EDIT: I have finished the game, though I haven't done everything there is to do in it. I am in NG+6. I still love the game and recommend playing it. Yes, there are some issues. Yes, it's a Bethesda game. You know what? Bethesda games are fun. They have given me lots of joy for decades. Haters gonna hate. But lovers gonna love Starfield and I do.

PREVIOUSLY ON THIS REVIEW: I haven't finished this game yet. I've barely scratched the surface. But it's so much fun. Being in New Atlantis (the only real city I've visited so far) is amazing. They have housing districts with people living in housing including my parents (my mom looks almost exactly like me... dad is... well I obviously take after mom). There is a shopping district, though shops are not restricted to that district alone so you have small shops, a convenience store even! in non-mercantile districts, there is public transportation, there is a doctors' office, a plastic surgeon... a news network building, a public park... there is so much in that city and I haven't even fully explored it. The space flight is good, but I don't like flying sims or even driving so I'm glad I don't have to do a lot of that unless I really want to (spoiler alert: I don't). You can fight space pirates in space... you can fight them on the ground too. You can board ships and take them for your own. You can discover new locations on planets. You can find out secrets of the universe. You can join a cult. There is so much to see and do. And like I said, I've only just begun!

Things I've done:
Joined a once famous now not so much explorers' society to investigate mysterious artifacts.
Fought a bunch of pirates AND mercs who were fighting each other as I tried to sneak around an abandoned outpost to find someone.
Visited my mom and dad and heard my mom nag me about getting married and that I left my room a mess.
My dad is proud of me... and he handed me a gun as a gift (it's a pretty nice gun!)
I went shopping for clothing.
I went shopping for weapons.
I went shopping for a new ship (can't afford one yet)
I got tracked down by a bounty hunter who is after me because as a chef I accidentally killed my patron and now his family wants me dead (I took the chef background and Wanted trait so they would go together well and man it makes a nice story)
I got chomped on my an alien creature on an alien planet and almost lost a leg
Managed to stuff my space ship full of more people than I have room for
Rescued a guy from pirates
Helped a scientist with his tree studies

I did have one very unfortunate bug: my character must have glitched out completely because all of her saves were corrupted and then when I was trying to load a different character the buggy one just... disappeared along with all her bad saves. To be safe I deleted ALL of them and started over (I wasn't very far into the game so it wasn't a big deal at that time). My new character has been just fine, no bugs or glitches. Nothing unfortunate has happened after 20 hours into this character's game. Whew.

I love this game so much.

EDIT: I have finished the game, though I haven't done everything there is to do in it. I am in NG+6. I still love the game and recommend playing it. Yes, there are some issues. Yes, it's a Bethesda game. You know what? Bethesda games are fun. They have given me lots of joy for decades. Haters gonna hate. But lovers gonna love Starfield and I do. PREVIOUSLY ON THIS REVIEW: I haven't finished this game yet. I've barely scratched the surface. But it's so much fun. Being in New Atlantis (the only real city I've visited so far) is amazing. They have housing districts with people living in housing including my parents (my mom looks almost exactly like me... dad is... well I obviously take after mom). There is a shopping district, though shops are not restricted to that district alone so you have small shops, a convenience store even! in non-mercantile districts, there is public transportation, there is a doctors' office, a plastic surgeon... a news network building, a public park... there is so much in that city and I haven't even fully explored it. The space flight is good, but I don't like flying sims or even driving so I'm glad I don't have to do a lot of that unless I really want to (spoiler alert: I don't). You can fight space pirates in space... you can fight them on the ground too. You can board ships and take them for your own. You can discover new locations on planets. You can find out secrets of the universe. You can join a cult. There is so much to see and do. And like I said, I've only just begun! Things I've done: Joined a once famous now not so much explorers' society to investigate mysterious artifacts. Fought a bunch of pirates AND mercs who were fighting each other as I tried to sneak around an abandoned outpost to find someone. Visited my mom and dad and heard my mom nag me about getting married and that I left my room a mess. My dad is proud of me... and he handed me a gun as a gift (it's a pretty nice gun!) I went shopping for clothing. I went shopping for weapons. I went shopping for a new ship (can't afford one yet) I got tracked down by a bounty hunter who is after me because as a chef I accidentally killed my patron and now his family wants me dead (I took the chef background and Wanted trait so they would go together well and man it makes a nice story) I got chomped on my an alien creature on an alien planet and almost lost a leg Managed to stuff my space ship full of more people than I have room for Rescued a guy from pirates Helped a scientist with his tree studies I did have one very unfortunate bug: my character must have glitched out completely because all of her saves were corrupted and then when I was trying to load a different character the buggy one just... disappeared along with all her bad saves. To be safe I deleted ALL of them and started over (I wasn't very far into the game so it wasn't a big deal at that time). My new character has been just fine, no bugs or glitches. Nothing unfortunate has happened after 20 hours into this character's game. Whew. I love this game so much.