What can be found in Starfield’s Neon city? In Starfield, Neon is the man-made, spacefaring equivalent of Vegas, except it’s surrounded by a sea full of psychedelic fish rather than an arid desert. Still, it’s full of bright lights and presumably a melting pot of interesting characters.
Among the many Starfield planets you can encounter on your journey through the galaxy, one was bound the be home to a psychedelic drug-fueled city of pleasure. That’s where Neon city comes in. Neon is one of four major Starfield cities you can visit in the RPG game, and as the Starfield release date nears, here’s everything we know about Neon city so far.
Neon city background
Known as the ‘pleasure city’, Neon originally started out as a fishing hub, when the Xenofresh Corporation built a giant fishing platform on the aquatic planet of Volii Alpha to catch and sell fish. However, one type of fish was soon discovered to have psychotropic properties, so the corp did the only sensible thing and turned it into a drug called Aurora.
The drug is legal in Neon city, but nowhere else, so people from across the Starfield universe are said to visit Neon to experience its effects as well as enjoying all the other pleasures the city has to offer.
This luxurious city then functions on tourist trade, and in particular tourists who are off their heads on psychedelics. Of course, lots of tourists means lots of crime and exploitation, and there are a few hints that Neon is one of the most dangerous and corrupt urban areas in the Settled Systems. Even one of the Starfield traits you can choose, Neon Street Rat, says “You grew up on the mean streets of Neon” and increases your crime bounty with any other faction as a result.
Neon city size and location
Neon city is located in the Volii system on the planet Volii Alpha, just one of over 1,000 planets to visit in Starfield. We’re not sure how large this city is, but while we do know it’s nowhere near as big as New Atlantis, it is home to the planet’s space port, as well as, of course, the drug and fish industries. Some of the other places to visit in Neon city include:
- Astral Lounge
- Enhance
- Freestar Rangers office
- Madame Sauvage’s Place
- Reliant Medical
- Ryujin Industries headquarters
- Sieghart’s Outfitters
- The Volii Hotel
- XenoFresh Corporation HQ
Neon factions
The only Neon faction we really know much about at the moment is XenoFresh Corp itself. While there’s very little known about XenoFresh at the moment, we’re sure as the founder of the pleasure city there’s be plenty of important NPCs to meet.
That’s everything we know so far about Starfield’s Neon city. If you want to know more about two of the other major cities of Starfield, we also have a guide to the reportedly largest city Bethesda has ever built, New Atlantis, and the walled capital of the Freestar Collective, Akila City. Want even more? While a good Starfield wiki can be a handy source of information, our new Starfield Database goes further, offering you daily news, searchable databanks, and even interactive tools.