

Starfield is a single-player action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and set in an open-world space environment. Players create a customizable character and explore a region of the Milky Way galaxy spanning approximately 50 light-years, landing on over 1,000 planets with procedurally generated landscapes. Gameplay includes first-person and third-person combat using firearms, explosives, and melee weapons, as well as spaceship construction, outpost building, resource gathering, and crafting. Players recruit companion characters, join factions, and progress through skill trees spanning Physical, Social, Combat, Science, and Tech categories. In the year 2330, twenty years after a devastating interstellar conflict known as the Colony War, the player character works as a space miner for Argos Extractors. During a routine dig, they uncover a strange artifact with unusual gravitational properties and experience a powerful vision upon touching it. This discovery draws the attention of Constellation, a renowned group of galactic explorers who believe these artifacts represent one of the greatest remaining mysteries in the settled systems. After delivering the artifact to Constellation's headquarters in New Atlantis, the capital of the United Colonies, the player joins the group in their quest to locate more artifacts scattered across known space. Their search soon draws competition from the Starborn, enigmatic beings with their own claims to the artifacts, raising the stakes of what began as simple exploration into something far more consequential.
ShooterRole-playing (RPG)AdventureActionScience fictionSandboxOpen worldspacespace explorationspaceship customizationspace combatthe game awards - most anticipated game - nomineethe game awards - best roleplaying game - nomineenasa punkXbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
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Epic, earnest, grave and contemporary.
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the game
- Platforms
- Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
- Developer
- Bethesda Game Studios
- Publisher
- Bethesda Softworks
- Released
- September 6, 2023
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- First person, Third person
- Engine
- Creation Engine 2
- Time to beat
- 16 h rushed · 101 h main story
IGDB rating 7.8/10 from 357 ratings.
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