Starfield is filled with with companions and crew members who you can adventure with. Here’s how to recruit companions and crew members.
Starfield is all about making friends — and immediately putting them in grave danger. On your adventures across the galaxy, you’ll come across a rogue’s gallery of potential companions and crew members.
The breadth of companions and crew members is one of the true delights of the Starfield, and means that everyone’s playthrough will have be a little bit different, depending on who’s rolling with whom.
In this Starfield guide, we’ll walk you through how the game’s companions work, how to recruit companions, the difference between crew members and companions, and how to recruit crew members.How companions work in Starfield, and how many companions are there?
Companions in Starfield are characters who follow you around. They’ll automatically help you out in combat if you get into a scrape, and most companions will even hold onto some of your stuff if you need extra room in your inventory.Different kinds of companions
Not all companions function the same way, so we’ve broken them up into four broad categories:
Constellation companions
Optional companions
Hireable companions
Crew members
We’ll break down how these companion types differ from each other below, and give you a few character examples.How many companions are there in Starfield?
While we know there are more than 20 unique companions to pick from in Starfield, it’s not entirely clear what the exact number is. The galaxy is vast, after all, and filled with folks looking to make a quick buck or go on an adventure.Can your companions permanently die?
Outside of one narrative exception, we have not seen a companion die permanently, however we have seen them go down in combat.
The deal here seems to be that companions can fall onto the ground semi-unconscious (they crawl around in a “down-but-not-out” state), and you can revive them. If combat ends, or enough time has lapsed, they can pick themselves back up.
But even if you shoot your own companion over and over (on accident or, uh, for science) you can’t permanently remove them from your game. The only way a companion can die is for that aforementioned narrative reason, which we’ll let you look up at your own risk.Can you romance your companions?
You can romance some of your companions, yes! It seems that you can definitely romance the four Constellation members (outside of Vasco). The Polygon staff has only been able to personally confirm Andreja so far, but there are flirt options with the other three companions as well.
As for the rest of your crew, it’s not entirely clear — although we certainly encourage you to give it a shot with Mickey Caviar (yes, that’s a very real name for a possible party member) and report back in the comments.Constellation companions
Starfield’s Constellation companions are the big five. These are fully fleshed out companions and, more than likely, are the ones you’re going to roll with for most of the game. You’ll gather all five of these team members over the course of the main story and they’ll have a lot to say about events in Starfield’s world if you decide to talk to them. (And you want to talk to them, otherwise they’ll constantly badger you to talk to them.)Vasco
Vasco is your extremely cool robot companion, and is the first character you’ll go adventuring with during the “One Small Step” mission.
