It has now been a mere few days since Starfield has become available through Early Access. While the game does not officially launch until later this week, September 6, 2023, hundreds of thousands decided to spend that extra buck to get their hands on it now. This, along with the plethora of of reviews that have been filtering out, has created a lot of mixed feelings about the title across the entire video game community. While it is currently being considered a well-received title, the overall impressions have been mixed, to say the least.

Starfield features impressive scale, satisfying combat, and worthwhile side quests, but its shallow RPG systems and uninspired vision of the cosmos make for a journey that’s a mile wide, but an inch deep.

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— GameSpot (@GameSpot) September 3, 2023

Starfield’s early hours can be tedious and frustrating, but later combat improvements and a story that pays off can make the initial struggle worth it. 7/10.

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— IGN (@IGN) September 3, 2023

As you can see with just a couple of these posts, Starfield has been receiving a good chunk of positive reviews from most major publications. However, there have been some middle scores as well, with Gamestop and IGN famously scoring it in the “7” range. Now it’s important to note that this score is only representing the respective publication, and  is mostly from the reviewer who plays through the game. It’s also important to state that the score of a “7” does not make it a bad title by any means. If anything, it shows that there are some flaws to the experience, but still fun overall.

On top of that, players themselves have taken to online forums such as Reddit to complain about title’s features. The biggest issue that seems to come up from Starfield isn’t the combat, the user interface, or even the graphics. Instead, it’s the exploration of traveling from planet to planet, mostly with planets having next to nothing to do for the players once they land on them. This can be rectified by Bethesda by adding a number of things to do, but for the time being, this seems to be one of the biggest complaints from various people in the community.

While there’s no doubt that Starfield will go down as one of, if not the biggest Bethesda game to date, it also had way too much anticipation and hype surrounding it for the better part of five-plus years. Obviously, the company will take any and all feedback while addressing it in real-time with patches, they’re very good at that, and more than likely this will satiate the general consumer with the final product, where it’s before, on, or after the official launch date later this week. At the very least, this will hold all of us over while we wait for The Elder Scrolls VI.