Microsoft can party like it’s 2330, because after a few misses, Starfield is the smash hit that they’ve been waiting for.Just looking at Xbox players who are tracked on TrueAchievements (almost 1.1m of them), we can see that 270,978 players have jumped into Starfield since it launched just nine days ago (if we include the pre-release for Premium Edition owners). That’s comfortably the biggest release of the year in terms of player count, beating out second place on the list, Atomic Heart (207,139 players), by a hefty 63,000 players.It’s also the biggest Xbox Series X|S only launch for Microsoft too, beating out Microsoft Flight Simulator (163,763 players), Deathloop (159,142 players), and even EA’s Battlefield 2042 (132,563 players). If you look at cross-generational games, we can see that Halo Infinite and Forza Horizon 5 have had more players to date, but those games were available on Xbox One and could reach a much wider playerbase. Given that we’re so close to launch too, it’s entirely possible that Starfield will rocket past them in the coming weeks anyway.While our data only covers people tracked on TrueAchievements, it’s a hefty sample size that we can extrapolate out from. Xbox already announced that Starfield has hit 6 million players across all platforms, and based on the trends we’re seeing, we’re expecting they’ll hit the 10 million mark any day now.Starfield is going down a storm within the Xbox and TrueAchievements community. It has an average rating of 4.65 out of five stars from users here on the site. 90 intrepid explorers have 100% completed all the Starfield achievements (how have you done this? Is it possible to learn this power?)Outside of the TA community, Starfield has garnered an average of 85 on Metacritic for Xbox Series X|S, and 87 on PC. Reviewers have praised the quests, dialogue, and the epic universe that Bethesda has created, though many have noted it sticks a little too closely to the classic Bethesda formula, and that it takes a while to “get good”.
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