Starfield
Single-player space RPG with planetary exploration and customizable spacecraft
Bethesda Game Studios · Published by Bethesda Softworks · Released Sep 5, 2023
- Reviews
- Mixed
- 57% of 175K
- Recent reviews
- Mixed
- 59% of 383 in 30 days
- Playing now
- 2,052
- peak 24h 3,204
- Steam Deck
- Unsupported
- Last update
- 3 months ago
- Jun 11, 2026
What is Starfield?
A single-player, open-world science-fiction RPG playable in first or third person. In 2330, you create a character and join Constellation’s search for rare artifacts, traveling among planets and cities to take quests, fight on foot and in space, gather resources, craft gear, build outposts, and modify ships.
For you if...
- +you like customizing characters, ships, weapons, and outposts
- +you enjoy gathering resources that feed into crafting projects
- +you want faction quests across a large solo sandbox
Not for you if...
- −you want multiplayer or cooperative space exploration
- −you need consequential choices and deeply developed companions
- −you prefer tightly directed RPGs over open-ended sandboxes
What players say
57% of 175,431 reviews are positive · 59% of 383 in the last 30 days
Players praise the freedom to explore and the mix of on-foot combat, crafting, and ship tinkering. The most common complaints are empty planets, repeated facilities, frequent loading screens, and an underdeveloped story; some players also report broken quests, menu glitches, and crashes.
Screenshots and trailer
Starfield system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 10 version 21H1 (10.0.19043)
- Processor
- AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, Intel Core i7-6800K
- Graphics
- AMD Radeon RX 5700, NVIDIA GeForce 1070 Ti
- Memory
- 16 GB RAM
- Storage
- 125 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 12
- Notes
- SSD Required
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 10/11 with updates
- Processor
- AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, Intel i5-10600K
- Graphics
- AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
- Memory
- 16 GB RAM
- Storage
- 125 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 12
- Notes
- SSD Required
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Full controller support
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 82
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards
- Age rating
- 17+
Steam Deck: Unsupported
- Graphics settings cannot be configured to run well on Steam Deck
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Full audio: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese. Text only: Italian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese.
Tags
- Space
- Open World
- Singleplayer
- RPG
- Sci-fi
- Exploration
- Character Customization
- First-Person
- Story Rich
- Action-Adventure
- Third Person
- Adventure
- Action RPG
- Space Sim
- Atmospheric
- Moddable
Recent updates
- Jun 11, 2026 · Starfield Update 1.16.244 – June 11, 2026
- May 22, 2026 · Starfield Update 1.16.242 – May 14, 2026
- Apr 7, 2026 · Starfield Update 1.16.236 – April 7, 2026
- Apr 7, 2026 · Everything in Starfield’s Free Lanes Update & Terran Armada DLC
- Mar 17, 2026 · Everything Coming in Starfield’s Free Lanes Update & Terran Armada DLC
5 DLC available.
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