The concept of ‘Starfield 2.0,’ essentially a major update/overhaul of Bethesda’s less-than-stellar sci-fi RPG, has been kicking around for quite a while now. Fans have been huffing the copium since at least the middle of 2025, and started hitting the pipe extra hard at the end of last year when it came to light that Bethesda had given content creators a behind-closed-doors look at what’s coming next. But you should probably dial back your expectations: In a new interview with Kinda Funny, Todd Howard said the next update “is not Starfield 2.0,” and warned that if you don’t like the game now, that’s probably not going to change.
The good news is that the long wait for actual Starfield news is almost over: Howard said Fallout has been the focus over the past several months but with that now out of the way, Bethesda is going to start talking about what’s next for Starfield “really soon.”
Ah, but then he dropped the hammer. “It is not Starfield 2.0. I’ve seen some of that—for expectation-setting, I think it’s the kind of thing where, if you love Starfield, we think you’re gonna love this. It’s updates and things that change the game, not in an isolated way, but sort of meta, using outer space and things in ways that we haven’t.
“But look, is Starfield something that didn’t connect with you right away, or you bounced off it or found it boring in places—I don’t think this is going to change that fundamentally.”
It’s a refreshingly frank statement if nothing else, although Bethesda might simply feel that there’s no sense sacrificing any more credibility on this particular altar. Some diehard Starfield fans have been holding out hope for a turnaround akin to that of Cyberpunk 2077, which enjoyed a massive recovery campaign culminating in a 2.0 update in September 2023, three years after launch. Starfield is moving into a comparable window—it came out, coincidentally, in September 2023.
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