Rating Breakdown
Challenge
15% weight
3/10
Multiplayer
8% weight
—/10
Nostalgia
11% weight
5/10
Score history
3.49 → 3.52
2026-05-05
3.52
2026-05-05
3.43
2026-05-04
3.49
Initial rating
My Take
This game had (and still has) a lot of potential. The irony that destroyed this game was that the replayability is the essence of the game. It’s the kind of game where you want to start building, creating things, making bases, generating resources, farming like crazy. Spending hundreds of hours just building something on a random planet or moon gives you a sense of ownership over the place, which is what makes the game so beautiful. The story and the presentation, unfortunately, do not set that up appropriately. I spent so much time playing the game as though it were something like Minecraft, only to learn that the game is “new game plus” at its core. So, stop building on that random planet and finish the game RIGHT NOW! Just do it. I know your instincts and desires say otherwise, but the game is a new game plus times infinity, which is brilliant and terrible all at once.
My Take
This game had (and still has) a lot of potential. The irony that destroyed this game was that the replayability is the essence of the game. It’s the kind of game where you want to start building, creating things, making bases, generating resources, farming like crazy. Spending hundreds of hours just building something on a random planet or moon gives you a sense of ownership over the place, which is what makes the game so beautiful. The story and the presentation, unfortunately, do not set that up appropriately. I spent so much time playing the game as though it were something like Minecraft, only to learn that the game is “new game plus” at its core. So, stop building on that random planet and finish the game RIGHT NOW! Just do it. I know your instincts and desires say otherwise, but the game is a new game plus times infinity, which is brilliant and terrible all at once.
About
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.
Source: Wikipedia
Reviewed January 1, 2023 · Last updated May 5, 2026
