Starfield is a solid space RPG with that familiar Bethesda touch — large open areas, plenty of freedom, and lots of systems to explore at your own pace. The main story is decent, side quests are often more engaging, and the overall atmosphere of space exploration feels immersive. The gameplay loop is relaxing: land on a planet, explore, complete missions, manage gear, and move on. Ship building and combat are pretty enjoyable once you get into them, though the UI could be more intuitive at times. Technically the game runs okay, and while there are some bugs and rough edges, nothing game-breaking.
Starfield may not blow your mind from the start, but it quietly grows on you — and if space RPGs are your thing, it’s absolutely worth playing.

The most mixed of bags. Fun, with good ideas, but deeply flawed. The very definition of wasted potential.

Starfield is, in essence, Fallout 4 taken to an extreme. The parts that worked are improved and expanded, while all the bad stuff is further neglected.

The gunplay is great, improved from already good system in Fallout 4. Dedicated grenade and bash buttons are very welcome, everything's more responsive and visually satisfying. There's also spaceship combat now, complete with boardings. You also have a drivable vehicle with a turret. Outposts are fine, resource gathering is more focused on outpost extractors and mining with a laser, but you can also do asteroid mining with your ship. There's a lot of POIs to explore and shoot through, so the looter-shooter aspect is definitely at it's best here.

On the other hand, the setting is bland and generic. There are some very cool elements, but they never really go anywhere. It's like they wanted to go full NASA-punk, which would be a cool and unique aesthethic, but abandoned the idea to give us Generic Sci-Fi Universe #44325. The factions and characters are forgettable, quests are boring with the exception of a few standouts, and the roleplaying potential is very shallow.

And then we come to the main reason behind the negative review - modding. Starfield fully integrates Bethesda's "Creation Club", allowing anyone to upload their mods to be purchased for "creation credits". A 500 pack of credits costs around 5$, and cheapest mods will run you 100 CC. I don't think I have to tell you that this was a horrible idea that hit the final nail in this game's coffin. Buying a mod for $1 sucks if you find out you didn't like it, or it's buggy, or it conflicts with your other mods, or it's outdated, or it bricked your save. And it will get expensive VERY QUICKLY, as many people consider a modlist of 100 individual mods to be "very lightweight", with some modlists hitting THOUSANDS, with many times that being testing of mods that didn't make the final cut. And that doesn't even touch upon lack of support for external tools, like MO2, BodySlide, DynDOLOD, xEdit, and many, many other essentials.

And if you look at NexusMods for Starfield, you'll see what it led to - a barren wasteland. Many mod authors who even started modding the game in the first place have already given up. The game has so many great systems that could make it the ultimate modding platform, like the procedurally generated planets, NG+, shipbuilding, drivable vehicles, and so much more. But none of that matters when there's no mods. Unless you want $1 weapon skin packs or player homes, there's NOTHING.

Ultimately, Starfield is a fun game for a few hours of looting and shooting. It's not a deep RPG, it's not a full-featured space sim, it's not a great game - and because of Bethesda's vile murder of the modding scene, it never will be.

Our good old Todd promised a game changer experience and its a bit of a cyberpunk 2 experience. just Like Cd project, Bethesda created a big universe, full of ambitions where you can feel the budget is massive, yet just like Cyberpunk, feels unfinished, with lazy cutting corners.
The game is trying to do so many things and its average at all of them, like: being a RPG, a shooter, explorer, open world, space travelling, story and many others, if you played a few games in Ur life you probably already played something that is better than this at a specific type or at all of them..
Also for a 'live your own adventure' type of game this one doesn't really push you out of your way to try all the things and do everything, after 15h i was burned by the same mechanic of go to that planet speak go to the other planet kill that go back to the first planet good job now repeat
I love space stuff so i was a bit softer with it and i really wanted to sink myself in this universe but multi billion companies need to learn to do better. Normally Id give it a up vote for being a decent game, but because this is made by Bethesda and i had high expectations i will give it a down vote