Starfield

Play it on: Xbox Series X/S, Windows (Steam Deck YMMV)
Current goal: Mod the absolute hell out of this game
Buy it from: Amazon | Best Buy | GameStop

Just what am I doing with my life here? To be clear, that’s a question I ask myself regularly, but right now I’m asking it because I’m looking at another weekend of playing Starfield. After over 100 hours with the game for a review last year, I really, really thought I was done with this game. But then official and community mods got added and, would ya look at that, I can start trimming away all the things I don’t like and start adding in things I do like!

Starfield, in so many ways, is a very, very tired formula out of Bethesda. But as I’ve said countless times on this site, there are some genuinely very interesting premises and, damn, the game sure can look pretty sometimes.

And you know, once you learn to ignore all of the damn loading screens in-between the various stages of planetary travel, conceptualizing the actual scale of this galaxy is pretty neat. Given that the Creations’ mod suite is barely a week old, there aren’t a ton of mods to sift through just yet. But that kinda makes it a bit easier to try out more than a few to see if they’re worth becoming essential, go-to ways to play this big space game.

Slowly but surely, I’m starting to believe that the game I wanted out of Starfield is within my grasp. — Claire Jackson