10 Best Games Like Starfield If You’re Looking for Something Similar

Regardless of having new sport plus and no degree cap, gamers could be able to play one thing else. In case you’re seeking to give that galaxy a break, we now have gathered an inventory of different video games with comparable facets for a clean transition. These video games have expansive and alien worlds, gratifying fight, and entertaining tales.

The Outer Worlds

In all probability essentially the most comparable sport on this record is The Outer Worlds, as it’s the latest Bethesda RPG launch previous to Starfield. You continue to get companions to combat with you as you develop your relationship with them. Nearly every little thing on the core of Starfield might be present in The Outer Worlds. The most important variations are the shortage of area journey and that, when you go to a number of completely different planets, they aren’t fairly on the identical scale. Plus, with a sequel coming, you may as properly do that out now.

The story opens with a scientist discovering the Hope, a colony ship that went lacking and is now being quarantined. The scientist sends you onto a close-by planet to hunt out a captain to take you elsewhere. When that captain, Hawthorne, doesn’t fairly make it, you should determine for your self the way to get off the planet. Sadly, the deceased captain’s ship is in poor form, so that you’ll must take care of the locals to repair it.

Cyberpunk 2077

Although admittedly, Cyberpunk 2077 had a particularly rocky launch, the sport is extremely secure and playable at this level. Night time Metropolis feels utterly fleshed out at this level, just like the extra densely populated sections of Starfield’d planets. An identical degree of participant selection exists, letting you really craft your character. The primary distinction is that you’re just one set character, although you possibly can select from three lifepaths that decide your background.

You play as V, a citizen of the reasonably harmful Night time Metropolis. Set within the 12 months 2077, physique modifications are an entire cultural norm. Would you like stronger arms? To run quicker or leap greater? The attract of Night time Metropolis and Cyberware can grant your each want. Nonetheless, there’s additionally the shady facet of the town. Every thing is run by way of a shady megacorporation, and those that can management the web could make or break on a regular basis life.

No Man’s Sky

In order for you extra of the exploration facet of Starfield, there’s really not a greater sport round than No Man’s Sky. Just like Cyberpunk 2077, this sport skilled numerous participant backlash at first on account of unfulfilled guarantees. Nonetheless, within the final 7 years, the sport has been virtually utterly overhauled and is a wholly completely different expertise from launch.

There’s much less of a narrative to the sport, with the primary aim is attending to the middle of the universe. In case you have been overwhelmed with the variety of planets in Starfield, No Man’s Sky blows that out of the water. As you journey nearer to your aim, planets might be harmful or secure relying on many components. You’re in a position to mine as a lot as you need, and parts serve a definite function in both constructing or refueling your ship.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Although it definitely exhibits its age at this level, Skyrim is a primary instance of a Bethesda RPG. Mixing melee, magic, and ranged assaults, gamers might really construct out their dream warrior. In case you would favor if a planet have been extra densely full of issues to discover, Skyrim is the suitable selection. You too can craft your character from a number of completely different species as an alternative of only a yucky human.

You’ve got been sentenced to demise earlier than a dragon seems, supplying you with and a neighborhood captured chief time to flee. They’re then tasked with informing the Jarl of the city Whiterun in regards to the dragon’s presence. Over the course of the journey, they study they’re Dragonborn and the one one able to killing a dragon that’s wreaking havoc throughout Skyrim.

Fallout 4

Fallout 4 represents the opposite finish of the Bethesda RPG spectrum. As an alternative of shockingly medieval or far future, Fallout is sort of within the center. It has a extra retrofuturistic really feel as a result of, although it has robots, every little thing nonetheless feels mid-1900s. In distinction to the considerably empty planets, you received’t go too far earlier than operating into some thrilling new areas to discover. Additionally, you get a canine companion, which is one thing Starfield did the other of by probably making them extinct.

You play as a resident of Sanctuary Hills on the day nuclear bombs drop. You might be both the mom or father to a new child child and have made a take care of VaultTec to be sheltered in Vault 111. As their experiment, you might be cryogenically frozen together with everybody else. Some variety of years later, you get up to witness strangers breaking into your partner’s pod, murdering her, and kidnapping your child earlier than you fall again asleep. You awaken someday after that when your pod malfunctioned, and also you got down to discover your lacking baby.

Subnautica

Subnautica presents purely exploration, with a big chunk of the story left for gamers to find as they go. As an alternative of a world populated with enemies, gamers must survive crushing ocean depths and territorial marine life. There’s loads of the planet 4546B to discover, even when little or no of it’s truly above sea degree.

The story follows Ryley Robinson, the one survivor from the crashed Aurora that was introduced down by a mysterious vitality pulse that got here from 4546B. Utilizing all of her wits, gamers can have entry to her escape pod’s fabricator to create mandatory instruments for survival. There’s a a lot greater scenario at play on the planet than the crew of the Aurora ever knew about, but it surely could be key to getting again dwelling.

Pink Lifeless Redemption 2

Nobody ever mentioned a sport needed to be first-person to share comparable concepts with Starfield, proper? So with that in thoughts, I’d wish to suggest Pink Lifeless Redemption 2 as an inexpensive follow-up to your area journey. You get a large open world to discover with loads of distinctive characters to satisfy. It could be a degree of shock to go from a sport with crazily futuristic science to a technologically void one, however it’s price it.

Arthur Morgan is a lieutenant within the outlaw Van der Linde gang. After a botched job, the gang begins to simply accept that the world is advancing to some extent the place outlaws not have a spot to settle. A separate job will get members of the Pinkerton Detective Company despatched after them, and their potentialities begin to slim. Set earlier than the occasions of the primary sport, gamers get to see precisely what all John Marston went by way of.

Elex II

Going to proceed the third-person development and supply an honest open-world sci-fi expertise with Elex II. The map on this sport is very large and will definitely have you ever exploring each nook for upgrades and new weapons. Plus, you get a jetpack for faster exploration that’s probably among the best in-game jetpacks I’ve ever skilled. Elex II can also be nice for these on the lookout for a little bit of problem, as enemies don’t scale; completely different areas simply have harder enemies, and it’s straightforward to seek out them unintentionally.

Elex II as soon as once more follows Jax, the protagonist of the primary sport (which you don’t must play). After being shunned for doomsday warnings of an incoming menace, Jax is confirmed appropriate as an invasion begins proper at his doorstep. Within the ensuing chaos, he’s bitten by an alien monster and falls right into a coma. Upon waking, he’s knowledgeable the chew has contaminated him and can trigger a change. To abate this, he makes a take care of a physician to collect the world’s factions for assist.

Prey

Okay, so it’s a slight step down you can solely discover an area station, however a minimum of it isn’t one other Earth-based sport. As an alternative, you take care of reasonably claustrophobic sections of the station with creepy aliens round each nook. The one little bit of assistance is that there’s a good variety of weapons to seek out, and you may tackle traits of the aliens.

Gamers tackle the position of Morgan Yu as they’re recruited for a spot on the Talos I area station. Nonetheless, the recruitment facade quickly drops, and it’s revealed they’ve been on Talos I for fairly a little bit of time however can’t bear in mind on account of experiments. An AI awakens you to this and in addition tells you that an alien species, the Typhon, has taken over Talos I. You have to discover your personal option to completely different sections of Talos I to fight the Typhon. The good half is that you simply’re additionally enjoying Prop Hunt, because the Typhon can disguise themselves as inanimate objects.

Everspace

Our final decide is for individuals who need higher area fight than what Starfield presents. Not that what Starfield offers gamers is dangerous, however reasonably fundamental compared to different video games. Everspace is all area dogfights, with none of the terrestrial gameplay parts. You might be solely a ship, and your aim is survival, so you possibly can customise your ship and combat some extra.

That is the largest divergence from the remainder of this record, as there’s not a lot of a narrative to Everspace. It’s a roguelike title, which means you play till demise after which get a brand new run with that obtained information and new instruments to make sure victory the subsequent time. On the subject of space-based fight, there aren’t actually some other video games that do it higher than this one. Plus, the roguelike facet means you possibly can get pleasure from it in bite-sized chunks with out investing in a prolonged storyline playthrough.

In regards to the writer

Cameron Waldrop

Cameron is a contract author for Twinfinite and often covers battle royales like Fortnite and Apex Legends. He began writing for Twinfinite in late 2019 and has reviewed many nice video games. Whereas he loves an excellent shooter, his coronary heart will all the time belong to JRPGs.