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Starfield Preload Date & Time: When Can You Start Playing?

Here's when you can preload Starfield on PC and Xbox devices.
By Shreyansh Katsura | 
First Published August 16, 2023, 17:14
Starfield Preload Date & Time: When Can You Start Playing?
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Are you wondering when Starfield will be available to preload? It's been a long road to the release, but Bethesda's upcoming space epic is finally not light years away. 

BGS recently revealed Starfield's system requirements as well as the whooping 125 GB of space it will take up on your system. Now, it has revealed when you can actually preload the game and prepare for takeoff on day one. 

Starfield Preload Date & Time

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Starfield's preload on Xbox begins on 17 August 2023. On the other hand, Steam preload will be available on 30 August 2023, a day before the game's early access release. As of this writing, we don't know the exact timing, but it should be revealed soon. 

If you didn't know, Starfield's early access will be available only to players who pre-order the game's $100 Premium edition or the $300 Constellation Edition. Alternatively, if you have a game pass subscription, you could get the $35 Premium Edition upgrade. Don't hesitate to check our detailed Starfield pre-order guide for more info. 

Starfield will be available globally on 6 September 2023 for PC, Xbox Series X/S, and Xbox Game Pass.

Shreyansh Katsura

Written by Shreyansh Katsura

Shrey's obsession with analyzing, introspecting, and discussing every minute detail of video games brought him to game journalism. He's currently a staff writer at GINX Esports TV, where he covers Destiny 2 and Fortnite on a regular basis. When he's not playing the games he's writing about, he's agonizing over his painstakingly long list of JRPGs he can't find time to finish. You can catch him on Twitter @Shrey2828, flexing his Fortnite's Victory Royales or talking about this group of phantom thieves he calls his best friends.