- Publisher: Hello Games
- Release Date: Aug 12, 2016
- Also On: Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Switch, Xbox One
User Score
Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 2694 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 819 out of 2694
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Mixed: 284 out of 2694
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Negative: 1,591 out of 2694
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Aug 27, 2016
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Aug 30, 2016Shocking piece of crap this game is. I'm one of the thousands of people who got a refund through Steam after playing it for over 10 hours. Nothing but lies, damn lies from the devs. The $60 price tag was a complete joke. It was only worth $2.99 at the most!
Hello Games = Goodbye Games! -
Aug 28, 2021
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Aug 12, 2016
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Aug 18, 2016
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Aug 12, 2016
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Aug 22, 2016
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Aug 30, 2016
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Aug 26, 2016It's a completely single player game. It's a totally single player game. It's a definitely single player game. It's a boring single player game. It's a harsh single player game.
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Aug 22, 2016Company 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.
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Aug 17, 2016No support for GoG purchasers. 3 patches released for Steam users, 1 empty patch for GoG and nothing since. Currently the game is utterly broken. Won't even start and with a developer that is ignoring a retail channel, I have to rate this game a big 0. GoG are waiting for the patch from Hello Games so they can make it available.. truly despicable behaviour from HG.
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Aug 18, 2016This is a scam. The game shown in the trailers simply doesn't exists. 2/3 of the features shown in the trailers were cut. Hello Games must be thankful for Steam and Gog having strong refund policies that allows users to ask for a refund for any reason, otherwise they would have lawsuits pilling up at their mailbox.
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Sep 18, 2016I learned my lesson. Never buy a game until a month or two after launch. Never believe the hype, just go off user reviews. An expensive lesson indeed. Someone should launch a class action against these developers.
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Aug 12, 2016
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Aug 31, 2016Clear case of developers lying to our faces again.
E3 and demos overstate quality and amount of content when it ends up only showing you 30 different plants and animals, all changed in minor ways. -
Aug 12, 2016Another overpriced overhyped piece of crap. This game is technically poor at everything it tries to do, yet this doesn't prevent the developer to oversell on every point, and blatantly lie on some aspects. Research heavily before buying, or buy blindly at your own peril.
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Aug 16, 2016What do you get for 60$? A boring, repetitive, and overhyped game. This is what you get for overhyping a game, and now you get No Man's Poop. Also this game is currently broken on pc.
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Aug 31, 2016
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Aug 15, 2016I 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.
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Aug 15, 2016The 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.
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Aug 30, 2016This game is total poop. I didn't even buy this crap, I torrented it. It was a waste of bandwidth. This game offers u nothing, there's nothing to, the random monsters are all turd-like, and the devs lied about the whole game.
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Aug 15, 2016
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Oct 18, 2016Sean Murray is a **** liar. The game does not even have half of what was promised. The only thing to do in this game is an endless grind. None of the planets even feel unique. Stay far away from this game.
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Aug 13, 2016
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Aug 15, 2016No multiplayer.
No mountains.
No deep caves.
No deep sea exploration.
No forests.
No customizable FOV.
No challenge.
No interesting NPC.
No story.
No ending. -
Aug 12, 2016Another non-game for ridiculous price and with ridiculous spec requirements.
Thankfully it flopped. I hope this trend will keep up and the awful post 2006 next gen rules of conduct will end. -
Aug 12, 2016The game is absolutely broken right now. There is nothing that can be done about it, no matter how low you put your settings, how many programs you close. You will still find yourself with a game so unstable you might as well not play it.
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Aug 12, 2016Must say I'm amazed at this.... it actually runs worse than Arkham Knight on release on this computer.
Concerning the game content, doesn't matter if there's a lot of sand in a desert when each piece looks the same -
Aug 13, 2016
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Aug 22, 2016Not even worth to pirate.
The worst performance game I have ever played.
None of the developers have even played it.
The game play... doesn't exist.
Get a decent QA team. Releasing software with this amount of bugs and crashes is criminal. -
Aug 12, 2016DO NOT BUY RIGHT NOW : Either it's crashing after a few seconds on the logo, or performance is horrible even with bleeding edge PC. Quite distasteful strategy from Sony / Hello Games to release a broken game in order to respect a date then promise a patch, a new QA team, a support system *next week* : as if they could not figure it out before that it could be needed ! Vote with your wallet !
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Oct 26, 2016
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Sep 3, 2023Doing ant`s work here with a positive review since the positives of this game nowadays are so much bigger than the negatives. Insane immersion given the difficult task of being a space simulation game.
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Aug 12, 2016Such piece of dung for 40 quid. Can't believe that I apid for it.
Positives.
Refund button works but only if you play for less then 2 hours. I played 4 - if I only knew... Damn the Steam! -
Sep 27, 2016
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Aug 13, 2016
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Aug 29, 2016
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Aug 12, 2016The dev is an absolute crook! This game was sold on LIES. Where is the multiplayer component that was promised? Where was the debugging? This game constantly crashes! Are you kidding me? I buy games to play them! Not have them crash!!
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Aug 20, 2016Una basura!! requisitos exagerados para graficos de ps3 , problemas por todos lados incluso con el parche que salio hoy... no pude pasar del tercer planeta que me aburrio y tambien me canso el mal rendimiento
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Aug 28, 2016
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Oct 12, 2016
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Aug 15, 2016Where 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 ...
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Oct 12, 2016This would have been decent for a $15 early access indie game. Not a full priced $60 where they promised a lot of features, none of which even exist in the game. Hello Games deliberately lied about what the game was to sell more copies and this behavior should never be supported. Pirate this game if you're that curious, but do NOT buy it. It is a scam, through and through.
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Aug 15, 2016
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Aug 12, 2016
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Aug 24, 2016
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Aug 17, 2016pros:
Quite funny the first 4 hours
cons:
- overpriced
- planets with no biomes, are all the same after 5 or 6
- no AI at all
- extremely ripetitive and boring
- trading is a joke
- just 10 elements and the most are useless
- this is a bad pre alpha with more bugs then features
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Aug 13, 2016What 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.
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Aug 12, 2016Very boring, bad optimised and the most trivial sandbox game i have ever played. It is not about exciting exploring of different planets with different life forms, plants and eco-systems. It is just uninteresting grinding game without any ways to involve in gameplay, in my opinion.
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Aug 12, 2016This is a hundred times worse than I'd imagined it could be. Terrible performance, terrible UI, terrible FOV, terrible absolutely everything.
If you bought this game, it might not be too late to refund it. I strongly urge you do so while you still have the chance. -
Aug 12, 2016The game is overhyped and it is just... ugh-- not even words can describe it now. Terribly optimised and the game we were given was DEFINITELY not what we were promised.
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Sep 10, 2016This game is a joke a scam and a lie.
Do not buy it! Eveb when it is on sale DO NOT BUY IT.
Never buy any game from hello games they are a scam company.
F%ck them for scamming 69 bucks. -
Sep 15, 2016Bad 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.
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Aug 13, 2017Doesn'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.
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Aug 12, 2016overal this game runs wors then me, and I am Fat. The game breaks when you alt tab, it runs very poorly on my 770GTX with 4GB in combination with an i7 and 16gb ram, this is one of the worst ports possible.
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Aug 29, 2016
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Aug 17, 2016
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Aug 12, 2016Personally, I enjoyed this game. because I can't give a thumbs up or down, it gets a ten.
Please note the game is barebones right now but updates WILL be coming to improve it (and no, it's not stuff from launch stripped away).
I did have fun and that's what is important to me when I play games. -
Aug 14, 2016
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Aug 21, 2016
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Aug 20, 2016Worst game i have ever played.Do not ever buy this game for %90 off.Everything they showed in trailers are a lie.Do not fall for this scam.DO NOT BUY.
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Aug 12, 2016Doesnt even work, 60 euros for a loading screen. Good a game as any to test Steam refund feature, will buy again when the devs pull their heads out of their butts and fix their 60 euro early access crap.
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Aug 16, 2016WARNING!! 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.
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Sep 29, 2016Just another reptitive endless grind scam disguised as a game. The advertising, trailers and screenshots are mostly fake. It's an interesting concept of marketing to say the least. For 2 years or so, gamers have been fed lies, anticipation has been manufactured, and it worked. A get rich quick scheme.
The game itself is an empty shell of procedural boringness. -
Aug 27, 2016Simply, ITs GARBAGE!!! and Steam dont refund it if you are testing this shiiittt more tan two hours.
DONNNNTTTT BUY this piece of shhhit! I see the credits and annote every name, i dont BUY anything from them NEVER!!! SCAM --- SCAM -
Aug 12, 2016I atleast expected the game to work for $60,it doesn't
No Man's computer can run this game
Even a computer made by jesus christ himself could only run this game at 20fps -
Aug 15, 2016The 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 -
Jan 20, 2017WHAT A JOKE OF A GAME!!!!1
HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAH!!!!!!XDDDDD
Dont buy it!! xDD -
Aug 28, 2016No multiplayer.
No mountains.
No deep caves.
No deep sea exploration.
No forests.
No customizable FOV.
No challenge.
No interesting NPC.
No story.
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Aug 18, 2016
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Aug 12, 2016Let's not even talk about the crashes and FPS issues. Let me describe the game instead :
A $60 shiny rock that awes you with its shiny and beautiful cut but then you realize only a few hours later that there's nothing fun you can do with the rock at all. -
Aug 13, 2016Repetitive, 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.
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Aug 16, 2016
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Sep 20, 2016
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Aug 27, 2016So this is what it's like to flush your hard-earned money down the toilet. This should just be labeled a walking simulator because there's really not much else going on. Within 50 hours or so you've accomplished everything and then it's just repetitive junk. Gazillions of planets!!! That are the same just reskinned. Blehk.
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Aug 24, 2016
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Dec 10, 2016"Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes"
~ Vyvyan - The Young Ones ~
There, that was more interesting than NMS. -
Aug 13, 2016The game is about Grinding to craft gears that making you Grind faster. That's It ! Devs are the modern Peter Molyneux . They really aiming his business model: offering nothing but Hype!
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Aug 28, 2016
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Aug 13, 2016
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Aug 23, 2016No Man's Sky
Average User Score: 4.8
Aug 9, 2016
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No Man's Sky
This is one of the most boring games I've played this generation. Even Homefront the Revolution is better with the patches and no I'm no trolling. Travel to random planets, explore, repeat. No sense of progression or actual story line. -
Aug 28, 2016
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Aug 16, 2016
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Aug 29, 2016Incredibly false advertising, gameplay is shallow and clunky, no multiplayer, etc. Steam trailers show the game as incredibly smooth and clean, with great multiplayer aspects. If you are on the fence about this game, don't get it, the devs flat out lied and avoided giving prerelease keys to critics to keep the atrocity that is NMS from being reviewed until people had already purchased it
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Aug 13, 2016Ok. This was one of the most hyped videogame of 2016 but it does not run with 30 fps. I got FX-4300 and rx 480 8gb vram, 8gb ram. I have updated drivers but it crash on warp and have poor performance.
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May 13, 2018A complete scam. NMS has become a textbook exemple on how not to market a video game.
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Aug 22, 2016Boredom simulator 2016. I don't know what's more fun, playing this game, or grinding my face on asphalt. Probably the latter. I've never seen such horrible texture pop-in in my entire life.
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Aug 12, 2016Huinya ebannaya ,na 4 GTX1K70 ne zapuskaetsa ,idite nahui so swoim der'mom.Ne pokupaite,enache doterom stanete,dage na ps4 luchshe grafon,razrabi pidori,a MAXIM DRYZLY toge pidor
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Aug 28, 2016Disappointing, repetitive and boring gameplay.
Missing features.
Lies, lies and blatant lies.
Overpriced.
Garbage.
Game developers must be held to account for false advertising and blatant lies. -
Sep 5, 2016crap game is crap. nothing they promised is in the game. liars. spent over 30 hrs in the game and hardly anything changes. this game desperately needs a major content overhaul. terrible. shame on you Sean.
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Sep 3, 2016No multiplayer (devs lied)
No gameplay
No exploration. Planets are all the same on the whole galaxy
no story no point, just an alpha of some bad survival game -
Aug 21, 2016when 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
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Aug 15, 2016The 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.
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Aug 12, 2016Optimizacion pésima mal juego encima no supieron aprovechar el marketing qye generaron las configuraciones en PC son malas caídas de fps por todos lados y múltiples daños.
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Aug 18, 2016
Awards & Rankings
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Pelit (Finland)Oct 11, 2016No 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]
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PC PowerPlayOct 2, 2016It's partially broken, shallow, repetitive and aimless, but hang me, I still kind of love it. [Issue#255, p.56]
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Edge MagazineSep 27, 2016While 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]