No Man's Sky

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.

---{ 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

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---{ 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.

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.

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

---{ 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

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Definitely i'll recommend this game to my friends and other people. Game is so lit, so wonderful. So many things to do. So many worlds to explore. You can build cozy little home somewhere in the middle of the ocean and fish in peace. Or build huge factory which produce you tons of rare resources. Game where you can be part of the exploration guild and analyse flora, fauna and minerals. And then change your'e mind and become a pirate to сommit space genocide. Game, where you walk on the planet and discover a cute little animal and domesticate him. And then on his eyes disembowel his relatives and make delicious foods from them. Game, where developers become crazy (in the good way) and mix in-game lore with the reality. And there is so much more. And more is to come! Thank you Sean and Hello Games team for this wonderful masterpiece! Our journey continuous! <3 <3 <3 I LOVE YOU ALL!!!

Beautiful comeback story. Game truly is all it was promised to be by now. Incredibly cool of the devs to stick with it and make it right in a field where most devs would not.

Don't get me wrong. No Man's Sky is a very fun game. It's visually stunning and there's a TON to do. But....... I want to play with my friends. Multiplayer is in a very sorry state in my opinion. There's a plethora of bugs when doing anything in a friend's base. Controls for allowing friends to do things in your base are extremely limited. And worst of all, why can we STILL not build a shared base? You can assist a friend in building a base, but that base still completely belongs to your friend. If they are offline, you can't do anything meaningful there. Putting a small amount of effort towards making multiplayer features better would go a very long way towards making this game more fun. It would also bring me back to it. Maybe make Clans/Guilds or something that can then own structures with their own set of rules/controls? And focus more on fixing bugs.

I love this game. If you don't buy it, you're missing out. They give tons of free updates and it is so much better than its initial release so I highly recommend it.

This is a great game. It's come so far and has improved so much since launch.

No Man's Sky was in a rough spot at one point in it's life, now it's a pretty damn good game.

The game does it's job and keeps you busy most of the time. The Early game exists, but it doesn't hold you back far enough to prevent you from exploring beyond that solar system, probably similar to Starbound's progression from first exploring other planets, and then being able to leave the solar system.

You can also play this game with Friends, all your bases and villages are synced up to the network, so your friends, regardless of the distance, can visit you and journey along. There's also a Multiplayer Hub world for you to band together, and complete tasks for extra items and currencies (nanites, mostly).

It's also pretty dang good Sandbox game on a Steam Deck.

boring game. Everything is too generic, gameplay consists of collecting generic stuff in order to travel to another generic planet and repeat. Exploration looses it's charm when what you are exploring is just procedurally generated mish mashes of assets.

Coming back to this game time and time again just reminds me how goated it is and how far the devs came from the wonky start.

Please stop reading comments and just play the game its great!

Great game, free updates and no DLC bullshit

A nice game. Still being updated regularly. No DLCs just updates. There is something here for every one. You are not pushed down any set path. You want to fish, go ahead. They just added Relics. go dig up some bones if you like. Battle in space, explore the galaxy, Build a base, Grow plants, Pimp out your freighter. amass a fleet of ships. Or don't do any of this. The choice is yours.

very deep game, plenty of play time to be had here. visually beautiful, and audio is on point.

Really nice game. Space, planets exploration, outpost on any planet you want any place, space ships buy/sell/trade:)

My husband bought me this game when it had first came out and I loved it. The only problem was, was he bought it on his Steam account and when he died I lost his information. After I settled back down in the states and some time had passed, I looked into it again and it was too expensive. I just looked at it last week and it was on sale for 60% off and I had to have it. I was taken back to a happier time when I was a little more innocent and my heart wasn't weighed down. I can escape into the stars and savour a little bit of nostalgia from a happier time. This game took my breath away then and with all the updates it has had in the years in between it continues to capture my imagination and whisk me away to far flung lands.

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!