You may have pocketed a few sets, during your journeys across the Settled Systems.

They’re not hard to find.

The pieces are named in the game’s database - Assaulter, Defender, Shadowqueen and Snowlord.

The mysterious Symbol Game, a chess-style boardgame found inside space RPG Starfield.

The Assaulter and Defender pieces are relatively easy to decipher.

Shadowqueen is harder to pin down - it feels like a reference toThe Elder Scrolls Online.

Your guess is as good as mine.

A Starfield screenshot of the in-game boardgame Symbol Game, placed on a table.

Interpretations are as abundant as posts.

Do the symbols dictate how pieces move?

Even if that’s the case, and it probably is, it doesn’t matter.

A Starfield screenshot of the in-game boardgame Symbol Game, viewed from above with pieces taken off the board.

It’s out in the wilds now, out of the hands of its creators.

It’s only a matter of time before somebody devises a way to play it.