Games Like Starfield

From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.

Why similar: Open World 32.9%, RPG 10.3%, Exploration 8.9%, Sci-fi 8.5%, Action RPG 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is Starfield's closest structural relative, pairing Bethesda's open-ended quest design, first-person combat, character progression, and base building in a different setting.

The Outer Worlds 2 is the sequel to the award-winning first-person sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment.

Why similar: Open World 19.7%, RPG 16.2%, Action RPG 11.3%, Sci-fi 9.7%, Character Customization 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person sci-fi RPG format, companion-driven quests, branching choices, and travel between distinct worlds closely target Starfield's role-playing appeal.

Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons with all-new features.

Why similar: Open World 33%, Moddable 15.1%, RPG 14%, Character Customization 12%, Great Soundtrack 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Starfield shares Skyrim's Bethesda sandbox DNA: freeform exploration, faction questlines, loot, skill builds, and an enormous mod-friendly single-player world.

Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

Why similar: Open World 28.5%, Moddable 16.8%, RPG 13.4%, Sci-fi 7%, Character Customization 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world first-person RPG design and exceptionally consequential factions, dialogue, and build options make it ideal for players seeking deeper role-playing choices.

Return to the Mass Effect universe & lead the first humans in Andromeda on a desperate search for our new home.

Why similar: Space 20.5%, Open World 17.6%, Character Customization 15.2%, Sci-fi 14.1%, RPG 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines character customization, squad relationships, shooting, planetary exploration, and a frontier-set story about settling a new galaxy.

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Space 31.7%, Open World 25.2%, Sci-fi 12.5%, Space Sim 9.9%, Exploration 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the parts of Starfield centered on piloting a ship, landing on worlds, scanning discoveries, gathering resources, and building across a vast galaxy.

Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure RPG set in the dark future of Night City — a dangerous megalopolis obsessed with power, glamor, and ceaseless body modification.

Why similar: Open World 27.5%, Sci-fi 13.8%, RPG 11%, Story Rich 7.1%, First-Person 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This offers a polished first-person open-world RPG with flexible character builds, story-rich quests, vehicles, and a dense futuristic setting.

Explore Cyrodiil like never before with stunning new visuals and refined gameplay in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion™ Remastered.

Why similar: Open World 24.8%, RPG 14.8%, Character Customization 12.3%, Action RPG 8.6%, Exploration 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Another Bethesda fantasy sandbox with the same attraction of wandering freely, joining factions, building a character, and stumbling into substantial side quests.

Experience the first-ever open world Star Wars™ game and explore distinct locations across the galaxy, both iconic and new. Risk it all as scoundrel Kay Vess, seeking freedom and the means to start a new life.

Why similar: Space 22.3%, Open World 20%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Third Person 8.3%, RPG 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a cinematic open-world space adventure built around traveling between planets, taking underworld jobs, exploring hubs, and upgrading your gear and ship.

The Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition includes single-player base content and over 40 DLC from the highly acclaimed Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3 games, including promo weapons, armors, and packs — remastered and optimized for 4K Ultra HD.

Why similar: Space 26%, Sci-fi 16.8%, RPG 13.5%, Character Customization 12.4%, Story Rich 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its trilogy of cinematic space RPGs excels at companion relationships, player decisions, exploration, and shaping a long-running interstellar story.

EVERSPACE 2 is a fast-paced single-player spaceship shooter with exploration in space and on planets, tons of loot, RPG elements, mining, and crafting. Experience an exciting sci-fi story set in a vivid, handcrafted open world full of secrets, puzzles, and perils.

Why similar: Space 25.9%, Open World 17.6%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Action RPG 9.3%, Exploration 7%

Why You'll Like It: Its fast ship combat, loot progression, handcrafted star systems, side activities, and frequent planetary locations suit players who most enjoy Starfield's piloting and exploration.

Embark on a journey to greatness. Get ready for adrenaline-fueled battles and a chance to claim your place in the galaxy. Grab the controls of your ship, gear up for the fight, and unleash your ambition to conquer and build a new empire in the vastness of space.

Why similar: Space 24.9%, Space Sim 24.6%, Open World 21.3%, RPG 12.4%, Third Person 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This ambitious space RPG lets you fly between systems, land on planets, take faction work, build a crew, and pursue a highly self-directed galactic career.

Starcom: Unknown Space is an action RPG of space exploration and adventure. Build your own starship while discovering an epic story in a universe of strange mysteries, alien factions and uncharted worlds.

Why similar: Space 28.3%, Open World 16%, Space Sim 14.2%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Action RPG 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This exploration-focused space action RPG centers on upgrading a customizable ship, surveying unknown systems, meeting factions, and making dialogue decisions.

Prepare for the Future™ With Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, experience the most acclaimed game of 2008 like never before. Create a character of your choosing and descend into an awe-inspiring, post-apocalyptic world where every minute is a fight for survival.

Why similar: Open World 30.1%, Moddable 17.4%, RPG 13.8%, Sci-fi 9.1%, First-Person 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its lonely exploration, first-person RPG systems, environmental storytelling, and discoverable questlines provide a clear earlier blueprint for Starfield's structure.

Enter the Chornobyl Anomalous Zone — a vast open world where anomalies, mutants, and rivals stand in your way. Explore, scavenge, and try to survive in this brutal and dangerous land. Evolving with every update, now overhauled and crowned with UPDATE 2.0.

Why similar: Open World 38%, Sci-fi 10.3%, RPG 9.4%, Exploration 8.6%, First-Person 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: While earthbound, it shares Starfield's first-person open-world scavenging, emergent exploration, atmospheric ruins, and player-led approach to survival and quests.

Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.

Why similar: Space 24.4%, Space Sim 16.5%, Open World 16.4%, Moddable 16.1%, Sci-fi 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the fantasy of commanding your own spacecraft into a deep space sandbox of trading, faction politics, fleet management, and empire building.

Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive, open-world action RPG. Now you can take control of the action and be at the center of your own adventure in the wizarding world.

Why similar: Open World 28.9%, Character Customization 14%, RPG 11.4%, Exploration 6.9%, Action RPG 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a polished single-player open world filled with exploration, quests, customization, collectibles, and a strong sense of attending an imagined place.

Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.

Why similar: Space 29.8%, Space Sim 23.6%, Open World 19.5%, Sci-fi 11%, Exploration 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: For players who want a more simulation-heavy version of Starfield's ship travel, it provides a huge galaxy for piloting, trading, combat, and exploration.

In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.

Why similar: Space 29.7%, Sci-fi 19.7%, Open World 10.2%, First-Person 7%, Exploration 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person sci-fi setting rewards curiosity, environmental problem-solving, flexible character powers, and methodical exploration of a richly detailed space station.

You are the captain of a starship venturing through a massive open universe. Customize your crew and take command at the helm of your very own ship as you explore a galaxy torn apart by internal strife, alien threats, and political intrigue.

Why similar: Moddable 21.3%, Space 19.7%, Space Sim 18.4%, Sci-fi 16.9%, Open World 15.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep captain-and-crew role-playing, faction reputation, ship customization, procedural exploration, and meaningful choices across a living galaxy.

A thrilling story-driven action RPG, with a rich open world, set in 15th century Medieval Europe. Experience the ultimate medieval adventure - through the eyes of young Henry - as you embark on a journey of epic proportions.

Why similar: Open World 35.1%, RPG 18.7%, First-Person 10.1%, Story Rich 9.4%, Realistic 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Despite its historical setting, its immersive first-person open-world questing, reactive role-playing, and grounded sense of inhabiting a world appeal to Bethesda RPG fans.

A Sci-Fi role-playing game featuring turn-based ground combat, space exploration, deep character customization and a massive living universe with thousands of star systems. Equip your ships with the best equipment you can find, gather a powerful crew of mercenaries and set out into the void!

Why similar: Space 22.9%, Open World 19.5%, Character Customization 15.9%, Sci-fi 11.7%, RPG 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: This sprawling indie space RPG mixes custom ships, planet exploration, loot-driven progression, crew management, and tactical combat across a large galaxy.

Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.

Why similar: Space 32.5%, Open World 16.5%, Exploration 11.2%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Great Soundtrack 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is a very different kind of space game, but its solar-system exploration and curiosity-driven discovery brilliantly fulfill the urge to uncover cosmic mysteries.

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition includes Morrowind plus all of the content from the Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions. The original Mod Construction Set is not included in this package. An epic, open-ended single-player RPG, Morrowind allows you to create and play any kind of character imaginable.

Why similar: Open World 28.4%, Moddable 16.1%, RPG 15.9%, Great Soundtrack 7.8%, Character Customization 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This older Bethesda classic remains excellent for players who value unusual worldbuilding, deep character builds, faction advancement, and unguided discovery.

Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a single player, narrative driven action-RPG that challenges the players to choose their own experience – from the appearance of their Arisen, their vocation, their party, how to approach different situations and more - in a truly immersive fantasy world.

Why similar: Open World 33.5%, RPG 15%, Action RPG 14.9%, Character Customization 13.8%, Action-Adventure 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the joy of unscripted open-world adventure through flexible vocations, companion management, dangerous exploration, and surprising encounters.

Engage in a core roleplaying experience, and forge the destiny of a new world seeping with magic, and filled with riches, lost secrets, and fantastic creatures. With diplomacy, deception and force, become part of a living, evolving world - influence its course and shape your story.

Why similar: Open World 28.6%, RPG 20.2%, Character Customization 18.4%, Story Rich 7.1%, Third Person 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its colonial frontier setting, companion relationships, faction reputation, dialogue choices, and quest-focused RPG structure resemble Starfield's more narrative-driven side.

Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

Why similar: Space 31.5%, Open World 22.6%, Space Sim 20.8%, Sci-fi 13.4%, Exploration 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It leans into Starfield's outpost and ship-building side with first-person survival, procedurally generated planets, space travel, and constructible vehicles.

A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.

Why similar: Space 26%, Space Sim 20.3%, Open World 18.9%, Sci-fi 12%, Exploration 8%

Why You'll Like It: This sandbox lets you design spacecraft from modules, explore a procedurally generated galaxy, trade, fight, and gradually expand into fleet command.

The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition is the ultimate way to play the award-winning RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. Including the base game and all DLC, this remastered masterpiece is the absolute best version of The Outer Worlds.

Why similar: Space 23.4%, RPG 14%, Action RPG 13.8%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Character Customization 10.8%

Out of cash, out of luck, out on the fringe. Juno Markev has a killer to tail, a debt to pay, and more trouble headed her way. Rebel Galaxy Outlaw takes place in a greasy, blue-collar world of outlaws, truckers, cops and thieves.

Why similar: Space Sim 21.5%, Open World 19.6%, Space 14.6%, Sci-fi 13.1%, RPG 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its approachable spacefaring loop of ship combat, upgrades, mercenary jobs, trading, and roaming frontier systems makes for a lighter Starfield-adjacent adventure.

Twenty-five years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers emerge into post-nuclear America. Join millions of players as you explore, build, quest, and triumph in a massive open-world multiplayer adventure.

Why similar: Open World 52%, RPG 22.4%, Exploration 7.7%, Character Customization 6.7%, Great Soundtrack 5.1%

PUBLISHER UPDATE - This is the product page for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, released in 2009. ---The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition presents one of the best RPGs of all time like never before. Step inside the most richly detailed and vibrant game-world ever created.

Why similar: Open World 28.8%, Moddable 17.3%, RPG 14.9%, Character Customization 6.8%, Great Soundtrack 5.4%

Avowed is a first-person fantasy RPG set in the world of Eora, where your choices carve a path through war, intrigue, and ancient mysteries. Navigate a land in turmoil, forge powerful alliances or deadly rivalries, and wield magic and steel to shape the fate of the Living Lands—and your own destiny.

Why similar: Open World 20%, Character Customization 17.8%, RPG 14.3%, Action RPG 11.2%, First-Person 10.3%

The story of Cal Kestis continues in STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor™, a galaxy-spanning, third-person, action-adventure game.

Why similar: Open World 20.1%, Space 18.7%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Third Person 8.7%, Action-Adventure 6.8%

Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.

Why similar: Space 25.4%, Moddable 18.1%, Open World 17.2%, Space Sim 13.5%, Sci-fi 12.6%

A true, full-length open-world game for VR has arrived from Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim VR reimagines the complete epic fantasy masterpiece with an unparalleled sense of scale, depth, and immersion. Skyrim VR also includes all official add-ons.

Why similar: Open World 35.8%, RPG 16.1%, Moddable 12.8%, Character Customization 7.1%, First-Person 6.4%

Kerbal Space Program 2 is the sequel to the acclaimed space-flight simulation game Kerbal Space Program. Enter the next generation of space adventure with exciting new parts, stunning visuals, fully revamped UI and Map View, and rich new environments to explore.

Why similar: Space 27.3%, Open World 16.3%, Space Sim 15.7%, Moddable 13%, Sci-fi 9.4%

From one of gaming's most iconic sagas, Halo is bigger than ever. Featuring an expansive open-world campaign and a dynamic free to play multiplayer experience.

Why similar: Space 24.4%, Open World 23.5%, Sci-fi 15.9%, First-Person 9%, Cinematic 8.3%

Fire up a wild ride across the cosmos with a fresh take on Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. In this action-adventure game, you are Star-Lord leading the unpredictable Guardians from one explosion of chaos to the next. You got this. Probably.

Why similar: Space 23.7%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Action-Adventure 9.3%, Story Rich 9%, Cinematic 8.1%

In the distant future, the X universe faces a period of profound and irrevocable change. While the universe stumbles towards an uncertain future, countless adventures await as new enemies rise in search of power.

Why similar: Space 49.2%, Sci-fi 16.8%, Space Sim 14.8%, Open World 9.9%, Moddable 2.6%

The world's first science-based photorealistic interactive 3D planetarium that models the entire Universe, using procedural generation for uncharted areas.

Why similar: Space 29.7%, Open World 25.1%, Space Sim 19%, Sci-fi 16.1%, Realistic 4.8%

Halo: Campaign Evolved is a faithful yet modernized remake of Halo: Combat Evolved’s campaign, rebuilt from the ground up.

Why similar: Space 31.7%, Sci-fi 23.5%, First-Person 9.3%, Cinematic 7.7%, Story Rich 6.3%

Fallout 4, the legendary post-apocalyptic adventure from Bethesda Game Studios and winner of more than 200 ‘Best Of’ awards, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year, comes in its entirety to VR.

Why similar: Open World 45.9%, RPG 18.5%, First-Person 8.2%, Character Customization 8%, Singleplayer 5.4%

Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

Why similar: Space 43.4%, Sci-fi 20.6%, Space Sim 16.1%, First-Person 6.7%, Open World 6.6%

A single-developer passion project. A seamless full scale solar system. Thrilling action. Be part of an incredible journey as a Universe is built from the ground up!

Why similar: Space 36.1%, Open World 20.9%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Space Sim 9.6%, Exploration 9.1%

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™ is a third and first-person action-adventure game set in the Western Frontier. Reconnect with your lost heritage and discover what it means to be Na'vi.

Why similar: Open World 33.4%, Character Customization 11.3%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Exploration 8.4%, First-Person 7.9%

In Star Trek Online, the Star Trek universe appears for the first time on a truly massive scale. Players take the captain's chair as they command their own starship and crew. Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before.

Why similar: Space 35.1%, Sci-fi 19.4%, Open World 16.1%, RPG 10.4%, Character Customization 8.4%

It is the year 2938. The long wished-for encounter of the X Universe and the Earth holds both joy and sorrow for the people. Despite flourishing trade, the clash of the diverse races, cultures and life forms creates new tensions, mistrust and open conflict that need to be overcome!

Why similar: Space 48.3%, Space Sim 15.6%, Open World 14%, Sci-fi 12%, Moddable 3.5%

Haul cargo, trade salvage and keep your space suit close as you search for fame and fortune among the stars in a game that puts an interstellar twist on the truck sim genre.

Why similar: Space 22.4%, Space Sim 17%, Open World 16.3%, Moddable 14%, Sci-fi 11.3%

Rebel Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventure, with action-packed combat, exploration, discovery, trade, and “negotiation” with the outlandish denizens at the edge of the known universe.

Why similar: Space 38.7%, Open World 16.5%, Sci-fi 11.4%, Space Sim 11.3%, RPG 6.6%

EVERSPACE™ combines fast-paced combat with roguelike elements, great visuals and a captivating story. It takes you on a challenging journey through an ever-changing, beautifully crafted universe full of surprises. Shoot, craft and loot your way to victory while the odds are stacked against you.

Why similar: Space 53.9%, Space Sim 18.7%, Sci-fi 14.9%, Action 3.8%, Exploration 3%

THE GREAT MACHINE AWAKENS

Why similar: Open World 25.2%, RPG 19.9%, Action RPG 14.3%, Character Customization 9%, First-Person 7.2%

Every legend starts somewhere and in The Elder Scrolls Online, it starts with you. Join millions of players in an online, fantasy RPG set in a vast living Elder Scrolls world.

Why similar: Open World 31.8%, RPG 18.1%, Exploration 11.8%, Character Customization 11%, Action RPG 7.9%

As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.

Why similar: Space 22.9%, Sci-fi 20.3%, RPG 15.6%, Story Rich 7.7%, Open World 6.9%

From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes a genre-defying experience, now expanded in this definitive DIRECTOR’S CUT. As Sam Bridges, your mission is to deliver hope to humanity by connecting the last survivors of a decimated America. Can you reunite the shattered world, one step at a time?

Why similar: Open World 28.1%, Cinematic 10.9%, Story Rich 10.2%, Great Soundtrack 10.2%, Sci-fi 9.9%

Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.

Why similar: Space 25.3%, Space Sim 24.1%, Open World 22.4%, Sci-fi 11.8%, First-Person 8.1%