Starfield’s NASA Punk Aesthetic Explained

From carefully constructed ships cruising the galaxy and the multitude of modular outposts scattered across its countless planets to the spacesuits on players’ backs, nearly everything in Starfield bears the unique look of Bethesda’s self-dubbed NASA-punk aesthetic. Standing in stark contrast to sci-fi games like Mass Effect that lean towards the fantastical, most of what players encounter in Starfield seems like a plausible evolution of existing technologies. This gives Starfield a distinct look when compared to the numerous sci-fi games that vie for gamers’ attention each year, letting Bethesda deliver a planet-spanning open-world title that feels truly original.