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Starfield

Bethesda Game Studios

2023•Shooter•PEGI 18•About 101 hours

Taste attributes: actionadventurescience fictionfastfresh & originalunsavouryimaginarysimplelinearbig & variedall consuming questfighting evilfish out of water/culture clash

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Boxlist takeExpect a sweeping, otherworldly shooter, fast rather than slow-burning. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.

Pace: fast · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score

IGDB rating

78 / 100

360 ratings

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About This Game

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.

Summary: IGDB

Story

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...

Characteristics

Where this game sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast

FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal

DarkTONEWholesome

LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy

FantasyREALISMRealistic

SimpleINTRICACYIntricate

Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear

UnderstatedSTYLEStylised

IntimateSCALEEpic

RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

ActionAdventureScience fictionAll consuming questFighting evilFish out of water/culture clash

Keywords

SpaceSpace explorationSpaceship customizationSpace combatNasa punk

Where to play

Details

Developer: Bethesda Game Studios
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Released: 6 September 2023
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
Modes: Single player
Perspective: First person, Third person
Time to beat: 16h rushed, 101h normally
Age rating: PEGI 18
Taste scores: How we score
Source: IGDB

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