Starfield
Skip · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 3, under the fair line, at $49.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.07/hr
- Reviews▼
- 57% of 175,929
- Genre rank
- Top 96% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 24.1h
- To 100%
- 148.7h 6.2x the story
- Achievements
- 82
Price and sales
- Sales
- 16 on record
- Typical cut
- 40% off
- Steam low
- $29.99 October 2026
- Sale every
- 61d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 3,086 now
- Recent reviews
- 61% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 4% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
89% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
16 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 97 percent. On the same math Fallout 4 ($19.99, scores 55) and Fallout 3 ($9.99, scores 63) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Starfield
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 17 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,872 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 396 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 24 percent of the 3,756 reviews written there were positive, against 57 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 24.1 hours. Doing everything runs 149, 6.2 times as long.
The rating rests on 175,929 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Honestly, if you like Bethesda games, this is worth giving a shot. Its not groundbreaking, but it is fun if you like their formula.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game really needs a Cyberpunk 2.0 moment because it has a lot of potential to be great.
This game single handedly ended my being a Bethesda fan. I wanted to like it so, so much. I kept coming back to check in, tried mods, God help me I even paid for the first DLC. Nothing has been able to save it. Don't buy this game, just don't. THE GOOD: It's pretty. I'll give them that, it looks good. THE BAD: Everything else. Lord, where to start? There are lots of in-depth reviews that discuss it in detail, but to...
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About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, AMD Radeon RX 5700, NVIDIA GeForce 1070 Ti, 125 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Starfield scores 3/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1716740/starfieldReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.