Starfield’s Planets Put Diablo 4’s Procedurally Generated Dungeons to Shame

Bethesda’s Starfield is the latest in a series of high-profile games that leverage the power of procedural generation to provide players with unique experiences not just across users but from playthrough to playthrough. In terms of the technology’s utility in gaming, procedural generation can ease the burden on developers toward crafting curated environments and free up resources to help the hand-crafted portions of games truly shine. Due to the sheer size of Starfield, using procedural generation for several planets was almost a necessity given that the game features over a thousand of them. Thankfully, these procedurally generated planets are (for the most part) more engaging than the randomly generated dungeons of Diablo 4.