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Starfield

Bethesda Game Studios · Bethesda Softworks · 2023-09-05

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RPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 01, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 01, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S), Apr 07, 2026 (PlayStation 5)

Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.

4,698
playing now
57%
positive of 175k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
2,000,000–5,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
13
twitch viewers (latest)
85/100
critic score (10 outlets, IGDB)
71/100
IGDB user rating (344 ratings)
84/100
opencritic · mighty · 79% recommend
101h
to beat · rushed 16h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$49.99
steam price (US)

4,698 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 00:00 UTC (census sample)

Starfield is a 2023 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. In the game, the player character joins a group of space explorers who must venture 50 light-years around the Sol System to acquire mysterious artifacts. The game features an open world in the form of a volume within the Milky Way galaxy, containing both fictional and non-fictional planetary systems.

Trailer

Starfield trailer thumbnail

Starfield Official Gameplay Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 4,698 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 4,804 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~601/week).
  • · Review velocity up 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (62,717 reviews).
  • · Top 1% of 6,151 RPG games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.5M–7.9M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 174,838 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$49.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $34.39 at GreenManGaming (2026-07-30)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $69.99 · on sale 73 of 102 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
47k47k20232026Week of 2023-09-01: 47,326 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 15,391 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 5,976 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 5,091 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 5,394 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3,791 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2,195 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5,271 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1,565 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3,170 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 659 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 934 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 833 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1,204 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 468 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 629 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 701 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 676 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 728 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2,216 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 541 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 531 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 670 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 558 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 619 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 454 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 601 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 797 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 403 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 313 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 466 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 336 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 343 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 299 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 220 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 195 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 256 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 244 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 245 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 208 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 280 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 210 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 219 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 201 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 319 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 226 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 373 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 279 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 229 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 275 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 241 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 177 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 191 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 165 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 262 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 205 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 285 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 241 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 202 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 142 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 376 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 172 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 939 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 526 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 333 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 178 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 275 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 215 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 287 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 166 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 126 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 85 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

7.1k02026-08-06 21:00 — 4,710 players2026-08-07 05:00 — 2,858 players2026-08-07 13:00 — 3,716 players2026-08-07 21:00 — 4,946 players2026-08-08 05:00 — 3,590 players2026-08-08 13:00 — 4,767 players2026-08-08 21:00 — 6,175 players2026-08-09 05:00 — 4,051 players2026-08-09 13:00 — 5,519 players2026-08-09 21:00 — 6,491 players2026-08-10 05:00 — 3,219 players2026-08-10 13:00 — 4,012 players2026-08-10 21:00 — 5,044 players2026-08-11 05:00 — 3,179 players2026-08-11 13:00 — 3,918 players2026-08-12 21:00 — 4,696 players2026-08-14 04:00 — 3,142 players2026-08-15 12:00 — 4,611 players2026-08-16 20:00 — 7,069 players2026-08-18 03:00 — 3,579 players2026-08-19 11:00 — 2,976 players2026-08-20 18:00 — 4,870 players2026-08-22 02:00 — 4,367 players2026-08-23 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 17:00 — 4,871 players2026-08-26 01:00 — 4,078 players2026-08-27 09:00 — 2,516 players2026-08-28 17:00 — 4,400 players2026-08-30 00:00 — 4,698 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$99.00$32.562022-11-092026-08-262022-11-09 — best price $99.002023-06-22 — best price $58.092023-08-03 — best price $62.932023-08-24 — best price $62.702023-09-06 — best price $57.492023-09-29 — best price $57.982023-11-28 — best price $69.992023-12-12 — best price $69.992024-01-04 — best price $69.992024-02-11 — best price $53.992024-03-19 — best price $39.892024-04-18 — best price $46.892024-05-21 — best price $69.992024-07-11 — best price $46.892024-08-15 — best price $46.892024-09-30 — best price $69.992024-10-24 — best price $46.892024-11-26 — best price $36.392024-12-29 — best price $69.992025-02-01 — best price $44.952025-03-12 — best price $35.692025-05-01 — best price $69.992025-06-26 — best price $35.692025-08-20 — best price $66.992025-11-10 — best price $60.992025-12-04 — best price $69.992026-01-08 — best price $69.992026-02-13 — best price $41.992026-03-05 — best price $61.492026-03-25 — best price $40.492026-04-22 — best price $41.492026-05-13 — best price $41.492026-06-01 — best price $41.492026-06-15 — best price $41.492026-07-10 — best price $41.492026-07-23 — best price $49.992026-08-26 — best price $49.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2.5k6802026-05-28 — 1,122 pageviews2026-05-31 — 939 pageviews2026-06-03 — 883 pageviews2026-06-06 — 977 pageviews2026-06-09 — 1,190 pageviews2026-06-12 — 972 pageviews2026-06-15 — 884 pageviews2026-06-18 — 810 pageviews2026-06-21 — 844 pageviews2026-06-24 — 893 pageviews2026-06-27 — 873 pageviews2026-06-30 — 822 pageviews2026-07-03 — 731 pageviews2026-07-06 — 1,155 pageviews2026-07-09 — 1,420 pageviews2026-07-12 — 1,031 pageviews2026-07-15 — 937 pageviews2026-07-18 — 1,927 pageviews2026-07-21 — 1,067 pageviews2026-07-24 — 865 pageviews2026-07-27 — 743 pageviews2026-07-30 — 766 pageviews2026-08-02 — 789 pageviews2026-08-05 — 816 pageviews2026-08-08 — 1,019 pageviews2026-08-11 — 978 pageviews2026-08-14 — 784 pageviews2026-08-17 — 914 pageviews2026-08-20 — 778 pageviews2026-08-23 — 814 pageviews2026-08-25 — 853 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

29702026-08-26 19:15 — 286 viewers2026-08-26 21:34 — 297 viewers2026-08-27 01:34 — 21 viewers2026-08-27 04:34 — 26 viewers2026-08-27 07:33 — 28 viewers2026-08-27 10:34 — 23 viewers2026-08-27 13:34 — 59 viewers2026-08-27 16:34 — 47 viewers2026-08-27 19:34 — 18 viewers2026-08-27 23:34 — 26 viewers2026-08-28 02:34 — 14 viewers2026-08-28 05:34 — 32 viewers2026-08-28 08:34 — 87 viewers2026-08-28 11:34 — 12 viewers2026-08-28 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 17:34 — 39 viewers2026-08-28 20:34 — 51 viewers2026-08-28 23:34 — 31 viewers2026-08-29 02:34 — 63 viewers2026-08-29 05:34 — 30 viewers2026-08-29 08:34 — 28 viewers2026-08-29 11:34 — 35 viewers2026-08-29 14:34 — 20 viewers2026-08-29 17:34 — 9 viewers2026-08-29 20:34 — 42 viewers2026-08-29 23:34 — 40 viewers2026-08-30 02:34 — 56 viewers2026-08-30 05:34 — 34 viewers2026-08-30 08:34 — 14 viewers2026-08-30 11:34 — 40 viewers2026-08-30 14:34 — 34 viewers2026-08-30 15:34 — 13 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
88.7%
earned "For All, Into the Starfield"
22.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsColor Alternatives#category_contrast_controlsPlayable without Timed InputStereo SoundSurround SoundSteam Cloud5 DLC

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox Series, Windows (Xbox)111,3970%82
Steam (Steam)41,8830%82
PS5 (PlayStation)6,2102%83

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

RPGSpaceSci-fiModdableAdventureAction RPGOpen WorldStory RichAtmosphericExploration

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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