No Man's Sky

2 hours into the game, im loving it so far. the graphics are beautiful, the story is deep and meaningful. definitely worth every penny.

This game is absolutely amazing. If you're the "leave no stone unturned" player who easily pursues side-quests...have fun sinking days into this game without breaks. The number of times that I have found myself with my jaw wide open or a smile across my face from discovering crazy new planets, winning battles in space, or growing a ridiculous amount of illegal space weed on my freighter for profit...just try the game. You won't regret it.

Besides this game being the greatest underdog story of all time and Hello Games being some of the best devs, the community they fostered on this game you will find nowhere else. It is a game I could never recommend enough.

It's like Minecraft in space; super addicting game mechanics.

Joined before Worlds Update 1, this game has grown so much even in the short time I've been playing. Hello Games is a dedicated creative team that constantly injects new fun content with FREE updates. Their lighting engine was reworked and even running an older PC build, this game looks stunning. The limitless exploration and creative potential means I never run out ways to keep playing. And as an elder gamer, the casual play style allows for great flexibility without feeling disconnected from the community.

I heard it had gotten better over the years. It probably has.. I found it extremely boring same stuff over and over. Nothing new or interesting throughout the playtime just go to place get stuff get some new materials to get slight upgrades. Base building is boring. Crafting is boring. Exploration is boring. It's just.. the same we've all seen 1000x times before in other games. Run towards the marker get the new material go towards the next marker *but in space* disappointing game all around. If you like making tiny progression and getting slight upgrades to do the exact thing you've already been doing but a little bit better you'll love it.

I have never had so much fun playing an exploration game. literally discovering galaxies for the first time and the game has been out 10+ years. It is the perfect balance of quest based progression and sandbox whats that over there. The views are incredible. You get a Freighter which you can build a base on as well and call it into the atmosphere of the planet your on. Just an overall great game. Highly suggest it to anyone who craves a sifi exploration experience.

I have played No Man’s Sky for about 20 hours, and I really enjoy it. Even though I haven’t followed the story much, the game is very fun and interesting. There is so much to do, and I feel like I will spend at least 100 more hours in this universe.

One of the things I like most is exploring new planets. The graphics are beautiful, and I love finding planets with amazing views. Every planet is different, and it’s exciting to see what I’ll find next.

I also enjoy grinding in this game. It’s fun to collect resources and improve my tools and spaceship. I like upgrading my equipment and getting better gear - it feels rewarding and makes the game even more interesting.

No Man’s Sky gives me a lot of freedom, and I never get bored. There is always something new to explore or improve. It’s definitely one of my favorite games right now

i love playing no mansky but the problem for me is with the controller.
like i have to connect it before playing the game in order to make the game work with the controller.
if you for example play the game then plug the controller it simply not detect the controller.

i hope the dev fixx this issue

Entire universe full of stuff and yet it feels empty.

The missions feel copy paste, the universe feels copy paste. There's no sense of the immensity of the universe, because even though every planet looks different they all feel the same.

Having been a fan of Elite Dangerous, this is not a game for me. Feels so arcade, and cheap in comparison.

Not recommended unfortunately, there's no skill required here, and no real exploration to be done.

Refunded shortly after purchasing due to the fact that everything is very obviously designed for controller first, KB&M second.

Flight pitch and yaw are fixed to the mouse and can't be rebound, whilst roll is on A and D. This doesn't sound like an issue until you try flying and it feels completely counter-intuitive and against the grain of most other flying emulations in other games. Seeking feedback on this issue tends to lead to people saying "just buy a USB controller for $20 on amazon", as if that's an excuse for not adding basic remapping options.

The menus / ui are poorly laid out and the tutorial is extremely lacking. On top of that, you can get a glimpse of the gameplay loop within the first 30 minutes of playtime; the notion I've seen repeated of the game being a puddle one-thousand miles in diameter becomes evident EXTREMELY quickly.

Obviously I'm not a member of the target audience, but if you've been curious about this game - as I was - and wanted to try it out, just be prepared for a janky, shallow and arcadey experience which seems to show its cards very early on.

Great game. Problem is my PC can't run it so I will deduct 0.5 points.
(I have played before)
Final ranking:
🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ 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 }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☑ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

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

---{ Grind }---
☐ 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 }---
☐ 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 }---
☐ 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

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
☐ 7
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☑ 9
☐ 10

The only game I've played where you get to experience the feeling of playing it for the first time, over and over again.
Sean Murphy and his team are legends forever.
In the distant future, I hope they create a simulation where one could transfer their consciousness into the NMS universe.

I think the story behind what no man's sky was and what it has become makes it worth a try altogether. This is a survival game, but a lot of the ideas explored in this game from taking off and landing on different planets to the beautiful alien architecture of the semi randomly generated worlds are wholly unique and worth exploring. That said, I can't help but feel like something is missing. I had fun with my, as of now, 60hrs in the game. I built a few bases, I found a way to generate units and found joy in some of the world hoping. But things feel almost too big. The universe has a strong sense of mystery, but so does so much of the game. Especially with all the updates. I find myself going through the motions, unsure of what really to do next or if I'm missing something and I think that is kind of the point. I also think I've just about found my limit of play for now.

7.5/10

I swear the code of this game has been given a lobotomy. The game only does what you expect it to about half the time, and the other half it feels like you have to hit it with a hammer until it does what you want. The primary selling point of the game is that you get to leave your mark on it. The things you discover are yours. That is a lie. You have to jump through three separate hoops for the discovery to be marked as yours, and if you don't, it's like you never existed. That, and the entire multiplayer system is held together with duct tape. Sure, it's pretty, but after ~60 hours you've seen everything there is to see. The entire foundation of the game is min-maxing statistics and hunting things based on random generation. The game presents almost no challenge. It lacks anything that resembles a soul. It is a meaningless game wrapped up in pretty graphics and random generation.

After all those years, I see no incentive to grind hours here. It's just another resource gathering game. And the controls on PC are awful - clearly made for controller.
Just meh.

When No Man’s Sky first launched in 2016, it promised the universe—literally. Infinite planets, alien ecologies, interstellar dogfights, deep lore, and multiplayer adventures. What players got, initially, was a lonely, shallow space sim that felt more like a tech demo than a finished game. Fast forward to today, and No Man’s Sky has become one of the most remarkable comeback stories in gaming history.

Hello Games didn’t just patch the holes—they rebuilt the starship mid-flight.

At its core, No Man’s Sky is a procedurally generated space exploration game. You travel between planets, gather resources, upgrade your gear, build bases, fight pirates, discover alien life, and trade across the galaxy. What’s incredible is the scale—there are over 18 quintillion planets, each with its own ecosystem and terrain, generated by complex algorithms.

Initially, this scale felt empty. Now, thanks to years of updates, it feels alive.

The introduction of base-building, freighter fleets, co-op multiplayer, living ships, story-driven missions, and even VR support has turned the game into a sprawling sandbox. Whether you’re role-playing as a space trucker, a biologist cataloging alien creatures, or a pirate lord terrorizing trade routes, the galaxy feels like it’s finally yours to shape.

No Man’s Sky has a unique, vibrant art style that draws heavily from 1970s sci-fi pulp covers. Planets can be serene, horrifying, or outright bizarre—neon fungi forests, frozen deserts, and floating rock islands abound. The game doesn’t chase realism; it aims for wonder.

That said, the visuals can occasionally feel repetitive, especially after dozens of planets. Some textures are still a bit rough, and creature animations can be wonky. But considering the sheer scope and procedural complexity, it’s often jaw-dropping.

What makes No Man’s Sky special is its sense of solitude. Unlike most games, it’s not afraid to let you be alone with your thoughts. You’ll spend hours mining minerals, jetpacking across alien landscapes, or simply flying through space while synth-heavy music pulses softly in the background.

It can feel like a space-age nature walk—until you stumble upon a derelict freighter haunted by corrupted AI or get ambushed by Sentinel drones.

The game’s loop—gather, upgrade, explore, repeat—takes time to click. But once you’ve built your first planetary base or discovered an uncharted paradise planet, the hook sinks in deep. The grind is real, but rarely feels punishing. The latest updates have also added better tutorials and quality-of-life features that ease new players into the galaxy’s rhythm.

Despite its transformation, No Man’s Sky still suffers from some long-standing quirks. Inventory management can be a pain, menus aren’t always intuitive, and the sheer amount of content can be overwhelming. Performance hiccups can pop up, especially on older hardware or during multiplayer.

Also, while the narrative has grown deeper with the Atlas Rises and Echoes updates, it still can’t compete with more tightly scripted RPGs in terms of emotional storytelling.

No Man’s Sky today is not the game it once was—it’s better, bigger, and infinitely more interesting. It’s a testament to what a small, passionate team can do when they commit to their vision and their community. What was once a cautionary tale of overhype has become a shining beacon of perseverance and transformation.

Best Served With: A sense of wonder, a good pair of headphones, and no plans for the weekend.

From Interstellar Disappointment to Cosmic Triumph

Rating: 9/10

it's been said before but the work and dedication that Hello Games did to right the wrongs since it's launch is nothing short of amazing. There are beautiful and horrifying worlds sometimes both. The combat is fun, the exploration is fun, the base building and ship building is fun. There is so much to do and so much to see and they are still adding content to this game to this day and they're doing it for FREE. If space fascinates you then this game deserves your attention, it is a visual spectacle with a fun game play loop that you can enjoy with your friends.

I don't really understand the hype and why people say the devs redeemed themselves. The game is pretty bare and it uses it's procedurally generated system to mask how little there actually is. To put it into perspective, this game has trillions of planets you can visit within it's vast and limitless depth of space. Yet it all fits within a 22GB game file?

That's because the possible planet and creature combinations start to repeat and it becomes incredibly apparent after you visit about 10 planets. Think of it like a hat raffle from school. The teacher puts everyone's name in a hat, shakes it up, then pulls the winner. Except in this example, each time she pulls out a winner it's an "eye type" or a "leg type". The problem is that she only has 10 kids in the class so the likelihood of drawing the same names twice after 10 raffles is extremely high. It's just an incredibly lazy way to create variety. I wish companies would stop doing procedurally generated. It was once a cool idea but now it just encourages lazy devs to spit out content quickly.

This example works for the entire game. It's the basis of everything in NMS.

All of the aliens make the same grunts and noises. They all say the same 4-5 sentences.

They'll tell you that you can play with other people but there's a reason its listed as "online co-op" and not an MMO. You have to be instanced with people to see them online. You will never just explore a planet and find some random player. Sure, you can fly to the main space station and see 30 other players running around but this is just a lobby, similar to what's used in Destiny. Except in Destiny you actually see players once you leave the tower. Once you leave the NMS space station, you'll load into your own instance and never see them again.

it's probably one of the loneliest games I've ever played and being stuck out in the middle of space alone makes that so much worse.

This game is a solid 5/10. It lacks a ton of content and it just feels lazy. It's also so easy to just cheat. If you head to a mod site you can get a mod that just grants you every ship and weapon type. Like, the rarest ships ever created that took people months to farm for. Then you can just go to the space station and give this to other players. Or use it to duplicate rare resources. Duping in this game is pretty much taught by every player so working for anything is pointless. It's been this way for 4 years and has never been fixed because its not an online service so they have zero accountability to fix the online experience.

Brilliant game, if you are into interplanetary free roam. Some great story lines and missions. I have been playing for over 600 hours and feel like I am only beginning to get into the game.

As a survival game I feel that it is still lacking in some areas; there is not much incentive to take part in any of the building, farming or automation aspects of the game, they can be avoided entirely with little to no impact on the experience, combat is not great with only a couple enemy types that you will ever encounter and a lot of the planets/flora/fauna sort of blend together.

Despite these "flaws", this has become one of my favourite games and the story is an incredible experience that I wish I could play through again for the first time, this is clearly where most of the focus has been placed and it has so much character and creativity, I loved the feeling of being lost in this seemingly infinite universe with no idea how you got there and working to find answers to all the questions you are presented with at the beginning of the game.

I played this game on PS4 in 2016 and, as with pretty much everyone else who played at that time, I left feeling disappointed, but it has come such an incredibly long way that it barely resembles the game I played back then, the continued support from the devs with regular (FREE) high-quality updates has, in my mind, erased any bad blood from the initial launch and I hope they keep this momentum going into Light No Fire.

It brings a relaxing gameplay design that is geared more towards exploration, rather than sci-fi action. In addition to exploration, it has a healthy crafting system, an interesting monetary structure that adds extra motivation, and an endless amount of adventures and secrets to uncover along the way.

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I'm one of the few people who loved this game at launch, and I've never really stopped playing it, though I've had a few breaks now and then. It just seems to be endlessly intriguing for me. (I originally played on PS4 for a long time before upgrading to PC, so I have many more hours than are logged here!)

I think it's important to be clear about what kind of game NMS is. It's not really a multiplayer game, though it has multiplayer. It's not really story-driven, though it has a story. It's not really missions-based, though it has missions. It's not really factions-based, though it has factions. It's fundamentally about two key things: exploring, and building. You don't have to enjoy both of these to enjoy this game. I have very little interest in building. But you really do have to enjoy at least one of them. In this game, it's all about the journey. The missions, including those in the main stories, aren't particularly exciting. Most are basically fetch quests. What they're really for is to get you out there, into the extraordinary universe in which this game is set, and journeying through it. Many players aren't interested in that, and lose interest because they feel there's no point to any of the activities in the game. That's understandable, perhaps. But if you're the kind of person who is interested in exploring a vast universe, and in simply appreciating what they see along the way, it never really gets old.

This is despite the obvious flaws to the procedural generation system. People often say that there's not much real variety, and after a little while you've seen all the combinations that are possible. This isn't really true. Some things are very rare, and even after playing for a long time there are always new things, and certainly new combinations, to be seen (quite apart from the fact that the developers keep adding new stuff). There are of course also mods that can add new combinations, if you want them, but honestly the generation is varied and complex enough now to remain interesting for a long time.

The sheer scale of the game is both daunting and wonderful. The starting galaxy, Euclid, where most players spend most of their time, and which has by far the highest population of players and the most discovered systems, is still about 99% unexplored. Some time ago I was playing in one of the expeditions, which are timed events set in particular regions of the universe. All of the systems in these areas get discovered very quickly, of course, because so many people are playing there. I had an Explorer ship with a maxed out hyperdrive and decided just to leave the area and keep on jumping. After a couple of jumps, I was in unexplored space. I kept on jumping, and jumping, and jumping, further into unexplored space. This was, to repeat, in Euclid, starting from a densely explored expedition region. The way the music swelled as I zoomed further into the galaxy map each time, the way I kept landing in unexplored systems, the way every one had a subtly different space station full of NPCs - I was really hit, for the first time, by the utter vastness of what Hello Games had created. It was almost an existential moment.

NMS is the "forever game" for me. It's not perfect, certainly. I'd be happier if Hello Games had spent more time developing the aspects of the game I love (planetary variety and depth) and less time on the ones i'm not interested in (multiplayer, base building, combat), but I'm also aware that if they'd done that they probably wouldn't have the player base they do now, or the ability to keep on improving the game. In any case it's the closest thing that exists, or probably will exist, to my perfect game. Oh, and it's absolutely phenomenal in VR - one of those rare things, a conversion from flatscreen that feels like it was designed for VR from the ground up. The fact that you can play the same saved game in flatscreen or VR as you like just adds to the versatility. It goes very well with Natural Locomotion - I've spent many hours "running" in this game!

Very immersive and interesting. Great if you love exploring games and grinding.

Not my cup of tea

Well... I love the grind, I really do. I’ve sunk several hundreds hours into Satisfactory and Dyson Sphere Program, I got platinum in a few Souls games. But this one here is the most empty and meaningless slog I have ever seen in my long gaming life. It has a few bright moments (e.g. your first S-class ship or stumbling upon a good capital freighter) but apart from that it's mostly copy-paste of everything. The most painful moment is crushing realisation that you'd seen almost all of what the game has to offer in the first 3 hours of play.

This game has steadily risen from an ok game with a promising planetary generation tech into being my all time favourite game.

There's just nothing like it and there's so much to do you can play it in almost whatever mood you are in.

This game has enjoyed exceptional continued support from Hello Games, keeping it feel fresh.

On top of everything, it casually manages to achieve all this in vr too. I play it exclusively as a vr game and it excells at it.

From most famous bad release, to setting the bar for what game support should be. I easily give No Man's Sky a very strong recommendation. Is a fantastic survival game.

A joy to play. Endless exploration, and daily discoveries. Thanks, Hello Games.

Story: 1/10
Gameplay: 8/10
Graphics: 9/10
Updates: 7/10
Space: 10/10
Base building: 2/10

If you like reading then this game will be perfect for you. The story is just go from place to place reading.
The game looks amazing and with regular updates there is always something new to explore.
The person that designed base building in this game was smoking something while doing it. Sure it's not the core of the game but it is so bad I've wanted to just smash my keyboard.

At first, No Man's Sky was such a colossal mess that the memes about its failure were almost as infinite as the universe it promised. A launch so incomplete it was like buying a rocket and getting a rusty shopping cart instead. People tore it apart, then forgot about it. But, surprise! A couple of years and thousands of updates later, the universe has transformed into something surprisingly beautiful. Now you can soar over planets that are not only visually stunning but also full of life and activities. Sure, the “now it’s great” magic came a little too late, but at least now you can live the fantasy of being a space explorer without wondering what the hell went wrong in the first place. No doubt, what was once a cosmic disappointment is now an intergalactic masterpiece.

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9/10 ROCKETS

I am color blind. It would have been so simple to include the color of the respective star in a solar system's desctiption. Especially if quests are linked to it. Mighty frustrating to find a green sun in a galaxy if they are all the same. Thanks a lot devs. Good game though if you can differenciate between yellow and green, go for it.

Much ado has been made about how this game is so much 'better' now than when it was first released, but honestly even after returning to it so many years later, it's just not that interesting to play. Events that feel like 'random encounters' in space start to feel same-y and predictable in very short order. There is a complex system of languages and reputations across the primary alien factions, but ultimately it has virtually no effect on how one plays.

With each major update that comes out, new features are touted. Yet old glitchy features remain broken. When building a base of my own using walls, ceilings and floors, I had a tremendous amount of difficulty with the game registering that my 'base' was a valid closed building. I thought I was doing something wrong but learned that this is apparently a known bug that's gone unfixed virtually since launch, that the game struggles with any 'rooms' greater than two walls tall.

At launch this game was criticized for overpromising and under-delivering. And all these years later it suffers from the same root issue: It overpromises features and then throws them out haphazardly without giving them any real sense of depth or experimenting with how the game is played. It presents an ocean as wide as the eye can see, but ultimately it is only inches deep.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ 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 }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

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

---{ Grind }---
☐ 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 }---
☐ 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 }---
☐ 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

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
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☑ 10

---{ Author }---
☑ https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template

There's always more to discover, always more to do, always more goals ahead of you. 91 hours in and I haven't even finished the main quests because I've been too busy doing other things. It's a game as chill as you take it. Totally worth your money.

Sit back, relax and turn on No Man's Sky. I used to be an everyday gamer. Then life happened. Now every now and then, when i get a couple of hours, this is the game i came back to.

I dont like this game. That might sound odd given the amount of time I've put into it and the fact that I'm recommending it in my review but let me explain.

Objectively this game is probably one of the best in class as far as proceedural generation goes. The sheer level of ambition this game has is impressive and what they've accomplished is rather impressive. Additionally the dev team is remarkably generous with the after launch support and continued development turning what was a broken mess into a passable game. Their dedication and the impressive technology at work here which allows a near infinite number of creatures and worlds is why I've given this game a positive review. Objectively they've done a good job even if I end up disliking most of the time I've spent playing the game.

So yes its a good game, however, anyone planning to purchase this game should know what theyre getting into.

Even with the significant amount of after launch support this game is still extremely flawed in many areas and several of the core game mechanics are either clunky, poorly executed, or just outright boring.

Regarding the proceedural generation, its pretty rough. The worlds and environments are almost never convincing in any manner, many of the environments are clearly just hills with various features stapled on. From far away some of the features work, but up close quite a bit of it just doesnt work. The creatures are oftentimes clearly the result of a computer generation rather than any sort of evolution or design. Additionally all these features are reused very frequently so after a couple of hours you stop really seeing new content. Planetary biomes are also fairly weak. Once you've landed on a planet, youve more or less seen the entire planet. Its even worse with the oceans, every ocean in the universe is pretty similar. They recently released a new updated to create really deep oceans but even those are very similar across instances.

Gameplay, in my opinion, is very boring. Space combat is very basic, with even a low level ship you can just hold the reverse key and win every fight, enemies also have the handy habit of flying directly i front of your guns even without you turning to aim at them which makes killing them quite easy. There are no drones, limpets, mines, smoke screens, stealth, etc to mix up the fight, its just various forms of laserbeams and missiles. Ground combat isnt any better, its mostly a dps check, there is slightly more variety in the tools but its still very basic walk, point and shoot. The enemy AI is also quite dumb they all just float around and follow you to kill you, theres no retreating to heal or seeking cover. Enemy variety is also poor- the only hostile faction (on the ground) are the sentinels , of which there are a few different floating balls, robo dogs, spider walkers and At-Ats.

Outside of combat, 90% of the time you'll be walking around mining or scanning stuff. Mostly you mine things to craft the occasional upgrade, but mostly just to regenerate 1 of the dozens of slowing lowering meters that are required to do anything. You have to mine stuff for your multitool power, your oxygen, your hazard protection, your ships launch fuel, you ships sublight fuel, and your ships lightspeed fuel.
Anything else you gather you end up selling..... and thats more or less it.
There are a couple of quests and a general goal of reaching the center of the universe but there is no other driving motivation.

You might set the arbitrary goal of progressing your character to the limit and getting "S" class everything, but thats pretty pointless. 99% of the upgrades dont alter gameplay, Theyre instead just rate modifiers. IE - Your oxygen empties slower or your mining beam mines slightly faster, or your gun does a little more damage. Things like that.

Expeditions - expeditions are probably the best part of this game. The expeditions actually give you a purpose and an objective. They make you start from scratch and work through a series of objectives to earn a permanent cosmetic reward. For the most part the expeditions are usually pretty good, but theyre massively time consuming and also limited time so if you miss one youre usually out of luck. This FOMO is why I've spent 200 hours in this game,

So in conclusion this game is okay but its really just a grind fest without any real objective. Theres nothing to explore since the worlds are all extremely similar and constructed from the same parts. The gameplay is boring and repetitive and the only time you'll really have an objective is during an expedition. But if you like the grind or want to get artistic with the base building , then you might have a better time than I did, just dont get sucked into the FOMO cycle.

Phenomenal for about 120hrs, which is not a slight at the game I've greatly enjoyed it on multiple play throughs over the years. My only gripe is the lack of end game challenges and things to work towards. Very much worth the money and seems to be getting consistent updates which will only add depth with time.

Came out a hot mess but its incredibly deep now and lures you into a vast ocean of exploration. The combat is kind of understated but the scavenging and crafting is actually really cool. I really find the Atlas storyline intriguing and its drawing me in to learn more and engage with various systems in the game. NGL I didnt have much faith in the game back on release and pulled a try before you buy. The game really was so promising even back then but the reality was that it was such a shallow experience you really couldn't be bothered to to stay long enough to see the qualities this title offers. It's somewhat of a walking sim in that a big part of what'll draw you into this game is the ability to enjoy the exploration for what it is: The digital vistas of open landscape with beautiful horizons interrupted by moments that have left physical remnants of previous explorers meeting their end, established colonization throughout the galaxy, or the remnants of a civilization long forgotten yet ever present. If you aren't here to see and interact with what's out there then you'll get bored faster than you'll find a reason to continue.

This would have been the absolute perfect game, if only it wasnt for that ANNYOING FUCKING AI LADY ROBOT THAT TALKS TO YOU EVERY 6 SECONDS. THERE ISNT EVEN AN OPTION THAT LETS YOU TURN IT OFF !!!!! Only music and sfx, and somehow she isnt a part of sfx. Please just fix that one issue please, i beg you !!! I just want to have a chill nights evening with music in the background without being dissturbed by that pain in the ass robot lady ai bitch. Im going to end my self if it doesnt change. That is the absolute only issue with this game, everything is absolute perfection. JUST THAT FUCKING ROBOT. Like who even made that stupid fucking voice, please fire them now. Like you could've atleast made the vocie more soothing, like the voices in subnautica, and even they have an option to turn it off. Please take note of this massive issue, i beg of you!!! MY SANITY IS AT STAKE!!!!

Expansive, beautiful game. It can become a little tedious with crafting and farming for items, but it is still an enjoyable time exploring the worlds of No Mans Sky.

While the game clearly improved a lot since launch, it is still a frustrating mess full of bugs in even the most basic systems. You dig a hole and it disappears. You have a portal in your base and when you port to it you get spawned at some random location outside of the base. Buildings don't snap correctly and can't be rotated. Random stuff in my base just... disappeared for no reason. It absolutely destroys any sense of immersion and just keeps reminding you, the player, that you are not in a wonderful sandbox full of interesting things, you are just playing a buggy mess with the same bugs people have been complaining about for years. If you like the space shooty shooty, go Warframe. If you like the base buildy buildy go Valheim or Minecraft. If you want the flying shippy game, go Everspace. If you want to be frustrated endlessly by a buggy mix of everything worst of all those titles, you're in the right place. This review is longer than I planned because typing it out has been more fun than trying to fix my base AGAIN.

I don't know why nobody told me about this game. Probably because they knew I would never do anything irl again. It's so good, love it. I actually need to sleep more and play it less. Bit of a learning curve on some of the stuff and not a lot of direction, but I like that. You can just do whatever, read the descriptions and functions of things, watch some youtubes for starter tips. This game is just amazing, basically limitless. Its got survival, it's got crafting, it's got mining, it's got space pirate battles, space hulk exploration, wildlife cataloging and hunting, farming, foraging, base building, technology trees, combinations and configurations for all the different tech, weapons, vehicles and ships, you can build your own fleet and send them on missions, recruit a squadron of fighters to back you up when things get hostile, explore black holes and extra dimensional space, deep world building and lore, linguistics and research, submarines and deep sea exploration on alien worlds. It's a wonderful universe to warp into and unwind after work, make some progress on my fleet or upgrade my ship and mine something, take some pictures, kill some critters, whatever. 100/10

This is a fun game, Being updated consistently since release, The size of the universe is massive. I go back to the game all the time due to the expeditions they do every few months. This is a game that should be in your library, hours and hours of game play.

10/10 will play again an again. See you in the Anomaly!

I'm in love with this game, the devs had done wonders since its release, with free routine updates since then, also content wise the game has quite a lot, I played this game ages ago and got disappointed, now I'm back spending 7 hours a day playing it after a friend gifted me, and probably more hundreds of hours later

and I love gambling sentinel ships (I DONT)

Started as a disappointment, turned into one of the best redemption arcs in gaming.
Now I wander through breathtaking planets and get hopelessly lost in space. There’s not much to do, but somehow, I keep coming back. It’s peaceful, it’s beautiful, and it helped me keep my thoughts composed when I needed it most. Honestly, this game cured my depression more than any therapist ever could. 10/10 would get lost again.

I had high hopes for No Man's Sky. I tried many times, but it just can't hook me. I'm uninstalling after several hours.

The main problems, as I experienced them:

1) Not fun to progress. Typical No Man's Sky quest: go to X and do Y. You go to X, but there's no Y to be found. You alt-tab to your web browser, and search up what is wrong. By the time you figure out how to work around the broken quest (or badly communicated quest goals), you feel like you're doing a job, not playing a video game. Next time you think about launching the game, a feeling of dread overwhelms you.

2) Grindy and tedious - the game seems to be balanced to 'make the user spend time walking' rather than 'fun'. Which is unfortunate, because travelling (on planet or in space) is slow and awkward. It's cool that there is a lot of vegetation and ground objects, but literally everything inhibits my movement, every 0.5 seconds. That part where your starter ship runs out of fuel in transit, and there is nothing nearby to fuel it with? *Chef's kiss*

3) Ugly - dear god, what graphic designer thought it would be a good idea to make your buildings WOOD PANELLED? Whatever desire I had to build a cool planetary outpost evaporated when I saw the joke that is No Man's Sky base tileset. You're on a vibrant, colourful alien planet, and your house looks like a 70s station wagon. Just tragic.

People are fawning over this game, but I can find a half-dozen cheaper base-builder / exploration titles that keep you in the fun zone way better.

I bought this game discounted after recent reviews stating it was now a hidden gem. Wow, this game is terrible. It's like it was written by AI. There's no soul to it. It's lacking in story and the planets and combat are not great. There's just no point it, just endless amounts of the same thing over and over. Did not hold my interest at all.

The legends are true. This game went from Zero to Hero.
If you are familiar with the redemption arc of Cyberpunk 2077, this is basically your parent's version of that arc.
What the game is today is nothing compared to 2016, and I have to give credit to Hello Games for delivering (eventually) what they promised instead of abandoning the game like so many other companies would have done.
Props to you, Hello Games, your project is now a shining example of taking responsibility for one's own faux pas.

9/10 space exploration autism simulator

good for solo playing, but there's also option to play with friends. Do I need them? I don't know

But I like it and advise you to grab it while on sale