RPG
Starfield
Give it 10 hours
Gets good by 10h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 20h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 89% of owners
Steam reviews 57% positive of 175,771
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours most reviews are negative (77%); after 20h it's 1 in 3 (39%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- The opening is criticised more than in 98% of games we track.
- The biggest drop-off is between “One Small Step” (Join Constellation) and “Into the Unknown”: from 89% to 48% of starters.
- 89% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 176,326 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 42.7h for positive, 16.9h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (88.6% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- One Small Step Join Constellation 89% −11
- Into the Unknown Complete "Into the Unknown" Most players quit here 48% −41
- All That Money Can Buy Complete "All That Money Can Buy" 41% −7
- Further Into the Unknown Complete "Further Into the Unknown" 36% −5
- High Price to Pay Complete "High Price to Pay" 33% −3
- In Their Footsteps Complete "In Their Footsteps" 30% −3
- Entangled Complete "Entangled" 26% −4
- Unearthed Complete "Unearthed" 26% −1
- One Giant Leap Complete "One Giant Leap" 22% −3
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (82)
story milestone ending side
- For All, Into the Starfield Enter Space for the First Time 100%
- One Small Step Join Constellation 89%
- Dust Off Reach Level 5 83%
- Traveler Reach Level 10 69%
- Chief Engineer Modify a Ship 65%
- Home Sweet Home Build an Outpost 52%
- Stellar Cartography Visit 20 Star Systems 49%
- Into the Unknown Complete "Into the Unknown" 48%
- Elite Reach Level 25 46%
- Dark Matter Eliminate 300 Human Enemies 44%
- Privateer Complete 30 Terminal or Misc. Missions 44%
- Supra et Ultra Join the UC Vanguard 41%
- Deputized Join the Freestar Rangers 41%
- All That Money Can Buy Complete "All That Money Can Buy" 41%
- Jacked In Access 50 Computers 40%
- Fixer Complete 30 Activities 40%
- Rook Meets King Join the Crimson Fleet 37%
- Further Into the Unknown Complete "Further Into the Unknown" 36%
- Cyber Jockey Bypass 50 Digital Locks 36%
- High Price to Pay Complete "High Price to Pay" 33%
- Back to the Grind Join Ryujin Industries 33%
- Surgical Strike Complete "Surgical Strike" 32%
- In Their Footsteps Complete "In Their Footsteps" 30%
- The Devils You Know Complete "The Devils You Know" 30%
- The Best There Is Complete "The Best There Is" 29%
- The Hammer Falls Complete "The Hammer Falls" 28%
- A Legacy Forged Complete "A Legacy Forged" 27%
- Entangled Complete "Entangled" 26%
- Unearthed Complete "Unearthed" 26%
- Legacy's End Complete "Legacy's End" 25%
- Industrialist Produce 500 Total Resources from Outposts 25%
- War of Angels Collect 20 Quantum Essence 25%
- One Giant Leap Complete "One Giant Leap" 22%
- Guilty Parties Complete "Guilty Parties" 22%
- Another Bug Hunt Eliminate 300 Creatures 21%
- Space Opera Reach Level 50 21%
- Replicator Craft 100 Items 20%
- Executive Level Complete "Executive Level" 20%
- Starcrossed Reach Maximum Relationship Level with a Companion 19%
- Soldier of Fortune Mod 50 Weapons 18%
- I Use Them For Smuggling Successfully Smuggle Contraband 16%
- Thirst for Knowledge Read 20 Skill Magazines 16%
- The Family You Choose Recruit 10 Separate Companions 11%
- Boots on the Ground Land on 100 Planets 11%
- Rock Collection Gather 500 Inorganic Resources 9.6%
- Fleet Commander Collect 10 Ships 9.3%
- Reach for the Stars Reach Level 100 7.7%
- What Remains Complete “What Remains” 7.4%
- The Stars My Destination Visit all Star Systems 6.4%
- The Promised, Broken Complete “The Promised, Broken” 5.9%
- Zealous Overreach Complete "Zealous Overreach" 4.5%
- The Other Side Complete “The Other Side” 4.4%
- Conflict in Conviction Complete "Conflict in Conviction" 4.2%
- Exhuming the Past Complete "Exhuming the Past" 4.1%
- The Scaled Citadel Complete "The Scaled Citadel" 3.7%
- Shipping Magnate Connect 5 Outposts with Cargo Links 3.3%
- Facing Your Fears Defeat 25 Vortex Horrors 2.9%
- Fully Equipped Find a spaceship equipment module schematic and install an equipment module on your ship 2.9%
- Life Begets Life Gather 500 Organic Resources 2.1%
- Lost Luxury Complete “Lost Luxury” 2.1%
- Top Tier Apply a Rank 4 Legendary Effect to a piece of your equipment 2.0%
- Into the VOID Complete “Into the VOID” 1.6%
- Incursion Fighter Clear out 5 Incursions 1.6%
- Redemption Arc Defeat 10 Redeemed 1.5%
- Savior of the Promised Aid the People of Va’ruun’kai 1.4%
- The Great Unknown Discover 50 Locations on Va’ruun’kai 1.2%
- Battle of the Unifier Complete “Battle of the Unifier” 1.2%
- This for That Build out and hand over an outpost to a faction 1.0%
- Overclocked Fully upgrade Delta 1.0%
- Half the Battle Let Sarah Morgan know about her action figure 1.0%
- Five of a Kind Craft one of each type of Vortex Grenade 0.9%
- Quantum Hoarder Retrieve your inventory from another universe 0.9%
- Incursion Exterminator Clear out 15 Incursions 0.6%
- Just Like Grandma Used to Make Eat the questionable food offered by a spacefaring Old Woman 0.5%
- Greater Than Convince Delta that you are worthy of the title Captain 0.3%
- Master of Magnetism Use a magnet to destroy the robot for Ivica in New Babylon 0.3%
- Less Than Prove the superiority of artificial life 0.2%
- Incursion Eliminator Clear out 30 Incursions 0.2%
- Stay of Execution Stop Bernhard from killing Caruso 0.2%
- Riddle Management Prevent any deaths by answering riddles 0.2%
- They’re Not Toys! Collect all Action Figures 0.1%
- Contract Killer Kill 10 targets for the Arbitrator 0.1%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-21.