No Man's Sky

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  1. alastair93
    Aug 13, 2016
    1
    Terrible game - please do not buy!!!! This is the most boring game ever.

    You do the same thing OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

    There might be lots of planets but they're all exactly the same! Even the alien buildings on EVERY planet are a copy-and-paste job, with a single alien in the exact same place each time who doesn't even move.
  2. 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
  3. ruzen
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    The 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!
  4. AshFox
    Aug 13, 2016
    1
    This game did NOT live up to expectations. it's over hyped and didn't deliver what it promised. Awful graphics, I got a pretty good PC and this game just refuses to give me a decent fps. The gameplay gets so repetitive you don't even know what's the point anymore. I admit i was really hyped for this game....guess i shouldn't have.
  5. 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
  6. poi123
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    how to **** let hellogames this happen, i mean they had 3 years to develop and optimize this game plus it was even delayed, my pc is crashing every time when i go up to space, wtf hellogames, but the worse part is that this game doenst even look good in fact it looks like gamecube game or worse,
  7. andrespi
    Aug 13, 2016
    4
    The optimization for the PC version is terrible. Even though I can run elite dangerous on my pc without any problem, no man's sky runs terribly, stutters, frame rate drops a lot and has a lot of other technical problems.

    The game is also extremely dull and repetitive. Mechanics are also a step behind compared to other games on pc, which have a lot more content, are less repetitive and    The optimization for the PC version is terrible. Even though I can run elite dangerous on my pc without any problem, no man's sky runs terribly, stutters, frame rate drops a lot and has a lot of other technical problems.

    The game is also extremely dull and repetitive. Mechanics are also a step behind compared to other games on pc, which have a lot more content, are less repetitive and have deeper gameplay mechanics (for example Starbound which is a lot better and costs a lot less). No man's sky is the Biggest disappointment of 2016 for me.    … Expand
  8. PA4EJIJIA
    Aug 13, 2016
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Прекрасная игра! Как раз для уединения, релакса. Я успел наиграть около 8 часов, это мало, но я многое видел. Большинство планет убоги (как и должно быть в реальности), но когда ты находишь прекраснейшую Землеподобную планету с красной травой и парящими островами - это непередаваемое ощущение! Иногда встречаются аномалии, черные дыры, и конечно же тайна центра галактики держит интерес, как и странные жуткие записи в заброшенных поселениях, в этой вселеннной полно загадок! Стрельба здесь, конечно, не на уровне КоДа, но здесь и не нужен такой уровень. Многие жалуются на мультиплеер, да, жаль что его фактически нет, но вы сами подумайте: Вы где-то на задворках галактики, в бесконечной процедурно-генеруемой Вселенной...и вы надеетесь найти где-то игрока? Эта возможность имеет место быть, но и становится понятно, что она в принципе не нужна из-за катастрофически малого шанса встретить другого игрока. Графика не супер, но приемлима. Вот я графодрочер и не жалуюсь почему-то. Насчет лагов и прочего: просто попробуйте сменить все настройки графики на максимальные, мне это, неизвестно как, но помогло. Ах да, единственное что бесит, это спустя примерно час игры она в какой-то момент начинает ужасно тормозить, помогает только перезапуск. А так всё отлично, 10 Атласов из 10 (кстати в нем тоже какая-то жуткая тайна, я до сих пор не допер, что же делает, для чего и куда ведет этот камушек)… Expand
  9. Crackfarmer
    Aug 13, 2016
    3
    I can pretty much copy & paste this from the ps4 review but it's even worse on PC.

    So after 5 hours of playing this i can say that i pretty much saw everything in this Game. I just can't see myself playing this for like more than 2,3, maybe 5 days? I'll list some pro's and con's below. Pro : - Endless Universe to explore - Immersive Environment and just something new Cons : -    I can pretty much copy & paste this from the ps4 review but it's even worse on PC.

    So after 5 hours of playing this i can say that i pretty much saw everything in this Game. I just can't see myself playing this for like more than 2,3, maybe 5 days? I'll list some pro's and con's below.

    Pro :
    - Endless Universe to explore
    - Immersive Environment and just something new

    Cons :
    - Lack of Content (The game is about 2.5gb big as download file which doesn't change once installed - so you find out quite fast that this Game really doesn't offer that much of a variety.
    - Aliens look similar
    - After 5 hours you saw almost all ships you can get/buy, they only differ in upgrades, style and price
    - The "uploading" feature doesn't do anything besides give you credits. If you deny firewall access to this Game you can upload everything again after restarting the Game. It doesn't really upload anything, they could've named it "claim for discover" rather than upload.
    - Graphics are just terrible, just take a look at the ground it looks like someone threw up on the ground and was too lazy to clean it up
    - Plants, Rocks, Planets itself look almost same, just color difference
    - Biggest problem : Inventory size, you find yourself collecting stuff from loot boxes, yeah and then surprise they don't stack. You ship is full in the first 20min, so is your suit inventory. I found myself running around for like almost an hour before i could fix my starter ship to get off the planet.
    - The handling of the ship is terrible, you dont really want to use a and d otherwise you find yourself spinning like crazy.
    - Running feels like walking, walking feels like slow motion
    -You can't even use the word "optimized" because it is just not. It's 30 fps capped upon first launch with low settings along side. I got a pretty decent pc and i face freezes, fps issues and bugged textures all over the place.

    So in comparison this Game looks to me like an unfinished Tech preview of the Game. If you play it for like 2 hours you will ask yourself - "is that really it". This Game is just not finally done, but sadly it is. You can even harvest plants. You must shoot everything with your lazer which overheats like an cpu without cooling.

    Full price worth? No definitely not, not even half price is worth. 15-25€ seems okay but still not fair for an 2016 Game which was hyped so hard.

    Wait for an price cut, or get a pirated version since this Game (and the whole development) doesn't deserve this money. They first advertised this Game as mmo-based multiplayer which got played down and finally simply just edited in steam as "singleplayer".

    Please, i hope they don't ever create a Game again.    … Expand
  10. 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
  11. Imnotaddicted
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    It's not really a game, pretty much all you do is gather resources to upgrade your ship so you can go to other planets to gather resources. Then at the end of the game, you get thrown onto a new planet to do the whole thing over again.

    It's just boring. 18 QUINTILLION planets and effectively nothing to do but grind and upgrade your ship. You can't even design your own ship. No quests,    It's not really a game, pretty much all you do is gather resources to upgrade your ship so you can go to other planets to gather resources. Then at the end of the game, you get thrown onto a new planet to do the whole thing over again.

    It's just boring. 18 QUINTILLION planets and effectively nothing to do but grind and upgrade your ship. You can't even design your own ship. No quests, no adventures, drunk ships, no multiplayer, gimmick of naming plants and animals nobody will ever see or care about. Even FREE is too much for this glorified tech demo that isn't even good looking. Don't waste your time. If you like indie games, get mount & blade: warband instead.    … Expand
  12. AtlasKnight
    Aug 13, 2016
    7
    Ahh, the metacritic 0 score army rears its ugly head again. For god's sake guys yes the game has issues but you should still give it points for its merits. If you cant play it, complain all you want but dont review it until you can play it, because for the people like me who can play it just fine, we've had fun.

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

    Ok so onto the review:

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

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

    Ok so lets give a pros and cons breakdown.

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

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

    Final verdict: 7.

    PS: If you're complaining that there's nothing interesting to do, you probably lack imagination or an appreciation of beauty, and you bought this game for the wrong reasons and clearly didnt do your research.    … Expand
  13. vesperdem
    Aug 13, 2016
    10
    First off, I want to state that I am not having any of the problems that were reported minutes after the games release yesterday (8/12/2016). I am seeing a few stutters in the frame rate, but that's really about it.

    I love exploration games. Flight Simulator, Train Simulator, Minecraft, Creativerse, 7 Days to Die, Fallout 4 the GTA franchise even Starbound. I can spend hours just    First off, I want to state that I am not having any of the problems that were reported minutes after the games release yesterday (8/12/2016). I am seeing a few stutters in the frame rate, but that's really about it.

    I love exploration games. Flight Simulator, Train Simulator, Minecraft, Creativerse, 7 Days to Die, Fallout 4 the GTA franchise even Starbound. I can spend hours just wandering around looking at what the game or developer generated for me to explore.

    No Man's Sky is pretty much the ultimate version of that type of game. With 18 Quintillion world in just one (of possibly many) galaxies, there is just no limit to my exploration bug.

    World generation is crazy, making Minecraft look tame, The creatures and plants that live on these worlds are straight out of 1960's SciFi book covers and comic books.

    There is even an underlying story to the four major races in the game (if there are four, I have only found one so far).

    If I had any complaints, it would be inventory management or the early lack of inventory space is a pain. However I could say the same for pretty much every game I mentioned above. You can fairly quickly start increasing those spaces by finding objects on the planets that will increase your suits inventory.

    A nit pick would be that planets usually don't bunch up together like they have here. There should be planets all around their star. I should have to fly past the star to get to planets that might be on the other side. Not the case here. They are all pretty much bunched up together. Physics wouldn't allow this, but hey. It's a game not a true simulator.

    That's really it. The fact that there is probably one one "hand drawn" object in the game, the main alien races mentioned earlier. Everything else is put together by the game, Ships, Multi-tool guns, plants, animals, planets, everything. So far, they all look fantastic.

    If you are into Minecraft, Creativerse, 7 Days to Die, you will be dropping those games in favor of No Man's Sky for quite some time. I absolutely recommend this one!    … Expand
  14. Boda
    Aug 13, 2016
    9
    I'll be first to admit, this game is not for everyone. But, I Love it.
    I love the variation between planets. I love the random events popping up. The alien NPC's and stories slowly unfolding and different races. This game makes me feel like an explorer unlike any other game I have ever had.
    My few complaints are: Run should just last forever from the start, man walking sometimes just    I'll be first to admit, this game is not for everyone. But, I Love it.
    I love the variation between planets. I love the random events popping up. The alien NPC's and stories slowly unfolding and different races. This game makes me feel like an explorer unlike any other game I have ever had.

    My few complaints are: Run should just last forever from the start, man walking sometimes just takes forever. This usually leads to more discoveries, So it's not all bad.
    I can not figure out how to get back to my starting system. I wish there was a way to tag it and move towards it.

    Runs smooth on GTX970, i5 4690K (oc'd to 4.1), 16gb.

    If you like exploring and the excitement of exploring, this game is for you!
    If you like trash talking while shooting your buddies in Call Of Duty, stay WAY clear of this game.    … Expand
  15. Fielke
    Aug 13, 2016
    10
    I get 90 fps with an i7 2600, gtx 980 and 8gb of ram. Been loving this game. landing on a new planet feels like creating a randomized world in minecraft. I immediately want to run around and see what it has to offer. This is a specific game for a specific kind of gamer.
  16. papi58490
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    I would like to start of by saying that anyone who defends the PC Version of this game is destroying the PC platform. On launch day the game either doesn't start up or runs like trash and by defending this game you are telling Hello Games and other companies that their game could literally not start up for some people and we'll still jump out of our way to say "but it might work by nextI would like to start of by saying that anyone who defends the PC Version of this game is destroying the PC platform. On launch day the game either doesn't start up or runs like trash and by defending this game you are telling Hello Games and other companies that their game could literally not start up for some people and we'll still jump out of our way to say "but it might work by next week!". I don't care if it works by tomorrow! On day one it wasn't a server problem like some multiplayer games (i.e The Division) the game was literally a broken turd for well over half of the people that purchased it and those who did managed to get in said it run like garbage and looked about as good as Bad Rats. You charge AAA price you get AAA back lash, remember that guys. Rip Hello Games a new one to make sure that this never happens again (or at least we hope so).

    As far as game play goes I wouldn't know because it wouldn't work, and I couldn't go to a friends house because it wouldn't work for him either! Shame on you Hello Games, that's why you don't charge $60 for a game made by like 12 dudes and Sean Murray's Mom.

    I'll buy it next year on sale and probably have fun, but until the day that No Man's Buy has a $20 price tag on it I won't touch it with a 18 Quintilian foot pole.

    0/10 would s*@t on again.    … Expand
  17. alan0n
    Aug 13, 2016
    8
    Running on a older i7 2600k, on xfired r9-290xs off a SSD and getting 50-60fps with a rare drop down to the 30s. Far cry from unplayable. As far as stability, after 6 straight hours I have had zero crashes. So from a technical standpoint this game doesn't strike me as bad.

    On to the game play the game plays exactly as it was billed. If you have been following the devs and not the    Running on a older i7 2600k, on xfired r9-290xs off a SSD and getting 50-60fps with a rare drop down to the 30s. Far cry from unplayable. As far as stability, after 6 straight hours I have had zero crashes. So from a technical standpoint this game doesn't strike me as bad.

    On to the game play the game plays exactly as it was billed. If you have been following the devs and not the hype train you are getting exactly what was promised. A sci-fi exploration game with some crafting. Much like Elite:Dangerous. If that game was not for you neither is this one.

    I dropped an 8, but that could easily go up if they increase the complexity of the crafting system. Currently it feels a bit on the shallow side, and the only upgrades are basically inventory upgrades that get chewed up by mods.

    Conclusion: If your looking for another DOOM your going to hate this game, if your looking for a sci-fi exploration game and don't mind some simple survival elements you will probably enjoy this.    … Expand
  18. VCastro
    Aug 13, 2016
    8
    I am very satisfied with the purchase, but the price does not reflect the optimization offered in the game, that disappointed me, however, I am playing at 60fps on ultra with an i3 + 970, I hope to correct the frame drops.
    Other than that I'm having too much fun
  19. imabser
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    It's set in a spore like world, but you just travel around collecting materials to upgrade stuff so you can collect more materials faster so you can upgrade stuff to collect faster etc, etc.. Worth about 15 bucks at most.
  20. Munkey
    Aug 13, 2016
    2
    Bought this game on release. I'm a big fan of exploration/sci-fi space games. I really enjoyed the exploring part of the game. Finding minerals, crafting and naming species and places you discover. In that sense the game delivered what it promised.
    The problem is this game is unplayable in it;s current state. I own a high end rig ( i7- 4790k, 16 GB RAM, GTX 980ti) so this game should run    Bought this game on release. I'm a big fan of exploration/sci-fi space games. I really enjoyed the exploring part of the game. Finding minerals, crafting and naming species and places you discover. In that sense the game delivered what it promised.
    The problem is this game is unplayable in it;s current state. I own a high end rig ( i7- 4790k, 16 GB RAM, GTX 980ti) so this game should run smooth as butter. Well guess what. On low-med settings I barely get 30 fps. If I get in to combat or start mining it drops to like below 20 fps. On high this game dips below 15 fps while I'm standing. I just can't get past these performance issues. Played for about 5 hours and that is it for me.
    Was realy looking forward to playing No man's sky but in this state this game is not worth buying on PC. Get it on PS4 where it runs better.    … Expand
  21. Kaniya
    Aug 13, 2016
    7
    Finally i got to experience No mans sky on PC. Despite of the fact that ps4 version suffers from HUD and control scheme, the absence of controller and having mouse and keyboard solves the issue pretty much ! the only problem remains with pc version are countless bugs and performance issue. I am running the game on GTX970 and it seems I cant get a stable performance on maximum setting whichFinally i got to experience No mans sky on PC. Despite of the fact that ps4 version suffers from HUD and control scheme, the absence of controller and having mouse and keyboard solves the issue pretty much ! the only problem remains with pc version are countless bugs and performance issue. I am running the game on GTX970 and it seems I cant get a stable performance on maximum setting which is a let down kinda of.
    Other than that, NMS is all about exploration and joy of travelling. The scale is awesome, the world is fantastic and it gives you countless exploring opportunities. Although at times it may feel you are doing the same things but with a different skin, what hello games accomplished with such a small team is quiet a thing for itself. Other than exploration majority of time is spent either completing game's man quest (finiding center of galaxy) or upgrading yourself through farming material. Beyond this due to lack of multiplayer content the game doest have much to offer, sadly there arent much of survival mechanism in the game such as outpost crafting and so on. Which I hope hello game considers adding them as DLCs at least !
    overall not a a bad game but it is not what we all expected either,    … Expand
  22. LaNiik
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    I WANT MY 60€ BACK!!!! This game is such a BS it is lame af and unplayable cause of lag funny for like 10min then it become the badest game ever!!!!!!!
  23. HonestlyTrue
    Aug 13, 2016
    2
    The Universe could be so amazing, rich with activities and things to explore. What we get is a dull and repetetive item grind with planets which all look the same. Honestly the game became boring after just half an hour.

    I thought this would be a full game, but it is merely an experiment which reached a dead end for $60. I would say, stay clear until price drops significantly. Watching    The Universe could be so amazing, rich with activities and things to explore. What we get is a dull and repetetive item grind with planets which all look the same. Honestly the game became boring after just half an hour.

    I thought this would be a full game, but it is merely an experiment which reached a dead end for $60. I would say, stay clear until price drops significantly. Watching a few streams playing it should be enough to feed your curiosity.    … Expand
  24. 1jak86sie
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    Im one of those guys who waited, checked the specs, made sure my pc met them (exceeded them all) ... downloaded the game, downloaded the patch, downloaded C++ runtimes, downloaded new video card drivers, checked the registry ... nothing I did would get this steaming pile of **** to run, i couldn't get past the title screen, this game is completely broken. Its not acceptable for a game atIm one of those guys who waited, checked the specs, made sure my pc met them (exceeded them all) ... downloaded the game, downloaded the patch, downloaded C++ runtimes, downloaded new video card drivers, checked the registry ... nothing I did would get this steaming pile of **** to run, i couldn't get past the title screen, this game is completely broken. Its not acceptable for a game at this price to be delivered untested like this, its broken.

    IT DOESN'T WORK DO NOT BUY IT.    … Expand
  25. LonelyPenguin
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    I wont talk about poor port (even though they lied that this game is developed for pc and then ported on ps4, there is proof that its other way around).

    This is the most boring game in 2015-2016 season (even worse than fallout4). After exploring one planet, which takes less than 2 hours, you've done everything there is to do in this game = walk, mine and take pictures. This game    I wont talk about poor port (even though they lied that this game is developed for pc and then ported on ps4, there is proof that its other way around).

    This is the most boring game in 2015-2016 season (even worse than fallout4). After exploring one planet, which takes less than 2 hours, you've done everything there is to do in this game = walk, mine and take pictures. This game should've been advertised as interactive screensaver.

    This game might be 18 quintillion planets wide, but also 1 feet deep = all you do is walk, mine and take pictures, nothing more at all!

    This game seems like 20eu indie game that got boosted by sony's marketing team.

    avoid buying by any means, it is not worth 60eu not even close    … Expand
  26. karloskand
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    The games runs awful and we were lied to by the developers! DO NOT BUY IT!!! They lied about the multiplayer and as if that isn't enough this game screams is very poorly optimized!! It is total GARBAGE.. The developers are blocking people on Twitter for speaking the truth! BUYERS BE WARE!!!
  27. greyraven23
    Aug 13, 2016
    1
    Отвратительная во всех смыслах игра, в контексте надежд которые она подавала, в ней плохо просто все.
  28. AnalBlaster
    Aug 13, 2016
    2
    The concept behind the game is great; you explore the universe, uncovering all these planets and diverse life forms. Where the game falls flat on it's face, however, is the execution. I have put around 10 hours into this game, 16 if you count the time i played on PS4, and after that much time I have found the initial sense of excitement from finding these planets and species has faded.The concept behind the game is great; you explore the universe, uncovering all these planets and diverse life forms. Where the game falls flat on it's face, however, is the execution. I have put around 10 hours into this game, 16 if you count the time i played on PS4, and after that much time I have found the initial sense of excitement from finding these planets and species has faded. You eventually start recognizing similarities between all of them. This is made worse by the fact that the variation in the planets is small, with the only major change in a lot of them being a swapped pallet. That isn't to say the game isn't aesthetically pleasing, it is honestly beautiful, but the lack of variation makes it feel very repetitive very fast.

    On top of this, the PC version has major issues. It runs horribly on some very capable machines. It is not well optimized at all and is riddled with bugs that cause it to be unplayable for many.

    I regret that I paid $60 for a game that is the quality of some early access beta (or alpha even).    … Expand
  29. Curunir
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    An offensive, hideous score for an offensive, hideous PC release.
    After waiting for two years, I was presented with a stutterfest of Arkham / JCause 3 proportions, that is, for all intents and purposes, unplayable due to hideous performance.
  30. xcontractx
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    not worth 59.99
    not worth 49.99
    not worth 39.99 not worth 29.99 not worth 19.99 not worth 9.99 not worth .99 Do yourself a favor. Wait until they fix this **** mess. Then don't buy it. Don't get me wrong, the premise is fantastic, if you like space exploration, games like mincraft or eve online, this is a great game for you. The game play is not the problem, though that's not    not worth 59.99
    not worth 49.99
    not worth 39.99
    not worth 29.99
    not worth 19.99
    not worth 9.99
    not worth .99

    Do yourself a favor. Wait until they fix this **** mess. Then don't buy it. Don't get me wrong, the premise is fantastic, if you like space exploration, games like mincraft or eve online, this is a great game for you. The game play is not the problem, though that's not worth 59.99, maybe worth 30 bucks.

    The problem is that the pc optimization simply doesn't exist. This is a flaming pile of **** right now.

    If you really want to waste 59.99, buy a few **** and shove them up your ass because that's going to give you more pleasure than this.

    Then go and torrent the game because the torrented copy runs perfectly, ironically.    … Expand
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#2 Most Discussed PC Game of 2016
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#25 Most Shared PC Game of 2016

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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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