Starfield

Bethesda's template stretched across procedurally seeded planets and a looping new-game-plus premise.

Released 2023 Developer Bethesda Game Studios Publisher Bethesda Softworks Platform PC Genre Action RPG Era Live service & the long tail Website starfieldgame.com ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Starfield inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Seeded Procedural Universe ~~1984~~Open Data Formats and Mod SDK ~~1993~~New Game Plus ~~1995~~Crafting From Gathered Materials ~~1997~~Free-Form Base Building ~~2009~~Planetary-Scale Streaming ~~2016~~

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