Why It Ranks
“Bethesda's giant leap into the stars.” — The Space Frontier. Scored 20/30.
Score Breakdown
The Review
Starfield is Bethesda's most ambitious game and its most divisive. The handcrafted cities — New Atlantis, Neon, Akila — are excellent, the ship-building is surprisingly deep, and the New Game Plus twist is one of the most creative implementations of the mechanic in gaming. The procedurally generated planets are hit-or-miss, but when Starfield's narrative hits — particularly the Constellation questline — it captures the wonder of space exploration that Bethesda promised.
Fun Fact
The game features over 1,000 explorable planets, though Bethesda acknowledged that most are intentionally barren to convey the emptiness of space.
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