Starfield Review
Good bones, thin air. A 7.8, and the hype stays unseen.
The Good
- Ship building is genuinely great
- Faction questlines remember it's a Bethesda game
- The studio's best gunplay
The Rough Edges
- A thousand planets joined by loading screens
- Exploration got replaced by menus
I just don't see the hype. Bethesda built a thousand planets and the space between them is loading screens: you fast-travel to an orbit, fast-travel to a surface, walk a beautiful empty stretch to a cave you've raided on three other worlds wearing different weather.
It's not a bad game. The ship building is genuinely great, New Atlantis has real RPG density, and when Starfield settles into a faction questline it remembers it's a Bethesda game. The gunplay is the studio's best.
But not enough to keep many people hooked, and that's the review: a game this size needs gravity, and too much of Starfield is procedure. The exploration loop that made Skyrim immortal, walking somewhere and finding something, got replaced by menus. A 7.8: good bones, thin air.
I just don't see the hype. Not a bad game, but not enough to keep many people hooked.
Good bones, thin air. A 7.8, and the hype stays unseen.
The Good
- Ship building is genuinely great
- Faction questlines remember it's a Bethesda game
- The studio's best gunplay
The Rough Edges
- A thousand planets joined by loading screens
- Exploration got replaced by menus
Quick Answers
Starfield review score: what did it score?
Moe Train scored Starfield a 7.8 out of 10. Good bones, thin air. A 7.8, and the hype stays unseen.
What platforms is Starfield on?
Starfield is out now on Xbox, PC and PlayStation. Moe played and scored it on Xbox.
Is Starfield worth playing?
Good bones, thin air. A 7.8, and the hype stays unseen. Read the full Starfield review above for the breakdown.
