bug or technical problem, but what i have experienced is utter boredom. The idea of starfield is nice, you fly on your ship/settlement between different biomes/planet,explore, chat with npc, do quests, just previos bethesda games scaled up. But the implementation is truly awful, there's 1500 planets and in 30h i havent seen anything interesting, there's just empty boring planets with copy pasted locations plopped…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wanted to love this game as much as Fallout and the ES series, but the old engine needs to be put to rest. The gameplay loop for me not intermixing bugs was pretty much - obtain quest, load screen to main town or city, load screen to ship, load screen to fly to atmosphere, load screen to warp to new planet, load screen to step off ship, load screen to enter any building in new town/ city. It felt like I was playing Fallout 3 from 2008. Same dialogue wheel and clunky combat. While some of the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I WANTED to like this game. There's so many good aspects of this game where you can see the potential. The New Creation Engine is amazing, the features for gravity, shipbuilding, and space combat feel really good. People will ♥♥♥♥ on the engine or the loading screen frequency or any NPC animations, but these are all shallow things that don't affect the actual quality of the game. They're not the problem. The problem is the questline design, and nothing makes it more clear than those few…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The worst part about this game is that it's not horrible, it's just terribly mediocre. It feels like nothing you do matters at all. Also, everything feels far too cookie-cutter and sterile. I mean why is it that when you visit some of the old earth POIs, all the assets are the same as you'd find on a random planet on the other side of the galaxy? I had originally tried this game right at launch and was disappointed, so I decided I'd come back at some point once they'd patched the game and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game single handedly ended my being a Bethesda fan. I wanted to like it so, so much. I kept coming back to check in, tried mods, God help me I even paid for the first DLC. Nothing has been able to save it. Don't buy this game, just don't. THE GOOD: It's pretty. I'll give them that, it looks good. THE BAD: Everything else. Lord, where to start? There are lots of in-depth reviews that discuss it in detail, but to try and summarize: - The gameplay is repetitive and boring, whether it's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is exactly one reason and one reason only why you should ever buy this game. Star Wars Genesis. If you even think about getting the game for anything other than this absolutely stellar total conversion mod pack, forget it. Get something else. Get No Man's Sky. Get X4. Get Star Citizen. ...Hell, get Elite: Dangerous....actually no, don't get that.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Here am I floating 'round my tin can Far above the moon 🎶 ~David Bowie Usually, I start my reviews with some sort of a backstory. Just because it's always interesting to know how did things happened the way they did, in my opinion. This time, though? There's nothing really interesting to tell. It's Todd Howard. End of the story. Todd was always a big fan of video games. One of the reasons why he wanted to join Bethesda. Todd used to love a game called SunDog: Frozen Legacy and always wanted…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm still kind of floored by Starfield. Bethesda really shipped a game that seemed actively designed to break the spell their games had on the public at large and it mostly seemed to work.
negative · AI labelView post →Starfield was the best-selling video game of the week in tracked physical & digital US full game dollar sales during the week ending April 11th. It's the first time Starfield has led the weekly US best-selling titles chart since week ending Sept 2, 2023. Source: Circana Retail Tracking Service
neutral · AI labelView post →I finally did it. I got every game I’ve shipped as a tattoo. Bloodrayne 2, Aeon Flux, Metroid Prime 3, Fallout 3, Skyrim, Fallout 4, Fallout 76, Starfield and The Axis Unseen. 🤘
positive · AI labelView post →gonna be honest, i'd never played Bioware games or ect. but seeing that leaked trailer for the unreleased Mass Effect game made me hope that someone takes up a similar mantle cuz modern scifi is so sexless. am i biased? the Starfield nightclub is burned into my brain. that shit was horribly funny
negative · AI labelView post →Remember when we thought Starfield was going to be The Game
negative · AI labelView post →What’s your guys’s hottest video game take that isn’t just negativity farming? Mine is that I spent 100 hours in Starfield and liked it a lot lol
positive · AI labelView post →This game is weird until you put 20h into it. The main story line is mostly crap, but you unlock an essential feature through it Exploration is mostly useless and bad. But: The side quests are the best I've played in any RPG ever. The NPCs are the best written that I've ever seen. You cannot play this like Skyrim. You pick a quest and see it through. This is the way to play this game. And once I understood this I absolutely loved it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →don't forget the thrilling twist at the center of Starfield (that you can play the game again and it's just as boring)
negative · AI labelView post →I am definitely in the minority with this review but I genuinely enjoy this game. I enjoy the way it makes me feel when I play it. I enjoy the exploration and combat. I enjoy tinkering on the workbenches in my ship and realizing I need more materials to complete a project which brings me on another adventure. I enjoy the subtle music. I enjoy the main story. The list goes on. Some things that I would like to see improved: -I've ran into one broken quest which didn't effect the main story but…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →6/10 It not terrible but it's not great either. The universe is big and filled with planets but at the same time most are rng instances with the occasional pre-built story location. It looks visual stunning but underneath it's somewhat hollow and empty. Basically, it's a big box that looks good and has loads of details but inside there is loads of empty/dead space.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got the game for free when I bought a new gpu a couple of years back, and I still feel like I overpaid. A lot of it is pretty, so that's nice, but there's not much to say that's positive beyond that. I found the main storyline fairly uninteresting, the side quests were largely unsatisfying, the exploration was boring, the base building was boring, the travel systems and menus were tedious and obnoxious, the combat was nothing special, and most of the companions were deeply unlikable.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't think anyone is reading my 3-year old review for a game as widely criticized as this so I'm not going to bother making this too comprehensive, so I'll try to keep this just to aspects or points that I haven't seen overly discussed by dozens of YouTube video essays. Starfield will always have its detractors and it will always have its defenders, but after 180 hours I still find myself somewhat in the middle. Ultimately, I'm recommending it because I think that it deserves a closer…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I double down on my love for Starfield, as I played it as the AAA cozy game in space. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
positive · AI labelView post →its not skyrim, and its not fallout. its starfield. not a bad game if it managed to keep my attention for over 400 hours so far
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Starfield: a game that exists
neutral · AI labelView post →
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