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Starfield

Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.

Developer
Bethesda Game Studios
Publisher
Bethesda Softworks
Franchise
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Release date
Sep 5, 2023
Store page updated
Aug 13, 2026
Price
$49.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

50.5/ 100

Based on 411 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😐 Mixed 60% of 395
All time 😐 Mixed 57% of 175,401
“reviewer loves playing the game as a relaxing escape after work”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
-0.90
Freedom -0.52

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
-1.14
World -0.71
“procedural planets lack immersion of hand-crafted worlds” (28)

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
-0.59
Variety -3.11
“every planet, outpost, settlement looks identical with same loot” (49)

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+1.30
Visuals +1.56
“Star Wars Genesis mod is absolutely stellar” (43)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
-0.51

Not enough data — only 4% of reviews mention this.

Community +0.56

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
-2.45
Monetization -2.21

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Ops
-2.21
Developer support -1.68

🔒 3 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
20%40%60%80%
Sep 2023Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 388 reviews, peak 23/day
02550
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 411 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English35%
  • Chinese11%
  • German9%
  • Japanese8%
  • French8%
  • Russian7%
  • Other21%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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