“It’s A Very Different Approach”: Starfield Composer Suggests The Best Way To Play

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is Bethesda Softworks’ biggest game yet in almost every respect, featuring an unprecedented amount of playable space, an inventive New Game Plus feature, and a record-breaking launch. The game took roughly seven years to complete—typical Bethesda games take around four—and is considered a true passion project on behalf of Bethesda director Todd Howard and the rest of the developers. In December 2023, was reported to see 1.2 million daily players, and had amassed somewhere around 12,000,000 players in total.

Although the game has been largely well-received (’sreview dubbed it an instant classic), there has been plenty of discourse around the best way to approach playing the game; the main campaign is said to take 30 to 40 hours to complete, but ship customization, settlement building, and exploration offer players endless hours of activity. Todd Howard has weighed in on the subject himself, as has longtime Bethesda Softworks composer Inon Zur. Zur, who previously composed music for Bethesda games including and, had this to say:

Inon Zur: I would say to players: Go out and explore. Don't treat Starfield as something that you need to start and finish. Imagine that this is a world that you live in right now, and you live with, and this is where you go and you escape, and this is where you build your home, and this is where you create friends and enemies and relationships. This is the right way to treat Starfield, [as opposed to] a movie that you watch from beginning to end. It's a very different approach in order to maximize what Starfield has to offer.

’s campaign has been lauded by many as one of Bethesda’s best but, as evidenced by Zur’s comments, it’s far from the full vision the developers had for the game. The game is