No Man's Sky

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4.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 2694 Ratings

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  1. upThere
    Aug 18, 2016
    4
    A technical marvel that runs badly even after the PC support patch and endless tuning.
    A beautiful universe filled with countless wonders that are all pretty samey and interrupted by terrible game design and UI/UX.
  2. Turulo
    Sep 2, 2016
    1
    1 - Watch the trailer and compare to the game, then tell me they are not selling smoke.
    2 - Their representation of space is so unbelievable silly / naive that is simply insulting.
    It's a shame that a great idea like this game didn't work out. I hope the idea of generating random environments isn't abandoned, but the game itself is too shallow to even be considered a game. As    1 - Watch the trailer and compare to the game, then tell me they are not selling smoke.
    2 - Their representation of space is so unbelievable silly / naive that is simply insulting.

    It's a shame that a great idea like this game didn't work out. I hope the idea of generating random environments isn't abandoned, but the game itself is too shallow to even be considered a game.

    As everyone else here remarks, all planets are the same, stuff has randomized shapes and colors but is like changing a model texture, it's still the same animal with different colors. All have runes, plants, animals, and the 4 types of bases. All you can find just by landing because they are repeated to boredom.

    There are no barren, gas giants, ring planets, all stars are the same, every system has a bunch of planets all close together that for some reason don't rotate around the sun.

    The ship's navigation is so terrible, specially when flying near the surface of a planet, that I cannot describe how frustrating it is.

    This is not a game, it's only a tech demo, and the trailers are proof enough this is not what they promised.    … Expand
  3. OldSaltyDog
    Sep 5, 2016
    0
    One mans Lie is absolute BOOSTED GARBAGE. I'll save you time this game get boring within a few hours as that is all it will take to do everything in this "infinite universe". Its pure boring busy work. If you like repeating the same task over and over then you will like it. Go to a planet, refill your drives, then travel to another one to do the exact same thing. There is nothingOne mans Lie is absolute BOOSTED GARBAGE. I'll save you time this game get boring within a few hours as that is all it will take to do everything in this "infinite universe". Its pure boring busy work. If you like repeating the same task over and over then you will like it. Go to a planet, refill your drives, then travel to another one to do the exact same thing. There is nothing interesting here. All the ships are the same, all the NPCs are the same. All. Of. Them. We were lied to boys, don't put up with it.… Expand
  4. edgarltpr
    Aug 28, 2016
    0
    This is one of the worst designed game. This is just another game crap, don't waste your money.

    The game video performance is the worst, it actually runs worse than Arkham Knight.
  5. sessingo
    Aug 25, 2016
    0
    Poorly executed game - with features missing from the game and with both performance problems and crashings occurring. it's so bad and boring that i wouldn't even recommend anyone pirating it.
  6. palkab
    Aug 24, 2016
    1
    A perfect example of what's wrong with the gaming industry today. So much has been shown and promised, so much hype built, and in the end a very poor execution is delivered terribly lacking in depth, story, features and mechanics. It is a niche game marketed as a mainstream AAA title.

    Had some fun with the game despite this, but don't spend more than 15,- on it.
  7. triggerhappy57
    Aug 30, 2016
    0
    I am glad that the Steam refund system exists. I fell for the hype. I was so prepared to play this with friends and journey into the vast and expanded unknown. But instead I was given a different game on release.
  8. JChristian
    Aug 31, 2016
    0
    This **** isn't even worth piracy, No Man's Sky is a trash, trash, trash, trash, trash, trash, trash, trash, trash, trash, trash, trash, trash, trash, trash, trash, trash, trash, trash, trash, trash!
  9. SolidShakeGO
    Oct 20, 2016
    0
    Lets say that this game was 20 dollars, and gamers werent lied to, and we all knew what we were buying in the end. this is how i am making this review. ANGER ASIDE.

    0/10 really. this is supposed to be a survival/crafting game right? i can see it, but i cant play it. what i mean is. you mine shiny red blobs of stone, which in return, doesnt do anything. yeah you can make parts for    Lets say that this game was 20 dollars, and gamers werent lied to, and we all knew what we were buying in the end. this is how i am making this review. ANGER ASIDE.

    0/10 really. this is supposed to be a survival/crafting game right? i can see it, but i cant play it. what i mean is.

    you mine shiny red blobs of stone, which in return, doesnt do anything. yeah you can make parts for your ship, but there is no other crafting involved. you cant build a base, you cant build a ship, you cant really "craft" anything. as far as survival goes. you basically need to mine 1 recourse in the game to stay alive. you refill your O2 levels the same as recharging your gun. so whats even the point? If you want to call this game a survival crafting game, then you are putting it up against games like rust, minecraft, ark, etc. there are so many. and this doesnt even come close to those.

    now if this game was sold as lets say "a looking at things adventure" then its only competition is pokemon snap. a hard game to beat, but hey..at least it would be honest.

    COMBAT is so far off that i dont even want to go there. the only chance it has at this point is combat in space

    SPACE COMBAT there pretty much isnt any. sure you get attacked by a pirate, but if you can get past the crappy UI of the game you can use that sweet ore you mined to recharge you shields and make yourself invincible.

    overall this games only achievement is that a small group of people made it. its also colorful despite the 10 mete distance graininess. [i play on high on pc, im exaggerating] This game deserves title as worst game in history. I hope it surpasses E.T. and it gets buried on the moon. good try Hello Games, but you should have tried harder.    … Expand
  10. RobertoMoir
    Aug 19, 2016
    1
    If you want a fairly chilled experience, minecraft in space, except with very little to mine and very little to build with what you've mined, then maybe its ok. I can see how others might enjoy the pure exploration aspect of the game, but it promised so much more that simply isn't there.

    Frankly this game is a huge exercise in "bait and switch" marketing. Right up until release there    If you want a fairly chilled experience, minecraft in space, except with very little to mine and very little to build with what you've mined, then maybe its ok. I can see how others might enjoy the pure exploration aspect of the game, but it promised so much more that simply isn't there.

    Frankly this game is a huge exercise in "bait and switch" marketing. Right up until release there were lots of features being talked about for the game that simply are not there and all I feel is a resounding sense of disappointment in this game.

    At the time I write this, there are videos on the steam page for this game that I based my purchase decision on, which turn out to be demo content that was ripped from the game prior to release.

    Part of the problem here of course is that the games industry journos were all taken in by NMS bait and switch tactics just the same as us, and not many of them have the stones to say "Actually that game we've been putting on the cover for months and whipping you all up into a frenzy over is actually only a 5/10 at best"    … Expand
  11. Pannon
    Sep 27, 2016
    0
    I'm dropping my score to 0, after my dismal rating of 4. Why? Looks like the developers couldn't care less to fix up their mess.
    By this time, other game developers explain themselves or at least talk about a plan, what to expect in the near future, regarding adding content and making their game more enjoyable, but Hello Games don't even bother to write patch notes, let alone give a    I'm dropping my score to 0, after my dismal rating of 4. Why? Looks like the developers couldn't care less to fix up their mess.
    By this time, other game developers explain themselves or at least talk about a plan, what to expect in the near future, regarding adding content and making their game more enjoyable, but Hello Games don't even bother to write patch notes, let alone give a pulse sign on social media or their official website.
    People who didn't refund and waiting patiently are left in the dark. The last patch (1.09) takes more away from the broken, but manageable gameplay there was, by patching up the "glitch" , which allowed people to stack similar items, even though people were asking for a function to stack similar items!! Unbelievable!
    Others report, that their discoveries they made are wiped from their record, while some others complain about worse framerate.
    At this point, the whole game is nothing more, but a buggy software to make screenshots. But first, make sure you get a 3rd party screenshot maker, because the game doesn't have one.
    And at the end, there are better and cheaper (free) programs out there, that let's you take pretty screenshots of planets.
    It's the most disappointing game of 2016 and the next worst game of 2016 is head and shoulder above this mess.    … Expand
  12. OnionBoy
    Aug 18, 2016
    2
    *THERE ARE BETTER SPACE EXPLORATION GAMES OUT THERE*

    Too many people have never experienced a similar genre of game and think this is a unique, ground breaking game. It's not. It's a poorly executed, awfully optimised and stupidly repetitive and empty shell of a game. For £40 (or $60 if you're in the US) this game is an absolute joke. It deserves a £10/£15 price tag like the rest of    *THERE ARE BETTER SPACE EXPLORATION GAMES OUT THERE*

    Too many people have never experienced a similar genre of game and think this is a unique, ground breaking game. It's not. It's a poorly executed, awfully optimised and stupidly repetitive and empty shell of a game.

    For £40 (or $60 if you're in the US) this game is an absolute joke. It deserves a £10/£15 price tag like the rest of the unfinished indie games out there on Steam (Rust/7 Days to Die etc). An absolute shambles.    … Expand
  13. Domov
    Aug 18, 2016
    3
    Planets, Animals, Plants look the same all across the Galaxy ? Every planet i land on had other Aliens there already ? Caves look the same everwhere ? Spaceships are the same everwhere too ? No special Alien races with super exotic UFO´s ? No Multiplayer ? Who can see me then ? After reaching the center i get into another Galaxy which is the same than the 1st ? Why not stay in the 1stPlanets, Animals, Plants look the same all across the Galaxy ? Every planet i land on had other Aliens there already ? Caves look the same everwhere ? Spaceships are the same everwhere too ? No special Alien races with super exotic UFO´s ? No Multiplayer ? Who can see me then ? After reaching the center i get into another Galaxy which is the same than the 1st ? Why not stay in the 1st Galaxy and explore it ? No huge Cities anywhere in the galaxy ?? Come on even we had cities on earth 2000 years ago. As if every star system had only a few primitve animals. Planets are static ? Since when ? Why arent planets moving around their suns ? Question over question....… Expand
  14. OneEyeRed
    Aug 23, 2016
    0
    Deleted my review 3 times (on Steam with 35.8 hours total played) trying to force myself to continue through this massive mess. Read all the reviews already mentioned this game is not anywhere near what you pay for it. Furthermore, massive amount of missing features that should have been in game. A mind numbing grind built for the brain dead stoner in you (if that is in fact you).

    I    Deleted my review 3 times (on Steam with 35.8 hours total played) trying to force myself to continue through this massive mess. Read all the reviews already mentioned this game is not anywhere near what you pay for it. Furthermore, massive amount of missing features that should have been in game. A mind numbing grind built for the brain dead stoner in you (if that is in fact you).

    I gave it another 4 hours and I can't take anymore. There is no me in a infinite universe making my own decisions. It's land, farm, grind, sell, upgrade, lose half your ♥♥♥♥ to grind some more to upgrade to lose half your ♥♥♥♥ to grind some more to get to the core and have further disappointment. Nothing has changed or been different from hour one to 35.8 except for me upgrading my 3 inventories thereby removing all my good assets and making grind out farming to make the crap over again. Ship skins are the only difference as well with ships. Total disappointment through and through.

    You would honestly have more enjoyment commiting Hari kari with a dull fish hook....

    Edit: I forgot to mention again from my original post that I didn't care about the whole multiplayer thing. However, on Day 1 with 3 hours into game, I jumped to the next system and guess what I found? The entire system was already named by another player. Furthermore, the next 4 jumps were the same damn thing. The 4th jump actually had two different player named planets.

    I didn't feel like this explorer in an infinite space for sure. So many promises and so many lies. Those supporting this crap will try to argue differently but the internet is your friend in this. You can do all the research you need to and find legitimate interviews with Sean up until release selling us a totally different gaming experience.

    All the silence isn't helping matters either. Couldn't shut Sean up until the release of this steaming pile of dung and now nothing to say anywhere. If your plan is to confirm everyone's complaints and distrust in what you did, ignoring them is certainly the solution Sean (sarcasm off).    … Expand
  15. Karp
    Oct 24, 2020
    8
    Worth far more than the 3.3 posted. Have found it a smooth and entertaining ride.
  16. rossifumi
    Aug 30, 2016
    0
    I have serious problems with the game. In a space journey game there are no physics at all. There is the same gravity every different sized plane..this is a joke. In the real universe there are planets like our moon where isnt atmosphere. In this game there are the same atmosphere for all planets, easy to notice when landing in a planet the same animation every landing. There isnt any sunI have serious problems with the game. In a space journey game there are no physics at all. There is the same gravity every different sized plane..this is a joke. In the real universe there are planets like our moon where isnt atmosphere. In this game there are the same atmosphere for all planets, easy to notice when landing in a planet the same animation every landing. There isnt any sun in a solar system just decoration a joke again.....If you discover 10-20 planets you can notice all planets same.... just other creatures and and plants but materials like plutonium, gold, emeril, always the same... ok it is a generated game like minecraft but in the game trailers it was different....

    The gameplay: Ok the game play is **** It is fun for discover a planet (the first 10 planet) then go to pointless journey to the galactic core... Fight with enemy space ship is not fun. Fight with stupid sentinels not fun too. The behaviour of creatures on the planets are the same. No multiplayer just you can see other players dicoveries if you are very very lucky... this is **** pointless.

    And finally the technical problems in pc... Huge framdrops and low framerate on a high and pc... this is a **** joke again... On a same pc run stable 80-90fps GTAV, 120fps Star Wars Battlefront, No Man's Sky runs 40fps with framedrops... and bugs with creatures stuck in land and others...

    This is a halfdone INDIE! game from an indie developer team. max value on the market is free to play or max 5$ not 60$.    … Expand
  17. kamikaz3kitten
    Aug 22, 2016
    3
    I played for 3 hours then just stopped. After asking myself what the hell i was doing i realized there was nothing there. I jumped planet to planet to find fuel, so i could get to another just to find fuel. At least with a game like minecraft there was a danger of dying and having to start over. You played to get better gear so you didn't have to start over. In No Man's Sky dying doesn'tI played for 3 hours then just stopped. After asking myself what the hell i was doing i realized there was nothing there. I jumped planet to planet to find fuel, so i could get to another just to find fuel. At least with a game like minecraft there was a danger of dying and having to start over. You played to get better gear so you didn't have to start over. In No Man's Sky dying doesn't mean anything, you don't explore as much as just look for mats to make your ship go vroom. I guess this just isn't the game for me, There was no challenge and i guess that's the thing for me that this game is lacking.… Expand
  18. johnniew_
    Aug 28, 2016
    0
    Creo que el juego no tenia mal fondo, podía haber llegado a ser un gran juego. Entre el port de ps4 a pc que le ha salido malisimo es uno de los juegos mas roto que he visto. Creo que es un juego que si te lo venden en early access por 15€ o 20€ la gente no le pondría mala nota pero es que encima te lo vende a 60€ y el juego no esta acabado. Y no diré nada del final pero con la ultimaCreo que el juego no tenia mal fondo, podía haber llegado a ser un gran juego. Entre el port de ps4 a pc que le ha salido malisimo es uno de los juegos mas roto que he visto. Creo que es un juego que si te lo venden en early access por 15€ o 20€ la gente no le pondría mala nota pero es que encima te lo vende a 60€ y el juego no esta acabado. Y no diré nada del final pero con la ultima frase se entiende. A mi parecer los planetas se parecen todos iguales los animales son deformes y la vegetación casi no existe de cada 20 planetas solo uno es con algo de vegetación. Como conclusión no recomiendo el juego al menos hasta que le metan contenido y arreglen el juego en pc.… Expand
  19. d33f
    Aug 26, 2016
    2
    After more than 24 hours of gameplay I have to revert my first impression of this game. At first it looked relaxing and exciting to explore strange new worlds but after long hours grinding for upgrades you're thinking I'm doing the same stuff over and over again. After countless planets eventually you'll start to see a pattern and seeing the same points of interest over and over again.After more than 24 hours of gameplay I have to revert my first impression of this game. At first it looked relaxing and exciting to explore strange new worlds but after long hours grinding for upgrades you're thinking I'm doing the same stuff over and over again. After countless planets eventually you'll start to see a pattern and seeing the same points of interest over and over again.

    If the grinding for upgrades made any sense (have an exciting experience at the center of the galaxy) than this game would be a bit better. But the only thing happening at the center is that you're getting molyneuxed and have to start a new game +.

    Not to speak of the stuff that has been cut out of the game, false marketing (video on store page does not correspond with the actual gameplay by a long shot), and 'promises' told by the lead developer of this game which never made it into the actual game.

    At the moment there is a deafening silence when questions from players are being asked about the above situation.

    Not acceptable imo but I can understand they can't say too much because of the agreement with Sony.

    Imo as a indie developer you should not sell your 'soul' for money.

    Not worth the 60 euro's.    … Expand
  20. ChikatiloZ
    Aug 24, 2016
    0
    Spawn on dead planet, mine materials by shooting laser at them for several hours, throw most of it away because they made an entire game around mining **** with a laser but you have no option to sell, use or even store it. Game told me I need to make a hyperdrive. Aha! Yes! Hyperdrive! I'll get right to it. Apparantly I need a blabla resonator and antimatter.

    The way you get a blabla    Spawn on dead planet, mine materials by shooting laser at them for several hours, throw most of it away because they made an entire game around mining **** with a laser but you have no option to sell, use or even store it. Game told me I need to make a hyperdrive. Aha! Yes! Hyperdrive! I'll get right to it. Apparantly I need a blabla resonator and antimatter.

    The way you get a blabla resonator is you run and fly around several planets, talk to dozens of exactly the **** same copy & pasted alien, until one of them gives you a resonator. You do not know why, as you have no idea what they're saying, you just click dozens of them until they give you a resonator. Then you go talk to another few dozen of the same copy pasted alien to find antimatter. On the way, you find a ship 5X the size of yours, it has 16 inventory slots instead of 15, you swap ships, put your stuff in it, fix it, by pointing mining laser at many things, hours later you talked to dozens more aliens, you found antimatter, but now you're gonna go talk to another few dozen thesame **** alien because the blabla resonator was stuck in your old ship without any means to get it out.

    This game is complete garbage, it's actually a scam. There's nothing to do - at all - Just point laser at **** mine it, throw it away & talk to thesame **** alien sitting on his ass in a metal hut doing nothing over and over and over again.

    I'm told the center of the universe is a picture of Sean Murray laughing at you.    … Expand
  21. 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
  22. superh13
    Sep 29, 2016
    0
    Just 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.
  23. neko78
    Aug 27, 2016
    0
    Simply, 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
  24. Vinix77
    Jan 17, 2017
    1
    What best describes the game is the saying "a mile wide, an inch deep".
    Now I understand why there was no information about the actual gameplay before the release. It's because there isn't any. The gameplay consists of shooting rocks with a laser for resources, photographing animals and plants and looting outposts. That's it. The crafting mechanics is rudimentary, the survival aspect is    What best describes the game is the saying "a mile wide, an inch deep".
    Now I understand why there was no information about the actual gameplay before the release. It's because there isn't any. The gameplay consists of shooting rocks with a laser for resources, photographing animals and plants and looting outposts. That's it. The crafting mechanics is rudimentary, the survival aspect is annoying and pointless and the exploration is boring once you visit few planets and start to see the assets repeat. Interaction with the world around you is virtually non-existent. Well you can shoot rocks but that's about it. Occasionally you can also shoot a droid or a pirate ship in space. The technology is impressive but that does not make a fun game.    … Expand
  25. thumbwiz
    Aug 19, 2016
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game is fun until shortly after you get your ship fixed. You finally realize you are about to start a loop that is not what you had hoped for or expected. You only barely control your ship. On planets you can't skim the ground (or hit it). Landing is automated on planet and entering space stations. You can explore and discover creatures, make friends with them, but it's really only fun a few times. On top of that, the end goal to reach the center will only reward you with starting the game all over again, needing to fix a ship to get off the planet. No cool cut scene, not even credits. I wanted to love this game and admit I did have some fun with it, but it shouldn't have a AAA price.… Expand
  26. Anteares
    Aug 24, 2016
    0
    Bought game on Steam. Installed it (surprisingly fast). Game doesn't launch. Refunded it. Work around discovered. Bought game again. Launches. Crashes on launch. Refunded it. Patch for Phenom processors comes out. Read reviews of garbage performance. Too little too late. Goodbye Hello games.
  27. Faustito
    Oct 29, 2016
    0
    After all the fake advertising this crap dont deserve more than a 0 of score; this game officialy now is the worst game of the history of the video games, worst even than the et game.
  28. onemanslie
    Aug 30, 2016
    0
    i wish i could be a meta critic so i could rate this game the worst possible. 64 isnt the quality of this game, its the number of lies sean murray told about it and the number of missing features shown in the game trailer still being shown on the steam page
  29. caffeinemints
    Sep 3, 2016
    0
    Not the game they promised. Not the game they posted videos of. Not worth $60.

    It's also not that bad of a game. But not worth a AAA-game pricetag, no matter how much hype they added.

    18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets. Each populated by one of THREE races. And it will be populated, in the same pattern as every other planet. And every planet is a palette shift of colors and shapes.
  30. Painfull
    Oct 3, 2016
    0
    Sean Murray lied to us. I wasted 60€ on this game. Lies lies lies. It's lagging and crashing all the time. This is terrible, I never wasted that much money before
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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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