Starfield's 13 million players spent an average of 40 hours with the RPG, and one alien killed them more than anything else

Starfield player sitting on New Atlantis bench with NPCs staring very intently at them.

Starfield developer Bethesda has released some player stats to round up the RPG's launch year, and it revealed a lot about its fans. 

As detailed in the Starfield End of the Year Update post, 13 million players have adventured into Bethesda's space RPG since its launch in September 2023 - with 22,284,331 days played or an average of 40 hours of playtime each. Not only this but just under 5% of that total playtime (26,027,845 hours) was spent building ships, which isn't much of a surprise with all the Starfield ship customization options.