Starfield Reviews
Check out Starfield Review Scores from trusted Critics below. With 47 reviews on CriticDB, Starfield has a score of:
To some, Starfield may feel like more of the same in space. To others, that’ll be exactly what they’re looking for. When you give it time to breathe, the game shows you its strengths and invites you to play the way you wish. Not all of its features work out but most do, and the control you have over your journey makes it an excellent trip all the same.
Read Full Review
Starfield: Shattered Space is a compelling but messy addition to Starfield and could be recommended to Starfield fans.
Read Full Review
Starfield Shattered Space is a solid expansion that presents lots of choices and exploration, but doesn't really deliver on the horror aspect Bethesda teased. There's plenty of intrigue to be found in Va'ruun'kai and the city of Dazra, and some side quests offer some memorable highlights. But as one of most elusive factions in Starfield, Shattered Space feels like a missed opportunity to go all in on the weirdness of Va'ruun and the unsettling atmosphere the opening did so well to establish.
Read Full Review
Starfield is the apex of Bethesda’s open-world games and a killer Xbox Series X and PC game, giving players a slice of galaxy to explore, exploit, raid and wander for ages. It's almost too familiar to its core DNA, but interesting areas, fun combat and masses of things to do and see mean Starfield is rarely less than compelling.
Read Full Review
Bethesda embarks on an expedition to the final frontier in its newest RPG. But the immense scale of space may have finally pushed its style beyond its limits.
Read Full Review
Starfield shines through some glaring issues that definitely dampen the experience but don’t ruin it altogether. With plenty to see and do, sheer immersion will be enough to carry you through to the end of Bethesda’s latest offering.
Read Full Review
As my spaceship emerges from interstellar travel to orbit a once-distant alien world, I know that once I’m down on its surface, it won’t feel like a world at all. Instead, what Starfield will give me is a series of zones, awkwardly stitched together in a way that makes it hard to pretend they make up a planet. This world, pretty though it may be, is merely a stage set. That’s true of any game’s world, of course, but in Starfield, the illusion doesn’t hold up under the weight of so much menu diving, so many loading screens, so much...
Read Full Review
Starfield was one of my most anticipated games of 2023. I love sci-fi, and the idea of captaining my own ship and exploring the cosmos has enthralled me for the three decades I’ve been alive. Unfortunately, gaming has a hard time capturing a topic on such a large scale. However, I hoped that Bethesda would get closer than any others had so far. Unfortunately, after playing the game, it seems the final frontier is still beyond our grasp.
Read Full Review
Starfield is the culmination of Bethesda's 25 years of excellent RPGs and makes me feel the insignificance, humility, and thrill of exploring space. Every time I think I understand Starfield, it finds a new way to surprise me.
Read Full Review
Starfield joins the ranks of one of my favorite games of all time by sharing the mantle with Skyrim. While some aspects can be improved, and I certainly hope that over time they will be. Starfield offers an experience that can only be found in the other Bethesda games that predate it. It’s an epic space adventure that offers you the freedom to enjoy its vast universe in whatever manner you choose to lose yourself in it.
Read Full Review
I can easily see Starfield being Game of the Year and being one of the best reasons to have a Game Pass subscription.
Read Full Review
Starfield is the enchantment and wonder of space bottled and fleshed out into something grand and ambitious, thoughtful and attentive, janky at times, often funny, but always charming.
Read Full Review
Starfield pairs near-impossible breadth with a classic Bethesda aptitude for systemic physics, magnetic sidequests, and weird vignettes. But in sacrificing direct exploration for the sake of sheer scale, there's nothing to bind it together.
Read Full Review
Games like No Man’s Sky, Elite: Dangerous, and the never-to-be-fully-released Star Citizen promised us of a galaxy-sized sandbox we’d be able to explore and do whatever we wanted, depending on the role we’d want to take in their respective universe. Sadly, in most cases, we’d be limited to explore vast amounts of nothing in one, or just deliver something from one place to another in other. Not exactly bad things to do when the map at your disposal is immense, but it’s still not the ...
Read Full Review
Starfield is by a mile Bethesda Game Studios’ best-ever game. It builds on everything they have done before and only improves it. Combat is smoother and more engaging than ever; the sense of discovery across this vast universe is astounding. It just isn’t as perfect as some people had expected and hoped for.
Read Full Review
Jason is finally ready to render a verdict on Bethesda's latest open-world RPG, Starfield. Does it reach for the stars or crash back to Earth?
Read Full Review
Starfield is Bethesda's best RPG to date, an enormous space odyssey that serves up some incredibly evocative and engaging exploration, satisfying combat, and a narrative that had us hooked right to the end. Yes there are issues here with the usual jank, and some very messy and fiddly menus and interactions, but all of these problems feel minor when compared to everything this game gets right. In a year that's been packed full of absolutely essential games, Starfield manages to sit right up top with some of the best of them. After all the hype and bluster, this is just...
Read Full Review
A genuinely impressive space RPG that ultimately loses some of its Bethesda charm in the vast reaches of its galaxy. It's so big, it feels small, cold and unlived in.
Read Full Review
Bethesda’s biggest and most refined game in scale that never quite lives up to its grand ambitions in space’s infinite possibilities.
Read Full Review
Having played several Elder Scrolls and Fallout games, I can confidently say that Starfield is Bethesda's biggest achievement yet. It's a triumph for Bethesda, but even more so for every human who ever dreamt of a destiny born in the stars.
Read Full Review
“Though it can't nearly deliver on Bethesda's intergalactic ambitions, Starfield is an impressive space RPG filled with impactful decisions.”
Read Full Review
Tapping into that desire to explore the stars and expand the human understanding, Starfield is a game brimming with curiosities and possibilities dotted across a vast and alien universe. The first new IP for Bethesda Game Studios in 25 years, Starfield takes on the learnings from series like Fallout and The Elder Scrolls whilst moving their open-world formula into new realms. With a lot of anticipation and the weight of expectations behind it, Starfield largely excels with its interplanetary ...
Read Full Review
Starfield is THE space game. There’s no reason to play any others, at least not any currently available. It’s an experience made even more enticing as the game will be available on Game Pass from day one and forever. With modders supposedly having the ability to craft entire planets, it’s likely Starfield will dominate the space RPG genre for years and years to come.
Read Full Review
Though Starfield is an ambitious sci-fi adventure that's incredibly fun, beautifully nostalgic, and will age like fine wine, there are several fundamental decisions that Bethesda sticks to that makes Starfield feel like it's stuck in 2011... for better and worse. Ultimately though, Starfield is yet another Bethesda classic.
Read Full Review
Starfield's biggest strength is its complimentary content - sidequests, exploration, and more will gather your attention for hours despite a less-than-compelling narrative.
Read Full Review
Even in the increasingly crowded marketplace of big, expansive games, Starfield stands out. Leveraging the gameplay Bethesda popularized with The Elder Scrolls and Fallout games, Starfield expands the breadth of exploration to a galaxy of solar systems, planets, and ships. It populates those environments with a rich palette of activities and missions that tap into the outer space fantasy. It’s a staggering span of content to wrap one’s head around. At times, that scope threatens to impair the focus and pacing, and moment-to-moment gameplay is not always a strong suit. But players can expect to uncover hundreds of hours of...
Read Full Review
Starfield is a massive game with countless mechanics and features that reach for the stars.
Read Full Review
As unfathomably vast and boundless as the subject matter it covers, Starfield raises the bar for its genre and for the medium as a whole in countless ways - much like the best of its Bethesda-developed forebears did in their time.
Read Full Review
Despite some of the things I have issues with, I can confidently say that Starfield is an absolute must-play. There’s so much to love about the game, and honestly, it might just be the best space RPG out there of this caliber. It has everything you’d want from a Bethesda game: a deep and prosperous universe filled with endless possibilities and limitless potential. Be who you want to be, go where you want to go; your freedom is in your hands, and what you do with it is entirely up to you in Starfield.
Read Full Review
It's Bethesda's biggest RPG by far, but nowhere near its best.
Read Full Review
Announced during E3 2018, Starfield finally makes its release 5 years later, and it’s Bethesda’s first new IP in the last 25 years. Expectations are high and Bethesda hasn’t revealed all that much about the game prior to launch.
Read Full Review
Starfield is a momentous RPG, even if it doesn't quite deliver in all its areas. It's an experience that offers a staggering amount of content and systems, but never truly feels unique in one specific component. Combat is well rounded with a decent arsenal to pick through, and the powers offer a lot of variety both in and out of firefights. The lore and universe that Bethesda has built feels more fleshed out and compelling compared to the main story itself, which even with branching paths, feels over before it’s getting started. That’s not to say the plot isn’t without...
Read Full Review
Starfield is the most potent value proposition for Game Pass, being the killer app for the subscription service. It is also the best, most ambitious game in the Xbox Game Studios library to date. It would not be a stretch to say this could be one of the most ambitious games ever made, and that it followed through with many of those goals with relatively low compromise.
Read Full Review
With hundreds of hours of gameplay, various quests to complete, and thousands of planets to survey and explore, Starfield capitalizes on everything that has worked for Bethesda in the past, giving us an experience that feels like a giant leap in greatness.
Read Full Review
Bethesda has managed to pull off the delicate dance of sticking with what it knows, polishing it all to a high shine, and even mixing up the formula in a successful way. It is an impressive feat of game development that is sure to delight fans and could even win over some naysayers.
Read Full Review
Starfield represents Bethesda’s strongest storytelling to date, but exploring the stars isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
Read Full Review
Starfield’s grandiose scope sets the scene for a few under-developed ideas in an otherwise thoughtful, muddy take on the sci-fi genre.
Read Full Review
Starfield is the first new universe in over 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4. In this next generation role-playing game set amongst the stars, create any character you want and explore with unparalleled freedom as you embark on an epic journey to answer humanity’s greatest mystery. Xbox Series X version reviewed.
Read Full Review
Bethesda’s latest action role-playing game makes a huge world even bigger with an endless supply of enticing side quests.
Read Full Review
Starfield delivers on everything it promised and then some. It's the ultimate sci-fi game, giving players an incomprehensibly massive world to explore and letting them play however they want. Starfield has what it takes to be another Skyrim-level game that's played religiously for the next decade. It's utterly engrossing, an absolute must-play, and the best Xbox console exclusive in years.
Read Full Review
Starfield is more than a welcome addition to Bethesda’s family of RPG franchises, it feels like the start of a new era for the studio. Not only is it the developer’s most technically impressive game, but it also delivers a worthwhile narrative that takes some major swings and establishes a sprawling mythos. It has some blemishes here and there, but Starfield proves to be an awesome sci-fi adventure.
Read Full Review
When they are firing on all cylinders, Bethesda games deliver pure video game magic, and Starfield is no exception. Offering an enormous galaxy to explore, a ludicrous wealth of interesting content, well-written characters, and innovative mechanics that push the genre in new directions, Starfield is a (mostly) clean experience at launch that should be experienced by all action/RPG fans. This is a new classic.
Read Full Review
Starfield is wider, wilder, and more ambitious than I expected - but also shows surprising restraint in many areas. More than the sum of its parts, it's the best game of this type Bethesda has delivered.
Read Full Review
Starfield is more about the journey than the destination, and this is the source of its greatest joys and greatest frustrations. There is so darn much to see and to do, so much to take and to make. Bethesda’s latest is bursting with “just one last thing” attention-grabbers that will keep you up well past your bedtime, night after night. Its imperfections are vexing, but its allure is undeniable.
Read Full Review
Starfield is a true behemoth of an RPG, and in many ways it's the logical endpoint of Bethesda Game Studios’ well-worn formula. However, its massive scope pushes this formula to the absolute limit and the cracks begin to show, from feature creep to the stop-start nature of its exploration. Dedicated Bethesda fans are sure to get their fill, but this interstellar adventure never leaves the atmosphere.
Read Full Review
Bethesda Game Studios has reached new heights in Starfield. A thrilling narrative, loaded with an entire universe to explore and backed by sublimely polished systems, has ushered in the ultimate Bethesda experience. It’s truly hard to summarize just what makes Starfield special, and that’s because so much of it is. You’ll be glued to your screen for hours, going where no explorer has gone before.
Read Full Review