Bethesda Game Studios' spil er naturligvis forskellige, men har også særprægede fællestræk. Derfor er der mange fans der har beskrevet Starfield som "Skyrim in space", og det er både som kritik, og som ros.
Men spørger du Xbox Studios-chef Matt Booty, så er det faktisk meget, meget mere baseret på hvad han har set demonstreret. I den seneste episode af Friends per Second siger han følgende:
"I'm confident that he's not going to sit still on what was built before. It's not his approach to come in and reskin something. There's going to be an awful lot of things that move forward with this game. I think there's going to be an awful lot of new stuff that Bethesda fans and Todd Howard fans have not seen, brought to the game. I know just from checking in with them the team is hard at work to get that thing all buttoned up and put together. I'm fortunate enough to be involved in the status reports and things, and it's just fun watching them iterate through that level of polish on the game right now."
Booty slog også fast at Starfield kommer efter Redfall, endnu et spil der ikke har en udgivelsesdato, så noget tyder på at det bliver tættere på sommeren end først antaget.