Highlights

  • Starfield fans are requesting the addition of cats, teased in early concept art, to make the game's interior spaces more lively.
  • Bethesda continues to address issues with Starfield post-launch but faces criticism for controversial pricing on Creation Club items.
  • With the new Creation Kit for PC, the addition of cats in Starfield through mods seems more likely than ever.

Starfield players are asking for Bethesda to implement a feature that has been teased for the game as early as some of its concept art. The addition of this feature in Starfield would certainly bring some exciting life to the game's worlds.

It feels as though Starfield is in an interesting place right now. Bethesda continues to update the game with a bunch of fixes and new content, making some strong steps forward after its mixed reception at launch. Yet, despite this, it feels as though some missteps are still being made with the title, holding it back from universal greatness. Just recently, Starfield was review-bombed nine months after launch, thanks to controversial pricing on some of the new Creation Club items, which are essentially paid mods.

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Redditor Dejected_Cyberpsycho shared an image online of concept art from Starfield, which features a cat walking around a spaceship. Cats aren't featured in Starfield, although it would be an interesting way to make the interior spaces of the game a lot more lively. It's unclear why cats never made it into the release of Starfield, and several users in the thread pointed out that they were present in Bethesda's previous release, Fallout 4. It was clarified by others that the current Starfield lore implies that several pets went extinct, including cats, but many would definitely be able to look past this in order to get their furry friends by their side in-game.

Starfield Fans Want Cats Added Into the Game

Dejected_Cyberpsycho did begin the thread by requesting cats in the form of a mod, which could make a ton of sense. With the newest Starfield update seeing the launch of the Creation Kit on PC, cats coming to the game definitely seems more likely than ever. The Creation Kit is what many modders have been waiting for - custom tools that give talented creators the ability to dive deeper under the hood of Starfield, which in turn allows for the creation of more advanced mods. While the results won't be instant, gamers should keep an eye on the Starfield modding scene over the next few months.

There's still a lot more to come from Starfield this year. At the Xbox Games Showcase, Bethesda finally showed off Starfield's Shattered Space DLC, which looks like a total horror game in the best way possible. It looks to be making a ton of interesting design decisions, and it remains to be seen whether it pays off in improving the game's overall reception from the community.