Which is the best Starfield background for you to pick?

All Starfield backgrounds

What are the best Starfield backgrounds?

But there are still a few backgrounds which we think provide a really solid starting point for most characters.

Standing in an alien temple in a Starfield screenshot.

You’ve learned the skills to track them, find them, and take them down."

Official Description:“You’ve worked the line at the toughest clubs in the Settled Systems.

Bounty Hunter is a strong contender for my favourite starting background.

A large horned creature rears up in front of the player in a forest in Starfield.

Official Description:“Wherever there are wanted individuals, there are those who profit from their capture.

And Gastronomy can be useful if you’re planning to delve deep into Starfield’s sumptuous array of consumables.

Some of those foods and drinks can be of real benefit if you remember to use them.

A human NPC in Starfield looks into the camera, bathed in red light.

In your kitchen, countless alien species became true culinary masterpieces.”

Official Description:“Leave it to human beings to fight over something as infinite as outer space.

That’s where you come in.

Destroying a spaceship in combat in a Starfield screenshot.

You also gain the ability to pickpocket targets, and hack Advanced locks.

Official Description:“Robots?

Good for parlor tricks.

Vlad stands behind a bar and gives the bar table a clean in Starfield.

Humans and machines, as one.”

But ah well, let’s not think too much about it.

Official Description:“The wars are over.

Heller sprawls against the side of a crate on a moon in Starfield.

Peace now reigns in the Settled Systems.

But only because there are those quietly fighting to keep it.

Because of you, agreements were signed, words were heeded… lives were spared.”

A space solider sneaks up behind a security guard in Starfield

Explorer

The Explorer background bridges the gap between combat effectiveness, traversal, and gathering useful resources.

Official Description:“They said exploration is a lost art.

You didn’t listen.

The robot Vasco, a companion in Starfield, shoots at an enemy off screen

Gangster

Gangsters like to get up close and personal with their targets.

You also gain the ability to pickpocket targets from day one, which is always handy.

But the real focus of the Gangster is in close-range combat.

Bethesda has shown some of Starfield’s points-based persuasion system for dialogue, for which there’s already more than 250,000 recorded lines.

Official Description:“You were always disgusted by suckers killing themselves to make an ‘honest wage.’

Homesteader

The Homesteader could not be less interested in combat.

You did, and utilized it to great effect.”

Two explorers look out over a rocky landscape on one of Starfield’s planets.

Security crops up again as a popular background starting skill, and for good reason.

Thankfully, that skillset never goes out of style in the Settled Systems.”

Official Description:“Let those other hotheaded pilots obsess over laser weapons and manoeuvrability.

Concept art of the floating island city of Neon in Starfield.

You’re a space trucker, pure and simple.

Pack the cargo, get it there fast, get paid, repeat.

Life is simple and good.”

The explorer in Starfield looks at some brown mountains, dusted in what looks like snow, as a ringed planet rises in the sky beyond

And Surveying gives your hand scanner extra range, which helps with tracking down and obtaining useful materials.

Official Description:“Wayfarer, wanderer, seeker… transient.

Official Description:“You always enjoyed learning, but nothing could compare to the joy of teaching others.

Walter sits in a chair and looks up to the side in Starfield.

Ronin

The Ronin is likely to be a very popular choice of background for new Starfield players.

Official Description:“Masterless and unbound, you wandered the Settled Systems as a blade for hire.

To some, you were a simple mercenary.

A large ship drifts in orbit around a planet in Starfield.

To others, a hero.

And to a select few… a nightmare they could never wake from.”

Geology helps the Sculptor get more resources from minerals and ores.

Noel holds a device and gestures while speaking towards the camera in Starfield.

It’s a decent skillset, albeit one without any particular focus or strengths.

Instead, you followed your heart, and created works of art to amaze and inspire.”

Simple, bloody work… and you were great at it.”

A figure stands on the surface of a moon and looks out towards a ringed planet in the sky in Starfield.

Official Description:“Good?

Whose right is it to say?

Xenobiologist

As we all know, Xenobiologists are fantastic with laser weapons.

A human NPC character in Starfield mines some ore with a large laser mining tool.

Oh, you didn’t know that?

Well, that sure is the case in Starfield.

Official Description:“The Settled Systems is home to untold alien species.

Barrett stands upright in his space suit and looks at the player character in Starfield.

And while none of them have yet proven sentient, that never deterred you.

So you sought out and studied them for whatever gifts they offered.”

It’s a solid pick if the idea of not having a known backstory appeals to you.

A spaceship gravjumping in a Starfield screenshot.

Official Description:“Oddly, there is no information on file about your past life.

Deletion by some powerful unknown faction?

Or was there just nothing of note to mention?

Standing in an alien temple in a Starfield screenshot.

Whatever the reason, your past is known only to you.

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A solitary astronaut stares out at a snow covered mountain range as the sun sets behind it