No Man's Sky

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  1. Lazarento
    Aug 14, 2016
    7
    The game is not bad, I think Hello Games had a very ambitious idea and couldn't deliver the game the way they wanted. My main complaints are the spaceship controls and the lack gas giants, brown dwarves, pulsars, etc.
    Having fun with the game and hope they can keep working to add more content and hopefully keep the game on par with the price they are asking for.
  2. Itsapaul
    Jul 26, 2018
    7
    The newest update is neat, though the game's still a pain to go through since you always start on a hostile world with sentinels aka fun police shooting you for doing actions the tutorial wants you to do. You can get into crazy shenanigans later on though.
  3. Allions
    Oct 13, 2016
    7
    This is a complete SCAM. The game first hours is "wow"... thinking on what you will do when you reach the levels shown in the trailers... but then you realize that the trailers, the interviews seen on youtube etc etc... are COMPLETELY FALSE! I bought the game and played more than 3 hours so i cannot recieve a refund from steam. What a shame.
  4. Kaniya
    Aug 13, 2016
    7
    Finally i got to experience No mans sky on PC. Despite of the fact that ps4 version suffers from HUD and control scheme, the absence of controller and having mouse and keyboard solves the issue pretty much ! the only problem remains with pc version are countless bugs and performance issue. I am running the game on GTX970 and it seems I cant get a stable performance on maximum setting whichFinally i got to experience No mans sky on PC. Despite of the fact that ps4 version suffers from HUD and control scheme, the absence of controller and having mouse and keyboard solves the issue pretty much ! the only problem remains with pc version are countless bugs and performance issue. I am running the game on GTX970 and it seems I cant get a stable performance on maximum setting which is a let down kinda of.
    Other than that, NMS is all about exploration and joy of travelling. The scale is awesome, the world is fantastic and it gives you countless exploring opportunities. Although at times it may feel you are doing the same things but with a different skin, what hello games accomplished with such a small team is quiet a thing for itself. Other than exploration majority of time is spent either completing game's man quest (finiding center of galaxy) or upgrading yourself through farming material. Beyond this due to lack of multiplayer content the game doest have much to offer, sadly there arent much of survival mechanism in the game such as outpost crafting and so on. Which I hope hello game considers adding them as DLCs at least !
    overall not a a bad game but it is not what we all expected either,    … Expand
  5. TenchuuKhan
    Sep 24, 2016
    7
    Overpriced experience.

    In No Man's Sky you get thrown on a planet with your broken ship. Farm up some resources to repair it and then go exploring. What's there to explore: Generated planets and animals (plants are pretty much the same all over). Find monuments which teach you languages or some insight into the lore. Meet different species (there's only 4 really) - every time you    Overpriced experience.

    In No Man's Sky you get thrown on a planet with your broken ship. Farm up some resources to repair it and then go exploring.

    What's there to explore:
    Generated planets and animals (plants are pretty much the same all over).
    Find monuments which teach you languages or some insight into the lore.
    Meet different species (there's only 4 really) - every time you meet an NPC you get faced with a little text puzzle (like: You see this alien, it does this expression, what do you give it). Learning the languages helps you here as the aliens of course tell you what they want, and the more you understand the more is in clear text, the rest is in gibberish.
    Additionally there's a main quest which sends you through different systems to find the Atlas. Once that is done, you can go ahead and find the center of the universe.
    Find blueprints and new tech along the way
    Find ships (if you're super lucky)
    Expand your inventory

    Gameplay is quite repetetive.
    Jump into a system, get or get not involved in a space fight, land on a planet. Explore it, scan the species you find along the way.
    Is it fun? Yes, if you want it to be fun. I've grinded it for some 40 hours.

    I'd wait until it costs 20€ because that's what it's actually worth in my opinion.    … Expand
  6. AtlasKnight
    Aug 13, 2016
    7
    Ahh, the metacritic 0 score army rears its ugly head again. For god's sake guys yes the game has issues but you should still give it points for its merits. If you cant play it, complain all you want but dont review it until you can play it, because for the people like me who can play it just fine, we've had fun.

    Ok so onto the review: How best to describe No Man's Sky? Well imagine    Ahh, the metacritic 0 score army rears its ugly head again. For god's sake guys yes the game has issues but you should still give it points for its merits. If you cant play it, complain all you want but dont review it until you can play it, because for the people like me who can play it just fine, we've had fun.

    Ok so onto the review:

    How best to describe No Man's Sky? Well imagine if Spore and Minecraft had a really pretty baby. Unfortunately you cant build anything and are limited to crafting for upgrades so that baby is a bit handicapped but it's visually superior to both its parents. Not to mention the game world is HUGE, even on any individual planet. And no the planets are not exactly alike, if you've invested any decent amount of time into this game youll actually find some amazing variations. So far I've discovered a cold tundra world, a beautiful tropical world with red grass and water with aquatic lifeforms, a highly irradiated world with scarce amounts of fauna and flora, a volcanic world with predators, a toxic rain world and a beautiful green jungle world with some interesting land crustaceans. The surface buildings all look very similar but people seem to forget the fundamental focus of this game - exploration of the natural biomes. The buildings are recycled because theyre only meant to act as checkpoints and supply caches for your journey.

    Now onto the space exploration. The space battles with pirates can be frustrating if youre not looking for them, especially as the only way to run is to jump to another system, and in order to recharge shields you have to do some menu fiddling and need a good supply of oxides. However, upgrades will make things easier and once you get past the bumps these battles add extra bit of content you needed moving from one planet to the next, and some nice material reward to go with it. The ship controls arent as good as elite but mining is a lot less frustrating since all the resources come to you automatically. The space stations themselves are all the same, but if you've played Elite Dangerous like I have, this is nothing new and to be expected. Again space stations are just a safe hub, theyre not the focus of the game, although admittedly they could be more varied like Elite. Space itself is not at the scale i was hoping for (again Elite did this better) - planets should not be this close together and space isnt this rocky, although this game doesnt label realism as a selling point so i can forgive this. My favourite about space is the seamless transition onto a planet. Landing on a planet seamlessly from space truly gives you a feel of scale, and, whilst somewhat overwhelming, its well-executed (providing your rig can handle it without exploding into a stuttering mess).

    Ok so lets give a pros and cons breakdown.

    Pros:
    Beautiful scenery, beautiful unique planets if you invest the time to find them.
    Unique wildlife everywhere, including aquatic, land and airborne lifeforms, with great size variance.
    Space gives a satisfying amount of depth and some content to distract you between planets.
    The Atlas storyline route gives a primary focus and seems to reward the player with more interesting worlds so recommend following story route.
    Exploration pays off if you invest the time into finding wildlife and waypoints. This should be your secondary focus, and you may find some interesting things along the way.
    The crafting and upgrading system gives you a tertiary focus, so there's always things to do, even if its just collect materials.

    Cons:
    Performance issues with vsync. I recommend turning off, maxing your framerate, turning on nvidia's vsync and tweaking graphics until the issue is resolved.
    Crash on startup. Havent experienced this myself but Hello Games are working on a fix. It happens, no need to give a 0 for it but the devs should have been prepared.
    Space scale isnt as good as elite's.
    The ship handling is somewhat clunky.
    Buildings and stations are recycled.
    The draw distance isnt great (might just be my graphics settings), you will constantly see rendering of nearby scenery everywhere you go, which takes away from the beauty a bit.
    Some lacklustre texturing but given the scale I can forgive this.
    No real tutorial - although not too difficult you're left to figure out a lot by yourself.
    Requires a hefty time investment.
    Collecting the materials to warp to another system is tedious given the scale of the universe (at least in early game)
    Lacklustre trading system. Ok so there are fluctuations from the galactic average but given the difficulty in finding materials to warp and lack of trade information for other systems i cant really see a benefit to playing this game as a trader, since every warp is a gamble on your cargo value.

    Final verdict: 7.

    PS: If you're complaining that there's nothing interesting to do, you probably lack imagination or an appreciation of beauty, and you bought this game for the wrong reasons and clearly didnt do your research.    … Expand
  7. ChakiDH
    Aug 12, 2016
    7
    So i've put 5 hours into the game by now and i gotta say, it's solid and i am having fun.

    If you are interested in exploring a lot, just crossing another hill to find something new, then this is a great game for you.

    So go ahead and give it a try if you are interested in exploratory gameplay.
  8. ZombieTech
    Jun 26, 2017
    7
    Ater playing a decent chunk of the game on day-one release... I must say, the game IS EXCELLENT!

    Being honest, when I first launched, I had a small hiccup with graphic-settings, where for some reason it had an issue when I went to restart the game, in switching to full-screen mode. Ended up having to edit the settings file in the Steam-dir to make it borderless windowed. Was able to    Ater playing a decent chunk of the game on day-one release... I must say, the game IS EXCELLENT!

    Being honest, when I first launched, I had a small hiccup with graphic-settings, where for some reason it had an issue when I went to restart the game, in switching to full-screen mode. Ended up having to edit the settings file in the Steam-dir to make it borderless windowed. Was able to play the game for, according to Steam, an 11 hour stretch, without any real issues and everything was excellent, fun, interesting, explorative... this is not only the definite game I've been wanting to play for ages... but even the game I've been dreaming of for the past 20 years. When I was a teenager and used to be more into coding, I used to have ideas of games that could just render, on the fly, procedural-code and functions, to make a gigantic game without much need of mammoth-space and resources to make it work... this is more or less exactly what I would have imagined... starting in space and working down to the planet-level, rather than the other way around.

    Devs are already working on updates and additions to the game, which is GINORMOUS! To give an idea of the SCALE of this game: Before buying the game, I was SO excited for it... and found myself watching some PS4 gameplay videos on YouTube... kind of had a semi-idea of places to tighten up on that I'd see other players slip on, or stuff they'd pass by... or so I kind of thought. I had noticed in the journal-screen or whatever, that a lot of planets gave a few hundred thousand units, or more, if you discovered everything on the planet. Well, the planet I started on was awesome... which again, after the above-listed tiny graphics issue I had at first and flipping through some options, I found that if you exited and restarted at the very beginning you can re-renderer everything about the planet you start on. Since I was actually squared away, launched the game, and ended up on a freezing snowing planet... yeah, having grown up most my earlier years in the snow, I was good on that, restarted... and the planet I have now is lush, it's pretty, has neon-green grass with purple-ish and orange like landscape, the creatures are neat looking, the drones are there but only attack if provoked (and sometimes go into attack mode when I mine, which is odd), and findings are plentiful.

    This is where the scale comes into play, because I'm not sure if the amount of stuff per planet is semi-set or if it's procedural, but OMG, the first planet I'm on is SO HUGE with SO MUCH TO DO! As I said above, I noticed in videos that if a planet is completed there's a big pay day, and having an enjoyment of being a completionist, I thought I might start off completing the first planet or two. WOW! I can tell you now, the whole 11.5hrs listed up to this point has all been spent on THE FIRST PLANET! I have my ship repaired and ready to shoot into space... but I wanted to try to get everything on the first planet to have the few hundred thousands of credits starter-funds going into the cosmos; which I'm coming to find, with the found junk/sell-loot [like daggers and cubes and such] sold in a decent amount, can make just as many units, and perhaps for that reason, I'm feeling a nudge to move on with the game and maybe come back later, BUT... and this is the critical part...

    There's SO MUCH TO FIND... this game is an EXPLORER'S DREAM come TRUE! On just the first planet I've managed to upgrade my ship to a slightly nicer upgrade (another slot, a few more pre-installed functions/weapons) that was found in "downed ship" or whatever map-marker. I've also upgraded my multi-tool TWICE, and I think it's a 12-slot now (looks like an MP5), with a bunch of cool mods, that I crafted onto it. Also learned a TON of tool mods and ship mod (+several language words)... still can't access some of the materials yet to build them... but looking forward to huge mutli-slotted tools/ships that can be loaded to the teeth (it kind of reminds me a slight bit of Kingdom Hearts and the Gummi Ship with its upgrades & such).

    But seriously, after 11.5 hours, I'm STILL finding new stuff, on THE SAME STARTER PLANET! And I've barely made, in comparsion I'd imagine, a reasonable dent in the surface of the planet... when I think about how far I've traveled and what I've seen... I can't say that I can recall going in one direction, then realize coming back around the other side as in going all the way around... the planets are HUGE!!!! Which is a GREAT THING! This game is a UNIVERSE-SIMULATOR if there ever was one!!!

    From what I've seen in the videos, there are space-stations, there are "space bars" it'd seem, and everything in between... for any that grew up on the classic-game-series "Space Quest" by the *original* Sierra On-Line you OWE IT TO YOURSELF to try this, and be patient with it.    … Expand
  9. SuperkenGaming
    Sep 1, 2016
    7
    No Man’s Sky
    vastly underwhelming…
    I went into no man’s sky with low expectations... And at first no man’s sky exceeded these expectations... Everyone starts on a random planet at the edge of the universe, you’re tasked with collecting materials to repair your ship… This is a great tutorial to help you understand the basics of the game… You then go to points in the galaxy you’re in    No Man’s Sky
    vastly underwhelming…
    I went into no man’s sky with low expectations... And at first no man’s sky exceeded these expectations...
    Everyone starts on a random planet at the edge of the universe, you’re tasked with collecting materials to repair your ship…
    This is a great tutorial to help you understand the basics of the game…
    You then go to points in the galaxy you’re in for other parts to give an understanding of the game even more… and the further you go the more intriguing this game gets…
    And once you finally have all of your ship parts, the universe is yours to either explore freely or travel towards the center of the universe…
    To travel towards the center you need materials to craft up to power cells…
    These materials are all reasonably accessible.. some more abundant than others depending on the planet you visit…
    1 power cell will let you travel 100-300 light years at a time to a different planetary system..
    You can also explore these planets for plant and animal species, which is really fun to do initially…
    But it doesn’t take long for the no man’s sky game play loop to get tiring…
    Wide as an Ocean, deep as a puddle…
    I don’t care that animals have different mixtures of body parts or plants have slight variations than plants on other planets..
    Every animal... every plant... they are all the same thing with different skins… that’s it... and the skin isn’t even that different most of the time..
    I find procedural generation to be one of the laziest forms of game design and roll my eyes every time I hear the phrase and no man’s sky is a prime example of why…
    This is 40 hours of the same thing….
    All you do is repeat the first 2 hours of the game 20 times…
    These worlds are not alive... animals aren’t eating, sleeping, fighting, mating… they’re just there..
    walking around looking the animals on earth with parts of other animals from earth…
    doing nothing but occasionally attacking you…
    Don’t get me wrong, I was in a trance for a good 15 hours playing no man’s sky, and 15 hours is well worth $60, but the game was just not intriguing enough to keep me wanting to continue forward…
    I shouldn’t have a planet figured out before I even set foot on it…
    But here I was, I knew what to look for to get certain materials, because again these planets are all the same only differing in color or elemental danger that never really mattered...
    and once you do get sucked into the game, you have to deal with these annoying sentinel creatures that shoot you for mining materials…
    A very unnecessary nuisance that I believe ruins the potential Zen like experience no man sky has going for it…
    you can also find ship and mining tool upgrades on these planets as well as these word stones to help you understand the alien creatures that inhabit a trading station in every star system that you can use to sell valuable materials and purchase materials needed to craft a new item or upgrade…
    These stations also have other galactic travelers that you can sell items to, buy from, or purchase their ship from…
    No man’s sky is a very relaxing and casual experience, simple loop, simple crafting, and may be one of those games you return to every now and then when you’re bored…
    But its uninteresting beyond the first couple of hours and at the end of the day is just another lazy feeling procedurally generated survival game grind fest…
    I give no man’s sky a 7/10    … Expand
  10. wolverine2710
    Oct 6, 2016
    7
    I've played NMS for 70+ hours now. Yes its not the advertisement game - far from it - but for me its fun. I solely concentrate on exploring the planets because the rest is not fleshed out enough. From a technical point of view its brilliantly done. Personally rating this game with a zero is not fair. I give it a seven. I expect and hope that the game will get more flesh on the bones though......
  11. Acejuno
    Aug 21, 2016
    7
    The game isn't bad. To be honest I think it's really playable and enjoyable. The only problem is the expectations given by developers. It just is not what they have been promising. Everything beside this is ok. I had a lot of fun playing it.
  12. AlKappaccino
    Aug 16, 2016
    7
    Badly optimized, non engaging blunt gameplay, graphics nowhere to what they showed and show us, horrible flight controls - hotas not supported either.
  13. mega_karaoke
    Aug 17, 2016
    7
    No Man's Sky succeeds in its core goal: providing a pretty chill space exploration game with basically endless places to go. Most of the rest of the game is less successful. (Apart from the soundtrack which is quite excellent.)

    Unlike a lot of the reviewers here, I've not experienced the technical issues, crashes, or low FPS with my modest (i5 3570 + RX470) system. I have about 10    No Man's Sky succeeds in its core goal: providing a pretty chill space exploration game with basically endless places to go. Most of the rest of the game is less successful. (Apart from the soundtrack which is quite excellent.)

    Unlike a lot of the reviewers here, I've not experienced the technical issues, crashes, or low FPS with my modest (i5 3570 + RX470) system. I have about 10 friends on Steam with the game, all without major issues. (One friend couldn't get the game to work at all but was running really old drivers. An update fixed the problem.)

    Pros: relatively easy to learn, some pretty interesting stuff to see, limited loading screens (let's be real, "warping" is just a loading screen), excellent soundtrack and audio design in general

    Could use some work: performance is okay but not great (anti-aliasing options could use some help), physics engine is questionable at times, inventory space is perhaps still too limited and becomes a (boring) mini-game of its own

    Cons: user interface clearly designed for consoles, NPC and building variety limited, no ability to easily backtrack to previous systems (just need a warp option in the list of discovered systems), combat systems and enemy AI too simple

    Overall, I think it's worth a trial (buy on Steam for easy refund in case your system doesn't like it) if you're interested in wandering around in alien worlds for a bit and okay with not having much in the way of structured gameplay or "stuff to do."    … Expand
  14. HipsterDufus
    Aug 21, 2016
    7
    Such a bad launch where my PC could not run it, then when it does it does not deliver what the developer promised. A lot of hype and for a game that doesn't deliver it's value. Sad because unless Hello Games pulls a rabbit out of their hat this game could die before it reaches its full potential. A most beautiful vision for another big step in gaming poorly executed. 5 out of 10 isSuch a bad launch where my PC could not run it, then when it does it does not deliver what the developer promised. A lot of hype and for a game that doesn't deliver it's value. Sad because unless Hello Games pulls a rabbit out of their hat this game could die before it reaches its full potential. A most beautiful vision for another big step in gaming poorly executed. 5 out of 10 is being generous for the ability to make something new not seen in games before.… Expand
  15. miniwolfen
    Aug 14, 2016
    7
    No mans Sky looks and sounds impressive but even if it has lots of planets the game play gets boring.Face it this indie game was just as over hyped as mighty no 9 which turned out to be a disaster. At least its better than that game.The visuals and world seem impressive but there isn't much to do game play wise other than mine and craft stuff, rename things and talk to aliens.It has theNo mans Sky looks and sounds impressive but even if it has lots of planets the game play gets boring.Face it this indie game was just as over hyped as mighty no 9 which turned out to be a disaster. At least its better than that game.The visuals and world seem impressive but there isn't much to do game play wise other than mine and craft stuff, rename things and talk to aliens.It has the world it just needs more things to do to make it stand out and have its own charm and personality.The price as well makes it seem more like a triple a game not an indie, my pc runs it fine but on others it doesn't. I expect an indie game to work on every ones pc if they are saying they have the right things installed… Expand
  16. JerryCanFTWBoys
    Aug 12, 2016
    7
    Okay first things first, never trust critics. critics is just an opinion from others, not from you. So if you really want to find out if its a good game, then buy it and play it yourself. You only just need to like the game. Like me i have played the game and i liked it, and i dont bother me on the bad or the the good critics . Just dont bother you on the critics! People are just gonnaOkay first things first, never trust critics. critics is just an opinion from others, not from you. So if you really want to find out if its a good game, then buy it and play it yourself. You only just need to like the game. Like me i have played the game and i liked it, and i dont bother me on the bad or the the good critics . Just dont bother you on the critics! People are just gonna hate and people are just gonna love! Thats the world of critics now of the days, so just play it for yourself. Then you know if its a good or a bad game for you.… Expand
  17. Broruffy
    Aug 12, 2016
    7
    On my Computer Setup (i5 750, GTX 960, 8GB Ram) the Game works okay. I get 30 FPS I can play this fine. Sometime the Game freezes for a moment, but that's fine. I can enjoy exploring. But I noticed, that the rendering doesn't work perfect. Sometimes not everything gets rendered 100%.

    The game needs to work better and some sort of Base building. That could be on Planets or with a giant    On my Computer Setup (i5 750, GTX 960, 8GB Ram) the Game works okay. I get 30 FPS I can play this fine. Sometime the Game freezes for a moment, but that's fine. I can enjoy exploring. But I noticed, that the rendering doesn't work perfect. Sometimes not everything gets rendered 100%.

    The game needs to work better and some sort of Base building. That could be on Planets or with a giant Spaceship.    … Expand
  18. MarthEliwood
    Aug 12, 2016
    7
    So I have put in a few hours so far in the game. It feels to me as a 3D Starbound(Alpha/Beta Phases). There isnt much direction, mostly crafting and exploration, trading with the inhabitants, and learning the language. Once they add in multiplayer, some questing or objectives, bases/pets(Which they said they will be), and maybe make the flight a bit less clunky this game will be muchSo I have put in a few hours so far in the game. It feels to me as a 3D Starbound(Alpha/Beta Phases). There isnt much direction, mostly crafting and exploration, trading with the inhabitants, and learning the language. Once they add in multiplayer, some questing or objectives, bases/pets(Which they said they will be), and maybe make the flight a bit less clunky this game will be much better. Just like Starbound when it was in early stages.… Expand
  19. Apm
    Aug 16, 2016
    7
    Поначалу игра показалась мне скучной, но пересилив себя и поиграв в неё еще пару часиков, я увлекся и теперь играю каждый день. Мне самому кажется это странным. Но я думаю игра должна сразу чем-то цеплять и не отпускать до конца, поэтому я снижаю свою оценку. И да, я оцениваю не объективно. Багов и лагов нет - и на том спасибо.Поначалу игра показалась мне скучной, но пересилив себя и поиграв в неё еще пару часиков, я увлекся и теперь играю каждый день. Мне самому кажется это странным. Но я думаю игра должна сразу чем-то цеплять и не отпускать до конца, поэтому я снижаю свою оценку. И да, я оцениваю не объективно. Багов и лагов нет - и на том спасибо.
  20. wightlight8
    Aug 17, 2016
    7
    Despite its flaws there is something magical about the game. 18 quintillion planets, all unique. You land on one and there's a good possibility you're going to be the only one that ever sees it. It becomes your planet. I love that sense of solitude, and the environments are often very beautiful. Just wandering around exploring is very good stress relief.

    That said, there are many    Despite its flaws there is something magical about the game. 18 quintillion planets, all unique. You land on one and there's a good possibility you're going to be the only one that ever sees it. It becomes your planet. I love that sense of solitude, and the environments are often very beautiful. Just wandering around exploring is very good stress relief.

    That said, there are many frustrations and disappointments. Inventory management is not fun, and that's a problem because gaining more inventory slots is pretty much the sole form of character progression. You want to craft upgrades, but every upgrade takes up an inventory slot that you can't spare. You want to craft a one time use bypass chip to unlock something, but first you have to destroy things to make room in your inventory. You find a cool looking crashed ship, but it's useless because the inventory is smaller than yours. You find a new multitool with more slots, but you have to craft all your upgrades again only to repeat the whole process an hour later. There's really no point in trying too hard to tune your upgrades until you max out your inventory slots. Gaining inventory slots one by one is a tedious grind, and yet without that, there's almost nothing to strive for.

    Alien and terminal interactions are fun, but you begin to see the same logic problems cropping up over and over. I've used the same number to answer the exact same problem at least 5 times now. And while the landscapes and creatures are procedurally generated, there is a very small subset of buildings and interactive objects that you begin to see over and over again.

    Other than naming things, there is no way to leave your mark in the world. You can't build anything. You can't change anything. I can't think of a single way to influence the world in any way.

    There are achievements for scanning 100% of the creatures on a planet, yet there are always 1 or 2 species on a planet that are nigh impossible to find because they are so rare. It took me 3 days of flying around on the same planet before I finally completed this objective just once. Thinking about doing it again makes me want to stop playing.

    Lastly, it seems like a pretty poor PC port. You may have to fiddle with the graphics settings before you can even get it to run (I had to enable Borderless Windowed mode), and even then the performance is not the best. I have been experiencing some kind of memory leak, where after several hours of playing the FPS tanks and I have to restart the game. Playable, but not impressive.

    It's a fun game to wander aimlessly around. In fact I really enjoy doing that. But the moment you start to try to complete any of the games objectives, anything that makes the game an actual game, it starts to become a boring grind.    … Expand
  21. Ric_PC
    Aug 21, 2016
    7
    Well, the game isn't bad at all, however I was expecting more. It can be a little bit disappointing for those who are expecting for great graphics for example. At 1080p the image is a little bit blurry (and I know how to configure my graphic settings for god sake), feels like the game was ported (which is ridiculous.. we are in 2016). The story is interesting, but the space travelWell, the game isn't bad at all, however I was expecting more. It can be a little bit disappointing for those who are expecting for great graphics for example. At 1080p the image is a little bit blurry (and I know how to configure my graphic settings for god sake), feels like the game was ported (which is ridiculous.. we are in 2016). The story is interesting, but the space travel sometimes becomes very annoying and repetitive as well as some planets.
    My vote goes for a 7/7,5.    … Expand
  22. Colbert
    Sep 5, 2016
    7
    Planetscape wallpaper generator. Plenty of ambiance with a 70s sci-fi art style. Buy it if you would like to wander the universe looking at different but similar planets while grinding elements ad infinitum with the occasional ship fight.
  23. F0B0S
    Sep 14, 2016
    7
    Juego entretenido para quien le gusta la exploración, por desgracia, acaba resultando repetitivo cuando se avanza un poco en la partida ya que una vez terminados los objetivos basicos el objetivo único del juego pasa a ser avanzar hacia el centro de la galaxia por los medios de que dispongas, y puedo garantizar que es un proceso muy largo y pesado.
  24. tommy61157
    Jul 31, 2017
    7
    No Man's Sky is clearly a flawed game and had a terrible launch. With that said though, there still is a lot to love here and the developers are adding more and more to the game through updates and the recent 'Waking Titan' ARG. I would recommend buying it whenever it goes on sale at some point after the 1.3 update comes out because I think the game will improve even more than it alreadyNo Man's Sky is clearly a flawed game and had a terrible launch. With that said though, there still is a lot to love here and the developers are adding more and more to the game through updates and the recent 'Waking Titan' ARG. I would recommend buying it whenever it goes on sale at some point after the 1.3 update comes out because I think the game will improve even more than it already has in that update and it might be worth a sub-60$ price point. Personally, I've had a lot of fun with the game actually and if you ignore all the hype BS and take the game for what it is, it can be very relaxing and kind of cool, keep your eye on this one, as it can only get better with the updates Hello Games is continuing to provide.… Expand
  25. Taylord99
    Aug 15, 2018
    7
    This game is a much better game than what it was in 2016. There are many more things to do now and it feels way more dynamic and has way more depth. The game still has a ways to go, but it is getting there.
  26. Rhynlock
    Aug 15, 2018
    7
    First of all, this game is not for everyone, this is a game about exploration, about wandering about in the endless procedural generated galaxy. The Next updated really blew life into a dead game and make me jump into it. is interesting to go find little pieces of a language to help you communicate with new species. the spaceships has a good variety even tough they all play mostly theFirst of all, this game is not for everyone, this is a game about exploration, about wandering about in the endless procedural generated galaxy. The Next updated really blew life into a dead game and make me jump into it. is interesting to go find little pieces of a language to help you communicate with new species. the spaceships has a good variety even tough they all play mostly the same, its nice eye candy. the game does has a huge amount of farming and grinding that slows the exploration quite a bit and this is my main issue with the game. other issue I have is that lots of the flora and fauna you find in different planets look weird or outright creepy, which can be a little unsettling. anyway I love exploration and in space is just better, if you are into that pick it up and have fun. if you don't, then stay away… Expand
  27. SerSpooge
    Jun 24, 2020
    7
    Considering the state it was in when it first released, this game has come an incredibly long way. they have added an endless amount of enjoyable content,I have put 20 hours into it recently and feel as though I have barely scratched the surface. it still has its issues, I have had multiple deaths due to glitches in the world and the multiplayer isn't as synchronised as it could be. butConsidering the state it was in when it first released, this game has come an incredibly long way. they have added an endless amount of enjoyable content,I have put 20 hours into it recently and feel as though I have barely scratched the surface. it still has its issues, I have had multiple deaths due to glitches in the world and the multiplayer isn't as synchronised as it could be. but seeing how far they've come since release I can only see this game getting better.… Expand
  28. BastianTank
    Jul 26, 2019
    7
    I think No Man's Sky is a great game. The graphics are impressive, the gameplay relatively exciting. What I have to criticize in the gameplay, however, is that the missions are mostly structured as follows:
      - Go somewhere
    - pick something up / give / eliminate - fly back. It can also be annoying when small animals attack you for unknown reasons. What I also should mention is that    I think No Man's Sky is a great game. The graphics are impressive, the gameplay relatively exciting. What I have to criticize in the gameplay, however, is that the missions are mostly structured as follows:
      - Go somewhere
    - pick something up / give / eliminate
    - fly back.
    It can also be annoying when small animals attack you for unknown reasons.
    What I also should mention is that mining / picking up / etc. plays an important role.
    Incidentally, I'm grateful that there are encyclopedias about No Man's Sky because not everything is self-explanatory.    … Expand
  29. Lizarino
    May 31, 2020
    7
    Rough launch but the regular updates have made this game definitely worth playing
    If you don't mind grinding and enjoy exploration / building then try it out
    The game does occasionally crash for me though and the occasional bug but nothing major Edit 2020: The game now has major performance issues for me including frequent crashing, low fps and textures not loading in properly. I    Rough launch but the regular updates have made this game definitely worth playing
    If you don't mind grinding and enjoy exploration / building then try it out

    The game does occasionally crash for me though and the occasional bug but nothing major

    Edit 2020: The game now has major performance issues for me including frequent crashing, low fps and textures not loading in properly. I have also been experiencing a lot more bugs like the discovery system not working, other players being invisible, bases dissapearing. All of these things were pretty much non-existant in the past.
    Losing almost houts of progress multiple times is infuriating so score is lowered    … Expand
  30. Mister_Jey
    Jan 12, 2021
    7
    → Une épopée dans les étoiles.
    Décrié à sa sortie pour ne pas avoir tenu toutes ses promesses, No Man's Sky est aujourd'hui à la hauteur de ce qu'il devait être, grâce à un bon nombre de DLC gratuits qui sont venus ajouter beaucoup de contenu. Ainsi, on se retrouve à bord de notre vaisseau à explorer un nombre infini de planètes colorées, au climat parfois rude, et peuplé généralement de    → Une épopée dans les étoiles.
    Décrié à sa sortie pour ne pas avoir tenu toutes ses promesses, No Man's Sky est aujourd'hui à la hauteur de ce qu'il devait être, grâce à un bon nombre de DLC gratuits qui sont venus ajouter beaucoup de contenu. Ainsi, on se retrouve à bord de notre vaisseau à explorer un nombre infini de planètes colorées, au climat parfois rude, et peuplé généralement de drôles de créatures. J'aurais tout de même souhaité une histoire tout autre, d'ailleurs peut-on vraiment parler ici de scénario ? Il y a quand même une espèce de sentiment de solitude intersidéral qui s'installe, malgré l'arrivé du Nexus (sorte d'anomalie spatiale proposant une expérience multijoueur). NMS propose tout de même une belle aventure, j'étais déjà conquis à sa sortie, et c'est évidemment encore plus le cas aujourd'hui, même s'il pourrait être encore bien meilleur sur certains points.

    Sortie en août 2016 / Développé par Hello Games.    … Expand
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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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