Starfield contains many secrets and surprises for space-faring players to uncover, and one unexpecting fan made a startling discovery on their 34th playthrough. Bethesda’s first new IP in over 25 years finally lifted off earlier this year, earning mostly positive reviews for its open-world sci-fi setting with countless pre-generated planets to explore.
Warning: This article contains major story spoilers for Starfield.
Starfield has generated boundless discussion over its surprisingly in-depth spaceship and character customization options, but one of its most unique features lies in its approach to New Game Plus. While plenty of games give players the option to start a new story campaign with all their gear and stats from their previous playthrough, Starfield provides an in-universe explanation for resetting its timeline. At the end of the game, the player can become a Starborn, a cosmic being with the ability to travel across space and time at will. As such, each playthrough takes place in a parallel timeline that the player can use to explore different worlds and narrative choices.
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As Twitter user NikoMueller recently discovered, this also allows experienced Starfield players to meet the unlikeliest of characters during later playthroughs: themselves. NikoMueller was on their 34th playthrough when they encountered the version of their character from their very first run, who was handing over an artifact to Starfield’s space-faring Constellation faction. This shocking encounter contains new dialogue options for speaking to the player’s doppelganger, and NikoMueller was even able to recruit their past self to their crew.
Other Starfield players were taken aback by this, and have asked many questions about how this alternate version of the player character works in combat and dialogue. NikoMueller confirms that their variant has a voice (unlike Starfield’s silent main avatar) and even gives opinions on their actions while playing through the game’s story and sidequests once again. They believe this chance encounter occurred at random, much to the amazement of other Twitter users who have complimented them for playing through the already massive Starfield so many times - even well after their character stats have been maxed out.
Starfield is one of the biggest games of 2023, thanks in no small part to the vast replayability it provides in its spaceship-building suite and unique New Game Plus features. As it turns out, the latter can lead to players encountering themselves from a previous playthrough who can then become an ally during their latest trek through the stars. There seems to be no limit to the secrets players can uncover in Starfield, including the chance to team up with the one person a space explorer can always (hopefully) depend on in the dangerous final frontier of space.
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- Top Critic Avg: 85 /100 Critics Rec: 83%
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Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4. In this next generation role-playing game set amongst the stars, create any character you want and explore with unparalleled freedom as you embark on an epic journey to answer humanity’s greatest mystery.
The year is 2330. Humanity has ventured beyond our solar system, settling new planets, and living as a spacefaring people. From humble beginnings as a space miner, you will join Constellation – the last group of space explorers seeking rare artifacts throughout the galaxy – and navigate the vast expanse of the Settled Systems in Bethesda Game Studios’ biggest and most ambitious game.
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- PC, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S
