No Man's Sky

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4.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 2694 Ratings

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  1. Zajcew
    Aug 13, 2016
    3
    This game has a few small problems and one big one. I'm gonna start with the small ones:
    - It's unoptimised and it runs like ****
    - What's wrong with just clicking things? Why do I have to click-and-hold-until-a-bar-fills-up to do anything? - I like to play while listening to podcasts and while you can mute almost everything, you can't mute the voice that constantly talks to you.    This game has a few small problems and one big one. I'm gonna start with the small ones:
    - It's unoptimised and it runs like ****
    - What's wrong with just clicking things? Why do I have to click-and-hold-until-a-bar-fills-up to do anything?
    - I like to play while listening to podcasts and while you can mute almost everything, you can't mute the voice that constantly talks to you. Hearing "Item received" while you mass-craft things every 2 seconds is annoying as **** and you can't mute it.
    - The game doesn't do a good job explaining even the basic gameplay mechanics.
    - You can't alt-tab it. If you do it will crash and restart which is annoying as **** since I like to alt-tab all the time.
    - Why are the "achievement" moment unskippable? Again, annoying as ****.

    Most of those things will hopefully get patched or fixed at some point. There is however a one, big issue I have with this game:

    It is a giant farm fest. That's literally all You ever do. Just far, farm, farm and the farm some more. You're constantly forced to farm massive amounts of stuff just to get around. You need resources all the time, to fuel Your ship, fuel Your life support, Your weapons and the game is constantly nagging You farm some more. It is boring as ****.
    Maybe they can balance it better in future updates but as it is I can't see myself playing it anymore.
    Not to mention the PC version if sold at full price of 60$ and it's absolutely not worth it.
    Save Yourself some frustration and boredom and skip this **** or wait until it's on sale for 5$.    … Expand
  2. UfoDriver
    Aug 15, 2016
    0
    No multiplayer.
    No mountains.
    No deep caves.
    No deep sea exploration.
    No forests.
    No customizable FOV.
    No challenge.
    No interesting NPC.
    No story.
    No ending.
  3. andrespi
    Aug 13, 2016
    4
    The optimization for the PC version is terrible. Even though I can run elite dangerous on my pc without any problem, no man's sky runs terribly, stutters, frame rate drops a lot and has a lot of other technical problems.

    The game is also extremely dull and repetitive. Mechanics are also a step behind compared to other games on pc, which have a lot more content, are less repetitive and    The optimization for the PC version is terrible. Even though I can run elite dangerous on my pc without any problem, no man's sky runs terribly, stutters, frame rate drops a lot and has a lot of other technical problems.

    The game is also extremely dull and repetitive. Mechanics are also a step behind compared to other games on pc, which have a lot more content, are less repetitive and have deeper gameplay mechanics (for example Starbound which is a lot better and costs a lot less). No man's sky is the Biggest disappointment of 2016 for me.    … Expand
  4. Wirgul
    Aug 22, 2016
    0
    Company who made this game should be sued for false advertising. If someone is thinking about buying this game, please just don't. It should be called No Man's Lie, because like 80% of features which were presented and advertised before release are not in the game.
  5. Makarash
    Aug 16, 2016
    0
    WARNING!! THIS GAME IS UNPLAYABLE WITHOUT PAD!!. Don't try to play with mouse + keyboard. Interface is very annoying to use, it's lazy console port. Moving in this game is incredible slow, when you run, it feels like sneaking in any other fps game. Alt + Tab not working, poor optimization, boring gameplay.
  6. Soujirop
    Aug 21, 2016
    4
    No multiplayer, quite repetitive, and not really worth "exploring" since most planets follow the same basic concepts. There's no really a sense of awe when you reach a planet after the first couple of days playing, since you will instantly think "oh, it's this pattern again". I give it a 4 because it's actualy fun for a weekend, I might have given it a 5-6 if it was worth 20 bucks instead of 60...
  7. vokus
    Aug 18, 2016
    0
    This is just sad. This game is such a disappointment. I can't find any reason to play this game - it is so boring and stupid. And it is just a big lie.
  8. fgpt20011
    Aug 26, 2016
    4
    I enjoyed the first 8 hours of the game. Then everything collapsed. I realized i was doing the same thing ALL THE TIME: Gathering resources for expanding my inventory, with that extra inventory space I could gather more resources that I would spend on new inventory slots. Learning alien languages is almost unnecessary.
    And you will really get a heart attack when you "reach" the center of    I enjoyed the first 8 hours of the game. Then everything collapsed. I realized i was doing the same thing ALL THE TIME: Gathering resources for expanding my inventory, with that extra inventory space I could gather more resources that I would spend on new inventory slots. Learning alien languages is almost unnecessary.
    And you will really get a heart attack when you "reach" the center of the galaxy. It will really get you crying. This game simply isn't worth 60 bucks because the only thing that will keep you going for a couple more hours is the constant gathering of resources. Planet discovery will get boring after a couple hours, you simply dont really care about most of the planets anymore because there is always the same to do. Dont spent 60 bucks on this people.    … Expand
  9. PizzaW0lf
    Mar 6, 2017
    0
    Where to even start? This game sucks to achieve ANYTHING good. It's unpolished, glitchy, boring, and to top it off the developers LIED to us. They said multiplayer would be in the game but it was not. I have a lot of hatred for this game. Almost to the point of me never wanting to play a game again and made me worry for the future of gaming in general. Hype shattered after the launch ofWhere to even start? This game sucks to achieve ANYTHING good. It's unpolished, glitchy, boring, and to top it off the developers LIED to us. They said multiplayer would be in the game but it was not. I have a lot of hatred for this game. Almost to the point of me never wanting to play a game again and made me worry for the future of gaming in general. Hype shattered after the launch of this game. It seemed like EVERYTHING was going wrong. Also to add, When I bought this game steam slapped me in the face and had GTA V and FarCry 3 for a really good $ale. That really added salt to the wound. Screw you no man's sky, and screw game hype. This game really made me learn a thing or two about hype and preordering a game. DON'T BUY THIS GAME. PS (like it couldn't get worse) I can't get this stupid game to run more than 20fps on my really solid computer so even the SPECS lie to us.… Expand
  10. nooblox85
    Apr 29, 2018
    0
    Horrible just horrible this is the most disappointed game i've ever played boring quest isn't fun planet is just like the same with different color and animals
  11. Curunir
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    An offensive, hideous score for an offensive, hideous PC release.
    After waiting for two years, I was presented with a stutterfest of Arkham / JCause 3 proportions, that is, for all intents and purposes, unplayable due to hideous performance.
  12. init000
    Aug 15, 2016
    0
    One of the worst excuses of a game released since Elite Dangerous (which was also terrible but not quite as terrible as this pile of crap).

    Utterly boring game play, technically unfinished product, no real multiplayer but instead an always-online DRM. Simply put: utter crap. If you really want this game then wait 4-5 months and you'll be able to buy it for 5$ in the trash-pile beside    One of the worst excuses of a game released since Elite Dangerous (which was also terrible but not quite as terrible as this pile of crap).

    Utterly boring game play, technically unfinished product, no real multiplayer but instead an always-online DRM.

    Simply put: utter crap. If you really want this game then wait 4-5 months and you'll be able to buy it for 5$ in the trash-pile beside the till.

    Best you can do is remember which scumbag scammers were involved in the development of this game and make sure not to buy any products that they were involved in.    … Expand
  13. Ciger
    Aug 15, 2016
    1
    broken game, keeps crashing, bad performance, crap graphics. just a mess. maybe once the devs fix a lot of broken things this game will be worth the purchase, but now stay clear of it.
  14. Crackfarmer
    Aug 13, 2016
    3
    I can pretty much copy & paste this from the ps4 review but it's even worse on PC.

    So after 5 hours of playing this i can say that i pretty much saw everything in this Game. I just can't see myself playing this for like more than 2,3, maybe 5 days? I'll list some pro's and con's below. Pro : - Endless Universe to explore - Immersive Environment and just something new Cons : -    I can pretty much copy & paste this from the ps4 review but it's even worse on PC.

    So after 5 hours of playing this i can say that i pretty much saw everything in this Game. I just can't see myself playing this for like more than 2,3, maybe 5 days? I'll list some pro's and con's below.

    Pro :
    - Endless Universe to explore
    - Immersive Environment and just something new

    Cons :
    - Lack of Content (The game is about 2.5gb big as download file which doesn't change once installed - so you find out quite fast that this Game really doesn't offer that much of a variety.
    - Aliens look similar
    - After 5 hours you saw almost all ships you can get/buy, they only differ in upgrades, style and price
    - The "uploading" feature doesn't do anything besides give you credits. If you deny firewall access to this Game you can upload everything again after restarting the Game. It doesn't really upload anything, they could've named it "claim for discover" rather than upload.
    - Graphics are just terrible, just take a look at the ground it looks like someone threw up on the ground and was too lazy to clean it up
    - Plants, Rocks, Planets itself look almost same, just color difference
    - Biggest problem : Inventory size, you find yourself collecting stuff from loot boxes, yeah and then surprise they don't stack. You ship is full in the first 20min, so is your suit inventory. I found myself running around for like almost an hour before i could fix my starter ship to get off the planet.
    - The handling of the ship is terrible, you dont really want to use a and d otherwise you find yourself spinning like crazy.
    - Running feels like walking, walking feels like slow motion
    -You can't even use the word "optimized" because it is just not. It's 30 fps capped upon first launch with low settings along side. I got a pretty decent pc and i face freezes, fps issues and bugged textures all over the place.

    So in comparison this Game looks to me like an unfinished Tech preview of the Game. If you play it for like 2 hours you will ask yourself - "is that really it". This Game is just not finally done, but sadly it is. You can even harvest plants. You must shoot everything with your lazer which overheats like an cpu without cooling.

    Full price worth? No definitely not, not even half price is worth. 15-25€ seems okay but still not fair for an 2016 Game which was hyped so hard.

    Wait for an price cut, or get a pirated version since this Game (and the whole development) doesn't deserve this money. They first advertised this Game as mmo-based multiplayer which got played down and finally simply just edited in steam as "singleplayer".

    Please, i hope they don't ever create a Game again.    … Expand
  15. rustyfeeder
    Aug 14, 2016
    3
    They say this game is not for everyone. And yet they released it on PS4 and PC steam both. They priced it 60$. They put a tag "multiplayer" on it. They have top streamers streaming it on twitch. Times gave it 90. If this game is not for everyone why the hell sales are so high? I'll tell you why. Marketing baby. No indie studio can afford this level of press coverage. There are manyThey say this game is not for everyone. And yet they released it on PS4 and PC steam both. They priced it 60$. They put a tag "multiplayer" on it. They have top streamers streaming it on twitch. Times gave it 90. If this game is not for everyone why the hell sales are so high? I'll tell you why. Marketing baby. No indie studio can afford this level of press coverage. There are many original games out there and yet this one got so much attention.

    Now you can tell me the developer is a visionary. That this game is a work of art. The music, the colors, etc. That this game will spawn a wave of similar games based on the idea of procedurally generated whatever. But I can tell you this. This is a video game. And gamers are not artists, they are not intellectual wine drinkers. They want the game to work. They want gameplay, they want simple things.

    Maybe this guy is a Van Gogh of gaming idk and I don't care. But I know this - this game does not worth it.    … Expand
  16. TsukasaHiiragi
    Aug 17, 2016
    3
    TL:DR

    I'm 'currently' not recommending NMS, for many reasons. Its obviously missing alot of content that was promised, or shown. This is probably due to wanting to meet the launch window, its currently very glitchy with many bugs, missing features and frustrating elements that don't work well. I will adjust this review as the game is patched and fixed into what Hello Games sold us on.    TL:DR

    I'm 'currently' not recommending NMS, for many reasons. Its obviously missing alot of content that was promised, or shown. This is probably due to wanting to meet the launch window, its currently very glitchy with many bugs, missing features and frustrating elements that don't work well. I will adjust this review as the game is patched and fixed into what Hello Games sold us on.

    Okay, now if your continuing to read beyond this part. This is the reasons for the not recommended review and a challenge to Hello Games to fix and present the game that was promised, because clearly this isn't it - so many features are broken, or missing.

    Currently, one of the common phrases going around is the "Mile Wide, Inch deep" and honestly, that really does sum it up nicely, the current game is basically mining resources, find a better ships, learn words and discover new species -thats it. The problems is that currently after a while, the shine and surpise of discovering new worlds and new species wears thin and gets boring, especially when glitches and issues appear which prevent you from doing that.

    One of the most common problems when discovering species is always that one single creature which seems to never appear or is perhaps just one creature on the entire planet and no matter how long you look, where you look - you just never find it. You could look in the skies, oceans or caves and still never find them, Essentially several options need to be considered such as specific tracking tech that displays all nearby creatures, or tech that can give you an idea where to look. Better creature tracking features needs to be implemented overall, the reward for discovering all the creatures needs to be adjusted, spending hours aimlessly wandering around trying to find that one single elusive species for a few hundred thousand units is simply a waste of time and aggravation.

    The planets themselves are often bugged with combinations that would not exist in nature, I feel this is simply a bug with the procedural engine, a prime example here is landing on a tropical jungle planet thats hot and wet, but plagued with occasionally -120C ice storms.....I mean okay???? Am I missing something here? Scanning is often broken and doesn't pick up ? locations even when you fly directly over them. There is no plantary map here, the developers didn't want to add this feature for some reason - honestly, the game could benefit from it.

    Space feels so underwhelming right now, where are the space battles? Everything feels rushed, with many simple things are missing like the ability to look around the cockpit, how about scanning asteroids to find out what materials they have? How about being able to scan other ships? The list here is nearly endless of what feels like is missing. Space Combat feels clunky, mostly involves you travelling from one planet to another and then being intercepted by pirates who you 'have' to kill before you're allowed to go back to travelling, without any varation of weapons, no missiles or really any defensive systems - its all very basic.

    I'd like to see alot more of everything - more interesting locations, discovering special places of interest, anomalies and better combat. Right now, on planets shooting sentinels gets old, how about aggressive aliens or other aggressive advanced species? Tech is the same, you can find all the tech far too fast because simply put, there just isn't enough of it, it needs more, much much more.

    Finally, for an exploration game - its remarkably barren and quiet, planets are often practially lifeless, barren husks with nothing to do except fly around from outpost to outpost, mine some resources when your low on fuel. I feel like the game was practically bait and switched with something that almost looks like NMS, but isn't the same game we saw at E3 or videos - perhaps we was all victims of massive hype? The same Sega did with Aliens: Colonial Marines?

    + Explorers dream
    + Ability to go anywhere seamlessly
    + Discover and name almost anything you find
    + Interesting gameplay, you never know what you'll discover next

    - Broken and missing elements
    - Many bugs and glitches, some gamebreaking
    - No maps or limited tracking features
    - Too hard to find elusive creatures to finish the planets journal
    - Space feels empty and a waste of 'space'
    - Planets sometimes are bugged
    - gets boring after visting the same cookie cutter buildings over and over    … Expand
  17. ivissonsk8
    Aug 16, 2016
    4
    O game esta muito bom, esploracao , viagens intergalaticas mas eu jogo no pc e esta injogavel , dando leg toda hora tenho que reiniciar o game direto por causa disso , minha nota seria maior se nao fosse este problema, esperando um patch de correcao em breve.
  18. ezhikov
    Aug 14, 2016
    2
    Firstly, there is large amount of similar planets. I've been to four systems, an there is all the same animals with few differences, and same plants, sometimes without differences at all. More - there is different plants (according to scanner) on ONE PLANET, that looks similar with no differences at all!

    So you grind, fly, grind, fly. Nothing to explore. Really. Secondly, you play    Firstly, there is large amount of similar planets. I've been to four systems, an there is all the same animals with few differences, and same plants, sometimes without differences at all. More - there is different plants (according to scanner) on ONE PLANET, that looks similar with no differences at all!

    So you grind, fly, grind, fly. Nothing to explore. Really.

    Secondly, you play for about an hour, and then you must restart the game, because at 5 fps it's unplayable.

    PS: this game not worth it's price.    … Expand
  19. xcontractx
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    not worth 59.99
    not worth 49.99
    not worth 39.99 not worth 29.99 not worth 19.99 not worth 9.99 not worth .99 Do yourself a favor. Wait until they fix this **** mess. Then don't buy it. Don't get me wrong, the premise is fantastic, if you like space exploration, games like mincraft or eve online, this is a great game for you. The game play is not the problem, though that's not    not worth 59.99
    not worth 49.99
    not worth 39.99
    not worth 29.99
    not worth 19.99
    not worth 9.99
    not worth .99

    Do yourself a favor. Wait until they fix this **** mess. Then don't buy it. Don't get me wrong, the premise is fantastic, if you like space exploration, games like mincraft or eve online, this is a great game for you. The game play is not the problem, though that's not worth 59.99, maybe worth 30 bucks.

    The problem is that the pc optimization simply doesn't exist. This is a flaming pile of **** right now.

    If you really want to waste 59.99, buy a few **** and shove them up your ass because that's going to give you more pleasure than this.

    Then go and torrent the game because the torrented copy runs perfectly, ironically.    … Expand
  20. karloskand
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    The games runs awful and we were lied to by the developers! DO NOT BUY IT!!! They lied about the multiplayer and as if that isn't enough this game screams is very poorly optimized!! It is total GARBAGE.. The developers are blocking people on Twitter for speaking the truth! BUYERS BE WARE!!!
  21. Flarestar
    Aug 15, 2016
    2
    Crippling performance issues on a system that far exceeds the minimum requirements was my very first impression of the game. I spent a while tweaking things and finally got it mostly working decently, barring the random 60+ seconds of slow motion that occasionally happened when it decided to load a massive chunk of textures at once.

    The space flight is extremely arcadey, even beyond    Crippling performance issues on a system that far exceeds the minimum requirements was my very first impression of the game. I spent a while tweaking things and finally got it mostly working decently, barring the random 60+ seconds of slow motion that occasionally happened when it decided to load a massive chunk of textures at once.

    The space flight is extremely arcadey, even beyond what I expected based on the trailers and dev talks. There's no real depth to it at all, nor any significant reason to do so beyond gathering some resources or traveling.

    Planetary exploration should be somewhat exciting, and was, for the first few planets, before I realized that every planet basically had every resource available, and the only substantial difference was visual. Even then, the planets rapidly starting looking the same. Outposts consist of the same few objects regardless of what alien race occupies them.

    Stations are boring.

    Inventory management and user interface is both tedious and awkward.

    At some point, with a lot of feature patches and quality of life improvements, this game might be worth buying. Right now it's certainly not worth the $60 price tag. At best it's a $15 Early Access title.    … Expand
  22. jedi5diah
    Aug 15, 2016
    4
    another wonderful game RUINED by pathetic performance optimisation... delay after delay for whatsoever reasons are kinda lame after all...we Gamers knew it and thus the sales clearly tells... YOU CAN NO LONGER CHEAT OUR MONEY with your hype and marketing
  23. Vidicus
    Aug 21, 2016
    0
    I have to give this game the lowest possible score due to the developer misleading the consumers about what is in the game. Overall it is a very simple game with no science applied at all. Planets do not make sense and the only goal is to get to the center of the universe to start over. Over hyped to the point it is not even the game promised. On the plus side, this game taught me notI have to give this game the lowest possible score due to the developer misleading the consumers about what is in the game. Overall it is a very simple game with no science applied at all. Planets do not make sense and the only goal is to get to the center of the universe to start over. Over hyped to the point it is not even the game promised. On the plus side, this game taught me not to pre-order games any more.… Expand
  24. Giftigdegen
    Aug 15, 2016
    4
    It's the same thing over and over and over again. Go to this planet, look for resources, check out one or two outposts, sell your resources, maybe get lucky and get an upgrade worth using. Go to the next planet and repeat. Very disappointed with this game so far.
  25. deathspanker
    Aug 21, 2016
    0
    The game isn't optimized for PC, the core game-play is repetitive and mechanics tiresome.

    This game should've been released as an Early Access with a $20 price tag.

    I'd gladly try the game again after a few updates (hopefully) and when the game goes on sale.

    Sadly NMS is the first game I've ever refunded on steam, such a disappointment.
  26. nic8
    Aug 15, 2016
    0
    I respect autistic people, but only they can get some find some new creative experience from this EMPTY, repeating and boring "game". Hype of this game show everything that is wrong with gaming industry.
  27. Elizondo
    Aug 16, 2016
    0
    This could have been an average indy game with average reviews.
    Instead of that, they have sold a broken, incomplete game, with no story, no multiplayer, with all levels generated by a computer and with very poor game mechanics.
    And the have sold it at the price of a AAA game. Scam of the year. It will deserve a score of 2, but I giving it a score of 0 due to the lies about the    This could have been an average indy game with average reviews.
    Instead of that, they have sold a broken, incomplete game, with no story, no multiplayer, with all levels generated by a computer and with very poor game mechanics.

    And the have sold it at the price of a AAA game. Scam of the year.

    It will deserve a score of 2, but I giving it a score of 0 due to the lies about the multiplayer and the poor performance in PC.

    Save your money and go for Elite:Dangerous or Subnautica instead.    … Expand
  28. l3g10nw
    Aug 15, 2016
    0
    game won't even start. freezes at "hello games", 4 seconds after opening it. I recommend pirating the game before buying it so that you see if your computer can handle. because No Man's PC can run this smoothly.
  29. jeanfranco
    Aug 16, 2016
    0
    The ammount of lyes around this game before the launch is tremendous. People need to know that besides them liking the game this is a scam, and supporting this kind of crap leads to more crap in the future. This game has been selled like a AAA game being an Alpha indie one. Hello Games doesn't deserve any money.
  30. deithwen42
    Aug 16, 2016
    0
    If it weren't for the bad optimization, it would have been a good game for 20 minutes and half the price...
    I might play it again once it gets fixed, though i doubt that ill enjoy it. Everything is the same.
    So far ive played around 15 hours
  31. flexy123
    Aug 30, 2016
    4
    It's to note that most folks who rate the game good call the game an "exploration game". There is just a problem: The annoying grind and constant need to manage your inventory make it almost impossible to actually explore something. The procedural generation of planets and the few assets used in the game mean that planets are more or less the same, with minor varieties, which also meansIt's to note that most folks who rate the game good call the game an "exploration game". There is just a problem: The annoying grind and constant need to manage your inventory make it almost impossible to actually explore something. The procedural generation of planets and the few assets used in the game mean that planets are more or less the same, with minor varieties, which also means there is nothing really new "to explore" once you played the game, say, for 2 hours. You have seen everything. I can get a classic linear game such as Tombraider and there I can actually see and explore more things than in this game. Grinding down "quintilllions" of rather similar planets to mine resources simply is not fun. Also, some people complain "a lot of people expect the game to be something..that isn't'". Point is, for a whopping €60-€70 I do INDEED have a tons expectations on a game. For the same price I can get countless other games with immersive worlds and an incredible amount to see and to do...example again the latest iteration of Tombraider (or, just picking something randomly, FarCry 3 or FarCry 4) where the crafting and collection aspect alone is far better implemented, YET only a small part of a game. Here, it is ALL what the game is about based around a game which otherwise has very little depth and motivation to continue.… Expand
  32. brmartins
    Aug 15, 2016
    0
    The game is boring and space combat mechanic is terrible, fight in planet orbit is impossible due to movement restraint in low altitude.

    Worst game of the year, the best part was the uninstall
  33. ahuse
    Aug 14, 2016
    0
    The game runs really bad on my computer (980gtx TI, i7 2600K@5ghz, 16gb ram)
    The graphics are awful. Space combat is horrible. The ship is impossible to control. Gameplay is extremely repetitive and boring. Can't use alt-tab and return to the game. Maneuvering the menus is difficult thanks to stupid controls. This game was a massive disappointment. Please DO NOT support this useless    The game runs really bad on my computer (980gtx TI, i7 2600K@5ghz, 16gb ram)
    The graphics are awful. Space combat is horrible. The ship is impossible to control. Gameplay is extremely repetitive and boring. Can't use alt-tab and return to the game. Maneuvering the menus is difficult thanks to stupid controls. This game was a massive disappointment. Please DO NOT support this useless moneygrabbing developer by buying this pile of **** This is completely unacceptable.    … Expand
  34. kbar33w
    Aug 13, 2016
    3
    PC version is suffering from random FPS hitches and every 60 -90 minutes suffers a server slowdown/slow motion issue that can only be solved by completely closing out the game and reopening it.

    As to story it seems to lack direction entirely, like Minecraft but at least in Minecraft you can build a base and show it off.
  35. LonelyPenguin
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    I wont talk about poor port (even though they lied that this game is developed for pc and then ported on ps4, there is proof that its other way around).

    This is the most boring game in 2015-2016 season (even worse than fallout4). After exploring one planet, which takes less than 2 hours, you've done everything there is to do in this game = walk, mine and take pictures. This game    I wont talk about poor port (even though they lied that this game is developed for pc and then ported on ps4, there is proof that its other way around).

    This is the most boring game in 2015-2016 season (even worse than fallout4). After exploring one planet, which takes less than 2 hours, you've done everything there is to do in this game = walk, mine and take pictures. This game should've been advertised as interactive screensaver.

    This game might be 18 quintillion planets wide, but also 1 feet deep = all you do is walk, mine and take pictures, nothing more at all!

    This game seems like 20eu indie game that got boosted by sony's marketing team.

    avoid buying by any means, it is not worth 60eu not even close    … Expand
  36. bishop911
    Aug 14, 2016
    0
    I've spent more time trying to get the game to work than I have playing the game, on a PC that greatly exceeds minimum specs. When it is working, it's awesome for about an hour. Then you realize that everything is the same. Each solar system has the same boring bland space station in it. Planets are all the same, oh except this one is hot, and this one is cold, and this one isI've spent more time trying to get the game to work than I have playing the game, on a PC that greatly exceeds minimum specs. When it is working, it's awesome for about an hour. Then you realize that everything is the same. Each solar system has the same boring bland space station in it. Planets are all the same, oh except this one is hot, and this one is cold, and this one is poisonous, and this one is radioactive. So your life support systems break down in the same way, and you repair them in the same way, its just the 'color' of the hazard that changes. Why are no planets completely gas planets without a surface? Or complete water worlds? They're all the same, just painted with different palettes, with the same sporadic appearance of flora + fauna. Want to land your spaceship? Go find some plutonium, rinse repeat. With this kind of 'cost' of travel, you'll quickly find yourself deciding against landing your spaceship and exploring because you really don't want to wander around looking for plutonium again.

    The alien races you encounter are dull, and they all just seem to be sitting wherever they are, waiting for you. The main 'questline' has you warping to and fro so often that all you really want to look for is the ingredients you need to make warp cells. Your catalog of stars,planets,life,rocks that you discover is completely meaningless. You're not given any context for your discoveries except for "you've found 64% of the weird **** on this planet!" So what?

    I regret my purchase.    … Expand
  37. Viper0hr
    Aug 14, 2016
    3
    One review in here put it perfectly...
    "NMS is a bare bones Indie game at a AAA price."
    That sums the game up perfectly. To start off, I bought the game on steam and hour before release, and was able to download it right away when it launched, and play it with no issue/crashed from start after changing my resolution and graphical settings. So, game played for me, but I still get    One review in here put it perfectly...
    "NMS is a bare bones Indie game at a AAA price."
    That sums the game up perfectly.

    To start off, I bought the game on steam and hour before release, and was able to download it right away when it launched, and play it with no issue/crashed from start after changing my resolution and graphical settings.

    So, game played for me, but I still get huge FPS drops, stuttering/hitching every few minutes, and massive pop in all the time, even on a good PC, even on lowest settings.

    Graphically and performance wise this game is a joke, pop in for EVERYTHING, all the time, bad performance even on a great PC, and visually and sound wise just not good.

    Gameplay, there is none. You mine, you go to next spot and "talk" to an alien with one small line of "story", leave the planet, and repeat.
    There is nothing to do, no gameplay at all pretty much.

    For a game that advertised the hell out of it's creature and planet generator algorithms, the building, items, and just stuff you interact with is all cut and paste copies of the same 2-4 assets, always arranged the same way.

    Great idea, good art assets and style, JUST NOT ENOUGH.

    $60 for this game is a Fing joke, even $30 would have been too much, there are indie games for $15-30 that offer far more than this for far less. Look up Subnatica and Elite Dangerous, those are 2 off the top of my head that were well received, and cost less than $30 for WAY more content and gameplay than this game, and look 1000x better.

    It feels like the devs just either ran out of money, or rushed to release to finally get the game out, just way too early.

    I was never hyped for the game, only saw it at E3 and bought it yesterday, if i waited 3+ years for this I would either be pissed, or in denial right about now, it's not a awful game...but no where near a great one either.

    EDIT ADD ON:
    Also, because I forgot to mention it before and am only doing so because of 10/10 reviews here of people saying the devs never lied and people are just upset they don't like the game... people seem to forget how the devs legitimately lied to everyone right up until the game released saying ti was a multiplayer game and you could see other people in game, then the day before release 'clarified" that it was single player only.    … Expand
  38. Gdrom
    Aug 14, 2016
    2
    This game is just a scam. I'm a survival video games player, I really like the exploration, grind resources and explore any corner of these kind of video games, But NMS doesn't push me to enjoy what I am doing, the aggressive animals are a joke not a challenge enough the same with the pirates, the same with the sentinels there is not action in the game. Then ok maybe the strong thing hereThis game is just a scam. I'm a survival video games player, I really like the exploration, grind resources and explore any corner of these kind of video games, But NMS doesn't push me to enjoy what I am doing, the aggressive animals are a joke not a challenge enough the same with the pirates, the same with the sentinels there is not action in the game. Then ok maybe the strong thing here is the survival face... wrooooong there is not survival mode, you are grinding resources the whole gameplay for no reason, improve weapons craft some stuff but nothing mayor. The planets are all of them the same with different colors, but essentially the same, the animals are a random mix of their parts horrible it is just embarrassing .... bufff I'm getting upset just writing this review it is a holy scam don't buy it, even if you like this type of games like me NMS is not the game.… Expand
  39. Sne
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    Vast, empty space to explore by waiting a long time all the time. Unsatisfying combat and uselessly developed trade mechanics as it's always better to just land and loot than fly (=wait) a lot and check some numbers. Game where you spend most time staring at space impatiently, but it's purely so you can sell your loot and buy what you're too lazy to look for; staring at objects for points,Vast, empty space to explore by waiting a long time all the time. Unsatisfying combat and uselessly developed trade mechanics as it's always better to just land and loot than fly (=wait) a lot and check some numbers. Game where you spend most time staring at space impatiently, but it's purely so you can sell your loot and buy what you're too lazy to look for; staring at objects for points, which feels like eating random tropical fruit covered in random kinds of mustard, sprinkled with hair and sand so you can't even get immersed, thanks to bad LOD and absurd milestone interruptions; staring at menus, crafting and rearranging stuff in the inventories so horribly designed you wonder if this is made bad on purpose. Game where you were promised to and hoped to explore planets, trade and spar with friends, but which has no real multiplayer. Trillions of worlds in this game and all of them meaningless.… Expand
  40. Secto
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    What a mess. How could they get this so wrong after such a long wait? I thought a beast of a PC with a GTX 1080 would be able to run this maxed out, however im stuttering all over the place even with everything on lowest settings. This game is clearly nowhere near ready for release, I feel robbed.
  41. Mastodon
    Aug 13, 2016
    3
    This game is boring as hell. 6 hours in and I already feel like I've seen everything. Care bear game for care bear players, any real gamer will want a refund within 2 hours.
  42. ollie8557
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    That any studio has the nerve to release a game with so many technical problems is shocking, and HG should be ashamed of themselves.The game will be remembered for its amazing graphics, and lack of substance in every other way.
  43. AuldWolf
    Aug 15, 2016
    0
    A hollow, empty experience that will only appeal to "OOH, LOOK AT THAT!" extraverted people with the attention span of a gnat. It's an experience that Starbound, Starflight, Starglider, and so many others (even Noctis) have done far better. And it's disappointing that the only thing that the younglings want to do these days is stripmine things. I remember the Star Trek point & clickA hollow, empty experience that will only appeal to "OOH, LOOK AT THAT!" extraverted people with the attention span of a gnat. It's an experience that Starbound, Starflight, Starglider, and so many others (even Noctis) have done far better. And it's disappointing that the only thing that the younglings want to do these days is stripmine things. I remember the Star Trek point & click adventures and I had a lot more fun in space with those.

    Ultimately it's just an incredibly empty, hollow experience. A bad procedural generation tech demo with a Skinner box attached. It's the cookie clicker of space games.    … Expand
  44. leaveit
    Aug 16, 2016
    2
    Despite being more or less a post-Minecraft version of Spore, the union of Spore and Minecraft has far more content and features than No Man's Sky does.

    Even Spore by itself has much more to do in space alone, and Will Wright got laughed out of the industry for it. Minecraft, meanwhile, actually does have multiplayer down to dedicated servers and we're going on the sixth (or so) year    Despite being more or less a post-Minecraft version of Spore, the union of Spore and Minecraft has far more content and features than No Man's Sky does.

    Even Spore by itself has much more to do in space alone, and Will Wright got laughed out of the industry for it.

    Minecraft, meanwhile, actually does have multiplayer down to dedicated servers and we're going on the sixth (or so) year of free updates, while Sean Murray has already mentioned paid DLC for No Man's Sky.

    Both of these games were completed at least a year before development on No Man's Sky even began. While the game has a very attractive visual style, gameplay ages quickly and dies sooner than the most banal 90s first-person shooter. To reward your efforts, the ending is an unironic next-decade version of Spore's, with a little bit more Arthur C. Clarke and a little less Douglas Adams.

    This is not even getting into the massive technical problems that the launch is currently having, even on the most common hardware (hangups on 970s with modern drivers surely could have been foreseen even by an indie developer). The game deserves no more than a 2/10 and you should pay no more than 2/10 of the launch price for it.    … Expand
  45. Amulrei
    Aug 20, 2016
    1
    I have not seen such a collection of lies, bugs and terrible PC porting in a single package for many years.

    Get your refund and never look back. Developers this dishonest do not deserve to be in the industry.
  46. eyesdeuxo
    Aug 21, 2016
    0
    when you overhype and lie during itw showing fake trailer, dont expect something good. this game is worth 15 dollars at max, you can have way more fun for that amount with a game like minecraft or CS GO
  47. jofri_000
    Aug 25, 2016
    0
    The game is not so bad as people say, the problem is the expectations were much higher than the truth we have now received. If there wasn't been so much hype this game would have had an amazing reception. Even if it gets a bit boring I am enjoying this game so it deserves a high mark. The reason it doesn't get max. grade is that the performance in pc is awful even with a good pc. ButThe game is not so bad as people say, the problem is the expectations were much higher than the truth we have now received. If there wasn't been so much hype this game would have had an amazing reception. Even if it gets a bit boring I am enjoying this game so it deserves a high mark. The reason it doesn't get max. grade is that the performance in pc is awful even with a good pc. But taking all of this into account I think it's a game to count.… Expand
  48. wikkytabby
    Jan 5, 2017
    0
    May be one of the most trash games ive ever purchased even at 35$. I would highly suggest you save your money till it goes on sale to sub 20$. The content update added nothing of substance.
  49. GoldenKing95
    Feb 13, 2018
    3
    No Man's Sky, better known as No Man's Lie is one of the most disappointing games of all time. Even in the year of disappointments, it stands out..... In a really bad way....

    The PR division really did a number on the game, making fake promises to not only the costumers, also to investors, which is just stupid. The most fun I had out of all this, is that it really bit them in the ass!    No Man's Sky, better known as No Man's Lie is one of the most disappointing games of all time. Even in the year of disappointments, it stands out..... In a really bad way....

    The PR division really did a number on the game, making fake promises to not only the costumers, also to investors, which is just stupid. The most fun I had out of all this, is that it really bit them in the ass!

    Don't buy this game. Save your money for whatever game you also consider buying!    … Expand
  50. Cik
    Mar 15, 2017
    0
    I have zero interest in playing a 3D version of Starbound, only limited to Single-Player, after I finished Starbound.

    Starbound was a very good game, and I really enjoyed it by being able to play cooperatively, though as with NMS, the similar procedurally generated ai, mobs, planets, environments were a bit bleh...but the only way I could see myself playing NMS is "IF" it actually had    I have zero interest in playing a 3D version of Starbound, only limited to Single-Player, after I finished Starbound.

    Starbound was a very good game, and I really enjoyed it by being able to play cooperatively, though as with NMS, the similar procedurally generated ai, mobs, planets, environments were a bit bleh...but the only way I could see myself playing NMS is "IF" it actually had some substantial multiplayer game-play; that's about it. Other than that, it is truly a lonely game of isolation and exploration, which again, I already did with Starbound. . .but was actually to occasionally play cooperatively and mission run cooperatively.    … Expand
  51. tomasdee
    Jan 20, 2019
    3
    I've come back to this game numerous times. In the end - the combat is lame, the complete grindfest gets real old everytime - oh i'm out of warp fuel, go farm more. Oh, go that way 15mins, do this and return. FUN! >.< The graphics are unimpressive, the story.... not sure really wth its going. Shame.
  52. Baronz
    Aug 20, 2016
    4
    Boring and repetitive gameplay, no gravity difference between a moon and a planet.
    Horrific interface and menus.
    4/10 instead of 0 cause i like the idea, but this is more like a tech demo than a real game.
  53. RustyJames
    May 21, 2020
    1
    Pretentious, disappointing, grindfest, waste of time, waste of money. This game was dead since release date, no idea, why someone's still suffering playing it in 2k20...
  54. ilikemydog
    Jan 20, 2017
    0
    WHAT A JOKE OF A GAME!!!!1
    HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAH!!!!!!XDDDDD
    Dont buy it!! xDD
  55. Zakeruga
    Aug 21, 2016
    2
    Repetitive, false hopes (i'm refering to ONLINE), a lot of glitches... I think there's a lot of reasons to not buy this game.

    Sorry for my english :S
  56. SYLOH
    Aug 22, 2016
    2
    Let me preface everything by saying that I actually bought this game on impulse before watching the trailers.
    I like space, I like exploration, some of the early reviews were positive, so I bought it.
    I regret that impulsive decision. Take it from a 5 year veteran of Eve: Online this game is BORING. Imagine Eve minus the hordes of players trying to kill you, it's more boring than    Let me preface everything by saying that I actually bought this game on impulse before watching the trailers.
    I like space, I like exploration, some of the early reviews were positive, so I bought it.
    I regret that impulsive decision.

    Take it from a 5 year veteran of Eve: Online this game is BORING.
    Imagine Eve minus the hordes of players trying to kill you, it's more boring than that.

    There is supposed to be septillions of stars and planets generated, but their algorithm is poor. This results in maybe 12 different planet types and 30 animal species. I'm being very generous with the planets, for the most part they are just different colors with a different icon showing you what is killing you today.

    Now I wasn't expecting Spore like creature variety, but this is insulting. All of them look the same. There might be some slight variation between the crab like species trying to kill me, but I honestly couldn't tell.

    The entire game is far too easy, in my trek from the start to the center of the galaxy my shields dropped a total of maybe 10 times, I still don't know what the death screen looks like.

    The interface is utterly terrible. You have to hold to click EVERYTHING. There I cannot fathom a reason this has to be for literally EVERYTHING. The galaxy map is the single worst aspect of the UI, a rather galaring flaw for something that wants to do space exploration. The path to the center is utterly useless, as I got close to the center it literally got stuck in a dead end. It ignores your hyperdrive upgrades meaning it's course will take you through about a dozen short hops and then abruptly stop, while you can reach the end in one jump or infact go much futher. There is a total disconnect between "Distance from Center" and "Linear Distance", 500ly for the former is about 1,500ly for the latter. You are down to luck for finding any particular location, even ones you've visited before.

    The game play is more or less a resource grind, you land on a planet, shoot at a rock with a mining laser, you leave the planet to go shoot at a different rock. There are NPC, they are of three races, all of which just stand or sit alone in one place. They never do anything, you can talk to them and maybe get a blue print or something, but thats it, there is no personality, not even real interaction.

    There was an Atlas quest line, that brought you to 10 admittedly rather spiffy looking space stations. Actually I lied, there are 4 rather spiffy looking space stations that are repeated a couple of times in no particular order. It starts no where and ends in a non ending. This may last you a couple of hours (or however long it takes you to realize the map system is trash and just jump to the end). But it pales in comparison to reaching the Galactic Center.

    Thats the final insult, what happens at the center. I'll rant in a spoilerific manner after the next paragraph. Suffice to say if we reached the center and had a planet sized MIDDLE FINGER to explore, this would still be less of a **** YOU than what we got. Because at least the Flipping Bird of God would be an object of interest and discussion.

    It was after I had played for a while that I went out and watched the trailers, holy **** I wanted to play that game, too bad it's not what I bought. I'm angry I wasted money buying this, I would have been furious if my expectations were that high. This isn't a case of a fandom hyping in a vacuum, the developers were outright lying to us. Not just in the trailers, but in the words they were speaking. **** this game.

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    You start jumping to the center, the game silently says "nope", plays prog rock as it holds the scroll backwards button on the map screen, fade to black and dumps you at the start of a new practically identical galaxy with all you stuff broken. I think it might even have gotten the color on my ship wrong. I can't tell because my game bugged out and put me in slow mo, and I was already fighting the urge to just toss my computer out a window. So no, you don't even get to see what is so shiny at the center of the universe, you just start over again.

    Seriously **** this game.    … Expand
  57. cyrusor
    Aug 20, 2016
    2
    This game is the definition of a false-advertisement, they made some scripted gameplay trailers, showing things that are not in the game, their lead developer went on interviews and TV shows and just promised 100 different things that he had no intention of ever putting in the game.
    And then when the game was released, it had something like 20/100 of what he promised, and in a very broken    This game is the definition of a false-advertisement, they made some scripted gameplay trailers, showing things that are not in the game, their lead developer went on interviews and TV shows and just promised 100 different things that he had no intention of ever putting in the game.
    And then when the game was released, it had something like 20/100 of what he promised, and in a very broken state. I could create a game with a coca-cola vending machine and it would have much more depth in its trading than what the game has.

    The games biggest selling point was that you could explore planets that nobody had ever before seen. Well, guess what, there are already hundreds of NPCs in the ground with outposts and trade-depots, so im not the first to step foot on the planet.
    After 50 planets or so, you've pretty much seen everything the game has to offer when it comes to exploring.
    Im not even gonna talk about the controls because thats a waste of time.    … Expand
  58. Enkil99
    Aug 21, 2016
    2
    This game has too many bugs. I pre purchased it for $60 because I believed I was getting a finished product. I just filled my ship with Emeril and looked for awhile to find a place to sell it. Finally found a base with...hmm two landing pads? I open the door, the procedural generation generated two bases exactly on top of each other and I cannot enter to sell my goods as the walls of oneThis game has too many bugs. I pre purchased it for $60 because I believed I was getting a finished product. I just filled my ship with Emeril and looked for awhile to find a place to sell it. Finally found a base with...hmm two landing pads? I open the door, the procedural generation generated two bases exactly on top of each other and I cannot enter to sell my goods as the walls of one base block the doors of the other one. I can see inside a window and see two aliens where there should only be one. Really Hello Games? Really? How do I get a refund? BTW, the frame rate is ridiculous. One second it's flowing nicely and then all of a sudden herky jerky and I feel like I am walking in mud. I don't spend over $1k on a PC to play games with such terrible frame rates and bugs.

    I also found a lump of aluminum procedurally generated underneath a shelter and i could not get to it. I thought, oh I can just blow holes in the ground with my plasma grenades...nope...you can't blow up shelters, so the ground is untouchable. I keep seeing giant columns of floating resources and buildings generated into the sides of mountains and into seas...and i can't enter through the door.

    There are some interesting things that they did here but the execution is terrible. It makes me wonder if any of the people involved in the design of this game played any video games as kids...I hope steam refunds me!    … Expand
  59. Dictat0R
    Jan 11, 2017
    0
    It's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad, refund.
  60. TheProAs
    Mar 5, 2017
    0
    WTF IS THIS **** BLA BLA BLA THIS GAME WILL BE AMAZING, ONLINE,.... RELEASE: NOTHING DONT BUY THIS ******* BECAUSE IS ******************** BUG LAG BUG
  61. Ponasity
    Mar 17, 2017
    0
    Not as advertised. Would be considered a great accomplishment if they charged fairly and were honest about content. Due to blatant lies(causing a hugely commercially succesful launch) i will never support this company.
  62. tobivv
    Jun 24, 2020
    1
    There is absolutely no aspect of this game that isn't bad. From the UI, through combat, endless boring resource grind to controls where for some reason sprint is bound to pressing the right analog stick
  63. Shekky
    Nov 10, 2016
    4
    The Gameplay is farely straightforward the simplicity on the control scheme was perfect. It does provide some interest when you explore your first planet. Outside of your first planet however doesn't provide much difference from any other planet other then terrain generation. which only becomes different by the temperature of a planet. Asteroids in a system are extremely unrealistic. YourThe Gameplay is farely straightforward the simplicity on the control scheme was perfect. It does provide some interest when you explore your first planet. Outside of your first planet however doesn't provide much difference from any other planet other then terrain generation. which only becomes different by the temperature of a planet. Asteroids in a system are extremely unrealistic. Your ship consumes energy way too fast constantly having to farm resources to power up your ship so you can continue to travel. If Hello Games had included multiplayer and the ability to build a base and toned down the energy consumption of your ship this game could be an amazing game. If they don't do anything however which seems to be the case then this game could of been something great. This game in its complete form on release date should of been considered early access not the final product.… Expand
  64. patrioticparody
    Sep 8, 2016
    4
    So much was promised by the developer and so little was delivered. I can understand now why they were so eager to take down any pre-release gameplay footage. This game is fun for about an hour, maybe two. After that, you will have seen what its universe has to offer. Crafting this is tedious and complicated, not because of sophisticated recipes, but rather because of poor inventorySo much was promised by the developer and so little was delivered. I can understand now why they were so eager to take down any pre-release gameplay footage. This game is fun for about an hour, maybe two. After that, you will have seen what its universe has to offer. Crafting this is tedious and complicated, not because of sophisticated recipes, but rather because of poor inventory management tools. Lack of on-screen information in critical situations detracts from the realism, while a lack of reference of any kind leaves the impression that everything you do is for nothing. I am very sad to see this game turn out this way. Procedural generation is the future and it's unfortunate on that this game can't be a model for the future.… Expand
  65. squodge
    Sep 1, 2016
    4
    01.09.2016
    As it stands, the game needs a lot more polish.
    I don't have the fastest or best rig in the world, so I'm getting a constant 30fps with low settings: Intel i7-2600K, 16GB RAM, GeForce GTX 750 Ti OC I was worried I'd get motion sickness playing it, but none so far - so that's already a plus. The loading screen is smooth on my rig, so the game can't be as bad as some make    01.09.2016
    As it stands, the game needs a lot more polish.
    I don't have the fastest or best rig in the world, so I'm getting a constant 30fps with low settings:
    Intel i7-2600K, 16GB RAM, GeForce GTX 750 Ti OC

    I was worried I'd get motion sickness playing it, but none so far - so that's already a plus.
    The loading screen is smooth on my rig, so the game can't be as bad as some make it out to be.

    The main issue I have with NMS is that it's literally just fetch quests at the moment.
    Get X, produce Y, fix Z.
    I honestly feel that having missions or quests would make it more playable.
    I understand that it's supposed be about exploration, but it's not like it's OUR universe.

    I can't recommend the game in its current state.
    If Hello Games address the myriad of issues, it's potentially a 7 or 8 rated game.

    The price doesn't bother me... it's whether the game is good or not.
    I'm happy to sink £200 into a game if it delivers on most of my expectations.

    I feel NMS needs:
    * Missions/quests
    * Greater inventory space
    * Potential to meet AND see other people
    * Different classes of spaceships - fighter, merchant, rogue, etc.
    * Able to customise the person you control (sex, age, race/species, etc.)
    * More save points, heck, why not auto save points as well as the manual ones?    … Expand
  66. ProGamerZix
    Sep 18, 2016
    3
    Very disappointing. This was my most anticipated game for the summer. It just let me down. Lets talk about the game and not the lies form Shawn Murry.

    The first 2 hours were amazing. The visuals are bad, textures are really low res, and the performance is just not acceptable. The game-play after the first 2 hours gets very repetitive and boring. It a indie game that should be priced    Very disappointing. This was my most anticipated game for the summer. It just let me down. Lets talk about the game and not the lies form Shawn Murry.

    The first 2 hours were amazing. The visuals are bad, textures are really low res, and the performance is just not acceptable. The game-play after the first 2 hours gets very repetitive and boring. It a indie game that should be priced much much lower than 60 dollars.    … Expand
  67. BoredGamerUK
    Nov 5, 2016
    2
    The game is misrepresented. The game is a Casual Discovery Game with elements of inventory management survival.
    If you are looking for a chilled experience that isn't particularly challenging then it might be for you.
    I bought it for multiplayer.... of which it has none BUT it was listed as a feature. It's disappointing as it was the most hyped game of 2016 & the game has no flavour or    The game is misrepresented. The game is a Casual Discovery Game with elements of inventory management survival.
    If you are looking for a chilled experience that isn't particularly challenging then it might be for you.
    I bought it for multiplayer.... of which it has none BUT it was listed as a feature.
    It's disappointing as it was the most hyped game of 2016 & the game has no flavour or depth... it's like a chilli with no spice or heat... just boiled mince meat.... I'd pair the game with a couple of bottles of cheap red so you can get drunk quickly and forget it is a bit crappy.    … Expand
  68. Typichi_Gamer
    Nov 27, 2016
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Перед игрой:Наконец-то! Теперь я могу провести время не зря! Ща будет круто.
    4 часа спустя:...Боже,как же скучно....*храп*.

    Нет,серьезно,это уже не смешно.
    Иногда,когда я хочу поиграть в игру,я сначала качаю пиратку. А только потом уже покупаю. Данная игра разачаровала меня.
    Но дабы вы не кидались на меня,сначала скажу плюсы:
    -Музыка. Да да,здесь музыка довольная приятная и релаксирующая.
    -Открытый мир. Он огромный. Но делать там особо нечего. Разве что полетать.
    -Графика. Ну хоть здесь не наврали-графон радует глаз.
    Иииии плюсы кончились. Теперь минусы.
    -Геймплей. Помните Шона Мюррея? Ага,того самого мажора,который наживается на ожиданиях фанатов. Где уникальность планет? Где умные NPC? Где "ЗРЕЛИЩНЫЕ" космечиские сражения? ГДЕ ЭТО ВСЁ? А? ГДЕ?!
    Сам же ГЕЙплей ужасно скучен. Нет разнообразия,нет нормальной системы выживания,нет ничего. Это просто тупая бродилка по одинаковым планетам. И ВСЁ.
    -Цена. Окей,сейчас цена данной игры 1200 руб или же 29$. Но это всё равно много! Я уже не говорю про её прошлою цену-2000р. 2000? ЗА ИНДИ?! ЭТО ЦЕНА НОРМАЛЬНОГО,Б***Ь,AAA ПРОЕКТА!!!! ЭТО же не AAA. А СРАНОЕ ИНДИ,КАРЛ!
    -Открытый мир. Да,я ранее говорил о нем в плюсах. Но это одновременно и минус. АБСОЛЮТНО одинаковые планеты. Единственное,что меняется,это климат. Да и то не заметно.
    -NPC. Это вообще отдельная истроия.
    Ожидание:Нужно быть начеку,ибо животные могут напасть. У них свой язык при общении друг с другом.
    Реалность:Это просто животные. ПРОСТО Е*****Е NPC,КОТОРОЕ ТОЛЬКО МЕШАЕТСЯ ПОД НОГАМИ.
    Кому вообще это может быть интересно? Правильно,НИКОМУ.

    Я могу бесконечно перечислять минусы игры,но на это шел бы не один обзор.
    И всё из-за Шона Мюррея. Награда "Врун года" перечисляется ему.
    ---------------Итог----------------
    Абсолютно сырая,недоделанная игра с скучным геймплеем. А ведь у игры был бы потенциал. Но,как обычно,все катится к чертям.

    2/10.

    GG,Hello Games.    … Expand
  69. BookerBSI
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    Repetitive, boring and over-hyped trash. Cant even play properly, crashes like 1 min after launch. So yeah, I'm very disappointed Hello Games, already refunded this garbage.
  70. imabser
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    It's set in a spore like world, but you just travel around collecting materials to upgrade stuff so you can collect more materials faster so you can upgrade stuff to collect faster etc, etc.. Worth about 15 bucks at most.
  71. papi58490
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    I would like to start of by saying that anyone who defends the PC Version of this game is destroying the PC platform. On launch day the game either doesn't start up or runs like trash and by defending this game you are telling Hello Games and other companies that their game could literally not start up for some people and we'll still jump out of our way to say "but it might work by nextI would like to start of by saying that anyone who defends the PC Version of this game is destroying the PC platform. On launch day the game either doesn't start up or runs like trash and by defending this game you are telling Hello Games and other companies that their game could literally not start up for some people and we'll still jump out of our way to say "but it might work by next week!". I don't care if it works by tomorrow! On day one it wasn't a server problem like some multiplayer games (i.e The Division) the game was literally a broken turd for well over half of the people that purchased it and those who did managed to get in said it run like garbage and looked about as good as Bad Rats. You charge AAA price you get AAA back lash, remember that guys. Rip Hello Games a new one to make sure that this never happens again (or at least we hope so).

    As far as game play goes I wouldn't know because it wouldn't work, and I couldn't go to a friends house because it wouldn't work for him either! Shame on you Hello Games, that's why you don't charge $60 for a game made by like 12 dudes and Sean Murray's Mom.

    I'll buy it next year on sale and probably have fun, but until the day that No Man's Buy has a $20 price tag on it I won't touch it with a 18 Quintilian foot pole.

    0/10 would s*@t on again.    … Expand
  72. poi123
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    how to **** let hellogames this happen, i mean they had 3 years to develop and optimize this game plus it was even delayed, my pc is crashing every time when i go up to space, wtf hellogames, but the worse part is that this game doenst even look good in fact it looks like gamecube game or worse,
  73. kyriores
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    Surprised that games like this actually draw that much attention from the gaming community. I guess the average gamer nowadays is dumb, over-consumeristic and likes throwing money left and right for no reason whatsoever. Yeah, that goes to all you who preordered this game. Can't wait for the next over-hyped title after this one... Meanwhile, more and more publishers are adopting thisSurprised that games like this actually draw that much attention from the gaming community. I guess the average gamer nowadays is dumb, over-consumeristic and likes throwing money left and right for no reason whatsoever. Yeah, that goes to all you who preordered this game. Can't wait for the next over-hyped title after this one... Meanwhile, more and more publishers are adopting this strategy and the number of good videogames released every year is plummeting. Guess it's time to find a new hobby...… Expand
  74. yacepi
    Aug 15, 2016
    0
    The game is litterally broken. Even with the minimum graphics in a GTX970, its broken. It crashes, there are very big performance drops. I asked for a refund.
  75. DmitriySh
    Aug 15, 2016
    0
    Where in this demo the game itself? It seems that the gameplay was added in the last week, and the only thing that was really done over 4 years of development is a procedural generation ...
  76. VladVidya
    Aug 14, 2016
    0
    The game is fun but on PC, unplayable framerates (even dipping below 30) with high end computers is not acceptable.

    I myself have an i7 4770K with 16GB DDR3 RAM and an R9 390 and cannot maintain more than 30fps consistently. Even turning slowly, stuttering is abundant and frequently dropping below 20, the game is nauseating. On top of that, the field of view adjustments are broken and    The game is fun but on PC, unplayable framerates (even dipping below 30) with high end computers is not acceptable.

    I myself have an i7 4770K with 16GB DDR3 RAM and an R9 390 and cannot maintain more than 30fps consistently. Even turning slowly, stuttering is abundant and frequently dropping below 20, the game is nauseating. On top of that, the field of view adjustments are broken and it feels claustrophobic. The only way to fix it is going into the settings file and manually changing the FOV to be above 100, but that causes distracting graphical glitches.

    The game looks like garbage and the resolution setting only upscales the game from 720p, causing the image to appear blurry and makes jagged edges more noticeable. That aside, half the graphical settings either don't work at all (4xSSAA) or have no graphical difference between highest and lowest (Anisotropic Filtering) but the highest setting still manages to make framerates worse.

    I would not touch this game with a 20-mile pole until the developers learn how to make the game run properly. Until then, it is not worth even considering buying unless it is HEAVILY discounted (around $10 at most).    … Expand
  77. dropcrete
    Aug 30, 2016
    4
    Originally I thought this game to be much better. After playing for about 30+ hours I now see there is no content. The concept and visuals are nice but the game is empty and void of fun.
  78. Oppressed
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    The game is an unholy mess and for 50 euros nevertheless, low frame rates and repetitive gameplay. The developers lied to the community which supported them and their behavior shouldn't be left unpunished. Honestly, you are better off with Minecraft.
  79. Klotz
    Dec 21, 2017
    4
    No, I don't expected something completely different.
    No, CoD is not my favourite game of all time.
    The game was advertised with the keywords Explore - Survive - Trade - Fight Not one of these game elements is well implemented. Not one of these game elements is challenging or has any game depth. Mine resources ? To bad that every planet on the universe had planetary-wide "sentinel    No, I don't expected something completely different.
    No, CoD is not my favourite game of all time.
    The game was advertised with the keywords Explore - Survive - Trade - Fight
    Not one of these game elements is well implemented. Not one of these game elements is challenging or has any game depth.

    Mine resources ? To bad that every planet on the universe had planetary-wide "sentinel drones" on them, that will kill everybody who dare to steal a handful of dirt...Surviving simply means to refill one of your numerous constantly dropping meters. Manually of course, even if your have enought resources in your inventory. This game uses every opportunity to artifically extend the gameplay (Yeah, we like our Inventory small and fiddly).

    The best part is probably the exloration, but of course it's shallow like the rest of the game - push your scanner run to the next question marker and "discover" one of 5 or 6 generic alien things that are pretty mutch the same on every planet.This game has too many flaws big and small to name them all, I won't even start to talk about all the technical problems this game has. The 60 € price tag is just the cherry on top of the cake. I think they knew very well why they gave no review copies to the press or showed actual gameplay vids before release.

    Maybe buy this in a Sale after a couple of patches for 20 bucks, because the potential is there but buried under a pile of 18 Quintillion generic planets.    … Expand
  80. Bloodstainer
    Aug 14, 2016
    0
    This game is completely broke. I can't even navigate the options menu, its the worst **** game I've ever played. Way worse than Bad Rats.

    The game itself is lacking of basic features such as, proper mouse control in menus, its **** optimized, it took 2 hours for me to get settings set up because randomly some settings were so broken I couldn't even set my settings properly until I kept    This game is completely broke. I can't even navigate the options menu, its the worst **** game I've ever played. Way worse than Bad Rats.

    The game itself is lacking of basic features such as, proper mouse control in menus, its **** optimized, it took 2 hours for me to get settings set up because randomly some settings were so broken I couldn't even set my settings properly until I kept restarting the game. Its broken, don't touch this ****    … Expand
  81. InfiniteEntropy
    Aug 14, 2016
    0
    So, as far as things go I wasn't actually hyped up at all for this game more or less curious about what everyone was excitedly pissing themselves over.

    However as soon as I downloaded it and had stuttering on the intro galaxy sequence thing I could immediately tell where this was going, I am by no means running a weak PC (1070 GTX OC, i7-4790k, 32 GB, SSD) and the last time I saw an    So, as far as things go I wasn't actually hyped up at all for this game more or less curious about what everyone was excitedly pissing themselves over.

    However as soon as I downloaded it and had stuttering on the intro galaxy sequence thing I could immediately tell where this was going, I am by no means running a weak PC (1070 GTX OC, i7-4790k, 32 GB, SSD) and the last time I saw an absolute crapshoot of a game like this it was released under the name Arkham Knight by a game with a budget even larger.

    But hey, if they were aspiring to be an AAA developer they've reached their goals, because this game has all the hallmarks of a modern AAA game.    … Expand
  82. Zbox
    Aug 20, 2016
    1
    Another case of false advertising, overhyped and a huge mess of a game. makes sense all the vague information, such paranoid evasive behaviour from hello games. and lying over the years to keep feeding the hype and con people into pre-order and RED FLAG when they consored and started witch-hunt against streams..... you should know something was very very wrong....... they want people toAnother case of false advertising, overhyped and a huge mess of a game. makes sense all the vague information, such paranoid evasive behaviour from hello games. and lying over the years to keep feeding the hype and con people into pre-order and RED FLAG when they consored and started witch-hunt against streams..... you should know something was very very wrong....... they want people to fall for it, they successed, BIG TIME. and NO being indie dev doesn't give you a free pass on BS. Rent or buy in sale for 75% off, than laugh hard at how payed 60$ or more xD… Expand
  83. eldumloido
    Sep 15, 2016
    0
    Bad game sold with lies. Hope they never get any success after such a scam and that someone sues them for all they got from it. If anyone involved in this makes anything ever Ill skip it as it is probably just another scam. Hope they get long painful fatal illnesses and none of them get children as they would become scam artists.
  84. RobertTheGreat
    May 4, 2017
    1
    Stay Away From This Game, You Will Just Do The Same Thing Over And Over And Over Again Until You Are Dead, By The Way The Game Take 585 Billion Years To Complete, At This Rate, You Will Never Complete This Game
  85. fykins
    Apr 25, 2017
    0
    Don't even think about getting it. Another early access game where they took your money and did not deliver. Less than 10 hours of game to be had here.

    Space Engineers, Empyrion, and Elite Dangerous all deliver in the ways this game failed. Empyrion has come a long ways in a short time, but it definitely is missing the fine tuning and polish. Space Engineers steadily is becoming    Don't even think about getting it. Another early access game where they took your money and did not deliver. Less than 10 hours of game to be had here.

    Space Engineers, Empyrion, and Elite Dangerous all deliver in the ways this game failed.

    Empyrion has come a long ways in a short time, but it definitely is missing the fine tuning and polish.

    Space Engineers steadily is becoming more and more with each update, and has been in development for some time.

    Elite Dangerous is hugely immersive, finely tuned, polished, and is a great game.

    In order to get a score by my scoring system, you need to have atleast 20 hours of gameplay in order to be considered a game, that gets you a 1. This game gets a 0.    … Expand
  86. Tytos
    Aug 15, 2016
    0
    The interface stinks "console" all over the place, seldom seen such a lazy pc port, this interface is just plain ugly and crafting/upgrading stuff is more exhausting then it has any right to be on PC.
  87. xchange
    Aug 17, 2016
    0
    I would not say it's a complete disapointment but I was expecting a different take on Elite Dangerous or Starcitizen, i was expecting a game where you have freedom and variety with a rich environement.With quests and stuff...

    I ended with a mining game that is relaxing and fun but super repetitive with lack of true content. Even the graphics are so last gen! But the colors are amazing.    I would not say it's a complete disapointment but I was expecting a different take on Elite Dangerous or Starcitizen, i was expecting a game where you have freedom and variety with a rich environement.With quests and stuff...

    I ended with a mining game that is relaxing and fun but super repetitive with lack of true content.
    Even the graphics are so last gen! But the colors are amazing.

    I still enjoy it and i don't see the hours i spend on it, so for this reason, i give a score of 6.
    Consider the game when is going at discount price.

    I spent a surprising amount of time with the game, mostly mining Gold and selling it ASAP    … Expand
  88. S_Stone
    Aug 15, 2016
    4
    Very lackluster and terribly dissapointing. It's the first game I refund on Steam, and because of that it's the first game ever I write a review for in Metacritic.

    My experiences with this game are as follow: - Get on my first planet, looks way worse that what you could see in the trailers, but as it's a random thing maybe I wasn't lucky. - Have to go to my wrecked spaceship, it tells    Very lackluster and terribly dissapointing. It's the first game I refund on Steam, and because of that it's the first game ever I write a review for in Metacritic.

    My experiences with this game are as follow:
    - Get on my first planet, looks way worse that what you could see in the trailers, but as it's a random thing maybe I wasn't lucky.
    - Have to go to my wrecked spaceship, it tells me (after I come to understand the HORRIBLE UI) I need some materials to repair the motor and other thing.
    - Fine, let's search materials (iron and I don't know what more). Oh, cool, I have a jetpack. Oh **** I fell from 2 meters and got damage. Ok, I won't use the jetpack, because on top of that it's slow as balls.
    - Walking speed is atrocious, sprint is limited but you have a good amount so I wonder why it's limited in the first place. Seriously, you can sprint longer than you can use the jetpack.
    - Start mining rocks, laser overheats, ok. **** decision by the way.
    - I mine ONE (1) rock and robot police starts running behind me and shooting (WTF). Total amount played: 5 minutes. I run and hide from them.
    - I find some animal, obviously made from stitching together some random parts. It's so obvious it hurts.
    - Start telling me my suit against radiation or toxicity or something is beginning to wore out. I'm no more than 10 minutes into this.
    - Have I said UI is horrible?
    - Got an alien word.
    - More sentinels, I'm literally doing nothing.

    To sum up, many MANY things to take into account. Menus are very VERY poorly designed from a usability point of view. Inventory is a mess. The procedural nature of this game makes that your first minutes playing this can be a hellish nightmare. The "no fun robot police" is the worst decision ever made in a game that tries to reward you for exploration.

    I have played no more than an hour, and it was a very boring hour. Also, it's very badly optimized. I have a good setup and I had to lower resolution and disable antialiasing so I could move the camera without slowdowns.

    I give it 4 points because there's a good idea buried somwhere in, but as if it's now this is not an enjoyable experience. If you bought this, don't try to justify your purchase and force you to like this thing.

    The fooled you, the same as they fooled me with false advertising and hype marketing. Lucky I could refund the game, now I'm going to use that money (60 bucks, way too expensive for what it is) for other games I'll (I hope) enjoy more.    … Expand
  89. soggyburrito
    Aug 21, 2016
    2
    Very shallow. Infinite unique planets, but they all feel the same. Fauna generation and AI are laughable. Audio is jarring and repetitive. Feels unfinished. Interface needs a lot of work. It isn't the game that was advertised before launch. Plays like a $20 game early access game.
  90. marcantoineg
    May 13, 2018
    0
    A complete scam. NMS has become a textbook exemple on how not to market a video game.
  91. Orco83
    Aug 20, 2016
    0
    La mayor mentira jamás contada...

    He aquí uno de los juegos más pobres que he visto en toda mi vida para PC. Gráficos pobres, un comportamineto de los animales terrible, un sistema de combate en el espacio bastante patética y encima sin multiplayer. Tron, es como Batman Arkham Nights o algo peor. Dejadme que os explique algo: 1. Nos han vendido un juego indie por el precio de un    La mayor mentira jamás contada...

    He aquí uno de los juegos más pobres que he visto en toda mi vida para PC. Gráficos pobres, un comportamineto de los animales terrible, un sistema de combate en el espacio bastante patética y encima sin multiplayer. Tron, es como Batman Arkham Nights o algo peor. Dejadme que os explique algo:

    1. Nos han vendido un juego indie por el precio de un triple A (AAA): Todas las coas que hemos visto en los anuncios son mentira.

    2. El rendimiento del juego es horrible: Sí, es triste, pero es cierto. Personas con mosntruosidades de PC no lo ejecutan bien y tienen problemas con las caidas de FPS.

    3. EL juego es repetitivo: Sí, lo es. En este juego todo es lo mismo, los mismos animales, las mismas plantas y las mismas mecanicas de juego a todas horas. Muy pobre.

    4. Este juego es un fraude: Los desarrolladores dijeron que este juego era multijugador y que podríamos interactuar con otros jugadores cuando la verdad es que NO. Este juego no tiene multijugador, por lo que es imposible encontrar a otros jugadores en los planetas o en el espacio.

    5. IA estúpida: Es la IA mas estúpida que he visto, es increíble. Cuando veas los vídeos de los trailers verás a un gran rinoceronte corriendo que desencadena una estampida de animales mas pequeños debida a el. SI te gustó este comportamiento de los animales en el trailer porque era realista ya te puedes ir olvidando porque es en el juego no existe, es otra parte d ela gran mentira.

    6. Las físicas son una broma: Se puede subir un acantilado casi vertical sin ayuda del Jet-Pack y luego te caes de 5 m de altura y te haces daño.

    7. Cuando exploras planetas siempre te encuentras lo mismo en los puestos avanzados. ALiens y cajas, a veces máquinas para restablecer tu salud o el escudo o algo para aprender sobre alguna de las especies del planeta. SI tienes suerte, inclusi ruinas y máquinas para aprender una palabra en algun idioma alienígena o un tipo al que si le das algo el te da algo... BRAVO!!!

    8. La nave: Dios míoi: Sólo se va a utilizar la nave para viajar a otras estrellas porque al explorar un planeta con la nave encontraremos una barrera invisible entre la nave y el suelo que nos impedirá volar bajo. Otro uso para la nave es de almacén y es uno de los mejores usos que le vas a dar a la nave, porque esta más bien de adorno ya que las batallas en el espacio son bastante cutres y no aportan nada nuevo que no hayamos visto antes al igualq ue pasa en las batallas terrestres contra droides o algún animal.

    9. Uso de la CPU: Aquí es donde bien un gran problema, ya que cuando estas jugando al juego uns egundo te usa un 15% del CPU y un segundo depsues el 100%. De locos.

    Razones para comprarse el juego:
    - Es innovación pura
    - Explorar el universo mola (universo jodidamente grande)
    - Hermosos colores y algunas buenas posibilidades
    - Poner nombres a las nuevas especies animales y vegetales
    - Viajar

    Razones para no comprar este juego:
    - Muy repetitivo
    - Muy caro (60 eurazos para 2GB)
    - Una gran mentira de juego (anuncios fraudulentes)
    - Muy mala optimización
    - No hay multiplayer (los desarrolladores dijeron que si)
    - Poca variedad (lo mismo por todas partes, cambian colores, cuernos y colas)
    - Irrealsta (Rinocerontes con alas de mariposa?)
    - Físicas (una broma)
    - Fraude
    - No está terminado

    Si quieres un consejo no compres este juego si lo que quieres es no quedar decepcionado, no vale los 60 pavos que piden por el y la publicidad sobre el juego ha sido frauduleta.

    Si realmente te gustan los videojuegos, te preocupas por ellos y quieres comprar buenos productos no compres este, la industria del videojuego necesita de tu proteccion contra esta basura. Piensa en ello.    … Expand
  92. Gme
    Jul 23, 2020
    1
    5 years of updates may have improved this game from what it was on release, but a turd remains a turd no matter how much you polish it up, and you just can't get rid of the smell.
  93. KuDju21
    Aug 3, 2020
    0
    This is soooooooo bad, uninteresting, boring, monotonous, incomprehensible, laggy, stupid imperfection.
  94. JymmyQuidd
    Aug 28, 2021
    0
    a game can be good or bad, a game can have bugs, a game can be whatever it wants to be and i can live with that, its all relative depending on the likings of each gamer, and thats what a review should be about, but when they mislead you to buy something by promising a product that ends up not being what promised, when they totally and shamelessly lie in your face doing so, and when u see aa game can be good or bad, a game can have bugs, a game can be whatever it wants to be and i can live with that, its all relative depending on the likings of each gamer, and thats what a review should be about, but when they mislead you to buy something by promising a product that ends up not being what promised, when they totally and shamelessly lie in your face doing so, and when u see a sticker hiding what was really promised, hiding the lies... and all this after paying 60 bucks? then theres no review possible for me when first of all its about a SCAM not a game, just despicable, it's a real shame to see this happening at this particular level after 25 years of gaming, my real thanks and 10/10 score goes to the reviewers and press that cared for us the clients to show us the real product, they just saved me all that money and troubles, as for the game, my score is really obvious.… Expand
  95. Kelnor
    Aug 14, 2016
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Unlike many people, the game actually runs decent enough on my PC and i didn't encounter any serious technological problems. Maybe i'm just lucky, since now i can review the game itself.

    First, all the people who rave about the supposed amazing technological aspect of creating a huge universe filled with planets. 16 years ago, a single italian programmer released a game that did just that, a procedurally generated universe with billions of planets. Unlike this shallow garbage however, that game had a huge variety of planets, there were barren worlds, water worlds, gas giants, and so on. So to say that NMS did something that wasn't there before is simply not true.

    At the end of the day, all NMS does is put together a planet from the same Seed over and over again and swap the colors. If you have been to one planet, you have seen them all. Same type of plants, little variety in alien life and a little different enviroments. It all feels the same. Also, since every single star system i went through has a space station in it and every single planet has those sentinel things on it, you never get that immersion of being an explorer because somebody (NPC-wise) has been there before.

    I do understand that they had to add a number of game mechanics to go with the (failed and utterly shallow) exploration aspect but the resource gathering and crafting is just a huge grind. There is no fun in running around and trying to find that single resource you are missing or docking with a space station just to discover that they don't have that one thing you need.

    The supposed story, if you even could call it that, is equally shallow, boring and doesnt make much sense. Space combat feels random and sluggish, the ship doesnt move nicely and you can tell after 10 seconds that its just a bad port from the PS4, with all the controls more or less geared towards as controller.

    So, in conclusion, NMS fails in all aspects. Its technology is not that great and has been done before. Controls are bad, story nonexistent. And the exploration part is just too shallow to ever give you the urge to continue because there isn't anything new or wonderous to see. And all that for a whooping 59,99€? Save your money.    … Expand
  96. TemplarGR
    Sep 9, 2016
    2
    Very boring and pointless game. It is really sad, because i was hyped for it. I believe most gamers around the world are starved for a space exploration/survival game. A quality game... This is not it. And it is a pity, because it has potential.

    What is worse is that the designer of the game said on an interview that he is changing his mind regarding paid DLC. I am sorry, but this is    Very boring and pointless game. It is really sad, because i was hyped for it. I believe most gamers around the world are starved for a space exploration/survival game. A quality game... This is not it. And it is a pity, because it has potential.

    What is worse is that the designer of the game said on an interview that he is changing his mind regarding paid DLC.

    I am sorry, but this is totally unacceptable, and a scam. This game is nowhere near worth 60$. This game could be sold for 10$ and still make a huge profit. The investment required to make this game is really small, too few assets and low quality. Many features that were advertised before release, are still missing.

    They should add the missing features with free DLCs together with an apology note for not having them on release. If they try to sell them as paid DLC, claiming that the game is expensive and they need the money for development, tell them you have already paid the price of an AAA game and you won't get scamed again like this. This is disgusting...    … Expand
  97. patrickres9
    Aug 13, 2017
    0
    Doesn't get any more shallow than No Guy Buy. Stick with Starbound or Space Engineers - Scifi games with actual depth of gameplay. Things like tacked on "base building" don't really do enough to save this thing from feeling empty and hollow.
  98. zorK90
    Mar 21, 2017
    0
    Nothing less than a fraud.

    Full price for a tech demo that was marketed as something it's not. I have nothing more to say but go to hell Sony and Goodbye games.
  99. Broyax
    Dec 28, 2016
    0
    Bercé par le train-train de la hype et endormi par un cortège de promesses, j'ai été moi aussi victime du No man's sky comme on peut être victime de la scientologie ou d'une arnaque à la vente pyramidale.

    Moi aussi, je viens me confesser aux indés de merde anonymes, ces indés moisis qui se révèlent très souvent de simples sous-produits programmés avec le fion... mais celui-ci, ce No    Bercé par le train-train de la hype et endormi par un cortège de promesses, j'ai été moi aussi victime du No man's sky comme on peut être victime de la scientologie ou d'une arnaque à la vente pyramidale.

    Moi aussi, je viens me confesser aux indés de merde anonymes, ces indés moisis qui se révèlent très souvent de simples sous-produits programmés avec le fion... mais celui-ci, ce No man's sky, il vendait du rêve, attisait une forte curiosité et déployait ses ambitions de jeu triple A surgonflé par les agences de notation ! Et comme pour appuyer ses fanfaronnades, l'ignoble grosse merde était affichée au prix du triple A habituel y compris sur PC, soit 59, 99 !!

    Le plus cruel ou le plus comique dans cette pitoyable histoire, c'est que le jour J le jeu se lance, charge puis crash immédiatement à tous les coups. Rapidement, un patch salvateur est mis en place... par un internaute qui a court-circuité les appels OpenGL merdeux de cette bande de mange-merdes d'Hello Games... lesquels ont a mis ensuite plusieurs jours à résoudre le problème.

    Notez qu'une fois lancé et "opérationnel", le jeu s'avère un pur... étron technique. Assez vilain et souvent de mauvais goût, il tourne comme une patate quels que soient les réglages et charge pendant des plombes ! ! les patchs sucessifs n'y changeront pas grand'chose.

    Le jeu en lui-même amusant la première heure, le temps de la découverte, montre ensuite au fur et à mesure sa vacuité, sa répétition et son ennui puisqu'on erre sans but sinon celui fumeux de suivre une entité absconse jusqu'au "centre de la galaxie"... et pour ce faire, il faut farmer comme un crevard toutes les ressources qu'on voit ici et là et partout ailleurs pour fabriquer, améliorer la combinaison et le vaisseau.

    Là, aujourd'hui, un nouveau patch est sorti, permettant de construire des bases -à la manière de Fallout 4 !- sauf que sur ces planètes vides, on n'en voit vraiment pas l'intérêt si ce n'est de doubler ou tripler les quantités habituelles de farmage de goret... qui obligent à se dépatouiller avec des inventaires toujours plus remplis, ce qui induit encore plus de farmage de merde pour améliorer le nombre de slots !

    Non, vraiment on en sort pas. Mais ce n'est pas le comble. Le comble, c'est de relancer sa partie depuis le patch et de constater qu'on est sur une planète sur laquelle on était pas et que son vaisseau flotte comme un con au milieu du ciel. Inaccessible.

    A moins de tout recommencer à zéro, c'est mort. Le jeu a chié et s'est cassé tout seul. Comme un con. J'ai gâché plus de trois quarts d'heure à chercher un landing pad éventuel pour "rappeler" le vaisseau... en vain.

    Car il n'y a pas de carte sur les planètes, pas de voyage rapide... et les sauvegardes automatiques sont foirées toutes les deux. Parce que "sauvegarder quand on veut" n'a jamais fait partie du cahier des charges chez "Hello Games". Misérables tocards et foutus crevards que vous êtes, incapables connards, allez tous vous faire foutre !    … Expand
  100. Supereme
    Feb 28, 2017
    0
    This is Tottally very very Bad that It will take 585 billion years to complete and I will never ever lose Hatred on this game for the rest of my life
    And I will destroy it
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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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