No Man's Sky

Still some jank despite being almost 10 years old. But the amount and diversity of (free) content make up for it and the game answers your space exploration fantasy.

No Man’s Sky has transformed since its rough start, thanks to Hello Games’ dedication. What began with big promises and a shaky launch is now a redemption story driven by hard work and a player-focused approach.

Visuals and Optimization

Free Updates

Addictive endless hours of playing Hahaha~!
Amazing fauna generator imo :D

I absolutely love the concept of going to alien planets and using the resources at your disposal. So, this game just makes me so excited! Sadly my current PC will not run this well, but hopefully in the future I can play more of the PC version. I highly recommend this game!

Base game is amazing, all updates add even more value to it (basically free DLCs), whatever the price I'd get it again. Love it.

Super fun so far, I love getting 100% in big games, I can't wait to perfect this one!!! :D

It's addictive. There's a main quest line but there are endless open world possibilities as well. You can just get out and explore but you don't have to run all the way back because you can call your ship to you. I haven't played it all that long, yet, but I'm already glad I bought it.

No Man's Sky had a rough launch, but its transformation since then has been nothing short of incredible. The devs continuously released major content, performance and QoL updates for nearly a decade, turning the game's universe from a barren wasteland into a rich, ever-expanding experience.

I've been revisiting the game every so often, looking forward to recent additions, like base building, freighters, fleets, exocraft and new expeditions. At this point, I've bought and played it on multiple platforms to show my support for their dedication.

For all of you prospecting explorers pondering at the store page:

How dare you?

This game is everything it promised and more with the developers surprising us with an update when we don't expect any more.

And you have the opportunity to play it for the first time in its prime, after the incident. Why I'm so jealous.

This game has gone from one of history's worst flops to become one of the most beloved games available. Hello Games is constantly putting out new content and mechanics, so I'm still enjoying it 500 hours in.

If you're interested because of how people speak of this game as a labor of love and a fixed mess, there are some things to know.
It's true that they continue updating this game with huge, substantial updates that change and improve gameplay. The problem, imo, arises with those who haven't played before. Once you're established and comfortable, the game is super deep and there are many playstyles to suit your desires, but the whole introduction and tutorial of the beginning of the game is obviously forgotten. The story is boring, it's unnecessarily unclear about what to do, and it reeks of low effort. I know seasoned gamers hate handholding, but in this game I think it's necessary for there to be some preliminary pushing to get you to know what you're doing.
This is one of those games you need a wiki to understand.

I love this game because it always gives me something to do, and the fact that it has a fighting aspect is sick, and the fact that its in space is even more sick. I love this game, there's so much you can do, and I never get bored playing this game ever. Would highly recommend.

Thank God they didn't abandon this game; it keeps improving with every update they release, clearly showing their love and dedication to it. It's everything Starfield wished it could be.

No Man's Sky achieved the impossible—resurrection from gaming's most notorious failure into a content-rich exploration simulator. Yet it remains the perfect embodiment of modern gaming's existential paradox: infinite content generating finite experiences. You'll spend hours naming planets no one will visit, cataloging species no one will see, and building bases no one will inhabit—a perfect digital recreation of our cosmic insignificance.

Greatest comeback in history!! From the dismal failure it was at launch to A game that goes from strength to strength. Constantly evolving and changing. you can play for a while stop comeback 6 months later, and enough has changed to make it new again.,

As a completionist, it's absolutely annoying how this game doesn't have a way for your to find unidentified animals/plants/minerals. I spent 2-4 hours going round a planet actively looking for that last mineral. spent many more hours doing the same thing to different planets. It's always left me extremely disappointed and unsatisfied. If you guys can add some kind of Exploration Guild that sells information about unidentified specimens or give a scanner module have the ability to locate them, that would be great.

Another thing, I rage quit so much just by trying to build my base like you can't imagine. Maybe I've been spoiled by other games when it comes to the smooth af building interface or maybe its legitimately crap that I have to zoom tf out to space before I can snap a frickin floor to another floor. I'm thinking it's the latter, so yall should work on that too.

And another thing. Your expeditions are cool, but the thing that dampened it immediately? All those frickin people's base and communications icons everywhere. You can't get rid of them. My space immersion was totally ruined by all these people's icons. I hover my mouse over a planet or a moon and I can't see crap because some guy's colony is there blocking it. I looked for a couple hours, for a moon that's needed in a mission, only to find that it was blocked by some guy's base named "Lucky Loui's Lube Lodge". If I hadn't spent those wasted hours, I would even find that base name funny. Yall need some kind of built-in filter for these things because it's causing a very bad experience for me.

Oh my god this game is amazing. The more things and systems I discover the more excited I am to keep playing. The first hour or so of the game feels a little on rails and grindy but hoooooly crap when the game expands out and gives you more freedom it REALLY becomes a delight to explore. 10/10 so far.

Absolutely random FPS drops. Sometimes it runs smoothly, sometimes it's crap. no amount of googling and tech supporting can solve this.

Im so hooked to the game and loving it and may have started the game at the perfect time since most of the bugs have been fixed and essential updates have been implemented.

OG player from 2016- played on PS, now on PC. Still love the game, great evolution over time. <3 you Sean!

This is a long rant. And I would like to preface all of it by saying - *wait for the game to go on sale, it's not worth any kind of money that think it's worth*

For as long as this game has been out, it's crazy to me that it's this broken. Right now I can't even edit my base. I have to restart the whole base if I mess up. The quests are constantly broken. I HAD to download a save editor in order to progress my quests because they keep breaking! The most interesting aspect of this game is planet discovery (imo). Finding cool ships and all that is meaningless unless you have something to use them for (imo). So when the game puts a giant string of required quests that have to be completed in order to unlock new planets, and when the quests are broken (and genuinely awful to complete, they are so boring, i mean the atlas quest wasn't so bad, it was interesting, but any and everything else was a slog), it's just really frustrating. These quests have you flying back and forth between two places over and over again. Just to make a phone call half the time 😭. These quests essentially just have you going to another location that is exactly the same as before but with 5 more text boxes of story each time. They don't even give you the exact coordinates, they make you land and walk around to find it 😭.

Let me follow all of that up by saying I could never play this game alone, it would be... depressing. A truly depressing game to play. The only fun I get out of this game is playing with my fiancee, and discovering pretty planets. Without a friend, this game is sad.

This game has gone from one of the worst at launch to one of the best of all time. Great job Hello Games!

Before i started playing No Man's Sky i was ignorant of the promises made.., and not delivered about this game... But that allowed me to purchase this fantastic game at a very low price, and be happy ever since!

I'm sorry so many people early on had such disappointments, BUT the Devs have made GOOD on everything and STILL do.., very FEW games have the free amazing Updates that this Gem of a Game has had every year!

Follow Hello Games and see, i Luv this game's uniqueness and the helpful people on the Discord are amazing too.., you cannot just hear about it, you must play it to know it!

Also, Look forward to Hello Game's new game coming up! I'll be playing it i imagine, bc it looks like just the thing i would Luv to play, kinda like Skyrim in HG Sci-Fi fantasy mode, and so much deeper..! =)

I Luv ARK too, i have a fondness of ESO (four accounts) and all Elder Scrolls games, i Luv'd AD&D, and i dearly miss my Defiance & Dragon's Dogma MMOs! While awaiting Civ7, play UnCiv & C-Evo! Mix your play with Travels in RL, be healthy & live long..!

Peace-out friends!! =)

NMS is a fantastic sandbox game with which one lose many many hours of life in. The missions are mostly open ended, allowing for further exploration and really endless possibilities for game play in anything that interests a player.

This is a game specifically tailored to something I obsess over. Being able to fly around until I find the PERFECT planet, and then go explore it, find and name every rock, plant, and animal on its surface. I love this game so much because it allows for me to create a world of my very own, and it allows me to create lore behind the etymology of every mineral, all the plants, and create a headcanon ecosystem of life on each planet I make a base on. It is something I love that not a single game else out there lets me do, and for that, I will forever cherish this game!

I've played this game far more than any other game I've played. I have a a love/hate relationship with it.

I love that it's 9 years old and they are still producing new content for this game. I love that there is always something to do in this game.

I hate how slow my character moves in the game. Even with a jet pack movement is slow. The game loves to give an approximate location that could be 1000 units from the actual location of the quest. Then I'm stuck for the next 5 minutes alternately flying and running to the location because neither the jetpack or running last very long. Also I suffer far more damage using the jetpack and running into things or falling unexpectedly when the jetpack runs out then by any other means. I also hate that the game is sometimes so boring that I'm watching a youtube video at the same time. This happens a lot, when there is a storm on the planet I need to wait out, or I only have one more animal to discover and it's only active during the day and it's currently midnight. I won't even bother looking for animals that live underground, it's not worth the 3 nanites I'd earn. I also won't even both landing on planets with aggressive sentenals.

If I could play this game when I was 10-12 years old, I would wish for nothing more from the game.

One of the crucial parts for sendbox game to be good is how long it can provide a gameplay loop until it becomes repetitive. This game will give you 100+ hours of unbelievable experience of being a space explorer.

I know this game had a rough start, and it gives me a lot of joy that the developers rose this game from ashes to such a great phoenix.

Had since it first released I got to the center of the galaxy and felt game was ok but felt like not a lot to keep me interested in it after that. Waited a bunch of years to try again and now there is way more stuff to do. The expeditions are a great way to start out it gives you a lot of upgrades and makes the start of the game way less of a grind. Building up your own little city is a fun side project. Well worth buying or trying again if you havent played since the release.

Relaxation Game

If you’re into exploration, base building, and resource gathering, No Man’s Sky is absolutely worth it—even at full price. It’s a visually stunning game and a joy to play.

That said, I have a few small frustrations. I’m not big on story-driven games, so maybe this is just me, but the story felt like a repetitive cycle of running between NPCs, fetching items, and doing it all over again. It took me around 60 hours to finish the main story (including unlocking Purple systems), build a base, and set up farms—but honestly, I was ready for the story to wrap up sooner.

As for the planets, while the game boasts an almost endless number of them, many start to feel pretty similar in terms of layout and resources. After finding a few favorites, the urge to keep exploring can wear off.

Still, despite these minor drawbacks, the game is fantastic and well worth playing!

this game have everything, it's like a restaurant that serve fries curry Kimchi Jjigae and pizza with burger!

This is sort of hesitant recommendation, more of a neutral review.

The game is good, but it has its drawbacks, what I didn't like might also appeal to others. What's good about the game is the sheer amount of possibilities of different things to do and see, but as for the downsides:
- the grind is very real, I ended up making a lot of resources with the duplication glitch only to stop the grind. You can build a mining rig, but that only takes care of some resources, and it still requires you to visit your mines and collect everything. There are a lot of other things to grind for, and it's half of why I wanted to write a negative review around 50 hours before I started to duplicate things.
- absolute majority of the content is generation, which means that there is no chance to see it all, but it gets somewhat repetitive starting at some point so maybe there's no need to see it all
- ships are randomly generated, too, so if you want a specific ship or want to make a collection, this might take infinite amount of time even with the help of the community
- a lot of actions require watching unskippable animation. It's not that long but when you have to see it for a hundredth time it really gets annoying
- some parts of the game look inspired by other games, which sometimes makes me feel like playing a simplified less interesting version of those other games
- there are still bugs, I think there are no game-breaking ones, but expect things to not always be smooth. For me the most annoying one was when player character disappear sometimes (except for the multitool), and sometimes other objects also disappear when I get close, making them uninteractable, too.
- some content looks half-made, like objects that seem to serve some purpose but don't (yet?). It's OK and the game keeps receiving updates so this is expected, I think.

All in all, I would recommend it on a discount maybe, and only if you're not annoyed by the thought of never being able to see/collect everything there is, and by the perspective of grinding for a lot of things.

I played this game when it first launched and it was a dumpster fire! After catching a video on youtube I decided to come back and give it another try.. This game has come an amazingly long way since launch! Kudos to the developer for coming through on their promise and fixing alot of the missed promises that the game had been missing when it came out.

However, that doesn't mean its fun. I put eleven hour into the game and could not be bothered to enjoy any of it.. i tried in both PC and PCVR, and couldnt get into the game.. I love Sci Fi games, Open World, Exploring, Survival, Building, Space Combat... it checks all those boxes.. but there are games out there that do them all better with less complication.

There is alot of endgame things I didnt get to experiance in my 11 hours, however, If I dont like the games core, why would I push to the endgame. They have a good concept here and continue to push out content, plenty of people do and will like this game.. I am just not one of them. I will swing back by in a year or so and see what changes future updates bring to the table.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS


---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't


---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf


---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma


---{ PC Requirements }--- Had Zero Frame drops on the highest settings. Some clipping.
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☑ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer


---{ Difficulty }--- Shoot gun at plants to win
☑ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls


---{ Grind }--- Run, Fly, Land, Repeat.
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☑ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding


---{ Story }--- There is a story with no voice acting, prepare to read alot.
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life


---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond


---{ Price }--- Its not for me.
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☑ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{Rating ?/10}--- They have something here, just needs some touching up.
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☐ 10

Can't believe I've only started playing this game now. Great game. Great fun exploring the universe.

be me
buy game expecting space adventure
first planet toxic rain angry sentinels instant death
fix ship escape hell
immediately ass fucked by space pirates
find paradise planet build dream base
go to space anomaly
random dude gives me loot worth 10 million units
save up money for freighter
buy freighter forget fuel now homeless in space
47 hours later still lost still confused still playing

10/10 would suffer again

All I heard about this game was how bad the release was, but I'm so glad I bought it. It's outstanding in so many ways, let me list some of them.

1. Phenomenal writing. From the mini text-adventures, to the overall plot, it's enough to make Isaac Asimov give a standing ovation from the grave. The moral and philosophical questions will stay with you long after the game is closed.

2. A grand technical achievement. Random generation is one thing, but random generation of almost everything, while linking it together with multiplayer, having it all load in real time and able to create save points and buildable bases is hardcore to say the least. The planets even have cloud formations and day-night cycles that are actually lit by their stars. The autopilot actually works, it even plots a course while bending around a planet. Someone give the lead engineer a medal.

3. The amount of content is ridiculous, it's like Minecraft and Subnautica merged into one. It's the kind of game you'll never uninstall.

If you haven't played No Man's Sky because of its questionable release status, do it now. If you don't you'll be missing out on one of the greatest games of all time.

I love the size and enormity of the galaxy. I know other players are c;loser to the center but I like being on the fringes and only see someone once in a while. Makes it feel like you really are a lone traveller seeing sights no other traveller has seen yet.

Honestly, didn't think I would love this game so much. But, after the years since its launch, it became an awesome game!

My recommendation? Buy, play, enjoy exploring the worlds!

I can respect the work constantly going into the game and get excited when a new update drops. While I think that maybe after awhile I felt I had seen really all there was to see, I will say that I think I've gotten my money's worth and more out of the game by this point and enjoy just flying around and reading the randomly generated factoids. Just hired a guy who hallucinates to my squadron, would do it again.

I think this game have made a lot of improvement since it launch, however I feel like this game is just not for me. I spent a good amount of time in it and had enjoy my time, however it get to a point where everything kind of feel stale. This game is much better with other people, but that is where it end for me. I enjoy exploring, but after a while, every planet start feeling the same. You either scan all the life forms and minerals around or go around finding things around the map. They are repeated on every planet by the way. On top of all of this, the quests are very bland. They are all fetch quests or go from point A to B. This include the main quests. I can only do so many of these before I say this is boring. The grind for better things and having a huge amount of money also feel like it not that important in this game. I mean what the point of money if there is nothing to buy? What the point of the most powerful S class ship if nothing could kill you when you were in your basic C class ship fully upgraded? There just too much grind just for the sake of it. This game is a 7/10 for me. I like it, but I don't think I can recommend it for people that don't like grinding like I do.

best game of my life.
feel so good when using my own money to buy this game, after playing crack for 5 years long ♥

The game has slowly turned into being very much worth a purchase, the exploration is a 10, the ship combat/movement is a 8.5, the movement and feel of controls on foot and in vehicles in a 9, the amount of things to do is a 9, the combat itself is a 6 (although surprisingly gets much better later in game!!) The customization and base building is a 9.5. For the Valheim type players it will take a bit longer in NMS to unlock everything and understand everything but once you do this is one of the best survival games ever.

If you love chill grinding and endless exploration, this is your game! There is a real coolness here, but...

I simply need more of a connection to the universe itself.
It's not really dangerous to do anything.
The NPCs really feel like placeholders (desperately need voice overs).
The space stations feel really, really dated, ultra minimalistic feeling.
The space station/teleporter mechanic makes it so you don't get that "middle of nowhere" vibe one might expect in a game like this.
On that note, the constant emergence of NPC spaceships appearing and flying around everywhere is so weird. It's like I'm in downtown New York no matter where I go, traffic everywhere. I just want to get away from civilization lol!
It really really really needs a sense of survival beyond hazardous conditions... seriously.
And, I guarantee any PS3 airplane/spaceship game had equal or better flight mechanics.
The gameflow just feels weird, lacking any sense of connection or immersion in a really cool universe.

It is a grinders paradise though!!!

This game is really good, its being updated pretty often, it has a few bugs here n there, but what do you expect when you can explore (almost) INFINITE planets!
Good stuff:
1. INFINITE WORLDS! (monsters and all other minerals ext.)
2. The game is GORGEOUS
3. Best open world game
Some critiques for future improvements:
1. Building, is very annoying sadly. Theres many types of materials, but PLEASE make the building more player friendly.
2. The bugs, for an example being in a co-op lobby, most of the times, sentinals are bugged, they just dont spawn, or when you kill all of them, the next round doesn't spawn, so you have to wait for the timer run out before you can do anything.
3. Need an okay pc
4. may be too information at the start, but you'll get the hang of it pretty fast.

This is an odd review. I have over 100 hours in the game but I am giving it the thumbs down and don't have any horror story about the game glitching and destroying my base or my save being corrupted. Quite the opposite, I enjoyed the game and will probably play more of it. So why the negative review?

The short of it is that the game is not only "a mile wide and an inch deep" as many have said before but also a disjointed mess and a stunning example of having all the right parts but failing to put them together well. Now in spite of that the game is still enjoyable at times as a brain off, mining/exploring, number go up grind, but lacks a real sense of payoff. There are much better games to scratch that itch and don't cost $60. If you are interested and the game is on sale for over 50% I'll say go for it but at full price this game is just too buggy and too shallow for me to say it is worth it.

The long of it.
There are 18 quintillion planets and no meaningful reason to visit most of them. The number of planets and moons in the game is impressive until you learn the basics of combinatorics and the fact that you can get that many combinations pretty easily out of a bare handful of meaningful and not so meaningful distinctions across categories like biome, animal genus, storm frequency, mineral types, resource abundance, etc. This part of the blandness of No Man's Sky has been covered to death and I don't think I have anything more to add. I will say that it is impressive at first, but very quickly (within the first 10 systems I visted for me) you will find yourself completely uninterested in exploring or even scanning the planets beyond whatever mission or search for resources led you to the system.

Progress is meaningless except as a way to reduce annoyance, and progress is all paid for. You progress in No Man's Sky by getting inventory expansion upgrades which expand your tech and storage slots for your multitool/exosuit/ship, finding tool/weapon techs for your ship/multitool/exosuit which offer some "new" functionality, finding upgrade modules that provide stat increases to those tool/weapon techs, unlocking crafting recipes for consumeable items (special ammo, charge packs, fuel packs) or trade goods, and unlocking buildables for base building or to access exocrafts (land/water vehicles). Inventory expansion only serve to let you play the game longer between going to your base or a station to offload stuff. Tool upgrades give you access to the ability to gather resources that you can usually already get through refining or which don't have any use except for making money or give you the abilities like selling things from anywhere or refining without having to drop down a building. The upgrade modules biggest buff is to letting you run longer or have to recharge items less frequently or do the same tasks faster. The crafting recipes for consumables usually give you the option to just carry fewer things to be able to recharge stuff. The crafting recipes for making money are brain dead and unfortunately the most important ones. The base building tools are a mess since there is very little benefit to making anything more than tiny bases. The exocraft are usefull except of course that you have a starship that can fly in atmosphere and explore 10x faster with. Here is the kicker, all of these ways to progress can be bought from easily accessible vendors and apart from a little while at the start of the game, you will have a much easier time just buying the upgrades. Imagine if in minecraft after getting a stone pickaxe you progressed not by gathering iron and smelting it to make a better pickaxe but instead sold apples to buy one. That is what the progress system of No Man's Sky is like. This isn't an "optimizing the fun out of the game issue." If you want some sort of upgrade whether a new multitool or ship or upgrade module, you have to grind exploring blindly for it to drop from a point of interest or to find the merchant to buy it from if it isn't one of the types of upgrades available at literally every station.

Friction and bad UI. These may seem like minor gripes but they build up to be excruciating. By default pretty much every interaction with a menu in No Man's Sky requires a 1 second button press or some drag and drop interaction. NPC speech can't be skipped or significantly sped up either. You can turn off most of the 1 second delays, but not all of them. This might not sound that bad, except literally every menu or NPC interaction has easily 5-10 seconds of empty time padded into it by these delays or even just little animations. Now also consider that everything is blocked by this padded time interaction scheme with no bulk operations for many common tasks. Trying to give effigies to raise your reputation with an alien species? Gotta do it one by one going through the same 3 dialogue windows. Trying to turn in the daily trade item? ONE. AT. A. TIME. This of course hasn't even touched on the crafting, which is a mess. You only see 6 items at a time when acessing a crafting or refining menu so I hope you like scrolling through the 100s of different item types with no search function. Adding friction to a process is a useful way to lead people to doing things a different way in games, but everything in No Man's Sky has just insane amounts of needlessly wasted time to do anything.

Bugs. Bugs. Bugs. The game is buggy. They weren't game breaking bugs for me, but from the forums I can see that there are quite a few of those. You will have to restart frequently to get buildings to place and work or for your base to spawn in or for a mission objective to complete, it kills the momentum even if the game isn't unplayable.

Disjointedness. The game feels like a mess, you go from 0 to 60 or hit a wall with no leads or just steam roll the tasks you are given. This largely stems from the fact that the main way to progress in terms of abilities is not to explore and gather resources or make discoveries, but from buying things. However, there are missions to unlock some things too, which are the barest pretext of a fetch quest. If you approach this game like Terraria, Minecraft, or any other survival/crafting/exploration games in that vein you will be very confused because for all of the quintillion planets and dozens of resources, all of them are useless compared to the almighty dollar. Except of course when it is being gated by a side quest with no hint at it being necessary to unlock the thing you want. There are so many types of multiools or ships, but unless you want to grind fixing and upgrading a new tool/ship, there is no reason to. You can do everything in the game easily with the starter multitool and ship after upgrading them. This is made doubly worse by the fact that so many of the reasons for why you might use a different type of ship or multitool are hidden and not hinted at in game. So many basic stats and explanations are obfuscated in this game. I assume to give a sense of discovery, but there is no good motivation to explore new ships/tools because you can already do everything easily enough with what you have and there are clearly useful upgrades you could focus on.

This has gone on long enough and is starting to ramble. I focused on what I didn't like but I would like to say again, I have enjoyed a lot of the time I spent playing No Man's Sky. I just mainly think there are a lot better ways to spend your time and money.

Legendary game and developer.

Light No Fire might be my first pre order ever when/if available. These guys are updating NMS and giving free content since 2016. I hope this will stay the same for Light No Fire.

Game works until it doesn't. Don't get married to your base. Eventually (for me it was less then 100 hours) that solar system is going to have an FPS crash in multiplayer and you'll have to load your game in single player, tear it down and move.
Everything that was supposed to fix it didn't. Updating graphics card, deleting shader cache, restarting computer, uninstalling/reinstalling/verifying integrity of files, turning down ALL graphics settings.

Game is probably great in single player, but I play to run around like a goober with my friends.

Wish I could give this a sideways thumb.

It's very ambitious, which is impressive. The technology is easy to take for granted. But man the game gets in its own way A LOT.

Every game session I encounter a handful of new bugs and a handful of old bugs which range from benign to game crashing to infuriating to perplexing. You can never really trust that anything will work or that any of the info the game is giving you is trustworthy. Inputs are often sluggish and unreliable (like swapping modes on your multi-tool, also why can you only swap in one direction?)

Trying to play with someone else compounds the bugs and issues to the point where it is honestly not even worth trying to do.

I've enjoyed a lot of what I've done but nagging annoyances and weirdly obtuse UI hold me back from giving it full praise

gud game, came a long way since release. the amount of work they put in for free after the desatrous launch is almost unprecedented in this industry.

I say that this is the best sandbox space exploration games that I've ever played (I've played like 2 of em') that still receives support from the developers. There's tons of stuff to do in this game, but lacking enough depth for most of the features. As other reviewers on YouTube says, this game could be described as a knee deep ocean. You could spend hours discovering stuffs although once you've dip your toes onto those features, that's kinda it really. Strangely enough the cooking is probably the feature with most complexity out of all things. There are a lot (I mean a LOT) of cooking recipes that you couldn't really know unless you read the wiki or try every single combination like you're playing Infinite Craft or something. I'll recommend it when it goes on sale as a broke student that hasn't got the means to earn a living