No Man's Sky

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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 2694 Ratings

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  1. sundeki
    Aug 22, 2016
    2
    Lied to, lied to, lied to. There are literally hundreds of quotes from game devs and that smug lying swine who fed it to us. Do not grace this game with your patronage. Do not purchase it.
  2. redsuns
    Aug 27, 2016
    0
    Sean Murray hyped up the game with fake promises and lies turning the real no man sky game into something that is not. The whole universe is lifeless. You see critters and fake flying ships and 1 npc in every space station and bunker then its just you. Thats it.
    The whole game you are only harvesting,micro managing the inventory, change into bigger ship with bigger inventory space. Repeat    Sean Murray hyped up the game with fake promises and lies turning the real no man sky game into something that is not. The whole universe is lifeless. You see critters and fake flying ships and 1 npc in every space station and bunker then its just you. Thats it.
    The whole game you are only harvesting,micro managing the inventory, change into bigger ship with bigger inventory space. Repeat x1000 times. Repetitive, boring, shallow gameplay.    … Expand
  3. veilex
    Aug 29, 2016
    0
    This game gets a zero. Why you ask? Numerous reasons... including phony accounts that have copy/pasted positive reviews to erroneously raise the rating... Sony's enormous efforts to silence and shut down valid criticisms of the game... but the biggest reason of all? The lies. Hello games put out lie after lie about what would be included with the game. They misrepresented what the gameThis game gets a zero. Why you ask? Numerous reasons... including phony accounts that have copy/pasted positive reviews to erroneously raise the rating... Sony's enormous efforts to silence and shut down valid criticisms of the game... but the biggest reason of all? The lies. Hello games put out lie after lie about what would be included with the game. They misrepresented what the game would be in order to justify the $60 price tag. That misrepresentation is going to land them in legal troubles... them AND Sony.

    This game had enormous potential. If the developer had kept their mouth shut instead of spewing lie after lie AND the game had been shipped at a reasonable price, say $20 - $30, then they'd be fine.

    But they did lie, and they did ship an incomplete game at a triple A game price. Inexcusable.    … Expand
  4. Palizoid
    Aug 23, 2016
    1
    After discovering the 'ending' to this game. Do not waste your time. Sorry but if i paid 20 bucks for this game id be fine. For 60US or in my case $81AU, absolute and utter rip off
  5. BackstabberDC
    Aug 25, 2016
    1
    Lies about gameplay, lies about multiplayer, lies about everything. Performance is poor, it needs optimization, I have FPS drops all the time.

    Hello Games lied to many people, but we won't forget.
  6. TwistedBengal90
    Aug 18, 2016
    0
    This not the same game in all of those trailers, in the earlier builds, in the gameplay demoes that IGN and countless others previewed. 90% of the content is missing. It's a buggy messs, crap graphics (although nice colors sometimes), animations are alpha. Animals are derpy compared to the Jurrasic Park version in the trailer. The trailers were obviously scripted and do not represent theThis not the same game in all of those trailers, in the earlier builds, in the gameplay demoes that IGN and countless others previewed. 90% of the content is missing. It's a buggy messs, crap graphics (although nice colors sometimes), animations are alpha. Animals are derpy compared to the Jurrasic Park version in the trailer. The trailers were obviously scripted and do not represent the final game AT ALL and are on the store page. There is a ton of content ripped out that you'll find on the subreddit titled "Where is the NMS we sold on" and you'll see all the lies. The gameplay is just collecting resources to fuel your ship to fly to another planet to do the same thing over again. No purpose. Pointless. This game is the biggest let down for 2016 so far. Here is hoping for Star Citizen but even then I have my reservations. Fool me once....… Expand
  7. SofaTrooper
    Aug 24, 2016
    0
    What a fool I was to get sucked into the hype machine that is No Man's Sky. A game that has very little to do with what was advertised in all those e3 shows. This game overall feels like a concept barely off the ground. Boring, repetitive humdrum with little to do other than collect rocks. Fly to space station, sell rocks, fly back , collect rocks. Such joy.

    Planets are the same just    What a fool I was to get sucked into the hype machine that is No Man's Sky. A game that has very little to do with what was advertised in all those e3 shows. This game overall feels like a concept barely off the ground. Boring, repetitive humdrum with little to do other than collect rocks. Fly to space station, sell rocks, fly back , collect rocks. Such joy.

    Planets are the same just different colours. No large charging dinosaurs like in the e3 footage, no huge space battles or planet battles, no factions of any kind.

    Other than the misleading nature of the game it also runs like garbage, and I run a gtx Titan. I can't believe they had the audacity to sell this at full price. I generally feel like I have been swindled. Boooooo    … Expand
  8. Ouideau
    Aug 26, 2016
    1
    Sean Murray is a professional liar or a genius depend on which side you are, I think it's the first time that someone literally invent that much features in a game. For those who forget, I invite you to watch all his past interview. He played very well with the fans and the media, but I hope that people will remember this.

    With that being said, let's talk about the game. I just played a    Sean Murray is a professional liar or a genius depend on which side you are, I think it's the first time that someone literally invent that much features in a game. For those who forget, I invite you to watch all his past interview. He played very well with the fans and the media, but I hope that people will remember this.

    With that being said, let's talk about the game. I just played a farming demo simulation game with no end game goal except " go to the center of the universe where nothing happen". Gathering resources to have ships with a bigger inventory.. Great. And that's all guys. The combat on the ground is terrible and very rare. On space ? I had better sensation of space combat in Star wars Rogue Squadron II... 15 years ago. I mean it's the worst combat experience I've had for years. You guys from Hello Games never looked at other games ? You've played Candy Crush for all this years? There is plenty of games (at 20$) you could 've take inspiration from, with not that much development to do.

    Who was the game designer of the game, on which feature he worked on? It's great to farm rocks and trees but for 60$ really?. Seriously, you should've worked only on Joe Danger and mobile games. This game is full of bad design choice.

    The UX/UI of the game is terrible, it's just a bad adaptation of Destiny interface and interaction.One example : "Hold" a key for ALL interactions in the game? Really ?? Do you even know why we use "hold" interactions at the beginning? Go read some books about User Experience. Even in the video settings ? Did you even played on day on PC? It's crazy how some things are just really bad executed in this game.
    The design of the game is bad and that's all. No features in the game show the contrary.

    Anyway, go back on developing mobile games. It better suits your abilities.You disrespect all the players who trusted you and I'm glad I wasn't that naive to give you money to play this game.
    Sean Murray, you stolen money from people. You should be ashamed of what you did to promote your **** game. But yeah, now you don't care, with your tech demo, mission accomplished, you've earned enough money.

    PS : I give 1 for the sound designed. The only skilled worker on your company.    … Expand
  9. Kmarx12
    Aug 14, 2016
    4
    This game was not optimised properly for the PC platform. Frequent frame rate drops entering and leaving any planet's atmosphere which is something that happens often. Ugly texture maps everywhere you turn. My box FAR exceeds the requirments and yet the game stutters on low graphic settings??? Terrible flight controls with mouse and keyboard that are often times wrenched away from theThis game was not optimised properly for the PC platform. Frequent frame rate drops entering and leaving any planet's atmosphere which is something that happens often. Ugly texture maps everywhere you turn. My box FAR exceeds the requirments and yet the game stutters on low graphic settings??? Terrible flight controls with mouse and keyboard that are often times wrenched away from the player midflight breaks immersion and a buggy UI that wasn't redesigned for PC.

    Just for reference i have an AMD processor with 24 GB ram i have no problem playing other modern games like DOOM(2016), Fallout 4 and BF4 on the highest setting without loss of frame rate but for some reason i cannot play No Man's Sky on low settings without GPU bottleneck and loss of frame rate?

    Wait a year till they properly optimize this game before even considering spending your cash.    … Expand
  10. ustas04
    Sep 7, 2016
    1
    Sean Murray healed us. NOT buying a overprized crappy game is No.1 priority of mine now.
    Thank you for this great lesson. Your lessons are expensive but very effective.
    60€ for nothing but a promise of a sean murray (and some very good placed trailers). Wait for the reviews, pirate demo them(because no one want u to test a game before they sold it to you) or just watch the youtubers    Sean Murray healed us. NOT buying a overprized crappy game is No.1 priority of mine now.
    Thank you for this great lesson. Your lessons are expensive but very effective.
    60€ for nothing but a promise of a sean murray (and some very good placed trailers).

    Wait for the reviews, pirate demo them(because no one want u to test a game before they sold it to you) or just watch the youtubers playing them.
    Good lesson bro, good lesson.

    -Where is the Day/Night cycle
    - Where is that wildlife ?
    - Where is this Survival feeling (feeding a space suit is that survival ? )
    -where is
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    -endless list    … Expand
  11. CyberAngel
    Oct 4, 2016
    4
    I can only and will only review the game in it's current state which is clearly lacking multiple promised features:
    - every planet should have been unique and different
    - every ship should have been different, they're focused on a specific type of work - multiplayer - what's the point of naming every single **** if no one can see it? I certainly won't go back and visit explored worlds    I can only and will only review the game in it's current state which is clearly lacking multiple promised features:
    - every planet should have been unique and different
    - every ship should have been different, they're focused on a specific type of work
    - multiplayer - what's the point of naming every single **** if no one can see it? I certainly won't go back and visit explored worlds and creatures, thanks.
    - engaging battles between warring factions
    - desert planets
    - interesting creatures (Spore has them)
    - NPCs that don't behave like a vending machine
    - interstellar life on planets (ships, traders, warriors)
    - no settlements crammed together having only a few hundred meters between them
    - Sean Murray not promising **** that was never in the game in the first place

    Other than that the game is boring after a few initial hours, full of pointless resource gathering, visiting run-of-the-mill procedurally generated planets and generally having no sense of accomplishment.
    Sorry, this is truly No Man's Lie. Disappointment of the year.    … Expand
  12. daftshadow
    Nov 13, 2016
    4
    To be fair, this game had so much potential. So much. But the developer utterly failed to have this game live up to its hype and potential. On the outside, the premise of the game is promising. Vast universe to explore. But then again something so vast is also very so limited. A lot of the planets are alike to each other with the same limited variety of planet attributes like landscapes,To be fair, this game had so much potential. So much. But the developer utterly failed to have this game live up to its hype and potential. On the outside, the premise of the game is promising. Vast universe to explore. But then again something so vast is also very so limited. A lot of the planets are alike to each other with the same limited variety of planet attributes like landscapes, resources, life-forms, climate, and so forth. No Man's Sky really seemed like a game where the developer had many good ideas but most were never implemented. There's really no purpose or motivation for you as the player to continue playing. There's really no end goal and/or reward at the end.… Expand
  13. Furrygopher
    Aug 26, 2016
    3
    Ultimately just dull, a survival sandbox without the lego aspect of Minecraft, your only concern is keeping your various power bars full which you do by mining environmental detritus. unfortunately what you need is so common that the management aspect simply turns into busy work, you land, get out your ship, scan, walk less than 50 meters, mine what you need then fly off again.

    The    Ultimately just dull, a survival sandbox without the lego aspect of Minecraft, your only concern is keeping your various power bars full which you do by mining environmental detritus. unfortunately what you need is so common that the management aspect simply turns into busy work, you land, get out your ship, scan, walk less than 50 meters, mine what you need then fly off again.

    The space environment is hugely insulting to any astronomer, stars are unreachable light sources on the skybox shining on a tight cluster of a few haphazard planets, I wish the systems did interact dynamically as every one of them I visited would have had a spectacular collision, Worse still is every square kilometer of space is packed with the asteroidal junk you need to mine to power your ship popping in as it crosses the draw distance

    The main selling point of this is the random generation and it's infinite possibilities, but that infinity is always constrained, visually you may be able to get an infinite number of animals or space freighters, but functionally and gameplay wise they are all identical to each other, just a wandering resource node carrying common materials,

    Planets tend to be differentiated only by whatever garish colour palette the RNG drew out of a hat and every station or building you encounter is drawn from an extremely limited pool, I only ever saw one station layout.

    All in all I'd say stay away, the devs clearly had huge hopes for their baby but they haven't delivered on them.    … Expand
  14. LucasTheMan
    Oct 17, 2016
    4
    It's bad, unfortunately it is.
    Not a 0% game like many say, but it's just... boring.
    Walk to get this, walk back to to get that, walk walk walk.
    I'm not going into the false promises issue, but the game itself is just an endless chore of boring tasks.
  15. Snudrid
    Oct 26, 2016
    0
    Игра на самом деле не такая уж и плохая, я бы мог поставить ей даже 4, если бы разработчики в своих интервью не обещали нам куда больше, чем реально есть в игре. Я бы даже мог поставить ей 8, если бы разрабы честно признались, что им не хватило времени допилить игру до конца, и пообещали бы как-нибудь потом добавить все те функции, что так усердно рекламировались до выхода. Но после релизаИгра на самом деле не такая уж и плохая, я бы мог поставить ей даже 4, если бы разработчики в своих интервью не обещали нам куда больше, чем реально есть в игре. Я бы даже мог поставить ей 8, если бы разрабы честно признались, что им не хватило времени допилить игру до конца, и пообещали бы как-нибудь потом добавить все те функции, что так усердно рекламировались до выхода. Но после релиза Hello Games просто сбежали с нашими деньгами.… Expand
  16. MBBasar
    Aug 24, 2016
    4
    I pre-ordered this game. Than played 40 hours. I learned that if i use pre-ordered ship atthe beginning you can not learn the hyperdrive blueprint. Well my hours gone because this bug hit me too. Can't craft or can't find hyperdrive so i am stucked. Restart needed but i already lost my interest. In summary game is too buggy and there is nothing to do in this game. I want to refund butI pre-ordered this game. Than played 40 hours. I learned that if i use pre-ordered ship atthe beginning you can not learn the hyperdrive blueprint. Well my hours gone because this bug hit me too. Can't craft or can't find hyperdrive so i am stucked. Restart needed but i already lost my interest. In summary game is too buggy and there is nothing to do in this game. I want to refund but because of Steam's bad refund policy we can't refund. Tell me Steam what can a player understand in 2 hour? I give the game 4. All points is because of the huge universe they managed to create but thats all they managed to create.… Expand
  17. prossnip42
    Aug 27, 2016
    4
    What a **** disappointment. This was exactly what i was afraid off. Well onto the review then.

    Pros: - one thing that i can say about this game which is pretty commendable is that it is a universe sized sandbox. there's multiple planets,galaxies with their own solar systems etc. But that's where the good things end Cons: -the first sign for me that this wasn't gonna be good was    What a **** disappointment. This was exactly what i was afraid off. Well onto the review then.

    Pros:
    - one thing that i can say about this game which is pretty commendable is that it is a universe sized sandbox. there's multiple planets,galaxies with their own solar systems etc. But that's where the good things end

    Cons:
    -the first sign for me that this wasn't gonna be good was that the download was only 5 gb. Wait what? 5 gb for a universe sized sandbox?! Well unsuprisingly all of the planets look almost identical, the only difference is that some planets are slightly more darker or have slightly more aggressive creatures. In the words of Angry Joe: :"As wide as an ocean but has the depth of a puddle"
    -the gameplay is the most basic of basics when it comes to a gathering and crafting game. you fly on planets,collect resources so you can fly on other planets and collect more resources. There's no interesting story,characters,factions or anything that Sean promised was gonna be there,was not and instead we got a one big bowl of **** YOU!

    In conclusion No man's sky is a repetitive grind fest that will have you bored in a matter of hours. Just play elite dangerous instead.    … Expand
  18. playerguy8
    Oct 3, 2016
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. (CONTAINS SPOILERS)I'm going to be very short and precise with my review since i would not like to waste your time however at the same time i will make sure to cover all the points-

    this game made by hello games is mediocre at best . multiple issues related to bugs and poor optimization are evident . In fact i feel ashamed to give this game a 5 . I should give it lower but I will cut hello games a slack this time , but they shouldn't expect that in the future.

    The game promised too much and the hype was too large to be handled even by triple a devs. this indie studio overpromised and now the ASA are undergoing the process of researching "false advertising " done by the company . the front face of hello games , sean murray lied to us all with his innocent smile and because of that very smile they are sitting in heaps of cash . this article will provide all the lies incited by hello games on no mans sky : https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/4y1h9i/wheres_the_no_mans_sky_we_were_sold_on_a_big_list/ (god bless you if you have time to read through it all without breaking a sweat)

    Even if you take away everything that was falsely advertised by hello games and look at the game as if it was the game that was promised to us , its still a very crappy game. You are paying triple a money for this game (19000 naira if you live in nigeria) but offer not more than a 3000 naira game . The game is heavily repetitive where you only do about 3 things , fly , mine and walk .even when you finish the game (that is when you reach the center of the galaxy) ******SPOILER ALERT******get taken to another galaxy after a small chit chat with the atlas , a sort of jello being you've been chasing the entire game .

    All and all this game is an atrocious mess with bare bone features and nothing worthy to offer . The only thing i appreciated about this game is the music and the diversity of (some) planets .I would refrain from buying this , even a cheaper copy or even a pirated one because however you obtain it , you feel robbed , especially if you pre ordered it (please stop pre ordering your games if you do ) this game is half assed and i believe hello games drained more resources in making fancy cgi's for the game than actually developing it . As an alternative i would recommend star citizen or elite dangerous or perhaps an indie rival , rodina . spore is also a good option though not completely similar . Do your self a favor and ignore this game    … Expand
  19. JustMy2
    Sep 20, 2016
    0
    If anyone wants to make a game today, PLEASE USE AN EXISTING GAME ENGINE! They're incredibly advanced and super-optimized these days, and they are cheap to license! You even get access to the full code and can modify it as you see fit if you need to do something unusual.

    Game engines lets you stand on the shoulders of giants, and frees you from technical concerns so you can focus on    If anyone wants to make a game today, PLEASE USE AN EXISTING GAME ENGINE! They're incredibly advanced and super-optimized these days, and they are cheap to license! You even get access to the full code and can modify it as you see fit if you need to do something unusual.

    Game engines lets you stand on the shoulders of giants, and frees you from technical concerns so you can focus on developing your actual game! You'd have to be an idiot to not take advantage of that!

    Should you be stupid enough to decide to roll your own engine instead (and have less than 100 man-years of highly skilled programmer time to dedicate to the job!), you'll end up with a game that looks really dated and low-resolution, but that still runs like total cr*p on high-end PC's.

    Guess what Hello Games decided to do... that's right, they made a game engine!

    And of course it sucks like there's no tomorrow...

    Flying over a planet you'll hardly even see what it's supposed to look like because of the ugliest pop-in of any game in history. That's how bad this game engine is - it just can't load terrain fast enough, and it can't smoothly blend in objects as they spawn into view either, it just pixelates them into existence instead, which looks *horrible*. Especially when this isn't happening "in the distance", but literally right in front of you.

    But the poor struggling engine also compromised the gameplay by forcing poor decisions. Your ship flies slowly and steers with the agility of a stoned cow. Both are obviously necessary sacrifices that were made because flying and turning with more agility would put even more strain on the already struggling terrain loading code.

    BTW, you can't even land your ship where you want manually, instead the game auto-lands it for you, with about as much success as a stoned cow trying to cr*p in a bucket. I've tried landing on a point of interest and ended up as much as 2 minutes walking away from it!

    But it's an RNG thing, sometimes the cow hits the bucket by pure chance. I even managed to land on a landing pad once!

    Strange the game didn't give me an Achievement for that, it certainly felt more like an achievement than walking 5000 steps (which the game considers achievement-worthy!).

    This review is already more than long enough, so I won't even go into details on why the game sucks as a game. Read other negative reviews for that, there's plenty of them...    … Expand
  20. MacBinary
    Dec 10, 2016
    0
    "Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes"

    ~ Vyvyan - The Young Ones ~

    There, that was more interesting than NMS.
  21. Nightshire
    Aug 24, 2016
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is a huge disappointment and barely fun at all. We were promised so much and give so little. One of the worst things of all is the devs are still keeping quiet about their development, and continue to lie to the fans about what is and isn't in the game. The whole thing seems like a massive cash grab, and while addictive, is very little fun at all. The graphics are awful, as is the gameplay and performance.

    The three worst things are as follows-

    1) The Dev's continue to lie to the community over their broken mess of a game which they literally did lie about content during development.

    2) The demos shown on the steam store are still old builds of the game and look nothing like the real game. It is basically fraud displaying those demos as a way to trick users into buying this awful game.

    3) (MASSIVE SPOILERS ALERT-DO NOT CONTINUE READING UNLESS YOU WANT IT SPOILED BUT IT IS WORTH BEING SPOILED,)

    The center of the universe ay? Wasn't that the whole point of the game to begin with? To get to the center? To finally find out what is there? Well guess what, there is NOTHING. YOU CAN'T EVEN GO THERE. It just makes you start the entire game over. All. the. way. over. again. Literally, you just try to go there, and it says you're going there, and then it zooms out all the way to the edge of a new galaxy for you to start all the way over again. You never find out whats in the center. The new galaxy's have nothing beneficial to them. They are completely pointless. This is the most disappointing game I have ever beheld.

    THE ONLY GOOD THING IS THE SOUNDTRACK which can be found for free on youtube.
    Do no buy this game.    … Expand
  22. Sr_Tregras
    Aug 31, 2016
    0
    Una basura de juego y la mayor estafa que he visto por parte del marketing. Me sorprende que con el tema de devoluciones hayan llamado ladrones a los jugadores (ironía a tope).

    Un análisis serio no merece la pena, yo ya hice mi análisis en steam con mis escasas 10 horas de juego (que en este juego son un montón). Tremendamente no recomendable y si seguís con hype después de la    Una basura de juego y la mayor estafa que he visto por parte del marketing. Me sorprende que con el tema de devoluciones hayan llamado ladrones a los jugadores (ironía a tope).

    Un análisis serio no merece la pena, yo ya hice mi análisis en steam con mis escasas 10 horas de juego (que en este juego son un montón).

    Tremendamente no recomendable y si seguís con hype después de la polémica conseguid probarlo de algún amigo o por donde rule gratis. Y ya esta bien por parte de algunos de defender a estas compañías de ladrones que no hacen mas que destrozar el género indie y la industria de videojuegos.    … Expand
  23. gavoooo
    Sep 7, 2016
    0
    If you are thinking of buying this game, I would recommend you watch some of the cool trailers showing you what is not in the game and don't waste your money on this game that doesn't even deliver the stuff that was talked about and promised in interviews etc before release.
  24. HeadyWook
    Sep 15, 2016
    0
    Awful game, developers completely lied to sell it. Not worth 60 dollars, more like a 10 dollar early access alpha. The game runs like **** even on nice PCs, there is zero multiplayer potential despite numerous claims from the developers there was. It's just paying 60 dollars to grind in a broken game with no substance and little story line or purpose. They couldn't even get the variety andAwful game, developers completely lied to sell it. Not worth 60 dollars, more like a 10 dollar early access alpha. The game runs like **** even on nice PCs, there is zero multiplayer potential despite numerous claims from the developers there was. It's just paying 60 dollars to grind in a broken game with no substance and little story line or purpose. They couldn't even get the variety and procedural programming down right. The great majority of plants, species, and planets look strikingly similar or quite literally the exact same just with a different color.

    This game is a scam.    … Expand
  25. Ravendiscord
    Sep 24, 2016
    0
    Hello Games currently advertises the features below that are missing from the game.

    1) In No Man's Sky, every star is the light of a distant sun, each orbited by planets FALSE Planets do not orbit suns. 2) At the Center of the galaxy lies a irresistible pulse which draws you on a journey towards it to learn the true nature of the cosmos FALSE getting to the center of the galaxy    Hello Games currently advertises the features below that are missing from the game.

    1) In No Man's Sky, every star is the light of a distant sun, each orbited by planets

    FALSE Planets do not orbit suns.

    2) At the Center of the galaxy lies a irresistible pulse which draws you on a journey towards it to learn the true nature of the cosmos

    FALSE getting to the center of the galaxy -spoiler- happens but you learn absolutely nothing about the nature of the cosmos.

    3) no loading screens (from deep space to planetary surface)

    -FALSE There are loading screens every-time you warp or enter a black-hole.

    4) factions vie for territory

    FALSE Factions do not vie for territory

    Neither "expectations" nor "hype" as some folks call it is at fault for my ZERO rating.

    Peace.    … Expand
  26. Zisum
    Sep 29, 2016
    1
    The game is devoid of the features promised by Sean Murray in the build up to this games release. Possibly to the point of being illegal. Do not take the risk on this game as Steam are being very difficult in offering refunds.

    The game is poorly executed, badly optimised, hollow with it's only redeeming feature being it's soundtrack and colour palette
  27. Kabutow
    Oct 2, 2016
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Played the game for 20 hours and did not get as much reward that I should be getting. Reaching the center of the galaxy itself is not satisfying as being promised. Other than it is have clipping bugs and it really annoys me. This game has the potential to be a good game but have been wasted. Lack of creative content and story is the issue with this game.… Expand
  28. LEGENZSxKirito
    Oct 7, 2016
    2
    Cuando Compre Este Juego Pensé Que Sería Un Mundo Vivo Enorme E Increíblemente Divertido De Explorar Pero Realmente No Cumplió Con Ese Cometido... No vale la pena
  29. AngryBanana
    Nov 11, 2016
    4
    I spent 60 dollars on this game and I feel **** ripped off! What the actual **** is this **** Did I pay for a demo? It's like mgs ground zeroes all over again! What a piece of ****
  30. Nyakuya
    Dec 20, 2016
    0
    "¡SE PUEDE JUGAR ONLINE!... (Mentira)". Claro que si campeón.
    Este juego es una mierda canceríjena con sindrome de gunther. Sinceramente es una porquería se lo mire por donde se lo mire. Gráficamente es basura y por eso mismo no se entiende como demonios tienes problemas de rendimiento con una PC de la NASA.
    "LA UNICA FORMA DE VER A TU PERSONAJE ES SI OTRA PERSONA TE VE... (Pero como no    "¡SE PUEDE JUGAR ONLINE!... (Mentira)". Claro que si campeón.
    Este juego es una mierda canceríjena con sindrome de gunther. Sinceramente es una porquería se lo mire por donde se lo mire. Gráficamente es basura y por eso mismo no se entiende como demonios tienes problemas de rendimiento con una PC de la NASA.
    "LA UNICA FORMA DE VER A TU PERSONAJE ES SI OTRA PERSONA TE VE... (Pero como no hay modo multijugador ni cooperativo, esto no sucederá, wajaja)". Claro que si campeon x2.

    Este juego fue mentira tras mentira y estafa tras estafa. Es una mierda inservible y la misma comunidad lo afirma. Ojalá el hijo de puta que se dedicó a mentir de esta forma contraiga docenas de enfermedades degenerativas y extremadamente dolorosas.    … Expand
  31. pavel8585
    Aug 19, 2019
    0
    Bugs, grind , lies, boring, ugly,
    This game is astonishingly bad in every possible way. Pointless, boring. Yeah, and lying developer as its apogee. Don't even try to play this **** let it be forgotten.
  32. adamf13
    Aug 19, 2016
    1
    If you want a repetitive dull experience where you play the same dull 5 hour game on a continuous loop in a impressively huge but lifeless universe than this is the game for you.
  33. Jonno_scout
    Aug 17, 2016
    4
    This game is mediocre at best. If you take into consideration the abysmal PC launch (which in this review, I'm not) then it definitely warrants the giant, red, glaring 3.2 it is currently sitting at on metacritic. If you managed to ignore the hype, shady marketing practices and dont run into performance issues, this game might even be considered decent.

    If you want a list of things that    This game is mediocre at best. If you take into consideration the abysmal PC launch (which in this review, I'm not) then it definitely warrants the giant, red, glaring 3.2 it is currently sitting at on metacritic. If you managed to ignore the hype, shady marketing practices and dont run into performance issues, this game might even be considered decent.

    If you want a list of things that the game promised before release but then reneged on, you can check out the "Where's the NMS we were sold on?" thread on reddit - it provides a pretty decent summary of interviews and gameplay trailers where Sean Murray explicitly stated things which are definitely not in the game. The hype that was generated was entirely the fault of Hello Games, and they deserve the flak they are getting for letting people down.

    As it stands, this game needs some serious patches to fix performance issues (which they are working on, so that's a good start) but what it really needed was a competent PR campaign and some honesty prior to launch. It did not need Sean Murray promising the universe and outright lying to people.    … Expand
  34. Kitty1337
    Aug 19, 2016
    1
    What a piece of trash. Overpriced, overhyped, runs terribly even though the game is ugly af. $60 for exploring planets that all look the same, just with different color palette and creatures that use the same assets just connected differently. 1 point only because the game has some really beautiful sights that are breathtaking.
  35. Thawtw
    Aug 16, 2016
    0
    The definition of disappointment. Procedurally generated bs by procedurally generated liar, Sean Murray. Just go watch the video called "New disappointment discovered : No Man's Sky". You will understand then. Even SPORE was less disappointing than this. In fact, it's an all around better game, go play SPORE instead.
  36. Eddie_Izzard
    Aug 27, 2016
    0
    Literally every aspect of this game is shallow and an excellent example of why you NEVER pre-order. There is no redeeming feature in this game beyond an ok color palette and the sheer amount of humor I'm getting from watching it crash and burn under the weight of **** and plain incompetence.
  37. GarethK
    Sep 23, 2016
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game is devoid of the features promised by Sean Murray in the build up to this games release. Possibly to the point of being illegal. Do not take the risk on this game as Steam are being very difficult in offering refunds.

    The game is poorly executed, badly optimised, hollow with it's only redeeming feature being it's soundtrack and colour palette

    Oh and major spoiler, when you get to the centre of the galaxy you are made to start again, that's it... nothing else.    … Expand
  38. xwhyuaddanx
    Aug 22, 2016
    0
    Boredom simulator 2016. I don't know what's more fun, playing this game, or grinding my face on asphalt. Probably the latter. I've never seen such horrible texture pop-in in my entire life.
  39. ShortCipher42
    Aug 24, 2016
    0
    This steaming dumpster pile is blatant false advertising. You can't fly like in the trailers, you can't hack doors like Sean Murray said, as a matter of fact the only thing that you can do that sean murray said is land on a damn planet and warp. The creatures generated are generally retarded and almost never aggressive. In 7 hours of play time, I have NOT DIED. I cannot die withoutThis steaming dumpster pile is blatant false advertising. You can't fly like in the trailers, you can't hack doors like Sean Murray said, as a matter of fact the only thing that you can do that sean murray said is land on a damn planet and warp. The creatures generated are generally retarded and almost never aggressive. In 7 hours of play time, I have NOT DIED. I cannot die without displaying severe neglect of my own life support or other such crap. I have even run under landing ships, only to clip through them.

    What the hell kind of survival game has no death threat? This game is blatant fraud    … Expand
  40. Microtransact
    Aug 25, 2016
    0
    There is a lot going on here, but the the way the dev's went about lieng about 90% of the game features just cant be supported. Also at $60, said lies should of been in the game and the DLC that was lied about being free, should in fact be free.
  41. ironikart
    Aug 22, 2016
    0
    The only reason this doesn't get a 0 is that it managed to fool me for a few hours into thinking there was more to it. I went into the game with an open mind happy to play something that promised open ended exploration and survival. After your first few systems you realise you've done everything the game has to offer and that none of your experiences were unique. It's not worth the priceThe only reason this doesn't get a 0 is that it managed to fool me for a few hours into thinking there was more to it. I went into the game with an open mind happy to play something that promised open ended exploration and survival. After your first few systems you realise you've done everything the game has to offer and that none of your experiences were unique. It's not worth the price tag, hell it isn't even up to par with some playable alphas at the moment. I was sucked in to pre-order on the basis of the features that were confirmed to be in the game by it's developers and it turns out they don't exist.… Expand
  42. GERULA666
    Aug 22, 2016
    1
    This game is so incredible BOOOOOOOOOOOORING!
    and repetitive as hell, not to mention his pokemon graphic view
    this is not a game worth 60$, his price should be 5$ and developers of this game should beg you 2 days to buy!
    Avoid it with all costs!
  43. Batuhann87
    Aug 20, 2016
    0
    Worst game i have ever played.Do not ever buy this game for %90 off.Everything they showed in trailers are a lie.Do not fall for this scam.DO NOT BUY.
  44. caase
    Aug 17, 2016
    1
    DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!

    I was exited for this game for probably 2 years. I followed every update and watched/read all content i could find on the subject. Unfortunately the game is not what you expect. To summarize the experience it is almost entirely based around the same thing, it gets repetitive and boring after just 2 hours. I worked hard just to buy the clearly overpriced game    DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!

    I was exited for this game for probably 2 years. I followed every update and watched/read all content i could find on the subject.

    Unfortunately the game is not what you expect. To summarize the experience it is almost entirely based around the same thing, it gets repetitive and boring after just 2 hours.

    I worked hard just to buy the clearly overpriced game and played to long to refund it and buy 10 equally enjoyable titles of steam.

    It's a mile wide but an inch deep.    … Expand
  45. casualreview
    Aug 18, 2016
    0
    Lies, lies and more lies. So many lies.
    Sean Murray and Hello Games are laughing their way to the bank.
    Anyone who has actually tried it would know that "above average"-reviews are part of the scam.
    Total garbage. Not worth 5$.
  46. stroik
    Aug 19, 2016
    0
    It's a crap, very dissapointing. 0 out of 10. The games crashes all the time. I'm very very angry with Hello Games. I wish that they retract and apologies.
  47. Ordosius
    Aug 27, 2016
    1
    It runs terribly on even high end rigs. Its worth about $10 and is more of a tech demo than an actual game. I wouldn't advise you to buy the game at a $60 AAA price at all. Actually, don't waste your time playing this boring pos.
  48. Hoodinski
    Aug 16, 2016
    3
    An astounding and promising idea turned into a boring, tedious, erm, something. The landscapes are gorgeous (I had no trouble with setting high graphics), the style is artsy and fresh. The idea is monumental. But all this means nothing if there is no gameplay whatsoever. 15 quintillion planets may be a large number but in practice they look mostly the same. The interface stinks of consoleAn astounding and promising idea turned into a boring, tedious, erm, something. The landscapes are gorgeous (I had no trouble with setting high graphics), the style is artsy and fresh. The idea is monumental. But all this means nothing if there is no gameplay whatsoever. 15 quintillion planets may be a large number but in practice they look mostly the same. The interface stinks of console to high heavens. The controls are pretty bad and don't get me started on the flight mechanics. A shame. It could have been a great game.… Expand
  49. aig
    Aug 16, 2016
    0
    If this game can work perfectly, no one can tell the difference because nothing ever happens in it. It was not a game, just one great advertisement campaign and nothing else.
  50. whynotthen
    Aug 16, 2016
    0
    The game is just a scam, it is nothing like the promotional videos, it doesnt have any of the features that the lead designer promised and performs exceedingly bad even on high end pcs
    whatever you do, do not buy it, it is nothing like the videos they've shown
  51. Nedkelly
    Aug 17, 2016
    0
    A **** covered in golden paper, with lots of lies written on it.
    Seriously, how is that even different than spore? The planets are almost the same expect colors and atmosphere, so is in spore... Creatures in spore at least were funny, animals in this garbage are a pure joke.
    What really grinds my gears are the developers lies. Oh sure, we could meet other players, yes there is a    A **** covered in golden paper, with lots of lies written on it.
    Seriously, how is that even different than spore? The planets are almost the same expect colors and atmosphere, so is in spore... Creatures in spore at least were funny, animals in this garbage are a pure joke.
    What really grinds my gears are the developers lies. Oh sure, we could meet other players, yes there is a multiplayer! Expect IT IS NOT POSSIBLE.
    Oh and did you watched the old trailer of this game, with the world covered in animals, plants and trees? With space combat of the large ships between races? Forget it, it was all scripted for the need of poor marketing, hype building.
    **** this game and their creators, 40 pounds for this **** is a daylight robbery.    … Expand
  52. ParGellen
    Oct 6, 2016
    1
    I can sum up how bad this game is with this. It's as bad as X Rebirth and the companies that made both games act in equally criminal manners. False advertising all around.
  53. Sergeant_MarkIV
    Aug 18, 2016
    0
    This is a scam. The game shown in the trailers simply doesn't exists. 2/3 of the features shown in the trailers were cut. Hello Games must be thankful for Steam and Gog having strong refund policies that allows users to ask for a refund for any reason, otherwise they would have lawsuits pilling up at their mailbox.
  54. Phaaze
    Aug 17, 2016
    0
    pros:
    Quite funny the first 4 hours
    cons:
    - overpriced
    - planets with no biomes, are all the same after 5 or 6
    - no AI at all
    - extremely ripetitive and boring
    - trading is a joke
    - just 10 elements and the most are useless
    - this is a bad pre alpha with more bugs then features
    - no multiplayer
  55. Mueti
    Aug 15, 2016
    2
    The game has an undeniable draw to it, I keep having the itch to go back to it, in the hope that there'll be something interesting to discover yet. Unfortunately, it is by now abundantly clear that this promise of getting to discover and explore a universe of planets will not be fulfilled. The algorithm that generates this universe simply failed at doing the one thing it was supposed to -The game has an undeniable draw to it, I keep having the itch to go back to it, in the hope that there'll be something interesting to discover yet. Unfortunately, it is by now abundantly clear that this promise of getting to discover and explore a universe of planets will not be fulfilled. The algorithm that generates this universe simply failed at doing the one thing it was supposed to - a unimaginably large world was created, but one filled with nothing but complete boredom. Everything feels the same, and after having seen a lot of them I now feel confident in saying that no planet is worth exploring. Same animal- and plantlife, the same landscapes everywhere; the slight variations in color and form don't do anything to make a meaningful difference. If this core aspect would have delivered, that would have been enough for me, but alas, it did not.
    Unfortunately, the core promise is not the only thing the game failed at delivering. Countless technical and design issues plague it at every corner, the movement is only bearable because of a bug, graphics are mostly ugly, the FoV is unplayably narrow unless you fix it outside of the game, gunplay is bad, spaceflight controls are *horrible*, inventory management is a hassle at best, crafting and gathering tedious.

    So in the end what is one left with? Ambition, perhaps. But what does that actually count for when it never amounts to anything...?    … Expand
  56. Maxson
    Aug 16, 2016
    0
    What do you get for 60$? A boring, repetitive, and overhyped game. This is what you get for overhyping a game, and now you get No Man's Poop. Also this game is currently broken on pc.
  57. allan123
    Aug 16, 2016
    0
    Like some other said, very disappointing to say at least. The controls are bad, the FOV is bad, also, where the heck did multiplayer go?
    If the developers had at least said it wasn't a multiplayer game, I would have give a better scoring, but (correct me if I'm wrong) there's no multiplayer.
    No man's PC can handle it Mining simulator/10 Spore 2 Will you be able to play with your    Like some other said, very disappointing to say at least. The controls are bad, the FOV is bad, also, where the heck did multiplayer go?
    If the developers had at least said it wasn't a multiplayer game, I would have give a better scoring, but (correct me if I'm wrong) there's no multiplayer.
    No man's PC can handle it
    Mining simulator/10
    Spore 2
    Will you be able to play with your friends?
    Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies    … Expand
  58. xMightyz
    Aug 19, 2016
    0
    Lying developers and misleading trailers and screenshots. Huge performance issues. Feels slow and repetetive after about 2 hours of gameplay. Definately not worth the pricetag. its a scam, really.
  59. Nogard123
    Aug 18, 2016
    0
    Horrible unfinished game,Hello games has lied about allot of stuff,it would even make Peter Molyneux blush.
    Here is a tip,never pre order again and don't give into the hype that the fake gaming journalist are pouring out.
    If you really want to buy,i would at least wait till they fixed the bugs and the price dropped. 60$ for this,is an insult to all gamers,also beware of posting on    Horrible unfinished game,Hello games has lied about allot of stuff,it would even make Peter Molyneux blush.
    Here is a tip,never pre order again and don't give into the hype that the fake gaming journalist are pouring out.

    If you really want to buy,i would at least wait till they fixed the bugs and the price dropped.
    60$ for this,is an insult to all gamers,also beware of posting on the steam forums,they will ban you for criticizing the game.    … Expand
  60. aidan0
    Aug 22, 2016
    1
    This game is sold as the biggest lie which amounts to the biggest con in pc game history.

    They got your money and you who paid got f**ked.

    Class action lawsuit anyone?
  61. AngelMorenoARG
    Aug 18, 2016
    0
    Lo primero destacar que mi intención es sacar de dudas al que esté pensando si comprar o no este título y que este es un juego que se vende por 59 lereles en steam, es decir como un triple A así pues, debe ser analizado al nivel de su precio, desglosaré mi análisis según varios apartados:

    - APARTADO GRÁFICO: quizás para un jugador de PS4 los gráficos de no Man's sky serán suficiente,    Lo primero destacar que mi intención es sacar de dudas al que esté pensando si comprar o no este título y que este es un juego que se vende por 59 lereles en steam, es decir como un triple A así pues, debe ser analizado al nivel de su precio, desglosaré mi análisis según varios apartados:

    - APARTADO GRÁFICO: quizás para un jugador de PS4 los gráficos de no Man's sky serán suficiente, pero los jugadores de PC somos más exigentes, los gráficos lastran el juego y mucho, este es un juego con gráficos de hace 5 años, no esperéis más, un PC gaming tiene más de 5 veces la potencia de PS4 al igual que en muchos juegos triple A se esperan texturas 4K nativas, mejoras en los efectos de partículas, Physx, sombreado, 144fps; pues no, pongáis la configuración que pongáis parece ser la misma que en PS4 y para colmo los fps brillan por su ausencia, incluso algunos jugadores destacan grandes caídas de estos yo no pase de 40 con una GTX1070 OC. Para costar 60 usd y tener 5 años de trabajo muy muy mal, un 2 pelado y siendo muy generoso.

    -HISTORIA/TRAMA: Eso que es? El encargado de esto le dedicó mucho tiempo, calculo que 0 segundos y yá. Un 0 y por no valorar negativo.

    -INNOVACIÓN:: Este es el campo donde brilla el juego, es decir lo que ves es aleatorio y siempre distinto, seguramente verás animales absurdos con piernas de flamenco y cuerpo de elefante, sí pero aquí en la tierra tenemos el ornitorrinco a sí que se salvan, además este es un título de ficción y no de "ciencia ficción" pues la ciencia de la pasan by de forro, nos encontraremos planetas o lunas tan cerca que la gravedad las atraería hasta chochar animales que morirían por su forma etc pero esa es la gracia de este título. Aquí obtiene un 5 sin duda.

    -JUGABILIDAD: Mala, repetitiva, es lenta, cansa, los menús fáciles cuando les pillas el tranquillo pero parecen de juego de Android y va en serio, se hecha en falta poder construir estructuras, bases, que a medida que mejoras las cosas cambie el diseño, que los planetas tengan gravedad o que lo que rompes se quede roto cuando cargas las partida, que las montañas se regeneran solas. Por eso mi valoración es un -10 y siendo muy muy bueno

    - SERVICIO ONLINE: ya sabe todo el mundo que no podrás encontrarte con otros jugadores, luchar con ellos, negociar etc. Lo único que puedes hacer es subir a los servidores el nombre que le des a tus planetas etc, pues bien en dos horas lo intente 10 veces de las cuales 9 él servidor no conectó, la que si me dio error, como yo conozco a 4 personas más de mi Clan, vamos puede ser peor pero lo dudo; nota un 5 y mucho es.

    - BANDA SONORA: Y he leído que es buena, queeee? La gente que dice esto ha jugado? Hay juegos de 19 euros como rocket league que le dan vueltas, ya no hablemos mis triple A, será aleatoria, permutable, se ajustará año que quieran decir, es mala mala, solo se nota cuando estás en la nave y no brilla por ser más que pasable. Un 4 y mucho para un juego de 60 euros

    Dicho esto si miro la media sería un 2, pero a pesar de que parece que estás Juanjo a una Alpha sin terminar y muy en pañales, los gráficos de hace 5 años, los menús de juego de móvil, la mala conexión online y el precio ridículamente caro, por la novedad de la generación de mundos hace que mi nota para este título aumente a un 0    … Expand
  62. oracle00
    Aug 21, 2016
    3
    Just dont buy it, ever dont support the crooks at hello games. Dont believe any of the promises. They are useless, in 3 years this is all they can come up with, just imagine what they can do with another 3 years. Nothing! It will be the users/moders that make this game playable. Borrow it from a friend, or play it for 2 hours and refund it but paying for this game supports thieves
  63. ashyyay2
    Oct 8, 2016
    3
    really really boring. takeoff than go to other planet and watch some bad animal mixing . again find fuel for your spaceship and do them again. also awful port on pc
  64. Chapa9dj
    Aug 24, 2016
    2
    Glitchy bug ridden mess. It gets repetitive and old really fast, after you travelled through a few planets, everything starts to look exactly the same, creatures repeat, flora is similar and all you do is mine, mine and mine. It's absolutely ridiculous, there is nothing to this game.
    No story, no endgame, nothing.
    I'm glad i only borrowed this from a friend just to try it, i feel like    Glitchy bug ridden mess. It gets repetitive and old really fast, after you travelled through a few planets, everything starts to look exactly the same, creatures repeat, flora is similar and all you do is mine, mine and mine. It's absolutely ridiculous, there is nothing to this game.
    No story, no endgame, nothing.

    I'm glad i only borrowed this from a friend just to try it, i feel like i dodged a bullet by not pre-ordering this gigantic blunder of the year.
    To anyone reading this, save your cash and spend it somewhere else.

    Personally, i'll be keeping tabs in Star Citizen throughout its development, hopefully it'll turn much better than this. In fact, it already is.    … Expand
  65. Sjalka
    Sep 30, 2016
    3
    Better late than never ... time for a review of that title...

    I would have loved to write an review earlier - but when i got the game... it simply did not run. It crashed every time i fired it up ... and it just started to work with one of the most recent patches. But alas ... lets get to it. No man's sky is of course ... a huge disappointment. There is no doubt about that. There    Better late than never ... time for a review of that title...

    I would have loved to write an review earlier - but when i got the game... it simply did not run. It crashed every time i fired it up ... and it just started to work with one of the most recent patches. But alas ... lets get to it.

    No man's sky is of course ... a huge disappointment. There is no doubt about that. There were many features announced - and even promised ... that are not present in the final build. And not only that - from what the game mechanics suggest - they were never intended to be part of it.

    So there is no "real simulation" of a universe - instead this game is build in a VERY conservative manner (like Freelancer) - with "pockets" of static space connected by a warp/loadscreen.

    So - no - you cannot point at a little star/dot on the sky - enter your ship ... and fly there. The dot you see is nothing but a pixel on a skybox/starbox.

    The lack of simulation runs deep in that game - nither flora - nor fauna is simulated. It is just randomized. Which in turn means that any planet or moon can basically be anything. You can have an icecold moon next to a scorching hot planet. But simulation aside ... it is also the gameplay that severely suffers.

    The benefit of writing a late review is that a huge number of people have practically written any critizism before me.

    The main thing (aside from the non existant simulation) is the total lack of "game"-play. Now i do not expect a game to always revolve around the player (like Mass Effect for example) or to be driven by violent acts or player decisions. But i do enjoy for player actions to have consequences - at least for the player.

    Summed up ...

    - Death in NMS is near to meaningless - at most it is a miniscule inconvenience
    - factions mean near to nothing. I gain positive faction status effects for stuff that should hardly if ever affect my affiliation
    - NPCs are not even trying to be alive. They are .. at the very best .. similar to renaissance automatrons, rooted in place, capable of minimal articulation.
    - The entire universe seems to be settled explored with outposts on every planet ... BUT .. i have yet to see a fully developed planet (cities, metropoli, satelites ... or in short .. real civilizations... even the ancient PC game "frontier" simulated class 2 civilizations and even class 3 civilizations - and all that on 2 3.5'' floppy discs)

    Then there is my critizism of design choices...

    NMS is a singleplayer game - that puts the player into a universe. The player is totally alone - there is no one else of the players race around at all.
    I do fail to see the reason why there is no character customization and an option to switch to 3rd person view. Being a completely different person within an alien universe would increase the feeling of being "alone" ... while at the same time allowing the player to identify much more with whoever they play as. It would also allow the game to have customization options - unlockable, craftable or droppable. Players do like the option to "be different" in their games after all.
    I can only consider this lack of customization a HUGE missed opportunity.

    Whats left is a game that sadly offers less depths than Elite (no, not Elite Dangerous - i mean Elite .. the original), less skill than Cookie Clicker and simpler game mechanics than Spore.

    But is it an entirely BAD game? ....

    Maybe not - it is a very BASIC frame on which modders "might" build on ... IF Hello Games made it open source (yea - as if that would happen) or released some sort of creation kit. (also unlikely)    … Expand
  66. rnd71
    Aug 25, 2016
    2
    Игра пустышка.
    По честному, это пре альфа демки процедурной генерации.
    Ей еще лет 10 и может быть, она будет хоть немного похожа на игру.
  67. Havoc44
    Aug 21, 2016
    3
    I like No Man’s Sky and was excited about its announcement, but the game has a lot room for improvement. Sadly, the game feels more like an Early Access game that should been price at $30, though I won’t argue against $20. Definitely, not worth $60 as the game is now. I hate to say it, but I would give this game in its current state a 3/10.

    PROS: 1. Good Foundation 2. Language    I like No Man’s Sky and was excited about its announcement, but the game has a lot room for improvement. Sadly, the game feels more like an Early Access game that should been price at $30, though I won’t argue against $20. Definitely, not worth $60 as the game is now. I hate to say it, but I would give this game in its current state a 3/10.

    PROS:

    1. Good Foundation
    2. Language System (Especially being able to figure out a puzzle when you only have a few words to work with)
    3. Ships have “Some” Variety
    4. Can be relaxing at times (But also can be Very Frustrating)

    Cons:

    1. That ending, WTF. Really. No spoilers, but even after reading online what the ending was supposed to mean, still…..NO.
    2. Gameplay, or lack thereof: (Primarily, Mining and Scanning) Very Repetitive gameplay. You will have to do a lot of mining, and that’s even if you upgrade your multi tool to speed up the process, it is still a huge time sink. Scanning new species gets old and boring fast with a lot of creatures looking the same world to world or just having random parts thrown together. Just not much gameplay period and the game can get boring really fast.
    3. Puzzles lack variety, you soon learn the majority of the numbers puzzle at the consoles are just a simple shift the numbers to the left or right.
    4. NPCs. Npc never move, just always standing in the same spot or like at the space station ships will come in but alien npc never get out.
    5. Having to hold the button to do anything in the game, no simple click to sell or interact with something, you need to hold the button for a few seconds.
    6. Worlds quickly start to look the same
    7. Journey to the center takes way longer than it should for such a repetitive game.    … Expand
  68. plump_turkey
    Aug 21, 2016
    4
    It doesn't count as a ton of content if you just copy and paste the same elements over and over in different combinations. You will literally see the same building and find the same meaningless "points of interest" over and over and over again. You will have the same, meaningless interactions with aliens of 1 of the 4 races.

    There just isn't enough content here and I think they would    It doesn't count as a ton of content if you just copy and paste the same elements over and over in different combinations. You will literally see the same building and find the same meaningless "points of interest" over and over and over again. You will have the same, meaningless interactions with aliens of 1 of the 4 races.

    There just isn't enough content here and I think they would have to add more than double the content that they currently have the make it worthwhile.

    Playing this game feels like how I imagine an English teacher feels; grading a stack of plagiarized papers where each student changed just enough to not get caught for cheating.    … Expand
  69. Cirrhosis
    Sep 3, 2016
    2
    **** you Hello Games.
    **** you Sean Murray.
    I bought this with the intention of being able to play with other people. I bought this with the intention of taking part in large space battles. So, I launch the game, and what do I get? 15 FPS. 15. I'm running a rig that is more than capable of 60 FPS in a title like this (980 Ti, 4790k, 16GB RAM), and I get.. 15. Okay, launch day    **** you Hello Games.
    **** you Sean Murray.

    I bought this with the intention of being able to play with other people.
    I bought this with the intention of taking part in large space battles.

    So, I launch the game, and what do I get? 15 FPS. 15. I'm running a rig that is more than capable of 60 FPS in a title like this (980 Ti, 4790k, 16GB RAM), and I get.. 15.

    Okay, launch day bugs, I get it, kinks need to be worked out. So I do a little Googling, only to find out that Sean Murray is now blaming the users for not having up to date drivers, or insufficient hardware. What the actual **** Seriously?

    All right, so I'll wait a week or so, see what updates get pushed out, maybe things will run a little smoother. And they do! a *little*. I get 25-30 FPS instead of 15, great.

    Guess I'll try and enjoy what I can. At this point, I'm aware that I'll likely never see another player, nor participate in large scale space battles. I have flown around for 12 hours, litterally discovering the same planet, with different colors, different colored plants (note, *different colored,* not actually any different), and slightly different wildlife. At about the 12 hour mark, I came upon something interesting. An "anomaly." Sweet! Something new! Maybe this is where things pick up. Long story short, I was able to enter a black hole. Neat! I can't wait to see what's on the other side. What was on the other side? A different colored galaxy.. with different colored planets.. with different color plants and.. yup, different colored wildlife.

    I'm done. Biggest waste of $60 ever.

    Shame on me for pre-ordering. But shame on Hello Games for entirely misrepresenting their product. And shame on Sean Murray for blaming me, the consumer, for their faulty product/launch.

    The soundtrack is pretty decent though.    … Expand
  70. Neng-
    Sep 8, 2016
    3
    We all had the expectations set at a very high level, it looked really good and promising from the beginning, but it's just not what we saw.
    - Bad framerate and stability issues
    - Randomly generated worlds gets monsters that makes no sense
    - There is not an objective to do besides "exploring"
    - Has no multiplayer
    - Graphics are underwhelming to say the least
  71. Mamaluigi71
    Sep 10, 2016
    3
    I've played NMS for a decent amount of time and I can say that it has absolutely no depth whatsoever. It's fairly enjoyable for a couple of hours but after that it's just boring repetitive garbage. Also, the developer is a liar and I am never going to support any game that he is involved in ever again.
  72. Diabollus13
    Dec 6, 2016
    0
    Никому не советую данную игру, вам просто будет скучно-так, как не было ещё никогда. Не покупайте не в коем случае, максимум поиграйте у друга или в пиратку или в бесплатный триал или ещё что и вы поймёте о чём я, 5 часов если не меньше будет достаточно что бы вникнуть в суть этого провала десятилетия. Один плюс из этого не сделали ммо, хотя кто знает может быть только мультиплеер бы спасНикому не советую данную игру, вам просто будет скучно-так, как не было ещё никогда. Не покупайте не в коем случае, максимум поиграйте у друга или в пиратку или в бесплатный триал или ещё что и вы поймёте о чём я, 5 часов если не меньше будет достаточно что бы вникнуть в суть этого провала десятилетия. Один плюс из этого не сделали ммо, хотя кто знает может быть только мультиплеер бы спас от уныния сей проект.… Expand
  73. The_Real_Black
    Jan 24, 2017
    0
    Its a very bad game, even with the base building update. The base game wanted to be a open universe exploration game with some kind of story elements, but in the end all the ways never leads to some valuable moments. Its no spoiler the center of the galaxy only restarts the game with your current ship. The other route tells that you created a new star-system, but technically there are onlyIts a very bad game, even with the base building update. The base game wanted to be a open universe exploration game with some kind of story elements, but in the end all the ways never leads to some valuable moments. Its no spoiler the center of the galaxy only restarts the game with your current ship. The other route tells that you created a new star-system, but technically there are only 64bit different planets (9,223,372,036,854,775,807) the random generator will generate a unique planet for each one and you can not add there a planet created by you. Also there is no report of planet-systems named like "created by user" so its a nice story, but nothing more in this "multiplayer/singleplayer-multigame" experience.

    The base building, teleportation and renting the ship with the option to build a base in it feels shoehorned into the mechanics of the game. Most ideas are done by other indie developer like starbound and subnautika already. Also this basebuilding breaks with the mechaniks of the core game. It was not developed to be a base building game the core mechanics are not changed.

    For pacing the game there are to many grinding moments for just improving the grinding it self. In other games you grind to do some thing different. Example: Starbound. With the multitool you dig to improve the tool to grab liquids from the planets. Then you will grind to place wire and paint the placed blocks. In No Man's Sky you just grind to grind more. There is no target or improvement in your game and without these shift in mechanics there is no fun after 3 to 4 hours.    … Expand
  74. tOBdavian
    Mar 27, 2019
    0
    Lies! Sean recently said the best feedback was from those who were invested and played over 100 hours in the first week. Well I have a job, was invested, and to this day I'm incredably disappointed in the lies you told and the utter lack of an apology which i believe we all deserve.
  75. zerogr
    Aug 26, 2019
    0
    Итак. Резюмируя все вышесказанное, свой опыт в почти 600 часов игры и впечатления от обновления.
    Чего же ждали все от "огромного" и распиаренного обновления игроки?
    Провода? Я лично ожидал увидеть все что угодно, но не это! Ждали я так думаю оптимизации и разнообразия в этом унылом мире, в котором все планеты похожи и ловишь себя на мысли в какой-то момент что ты попал в тот самый день    Итак. Резюмируя все вышесказанное, свой опыт в почти 600 часов игры и впечатления от обновления.
    Чего же ждали все от "огромного" и распиаренного обновления игроки?
    Провода? Я лично ожидал увидеть все что угодно, но не это!
    Ждали я так думаю оптимизации и разнообразия в этом унылом мире,
    в котором все планеты похожи и ловишь себя на мысли в какой-то момент что ты попал в тот самый день сурка.
    Что-же помешало убрать наконец пластелиновые крылья из однообразных собак галактики?
    Что помешало добавить в унылые ландшафты реки, водопады и прочие излишества? Например небольшие города/поселки.
    Или сделать дополнительно энное количество приличных моделек животных и растений и добавить их в генерацию, что-бы она действительно создавала нечто интересное, уникальное для каждой планеты.
    Что помешало создать например рейдовые планеты. С ценными ресурсами и дикими зверюгами для кооператива?
    Это провода. Вы серьезно? Провода? Провода в фантастическом мире? Где и так достаточно мелкой возни и гринда? Добавить провода?
    Добавить полигоналей, что-бы у тех кто плюс-минус героическими ухищрениями и шаманством с бубуном кое как оптимизировал сам для себя игру,
    было возгорание энной точки от такого обновления.
    Вы себе так представляли фантастический мир? С унылыми, однообразными кораблями, похожими на творения детей аутистов?
    Даже та самая расчудесная станция Нексус, - пустая и унылая. Такими должны быть системные станции. А не Нексус.
    Вы серьезно? Вы этим гордитесь? Умиляетесь сами себе и своей гениальностью в твиттере? Вы думаете этого должно хватить?
    Вам не хватает здравых идей и простоты ума? Обращайтесь к игрокам, которые по вашему плохо реализуют свои идеи.
    Давайте я вам накидаю идей.
    Добавьте моделей животных и растений в игру. Добавьте биомов.
    Добавьте реки, озера. И хотя-бы небольшие городки.
    Что-бы ваша хваленая генерация выдавала действительно нечто уникальное.
    Затем создайте в игре механизм зоо и биопарков, для посещения другими игроками.
    Создайте рейдовые планеты. С действительно опасными животными, на которые нужно будет собирать отряд в том же Нексусе.
    Добавьте уже возможность видоизменять корабли. И вообще действительно интересные и фантастические модели кораблей.    … Expand
  76. Seibik_corp2018
    Nov 8, 2019
    2
    A game that killed all expectations! Horrible optimization, bad plot. Few opportunities.
  77. zanzou
    Feb 19, 2020
    1
    Still has not apologized even once for lying and misleading all his fans due to pressures to get an influx of cash. It doesn't matter how much you go back and fix retroactively until you acknowledge misleading everyone.
  78. Vixremento
    Aug 13, 2016
    3
    Spent a good few hours with it now and it does have that tiny bit of appeal that just wants to you keep going, just one more little discovery here and there before I leave the planet or even think about moving onto another system.

    Runs just okay (I have fairly old hardware but not ancient) however for what it is I'd have expected better personally (I mean Ark: Survival evolved runs a    Spent a good few hours with it now and it does have that tiny bit of appeal that just wants to you keep going, just one more little discovery here and there before I leave the planet or even think about moving onto another system.

    Runs just okay (I have fairly old hardware but not ancient) however for what it is I'd have expected better personally (I mean Ark: Survival evolved runs a lot better than this at twice the resolution lol) while being 10 times prettier and with probably 100 times more colours in its palette). It sure isn't going to win any princess awards but that isn't to say it's ugly but at best it's maybe the average girl you knew at school.

    In playing it though I found it was a lot more involved than what I thought it would be in some areas while also not being very deep or as engaging as I had hoped for in others. The ships handle like crap forcing you upwards if you dare aim too high (no mofo, I don't wanna leave the planet just yet) and also preventing you from just hovering around at stand still when you're actually just wanting to scout specific areas on a planet (this works okay once in space though).

    The inventory management is just pretty awful with UI that shifts beneath your movements (I'm using a mouse but I believe it's true of all control versions) and if you're comparing ships with large inventories (and then trying to move stuff across) it just cuts off a bunch on the sides. Another minor issue is that I constantly get a reminder to redeem my pre-order DLC for a ship that is far worse than the one I have now (I just didn't want any special bonuses at start you see).

    Overall though I've enjoyed some bits and found that perhaps like others I had just gone in with unrealistic expectations. This would have been okay with it coming it at half of it's current asking price but at a full priced AAA game I feel it's just a pure cash grab primarily driven with Sony being at the back door (as usual) pushing it far more than it deserved to be.

    The FOV settings don't actually give you the angle that you expect so instead you'll have to resort to editing one of the config files if you want anything that closely even resembles what should be standard on PC (i.e. I set mine at 125 which is probably closer to 90). Having to hold in your action button (left click) to change settings is also just stupid - I'm okay with this for the in game activation stuff but on the settings screen when you first start it's absolutely stupid.

    The map just sucks too. So you move your mouse along to the path to highlight a direction and if you move too much before you know it it'll have jumped along to the next system again in that path (so very obviously created primarily with a controller in mind).

    A neat sort of little trick I found was sprinting and then using the jetpack just before you run out of stamina...jetpack in bursts (while at the same speed that you were running at) to keep from getting to high and then just as you land toggle the sprint again. Still awfully slow if you've wondered too far from your ship and that's probably one of the things that helped for the boredom to set it quicker than what it should.

    Blah blah blah I've gone on too long. It's okay to mess around with and maybe it'll get better later on but right now it's no where near worth the current asking price.    … Expand
  79. rygar666
    Aug 13, 2016
    3
    When you charge premium money for a game then people have a right to set reasonable expectations for that kind of experience. No Man's Sky fails to live up to that expectation and publishers should stop trying to get away with it.
  80. Fleabum
    Aug 18, 2016
    2
    Disappointed. That single word sums up this gaming experience.

    Anyone who was an early follower of this game will know how shallow this released game is compared to the game it was meant to be. The last title that did this so bad was X-Rebirth. Lets look at what we were lead to believe the game would have:- Lies all of them. No loading screens... warp scenes are very long loading    Disappointed. That single word sums up this gaming experience.

    Anyone who was an early follower of this game will know how shallow this released game is compared to the game it was meant to be. The last title that did this so bad was X-Rebirth.

    Lets look at what we were lead to believe the game would have:- Lies all of them.
    No loading screens... warp scenes are very long loading times
    Realistic physics... blow a hole in rock formation and its left hanging in the air isn't realistic physics
    Multi-player... um... did I miss it somewhere?

    What it looks like, is the dev team bit off more than they can chew. Seems they decided it would take too much to do this game as it was original portrayed, so they released a tech demo with a few bolted on game play elements.

    Hell, this is so un-optimised it plays poorly on a 980Ti, and the longer you play, the worse the game FPS becomes. You have to restart every few hours else it becomes unplayable.

    My advice is wait till its in a humble bundle or less than $10 on steam.    … Expand
  81. Swaglord69
    Aug 15, 2016
    2
    Fun for the first 2-5 hours, then you realize that the game only has to offer an endless loop of collecting the same materials or going to the same buildings over and over again just to upgrade your inventory slots by 1 slot at a time.

    Game had/has a lot of potential to be something amazing but it's just a skeleton worth $60 instead of $15. Seriously don't buy this game until they    Fun for the first 2-5 hours, then you realize that the game only has to offer an endless loop of collecting the same materials or going to the same buildings over and over again just to upgrade your inventory slots by 1 slot at a time.

    Game had/has a lot of potential to be something amazing but it's just a skeleton worth $60 instead of $15. Seriously don't buy this game until they release updates, (and i doubt it will save this game) it is not worth it.

    P.S. Game also runs awful on the majority of people pc's on launch.    … Expand
  82. TwoTwoFiveNine
    Aug 13, 2016
    2
    Everything in this game is of poor quality. Textures, models, animations, procedure generation, interface, notifications, exploration, ship controls, gun play, secret at the center of the universe and whatever else in the game i forgot to add. Except music maybe. Technically, yes, whatever developers promised with their vague statements — they delivered, but all of it is of incredibly poorEverything in this game is of poor quality. Textures, models, animations, procedure generation, interface, notifications, exploration, ship controls, gun play, secret at the center of the universe and whatever else in the game i forgot to add. Except music maybe. Technically, yes, whatever developers promised with their vague statements — they delivered, but all of it is of incredibly poor quality. Definetly doesn't worth it's price. Definetly isn't a complete game, but tech demo at best.… Expand
  83. MrCatgirl
    Aug 22, 2016
    1
    The only thing that's ground-breaking about this game is that it's the very first time I've had the desire and motivation to try out the Steam Refund process. Which, unlike this pile of fei-oo, I would rate at 10/10. Thank you, Sean Murray, for this amazing opportunity.
  84. FrozenToast
    Aug 22, 2016
    0
    Not even worth to pirate.
    The worst performance game I have ever played.
    None of the developers have even played it.
    The game play... doesn't exist.
    Get a decent QA team. Releasing software with this amount of bugs and crashes is criminal.
  85. sardok0031
    Aug 22, 2016
    1
    This game is absolutely trash! The only reason I am playing is just because I paid £39.99 and it is too bloody late to realize it is a garbage game. I would like to point out some facts before you guys make your mind about buying this game.

    Firstly this upscaling 720p into 1080p graphic is absolutely horrendous. In regards to that, anti-aliasing option is simply not working, and being    This game is absolutely trash! The only reason I am playing is just because I paid £39.99 and it is too bloody late to realize it is a garbage game. I would like to point out some facts before you guys make your mind about buying this game.

    Firstly this upscaling 720p into 1080p graphic is absolutely horrendous. In regards to that, anti-aliasing option is simply not working, and being completely left off. I can’t endure those jaggy edges and blurry graphics. It can simply make you blind, even i feel like high after 1-2 hours session. Seriously there is something wrong about graphics apart of technical flaws. If not for the games like this (AAA priced ones!!) why do we buy GTX 1080 and pay £600 for that, right?

    Second important thing needs to be addressed is that Hello Games decided to hire a QA team right after release…What about before release? Can’t you just test the game before release it! Isn't that more professional way to do it! I understand that low budget companies sometimes do not invest into it, instead they try to sort it out inside the company. However, if you charge AAA price to a game, perceptibly people expect some quality in it.

    Everybody has already mentioned about technical problem, and some sort of troubleshooting so I skip that. Most of you have got literally 2-3 hours before a bed time after work, dinner, gym..etc . If those hours are very precious to you, i strongly recommend to not waste it with this game at its current stage! Otherwise, you force yourself to play it just to ease the pain of £39.99..

    However, there are couple of things that i like in this game. if you are a Sci-fi fan like me that would be worth to chase the root of alien civilization by reading lores and following the routes of atlas guidance. So there is no story line but game pushes you to find out. I admit I like this hidden concept however it is still too hard to navigate in galaxy map due bad design and framerate drops. I also have some hopes that in future we will get some different generated planets like giant mountains , lava, gas clouds..etc, PVP battles, storyline, patches..etc . Hope, they somehow deliver it!    … Expand
  86. Edelplastic_com
    Aug 16, 2016
    1
    Overhyped by the Press. Not worth $60 because to less functions, no multiplayer, bad graphics, bad performance, not this what was showing in the Trailer!

    This Game is a insolence!
  87. twtgoblin
    Aug 22, 2016
    0
    Horrible. I feel cheated and I want my money back. I've not felt this lied-to in a long while and that's saying something. This game is about 1% of what was promised and falls well short of even reasonable expectations.
  88. Rhand
    Aug 18, 2016
    0
    Horrible pile of excrement sold on lies and **** Pick it up when it's on sale for 15 bucks if you like doing the same things over and over again no matter what planet you land on.
  89. g494412
    Aug 16, 2016
    0
    Absolute disappointment. Procedurally generated bs by procedurally generated liar, Sean Murray. Just go watch the video called "New disappointment discovered : No Man's Sky". You will understand then.
  90. feralshiv
    Aug 17, 2016
    0
    absolutely horrible, 10$ game sold for 60$, requires pentagon rig to play with at least 30fps, google maps 3d view are more exiting that this game

    0 for 0 expectations met
  91. boonies
    Aug 17, 2016
    1
    It's terribly terrible. Wasn't expecting much since the initial reviews weren't that promising but I didn't expect it to be this bad. Already asked for a refund from Steam after 4 hours.

    All the hype about this game is totally overrated. It's a boring indie space simulator that I would not pay a cent for. Planets look the same, aliens look like crap and there are many aspects of the    It's terribly terrible. Wasn't expecting much since the initial reviews weren't that promising but I didn't expect it to be this bad. Already asked for a refund from Steam after 4 hours.

    All the hype about this game is totally overrated. It's a boring indie space simulator that I would not pay a cent for. Planets look the same, aliens look like crap and there are many aspects of the game that is illogical that is should not even be categorized as a Space game.

    I don't do much review on games but I would say this is a total junk that is totally not worth the money for.    … Expand
  92. Vasot
    Aug 13, 2016
    4
    1) Mediocre cartoony graphics
    2) Huge performance drops during gameplay even if you have a powerful PC
    3) Little variety all planets feels the same with a different skin 4) Awful player Interface and uncomfortable management panel 5) Very shallow without interesting characters and missions feel like a chore gets boring and repetitive fast Game was overhyped to the extreme it's far    1) Mediocre cartoony graphics
    2) Huge performance drops during gameplay even if you have a powerful PC
    3) Little variety all planets feels the same with a different skin
    4) Awful player Interface and uncomfortable management panel
    5) Very shallow without interesting characters and missions feel like a chore gets boring and repetitive fast

    Game was overhyped to the extreme it's far from great i will wait for some patches and maybe i will give it another try in the future    … Expand
  93. Kiwigalaxy
    Aug 13, 2016
    4
    I'll keep it short and simple. Making 18 quintillion planets is an achievement. But the gameplay is boring. It has some cool moments like when you go through the atmosphere for the first time and get an understanding of how big it is and how big the planet you were on is. But it's not much else than that for me. Collecting materials and upgrading stuff just doesn't cut it for me. Also theI'll keep it short and simple. Making 18 quintillion planets is an achievement. But the gameplay is boring. It has some cool moments like when you go through the atmosphere for the first time and get an understanding of how big it is and how big the planet you were on is. But it's not much else than that for me. Collecting materials and upgrading stuff just doesn't cut it for me. Also the PC-port is a catastrophe.… Expand
  94. Diaboliquin
    Aug 16, 2016
    4
    Repetitive tasks, clumsy inventory management, pointless "survival" elements and, to add injury to insult, awful optimization of this PC port. Ask for 60 usd it's too much. An incomplete game that now the developer says will be completed through payed DLC.
  95. tigerskin84
    Aug 20, 2016
    0
    Una basura!! requisitos exagerados para graficos de ps3 , problemas por todos lados incluso con el parche que salio hoy... no pude pasar del tercer planeta que me aburrio y tambien me canso el mal rendimiento
  96. fallouts
    Aug 23, 2016
    0
    No Man's Sky
    Average User Score: 4.8
    Aug 9, 2016
    0
    No Man's Sky
    This is one of the most boring games I've played this generation. Even Homefront the Revolution is better with the patches and no I'm no trolling. Travel to random planets, explore, repeat. No sense of progression or actual story line.
  97. hahn_s0l0
    Aug 20, 2016
    1
    I hate that I have to give this game a 1 and I know that by most metrics it does not deserve that: it is functional. It is a game that is finished. But the problem is that the game we have is not the game we were promised.

    The short version is this: No Man's Sky gets a 1 from me because of the disappointment factor. It is the single most disappointing video game experience I have ever    I hate that I have to give this game a 1 and I know that by most metrics it does not deserve that: it is functional. It is a game that is finished. But the problem is that the game we have is not the game we were promised.

    The short version is this: No Man's Sky gets a 1 from me because of the disappointment factor. It is the single most disappointing video game experience I have ever had and it's entirely the producer's fault.

    The hype began three years ago (same E3 that first teased Bloodborne if I recall correctly) and it looked amazing. It looked like Minecraft, Subnautica, Mass Effect, this sprawling survivor space adventure unlike anything we had ever experienced and what's more, it was advertised as such. There would be EVE like space interactions (we were told after all that this would be a multiplayer game) and I was excited. I followed the hype and was so excited for this game.

    I pre-ordered it and on midnight of release for PC I installed it.

    The first few minutes were troubling and it quickly turned devastating. There is nothing to do. You mine but cannot build much. You discover but cannot share with anyone (turns out Multiplayer does not exist). You learn alien words but the interactions with aliens are flat and uninspired. The most exciting thing that might happen is you accidentally shoot a sentinel: the dull and lifeless protectors... or something... of every planet in the universe.

    What is so disappointing is how easy that would have been to correct. The set up for great plots are there: what are the sentinels? How are they everywhere? what's the deal with these aliens? What is Atlas? There is so much and yet the only hint of a plot is to continually slog away through procedurally generated planets until I guess you can reach the universe's core.

    The only merit this game has is to drive home the stark, existential reality of space travel. That we are surrounded by such vast nothingness and I suppose in that way it's a moodily artistic commentary on life but not one that is worth 60 dollars. The price is borderline theft. This is not a triple A game and Hello games has a very long way to go before it can consider itself a triple A producer. This tremendous failure of a game (in that it has failed to deliver on any of its promise) will be an obstacle that they will need to work a very long time to overcome.

    (PS, I love that I can check a box for spoilers. As if there's any story here to spoil at all)    … Expand
  98. b1
    Aug 21, 2016
    0
    44 hours in, I gave up. I was hoping for something much more interesting, there is too much repetition.
    Boring and lacking in promise.
    Dont waste your time.
  99. Rupieeeee
    Aug 21, 2016
    0
    Game gets boring and repetitive after just a few hours, missing lots of features which were promised to be there. The game itself doesn't deserve 0. I'm quite sure some people will find it entertaining, but I'll rate it 0 because of the false advertising and lies from developers, which I'm sure misled many people who bought it.
  100. juaner
    Aug 19, 2016
    2
    Luego de que ayer el creador y estafador Sean Murray se contradijera en mil entrevista sobre el DLC del juego me di cuenta de lo tenaz que esta este juego en cuanto a lo lleno de mentiras que nos vendieron. Todo lo que dijo sobre el juego antes de que saliera ni la mitad de ese contenido esta. ¿dónde están los dinosaurios aliens gigantes? ¿Dónde está que habían diferentes tipos de navesLuego de que ayer el creador y estafador Sean Murray se contradijera en mil entrevista sobre el DLC del juego me di cuenta de lo tenaz que esta este juego en cuanto a lo lleno de mentiras que nos vendieron. Todo lo que dijo sobre el juego antes de que saliera ni la mitad de ese contenido esta. ¿dónde están los dinosaurios aliens gigantes? ¿Dónde está que habían diferentes tipos de naves con propósitos diferentes? ¿Multiplayer? entre mil otras cosas. Y ahora llega y dice que cobrara por el dlc de todo el contenido que falto ¿luego de pagar 60 dólares no da todo lo que promete y además cobra para obtener por dlc todo lo que prometió en un principio?. QUE ESTAFA. NO COMPREN ESTA MAQUINA DE HACER DINERO SIN CONTENIDO PROMETIDO. Antes estaba dispuesto a darle positivo porque sentía que el juego iría mejorando pero cobrar más dinero por ya un juego caro e incompleto es una ESTAFA.… Expand
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#2 Most Discussed PC Game of 2016
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#25 Most Shared PC Game of 2016

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Metascore
61

Mixed or average reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 17
  3. Negative: 2 out of 17
  1. Pelit (Finland)
    Oct 11, 2016
    67
    No Man's Sky breaks the record in falling short of the hype – which is an incredible achievement in the category of super ambitious space games. The huge universe is a repetitive, lifeless and meaningless place, no amount of random generated creatures can change that. The most unforgivable fail is making the spaceship such a pain to fly, which makes exploring the vast universe simply a chore. However, at its best the game is epic and many of the issues should be easy to fix, so this might not be the end of the journey after all. [Sept 2016]
  2. PC PowerPlay
    Oct 2, 2016
    60
    It's partially broken, shallow, repetitive and aimless, but hang me, I still kind of love it. [Issue#255, p.56]
  3. Edge Magazine
    Sep 27, 2016
    60
    While some poorly designed systems and mechanics chip away at your patience, the feeling of flying seamlessly from space down to a peninsula you spotted from orbit never fails to enthrall. [Nov 2016, p.106]
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