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The amount of hype for Starfield<\/em> easily rivals the biggest games of this year, which<\/a> is<\/a> really<\/a> saying<\/a> something<\/a>. In fact, the anticipation is so enormous that Bethesda’s upcoming sci-fi RPG is already topping the Steam charts.<\/p>

If you head over to the website<\/a>, you’ll see that \u2013 at the time of writing \u2013 Starfield<\/em> is currently at the number two spot on Steam’s “Top Sellers” list. The only thing beating it is Valve’s own Steam Deck device, which means the upcoming sci-fi RPG is number one in terms of actual games.<\/p>

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Anybody who’s even skimmed video game news lately could probably expect this development. Microsoft even reduced<\/a> and then removed the Game Pass trial<\/a> just ahead of the game’s release, presumably to prevent eager people trying to play it on the cheap.<\/p>

How it is at the top when it’s not even out yet?<\/h2>

Some may wonder how an unreleased game can dominate a chart that measures sales. However, it’s likely that Steam is taking into account pre-orders.<\/p>

A quick look over on SteamDB<\/a> shows that Starfield <\/em>has approximately 342,000<\/em> owners and is the number one wishlisted game. To clarify, the information on the number of owners\/players comes from PlayTracker<\/a>, which does clarify that this insight is “90% certain that estimates for this game are accurate within a 27% interval”.<\/p>

In any case, Bethesda’s upcoming title will inevitably continue to be a hot topic of discussion in the foreseeable future. We’re still a week away from its release, so get used to seeing Starfield<\/em> absolutely everywhere soon.<\/p>

Starfield<\/em> is coming to PC and Xbox Series X|S on September 6. It’ll also be available on Game Pass.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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