Starfield's first story expansion, Shattered Space, launches to 42% positive "mixed" reviews on Steam
Oct. 1, 2024“It’s not that it’s bad, it’s just incredibly mediocre”
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Over a year after the launch ofStarfield, its first big story expansionShattered Spaceis here - but so far, fans have generally been less than enthused with the results. The DLC has launched to “mixed” reviews on Steam, as players take issue with its limited content and compare it unfavorably with previous Bethesda expansions.
Shattered Space launched just yesterday, and players have already had time to wrap up the main story - which is, itself, perhaps not the best sign for a $30 expansion to an expansive Bethesda RPG.681 reviewsfrom people who bought the DLC on Steam have dropped so far, and just 42% of those are positive. In Steam’s parlance, that equates to “mixed” reviews.
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The user reviews are dinging the expansion for “reskinned” weapons and outfits, a fairly limited location to explore, and a main story you can complete in a handful of hours. While the negative review percentage might sound like people are slamming Shattered Sky, it’s all a lot more tepid than that. As onenegative reviewputs it, “It’s not that it’s bad, it’s just incredibly mediocre.”
The general sentiment across both the negative and positive reviews seems to boil down to ‘it’s more Starfield,’ and given that the base game has also settled into Steam’s mixed range - albeit with a higher 59% ratio of positive reviews - it makes sense that the expansion would get a similar response. Starfield is no doubt a better game than it was at launch, owing to a wide array of bug fixes and content updates, but many Bethesda fans are clearly still suffering a fundamental malaise with the studio’s latest RPG.
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