Quick Scoop

You can do a lot in Starfield: create a character, explore hundreds of planets, fight in first-person or third- person combat, fly and customize ships, build outposts, complete main and side quests, and take on smaller activities and faction missions. The game also supports crafting, research, dialogue choices, and New Game Plus-style replay via the Unity concept.

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What you can do

  • Explore space and planets. Starfield lets you travel across more than 1,000 planets and many moons and space stations.
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  • Fight enemies. The game includes shooter and melee combat, with the option to switch between first-person and third-person views.
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  • Build and customize ships. Ship building and flight are major parts of the experience, including cockpit and external views.
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  • Set up outposts. You can build outposts as bases for storage, resources, and support, similar to a home away from home.
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  • Create your character. Starfield includes character customization, backgrounds, traits, and skill progression.
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  • Complete quests. You can follow the main story, side missions, faction storylines, and smaller “Activities” that appear through exploration.
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  • Craft and research. The game includes crafting, workbenches, and research systems for items, upgrades, and equipment.
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  • Replay the story. The Unity/Starborn loop lets you continue into a new version of the game world after finishing key story progress.
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In plain terms

If you like open-world RPGs, Starfield is mostly about exploring, looting, fighting, building, and making choices while chasing the main mystery. It also has enough side systems that you can spend hours just tuning a ship, decorating an outpost, or wandering into random encounters.

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Typical play styles

  1. Story- first. Focus on Constellation missions and major questlines.
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  2. Explorer. Hop between systems, scan worlds, and discover landmarks and hidden locations.
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  3. Builder. Spend time on ship design, outposts, and crafting.
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  4. Mercenary. Take combat-heavy missions, raids, and bounty-style encounters.
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Bottom line: Starfield is a space RPG where you can do a little of everything, but its biggest draws are exploration, ship/outpost building, and questing.

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