10 years in the making, Bethesda’s sci-fi RPG Starfield has finally landed, and while the game is only sold on Xbox and PC, those aren’t the only platforms where the game is playable right now. Thanks in part to Xbox Game Pass, Starfield is actually available across a wide variety of devices, so you don’t even need a console–let alone a beefy PC–to play the ambitious spacefaring game. You will, however, need a controller of some type to play Starfield.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers automatically get access to cloud gaming, which opens up a host possibilities for where and how they can play Starfield. This is all part of Microsoft’s ambition to think beyond the console as it looks to the future.
One benefit of playing Starfield over the cloud is that there is no local download required, and players are always updated to the latest version of the game. The game does not run locally but on outside servers, so Starfield can be played on the phone you might have in your pocket right now. And it should boot up near instantly, again, without any local download required.