Starfield: Shattered Space

But Why ThoAdrian Ruiz

70/10

Starfield: Shattered Space is a solid addition if you’re looking for a deep, story-driven experience or a chance to level up while exploring a new society. But if you expect a major shift in the game’s scope or mechanics, this isn’t it. Still, it’s a satisfying ride for fans of the universe…

GamingTrendDavid Flynn

70/100

Starfield: Shattered Space has some excellent side quests and interesting new places to explore. Unfortunately, it’s all tied together by a largely boring main quest, and leaves what could have been its standout character as completely optional and in the background.

Impulse GamerNathan Misa

Starfield may not have the storied legacy of The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, but Bethesda’s first step into sci-fi gripped me with its immersive gameplay

GamereactorMagnus Groth-Andersen

6/10

Starfield has received meaningful updates since launch last year, although the 60fps setting on Xbox Series X runs at that frame-rate about 25% of the time. And it's reassuring that Bethesda has big plans for the long-term support of the game. But this seems more like a footnote than a transformative addition, and it just gets stuck in your head pretty quickly when you play. That's not to say the expansion is underwhelming, and if you just want more Starfield, that's exactly what you get.

GamingBoltShubhankar Parijat

6/10

Shattered Space is a fun and meaty addendum for those who enjoyed what Starfield's base experience had to offer, but those hoping for any significant improvements will be left disappointed.

WCCFtechFrancesco De Meo

6/10

Starfield is, without a doubt, one of the most controversial games ever made by Bethesda. While it is undoubtedly a solid role-playing game that offers a vast world to explore and some gripping stories, it suffers from a certain lack of focus, evident in some of its elements, such as subpar exploration and traversal, the procedurally generated elements which end up being very repetitive, and a generally dated feel mostly represented by the loading screens that separate different areas.

EurogamerKatharine Castle

While Shattered Space is quite possibly one of Starfield's most enjoyable storylines to date, it once again struggles to offer any real consequences. And its new setting feels woefully underutilised.

Jump Dash RollDerek Johnson

5/10

Although Starfield: Shattered Space isn’t objectively terrible, it’s both lacking in content and creativity, and serves as a staunch reminder that not every game’s first major update in over a year can be as good as Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty.

Screen RantGarrett Ettinger

5/10

Throughout the DLC, dialogues feel like narrative dumps, with the science behind the sci-fi delivered via overly verbose snore fests with complex terminology at nearly every corner. String theory, a multiverse: the same tired old tropes that have gained popularity over the last decade. Although the religious fanaticism of the deviant Va'ruun is present, it never feels extreme enough, reducing them down to a joke. Joining a cult should feel uncomfortable, but in Shattered Space, Va'ruun feels like any other faction. An opportunity to inject true dread or a sense of paranoia, creeping doubt, or ...

DualShockersKerem Dogan Karakoc

5/10

Shattered Space is just more of what Starfield couldn’t deliver. Although its focused, single-location experience and engaging quests provide a refreshing change, its overall lackluster quality proves that no updates or expansions can truly transform Starfield. While moments of brilliance remain, and Shattered Space does add some memorable moments to the pile, it's a DLC that ensures that Starfield doesn't go out with a bang like a Supernova, but rather fades into the vacuum of space without so much as a whimper.

Checkpoint GamingTom Quirk

5/10

Shattered Space has now been released as the first, and so far only, expansion for Bethesda Game Studio’s spacefaring RPG Starfield, which released about a year ago. Letting the player explore the homeworld of the secretive House Va’ruun faction and introducing a few new enemy types to face, the expansion overall feels a bit lightweight in comparison to Bethesda expansions which have come before, and is unlikely to change your opinion on the base game or be especially enticing to anyone o...

RPGFanNoah Leiter

40/100

No, it’s unforgivable. Even putting the awful rhetoric aside, Shattered Space is a tone-deaf, regressive, poorly blueprinted, and poorly executed sorry excuse for a story expansion, favoring looks over substance and regression over progression. It’s no wonder players are dismissing this DLC in droves, because Bethesda disregards them entirely here: Shattered Space tries to adhere to the literacies those fans are familiar with, but it simply doesn’t meet expectations of polish or player choice, and its ambitions are questionable at best — the “message,” if it isn’t strictly Z…