No Man's Sky

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4.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 2694 Ratings

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  1. Ilya_Walker
    Jun 6, 2020
    10
    The game has problems, but at least it deserves such an assessment because it gives a new experience, especially after numerous updates. It is a pity that the developers hastened to release.
  2. Desterhan
    Jul 21, 2020
    10
    This game was trash when it came out. But now after a lot of updates it became really good game
  3. GustaCNXFL
    Apr 2, 2021
    10
    Bom No Man's Sky começou sendo a muitas promesas de um jogo espacial onde um universo inteiro seria gerado procedalmente com infinitos planetas e sistemas solares
    Os Animais de cada planeta tambem seriam gerados aleatoriamente entao voce nunca iria ver a mesma especie de criatura repetida em outro planeta.
    Isso era uma ideia genial! e ainda tinham prometido Multiplayer! e diversas outras    Bom No Man's Sky começou sendo a muitas promesas de um jogo espacial onde um universo inteiro seria gerado procedalmente com infinitos planetas e sistemas solares
    Os Animais de cada planeta tambem seriam gerados aleatoriamente entao voce nunca iria ver a mesma especie de criatura repetida em outro planeta.
    Isso era uma ideia genial! e ainda tinham prometido Multiplayer! e diversas outras coisas! era incrivel pensar que poderia existir um jogo assim..

    Bom Chegou 2016 o jogo foi lançado porem nao tinha quase nada que aviam prometido o sistema de geraçao procedual era muito bugado as criaturas eram bugadas o jogo
    crashava toda hora e nao tinha quase nada pra se fazer.. todo mundo odiou o jogo

    MAS!

    a empresa que fez o jogo! começou a trabalhar muito para reparar o jogo e o deixar polido para se tornar o jogo que eles aviam prometido!
    Eles conseguiram No Man's Sky Hoje em dia em 2021 tem tudo que eles prometeram e adicionaram coisas que eles nem tinham prometido!
    o Jogo esta incrivel agora Recomendo demais Comprar o jogo pra jogar! No Man's Sky esta incrivel infinitas galaxias e planetas com Escosistemas Unicos!
    Graficos Incriveis e a Equipe que fez o jogo ainda continua o atualizando ate hoje adicionando novos conteudos!
    No Man's Sky e o jogo Perfeito que tinham prometido para gente!    … Expand
  4. NeverPullOut
    Jul 28, 2020
    10
    Very good game, bought it recently in the summer sale 2020 and i have to say i lit felt in love with it.
    Plenty of stuff to do, the "map" is so big that it would actually take more than your entire lifetime to see everything. I like games where i can complete things and advance with persistence in my gameplay. Just different space ships, freighters, multi-tools, upgrades for all mentioned    Very good game, bought it recently in the summer sale 2020 and i have to say i lit felt in love with it.
    Plenty of stuff to do, the "map" is so big that it would actually take more than your entire lifetime to see everything. I like games where i can complete things and advance with persistence in my gameplay. Just different space ships, freighters, multi-tools, upgrades for all mentioned previously + nano suit, Story, events, etc. At one point you feel overwhelmed and this is great!    … Expand
  5. liftheavy2003
    Sep 16, 2020
    9
    This is a perfect example of why I don’t judge games by player review posts! In 2016 this game might have been lacking. Now in 2020? Freaking awesome, over 200hrs in and still loving it! Cross platform playing is great, planet exploration with beautiful flora and fauna, freighters and fighter jets of numerous varieties available for ownership, ability to transfer resources to friends, theThis is a perfect example of why I don’t judge games by player review posts! In 2016 this game might have been lacking. Now in 2020? Freaking awesome, over 200hrs in and still loving it! Cross platform playing is great, planet exploration with beautiful flora and fauna, freighters and fighter jets of numerous varieties available for ownership, ability to transfer resources to friends, the list goes on and on! Ignore this BS 3.2 user score. Freaking ridiculous! Get this game!… Expand
  6. Mastershep11n7
    Sep 6, 2022
    9
    It is 2022. September 6th. After over 200 hours into the game and 6 years of playing this game I can only say...man what a ride.
    In the Beginning:
    Hello Games said "This is going to be the biggest and Best multiplayer space exploration game EVER Created!" It was the biggest Space exploration game ever created, and that was true. Still is. However, through many of the scary and crazy fan    It is 2022. September 6th. After over 200 hours into the game and 6 years of playing this game I can only say...man what a ride.
    In the Beginning:
    Hello Games said "This is going to be the biggest and Best multiplayer space exploration game EVER Created!" It was the biggest Space exploration game ever created, and that was true. Still is. However, through many of the scary and crazy fan expectations brought on by pressure from the ad markets and the hype train caused by the trailer and the almost pushed-upon promises, the game was released...with less than half of it finished. It had a vast, beautiful, and atmospheric universe...With nothing in it, except bugs.
    If it ended there, I would not be writing this in 2022.
    After bad scores, and a flood and just the internet and world being extremely toxic, Hello Games has done what almost no game company had done before or since. (Besides CD Project Red with CyberPunk 2077) Hello games got to work, and went Dark.
    Fast Forward almost a year or so and they came out with patch after patch, then an expansion. It added and fixed a LOT. But not enough for some people.
    Then another few months, and ANOTHER expansion and patches all throughout.
    They began talking again, taking user reviews and suggestions, and fixing their game. It took until now, and I know they are not done, but their game has undergone hundreds of patches or more and 20 of those were named updates. All for Free. Everything promised is now in the game. plus more. Multiplayer in an interesting way, a story, actually there's even side stories now. a player hub, freighters, base building in space, underwater etc...It still seems like there is a long way to go, though they are right now sitting at patch 3.99.1 as of August 19th. It will be releasing on Switch in October. I feel there is another Huge update coming from them soon with how things are going with more space customization. There is also many more modes to play, like permadeath, survival, creative, and Expeditions, which are completely multiplayer where you start out in the same place as everyone else at the same time. Plus you have co op as well. At it's core it is still the same game, so i would love more events to happen, actual NPC bad guys that have ground and space/air battle tactics, and something huge to happen. Even just bigger space wars, pirate groups and real factions added so the aliens feel more like they are a group. So like cities and the like. Did I mention you can become a mayor of a small settlement? No? Well you can lol and also send your fleet off to do missions. yes. Fleet. All in all I will give it a 9 because, Well Done Hello Games.    … Expand
  7. InvalidBeast456
    Oct 22, 2022
    10
    No Man's Sky is definitely one of my favourite games ever made because of the large open world, many things to do and also the constant updates. Hello games may have launched a broken lacklustre game, however, now it is more than it was expected to be.
  8. PandaInDaGame
    Nov 20, 2022
    9
    Well, now days this user score does not give enough credit to Hello Games work. No Man's Sky is even more than they promised, this has been a nice redemption.

    Everything they promised at first, is a reality now, even more... Worth to try. Not a 10 because the disaster it was at first.
  9. breakzoras
    Nov 29, 2022
    10
    The game is a masterpiece nowadays. Best space exploration game in existence today
  10. SrMoure
    Aug 12, 2016
    5
    Do not buy without trying it before. GOG demo version is out there. The game freezes for seconds while playing but that s going to be fixed eventually. It's entertaining to name planets and animals up to a certain point. I think Solus project does a better job at space survival game . NMS is an interesting game and entertaining for some time . Nothing special but it has the initial catchDo not buy without trying it before. GOG demo version is out there. The game freezes for seconds while playing but that s going to be fixed eventually. It's entertaining to name planets and animals up to a certain point. I think Solus project does a better job at space survival game . NMS is an interesting game and entertaining for some time . Nothing special but it has the initial catch of most survival games at the start. The score will end between 5 and 7. Lot of disappointment from the one expecting an ED or X type of space game. One detail that shows a lot, when you mine a mountain of minerals and you start from the bottom, the top stays magically floating in the air !!!… Expand
  11. Vixremento
    Aug 13, 2016
    3
    Spent a good few hours with it now and it does have that tiny bit of appeal that just wants to you keep going, just one more little discovery here and there before I leave the planet or even think about moving onto another system.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    (PS, I love that I can check a box for spoilers. As if there's any story here to spoil at all)    … Expand
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Metascore
61

Mixed or average reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

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