A Starfield player fixed the emptiness of space for all with an immersive space radio

If there’s one thing missing from Starfield that cranked up the immersion in previous Bethesda games, it’s probably the radio stations. Walking through the post-apocalyptic landscape in Fallout 4 surrounded by Death Claws and Super Mutants while blasting Big Band music on your Pip-Boy really elevated the gameplay experience for many. Unfortunately, Starfield came without a galaxy-wide space radio, to the disappointment of numerous fans who have been asking where Starfield’s radio is in multiple forums since its release. Many players were expecting it to be a given, but one player put matters into his own hands and created an all-around Starfield space radio that anyone can play for free while soaring the Great Unknown.

Starfield Radio is a web-based radio project that continues to receive updates as time goes on. It presently contains around 10 hours of audible content that includes licensed music with talking segments interspersed throughout. There is a total of six radio stations available to listen to, each with its own theme and unique presenter personality. For example, players can listen to “Radio Active,” an oldies station hosted by a young woman who comes upon a collection of “Earthling” CDs on a desolate planet and decides to stream them until someone can come and save her. These oldies like “Hello Dolly” will certainly take you back to a simpler time that was Fallout 4. There is also “The Black Box with Willy Kino,” a conspiracy theorist talk radio show broken up with rock music in between segments that feels the closest to those lunatics on GTA V’s iconic radio.

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How to get Starfield radio

You can play the radio in the background via the Starfield Radio website or use the Starfield Galactic Radio mod on Nexus. The thing that makes this radio really cool is that the presenters feel like real, actual NPCs that you would expect to interact with in Starfield. They talk about the Settled Systems like how a local talk radio host would talk about their neighborhood, and there are references to stuff happening in-game, like a bunch of Spacers gathering at Ursa Minor. All in all, when you’re traveling through the vast expanse of desolate space, not a living thing in sight, and you look up at the sky, you’ll be able to enjoy the night stars while tuned-in to lo-fi songs playing from Neon City’s The Dust.

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