Best Starfield wallpapers – 7 best wallpapers for Starfield ranked

Looking for the best Starfield wallpapers? Like any great game, Starfield is something that fans will want to celebrate. What way is simpler and easier to show your love for the franchise than picking up a new wallpaper background for your PC desktop or other device?

Here, we’re going to go over our top seven picks for the best Starfield wallpapers, and why we love them so much. If a new look isn’t enough to sate your hunger for Bethesda Studios’ space-faring RPG though, why not have a closer look at the game’s many features? If you’re curious how Starfield crew members work, or what the best ways to pick up Starfield credits are – don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.

Top 7 Starfield wallpapers

Here are our picks for the best Starfield wallpapers you can get to display right now. As a preface, we should mention that these picks come from Wallpaper Engine, a popular application you can find on Steam. Wallpapers from this app have some extra features, including moving parts, high resolution, and sometimes even sound effects.

7. An explorer surveys a distant world

Uploaded by: JohnThePolishGuy

This starfield wallpaper is fairly simple, but still carries an impact. Standing atop a rocky outcropping, an explorer in their space suit looks out over a wide, mountainous horizon. There’s a great amount populating this scene, from the bronze stones caught in morning light to the tendrils of clouds arcing overhead, to the alien lifeforms and fauna that distinguish this as a truly alien location. It realistically captures that most primal sense of wonder that the Settled Systems aims to invoke.

6. The Starfield logo

Uploaded by: Eason

This wallpaper combines some basic ideas in gorgeous format. The centrepiece here is the logo, its distinct glow animated on the full piece, adding a breath to the wallpaper. Elevated further by a gorgeous palate of cosmic hues to light up the starry backdrop, this simple piece captures the fundamental themes of Starfield in easy fashion, without intruding too deeply on your desktop’s design.

5. Broken down starship

Uploaded by: BamGam

Masterfully painted, this Starfield wallpaper adds a true character focus to the setting. A damaged starship sits idle at sunset on an empty moon. An explorer stands apart from their ride across the stars, while Vasco, a Starfield companion in the game and member of the Constellation faction of explorers, quietly works on repairs under the dim light of a welding tool. The animated orange smoke on the final product is a great touch, too.

4. The astronaut centrepiece

Uploaded by: SpecificZod

This is a smart one, and a perfect choice for anyone seeking something simple but effective. The explorer takes centre stage here, the high quality really granting detailed insight into the design of Starfield’s future technology, while balancing that aesthetic against a vibrantly blended colour palette. A starship in the backdrop, punctuated by a stream of fire from its engines, completes the piece, with a fading star map behind it keeping the rest of the image in balance – not intruding, but not empty. Animations on the character and ship, as well as a functional clock and calendar give plenty of extra flair to this wallpaper without compromising the integrity of its thematic display.

3. The markets of Neon

Uploaded by: Flawkill

This wallpaper is a step above the others for its beautiful portrayal of a not-so beautiful place. Full of life, this hand painted concept art wallpaper showcases the bustling street markets of Neon, a pleasure city in the Volii System. There’s so much to love here. Stylistic brushstrokes combine electrifying digital hues with damp shadows. Careful character features and props establish a grounded sense of existence to this place. Animated rain and tendrils of cigarette smoke push the scene beyond its static limitations. It might not scream ‘Starfield’ as explicitly, but it definitely captures the immersion that Bethesda Studios are aiming for.

2. Starship interior

Uploaded by: Erilis

There’s a homely and alien feel all at once to this one. This wallpaper showcases the interior of a starship – or possibly a Starfield outpost – empty of people but brimming with character. Careful detail in every pixel establishes a very clear, very grounded setting. There’s a true sense of place here, a sense that it’s lived in, used, that human hands built it. The lighting of this piece combined with small animated features like the spinning fan establish a concrete sense of the world without ever diminishing the distinct identity of it. This is truly enriched by the inclusion of audio features. A low, rumbling hum reminiscent of the Starship Enterprise will accompany your desktop while this wallpaper is active. It’s not enough to ever intrude, but it’s plenty to really add to that sense of life in Starfield this wallpaper manages to emulate.

1. First steps of exploration

Uploaded by: hamid_slt

It’s clear why this is our top choice. This scene has so much going on, yet critically never loses that sense of true, vast wonder and scale that Todd Howard and the development team strive to make a reality through their RPG. The detail on this wallpaper is extraordinary, with the masterful paintwork vividly depicting truly alien landscapes, your explorer and their glistening, industrious starship tiny in comparison. A starscape of planets, ships, stars, and that recognisable starmap pattern all combine to juxtapose in deep, ancient azure tones against the planetside view this explorer has just landed on. It captures the wonder and immersion of Starfield with a level of care, fidelity and subtle animation that no other wallpaper can quite match.

How to install a wallpaper on Wallpaper Engine

In case you’re unfamiliar with the app, we thought it’d make sense to quickly outline how you can get your hands on any of these wallpapers. Just follow the steps below, and you’ll have your desktop set amongst the stars in no time.

1. Download Wallpaper Engine from the Steam store page and install it.
2. Open the application, you can choose to play around with your settings at this point or do this later in the app.
3. Click on the “Discover” tab at the top of the application, and select the search bar.
4. Search “Starfield”, or search directly for one of the uploaders we mentioned above.
5. Select your wallpaper and click “subscribe” on the bottom right to download it.
6. Click back to the “Installed” tab at the top of the application to view your downloaded wallpapers.
7. Click on the wallpaper you want to display, then select the “Okay” button at the bottom of the application to minimise it. The new wallpaper should now be up on your desktop.

That covers all our picks for the best Starfield wallpapers you can get up on display right now. We’re willing to bet this will only boost your hype for the game though. If you want to learn more about Starfield, getting to grips with the basics of the Starfield story or finding out about the large and small Starfield factions, then we’ve got you covered.

Can you take screenshots in Starfield?

You should be able to take screenshots in Starfield just like any other game, so you’ll be able to make your very own wallpapers soon enough.

Are there wallpapers for Starfield?

You can find many wallpapers for Starfield already, with Wallpaper Engine boasting a variety of user-uploaded works to decorate your desktop with.