No Man's Sky

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4.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 2694 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 819 out of 2694
  2. Mixed: 284 out of 2694
  3. Negative: 1,591 out of 2694

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  1. redsuns
    Aug 27, 2016
    0
    Sean Murray hyped up the game with fake promises and lies turning the real no man sky game into something that is not. The whole universe is lifeless. You see critters and fake flying ships and 1 npc in every space station and bunker then its just you. Thats it.
    The whole game you are only harvesting,micro managing the inventory, change into bigger ship with bigger inventory space. Repeat    Sean Murray hyped up the game with fake promises and lies turning the real no man sky game into something that is not. The whole universe is lifeless. You see critters and fake flying ships and 1 npc in every space station and bunker then its just you. Thats it.
    The whole game you are only harvesting,micro managing the inventory, change into bigger ship with bigger inventory space. Repeat x1000 times. Repetitive, boring, shallow gameplay.    … Expand
  2. Ringo
    Aug 30, 2016
    0
    Shocking 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!
  3. JymmyQuidd
    Aug 28, 2021
    0
    a game can be good or bad, a game can have bugs, a game can be whatever it wants to be and i can live with that, its all relative depending on the likings of each gamer, and thats what a review should be about, but when they mislead you to buy something by promising a product that ends up not being what promised, when they totally and shamelessly lie in your face doing so, and when u see aa game can be good or bad, a game can have bugs, a game can be whatever it wants to be and i can live with that, its all relative depending on the likings of each gamer, and thats what a review should be about, but when they mislead you to buy something by promising a product that ends up not being what promised, when they totally and shamelessly lie in your face doing so, and when u see a sticker hiding what was really promised, hiding the lies... and all this after paying 60 bucks? then theres no review possible for me when first of all its about a SCAM not a game, just despicable, it's a real shame to see this happening at this particular level after 25 years of gaming, my real thanks and 10/10 score goes to the reviewers and press that cared for us the clients to show us the real product, they just saved me all that money and troubles, as for the game, my score is really obvious.… Expand
  4. DarthPadme
    Aug 12, 2016
    0
    Runs at 1440p 144Hz sometimes, then takes a dump at random. Doesn't matter anyway - the game is the most boring, repetitive, soulless and shallow collection of game elements thrown together that I've ever seen. Even if this game was made by competent people who properly used PC as the lead platform, which is absolutely isn't, it wouldn't be worth playing. Such a shame. Thinking aboutRuns at 1440p 144Hz sometimes, then takes a dump at random. Doesn't matter anyway - the game is the most boring, repetitive, soulless and shallow collection of game elements thrown together that I've ever seen. Even if this game was made by competent people who properly used PC as the lead platform, which is absolutely isn't, it wouldn't be worth playing. Such a shame. Thinking about how terribly this game ended up being actually makes me angry. No wonder the lead developer received threats.

    Luckily, Steam honored my refund, since I only made it through 90 minutes of this **** Avoid at all costs! Unless, of course, seeing the same recolors of the same things ten gazillion times and holding left click on them is your thing.    … Expand
  5. Nogard123
    Aug 18, 2016
    0
    Horrible unfinished game,Hello games has lied about allot of stuff,it would even make Peter Molyneux blush.
    Here is a tip,never pre order again and don't give into the hype that the fake gaming journalist are pouring out.
    If you really want to buy,i would at least wait till they fixed the bugs and the price dropped. 60$ for this,is an insult to all gamers,also beware of posting on    Horrible unfinished game,Hello games has lied about allot of stuff,it would even make Peter Molyneux blush.
    Here is a tip,never pre order again and don't give into the hype that the fake gaming journalist are pouring out.

    If you really want to buy,i would at least wait till they fixed the bugs and the price dropped.
    60$ for this,is an insult to all gamers,also beware of posting on the steam forums,they will ban you for criticizing the game.    … Expand
  6. keysmachine
    Aug 12, 2016
    0
    I have a $6,000 dollar PC with twin Titan SLI Nvidia cards because gaming to me and having 60 FPS with ultra settings no matter the game is paramount. This game runs terribly on my machine, Its' seriously the only game that I've seen that gives my machine either a run for its money, or the game is poorly optimized my computer is throwing it's hands up and saying this is the best I can doI have a $6,000 dollar PC with twin Titan SLI Nvidia cards because gaming to me and having 60 FPS with ultra settings no matter the game is paramount. This game runs terribly on my machine, Its' seriously the only game that I've seen that gives my machine either a run for its money, or the game is poorly optimized my computer is throwing it's hands up and saying this is the best I can do with this spaghetti Hello Games calls code.

    Not to mention its default FPS capped to 30 FPS. WAT?! I had to bump everything up to high and set the FOV to something reasonable in order to get the game to look good. After that every time I scan something there's a 1 second hiccup.

    And you gotta love the fact that this game can't even connect to the server. So what little interaction you have with the outside world (other players) it can't even get that right?! Hello Games seriously needs to just close their doors and lay everybody off. this game and everybody involved with it needs to just never touch a keyboard again, never say anything again and just get outta gaming. PERIOD.

    I heard Mcdonalds was hiring, maybe try that. It's pretty hard to screw up a big mac.    … Expand
  7. ironikart
    Aug 22, 2016
    0
    The only reason this doesn't get a 0 is that it managed to fool me for a few hours into thinking there was more to it. I went into the game with an open mind happy to play something that promised open ended exploration and survival. After your first few systems you realise you've done everything the game has to offer and that none of your experiences were unique. It's not worth the priceThe only reason this doesn't get a 0 is that it managed to fool me for a few hours into thinking there was more to it. I went into the game with an open mind happy to play something that promised open ended exploration and survival. After your first few systems you realise you've done everything the game has to offer and that none of your experiences were unique. It's not worth the price tag, hell it isn't even up to par with some playable alphas at the moment. I was sucked in to pre-order on the basis of the features that were confirmed to be in the game by it's developers and it turns out they don't exist.… Expand
  8. 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
  9. rogerxman
    Aug 26, 2016
    0
    It'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.
  10. Wirgul
    Aug 22, 2016
    0
    Company who made this game should be sued for false advertising. If someone is thinking about buying this game, please just don't. It should be called No Man's Lie, because like 80% of features which were presented and advertised before release are not in the game.
  11. light487
    Aug 17, 2016
    0
    No 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.
  12. Sergeant_MarkIV
    Aug 18, 2016
    0
    This 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.
  13. Solifugae
    Sep 18, 2016
    0
    I 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.
  14. ezay
    Aug 12, 2016
    0
    I expect only one thing from games to be noted fairly: to actually work. This isn't 1995 anymore. PC games should work on release, especially if you apply AAA premium tag price to them.

    The game doesn't work; heavy framerate drop, stutters and even freeze. My specs can run The Witcher 3 @ 1440p and FPS between 70 and 120. But it can't have the game work smoothly. I have tried all the    I expect only one thing from games to be noted fairly: to actually work. This isn't 1995 anymore. PC games should work on release, especially if you apply AAA premium tag price to them.

    The game doesn't work; heavy framerate drop, stutters and even freeze. My specs can run The Witcher 3 @ 1440p and FPS between 70 and 120. But it can't have the game work smoothly.

    I have tried all the different settings, nothing changes. And what do we get for these conditions:

    - Ugly textures; seriously, it looks like a PS2 game.
    - Ugly shadows
    - Ugly everything

    This game is **** ugly, and that's at 1440p. I can't even imagine the game at 1080p.

    Do yourself a solid and do not buy this game. Mine is already refunded.    … Expand
  15. chaos_1984
    Aug 31, 2016
    0
    Clear 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.
  16. Ofca
    Aug 12, 2016
    0
    Another 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.
  17. Maxson
    Aug 16, 2016
    0
    What 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.
  18. Irrelevant
    Aug 31, 2016
    0
    The only thing this game has in it that was promised to us is a crap ton of planets. Too bad they all basically look the same (apart from a few different plants, different colored dirt, and different colored sky boxes). That's right, sky boxes - those things that Sean Murray ridiculed in interviews. Yea. They're in the game. But here's what's NOT in the game:
    -no warring factions
    -no    The only thing this game has in it that was promised to us is a crap ton of planets. Too bad they all basically look the same (apart from a few different plants, different colored dirt, and different colored sky boxes). That's right, sky boxes - those things that Sean Murray ridiculed in interviews. Yea. They're in the game. But here's what's NOT in the game:
    -no warring factions
    -no trade system
    -no ability for multiplayer
    -no planet orbits
    -no use for faction standing
    -no faction controlled space
    -large ships do not move
    -planets don't move
    -ALL ships are the same outside of cosmetic appearance and inventory space
    -suit, weapon, ship upgrades use up inventory space
    -no titanic creatures like in the trailers
    -no "epic" worlds even though they were in the trailer (like the sandy Dune-like planet)

    I could go on but it's not worth any more of my time. It's a complete lie, a totally scam, and entirely overpriced and underwhelming. AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE.

    TL;DR...........giving this game a 0 because of all the flat out, blatant lies. Don't even blame the hype. All these features came straight from the developer's mouth.    … Expand
  19. nic8
    Aug 15, 2016
    0
    I respect autistic people, but only they can get some find some new creative experience from this EMPTY, repeating and boring "game". Hype of this game show everything that is wrong with gaming industry.
  20. Tytos
    Aug 15, 2016
    0
    The interface stinks "console" all over the place, seldom seen such a lazy pc port, this interface is just plain ugly and crafting/upgrading stuff is more exhausting then it has any right to be on PC.
  21. Mudo675
    Aug 30, 2016
    0
    This 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.
  22. AuldWolf
    Aug 15, 2016
    0
    A hollow, empty experience that will only appeal to "OOH, LOOK AT THAT!" extraverted people with the attention span of a gnat. It's an experience that Starbound, Starflight, Starglider, and so many others (even Noctis) have done far better. And it's disappointing that the only thing that the younglings want to do these days is stripmine things. I remember the Star Trek point & clickA hollow, empty experience that will only appeal to "OOH, LOOK AT THAT!" extraverted people with the attention span of a gnat. It's an experience that Starbound, Starflight, Starglider, and so many others (even Noctis) have done far better. And it's disappointing that the only thing that the younglings want to do these days is stripmine things. I remember the Star Trek point & click adventures and I had a lot more fun in space with those.

    Ultimately it's just an incredibly empty, hollow experience. A bad procedural generation tech demo with a Skinner box attached. It's the cookie clicker of space games.    … Expand
  23. Razark9
    Oct 18, 2016
    0
    Sean 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.
  24. Sne
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    Vast, empty space to explore by waiting a long time all the time. Unsatisfying combat and uselessly developed trade mechanics as it's always better to just land and loot than fly (=wait) a lot and check some numbers. Game where you spend most time staring at space impatiently, but it's purely so you can sell your loot and buy what you're too lazy to look for; staring at objects for points,Vast, empty space to explore by waiting a long time all the time. Unsatisfying combat and uselessly developed trade mechanics as it's always better to just land and loot than fly (=wait) a lot and check some numbers. Game where you spend most time staring at space impatiently, but it's purely so you can sell your loot and buy what you're too lazy to look for; staring at objects for points, which feels like eating random tropical fruit covered in random kinds of mustard, sprinkled with hair and sand so you can't even get immersed, thanks to bad LOD and absurd milestone interruptions; staring at menus, crafting and rearranging stuff in the inventories so horribly designed you wonder if this is made bad on purpose. Game where you were promised to and hoped to explore planets, trade and spar with friends, but which has no real multiplayer. Trillions of worlds in this game and all of them meaningless.… Expand
  25. UfoDriver
    Aug 15, 2016
    0
    No multiplayer.
    No mountains.
    No deep caves.
    No deep sea exploration.
    No forests.
    No customizable FOV.
    No challenge.
    No interesting NPC.
    No story.
    No ending.
  26. Sirik_Matak
    Aug 12, 2016
    0
    Another 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.
  27. berny101
    Aug 12, 2016
    0
    The 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.
  28. NetQvist
    Aug 12, 2016
    0
    Must 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
  29. kyriores
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    Surprised that games like this actually draw that much attention from the gaming community. I guess the average gamer nowadays is dumb, over-consumeristic and likes throwing money left and right for no reason whatsoever. Yeah, that goes to all you who preordered this game. Can't wait for the next over-hyped title after this one... Meanwhile, more and more publishers are adopting thisSurprised that games like this actually draw that much attention from the gaming community. I guess the average gamer nowadays is dumb, over-consumeristic and likes throwing money left and right for no reason whatsoever. Yeah, that goes to all you who preordered this game. Can't wait for the next over-hyped title after this one... Meanwhile, more and more publishers are adopting this strategy and the number of good videogames released every year is plummeting. Guess it's time to find a new hobby...… Expand
  30. 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.
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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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