No Man's Sky

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  1. Kris_d
    Oct 22, 2016
    4
    I think this would have made a great early acces title at for the price of 20 euro's. While i'm used to companies exaggerating and showing trailers that make games look better than they actually are, in the case of No Man's Sky it's a lot worse. I suggest watching the angry Joe review where he sums up everything that's been stated by Sean Murray and what is actually in the game. at first iI think this would have made a great early acces title at for the price of 20 euro's. While i'm used to companies exaggerating and showing trailers that make games look better than they actually are, in the case of No Man's Sky it's a lot worse. I suggest watching the angry Joe review where he sums up everything that's been stated by Sean Murray and what is actually in the game. at first i felt bad for the guy, but honestly he really lied bad about many things. There's some fun and cool moment to be had the first ten hours of the game, but it lacks in a lot of ways. It's very shallow, the universe is empty, the flying is bad, the combat is bad. If you're lucky to land on a beautiful interesting planet, there's some relaxing moments to enjoy the vista's and take screenshots. But that's pretty much the only positives about this game. I was hoping the game would get some nice features the coming year(s), but i think i kinda gave up on it and accepted i wasted 60 euro's.… Expand
  2. Willybach
    Aug 15, 2016
    4
    I was a fanboy, now I'm a sadboy.

    So much potential, so admirable for trying something new. So likeable devs. So poor a PC implementation, so poor a litany of ill-conceived game mechanics. So little to do once you crawl and stutter your way past the first planet. It's an Alpha. If they fix it, add to it, restructure it, redesign it...I will gladly come back and amend my score. Please    I was a fanboy, now I'm a sadboy.

    So much potential, so admirable for trying something new. So likeable devs. So poor a PC implementation, so poor a litany of ill-conceived game mechanics. So little to do once you crawl and stutter your way past the first planet.

    It's an Alpha. If they fix it, add to it, restructure it, redesign it...I will gladly come back and amend my score. Please make me do this. My bank balance took a hit, and I feel like I've just used 40 pounds to wipe my backside.    … Expand
  3. GrumpyReviewer
    Aug 15, 2016
    4
    I played for more than 15 hours, trying to convince myself this game was everything I expected it to be. I kept pushing forward, making me believe I was playing what was promised to me. The hype was real and so was my disappointment.

    No Man's Sky is an INCREDIBLE game and a true achievement in gaming. It's a hallmark, it's history, it's gigantic, ambitious, glorious, miraculous in its    I played for more than 15 hours, trying to convince myself this game was everything I expected it to be. I kept pushing forward, making me believe I was playing what was promised to me. The hype was real and so was my disappointment.

    No Man's Sky is an INCREDIBLE game and a true achievement in gaming. It's a hallmark, it's history, it's gigantic, ambitious, glorious, miraculous in its scope. It's just NOT the game we were promised. And it pains me to admit that.

    My initial reaction was... WOW, this game is incredible. But after hours and hours playing, it was clear that this game is ocean wide and puddle deep. There is just not much to do. No quest, no sidequests, not much of a lore. Just endlessly wandering around, gathering materials, trying to upgrade stuff while you juggle your inventory slots. It gets so, so incredibly boring it's a shame. Basically this is a game about mining materials, managing inventory and walking/flying around from planet to planet until you reach the ultimate goal: "the center of the galaxy".

    The game just has no purpose, no point and it saddens me to say that it got old really fast. It's a shame. If they had thrown in a decent story and some sidequests to keep us moving forward, this could've been one of the greatest games ever made. As of now, it's a space-mining simulator.    … Expand
  4. Neiio
    Aug 9, 2016
    4
    A thoroughly mediocre game with lackluster objectives. No Man's Sky is the epitome of shallow, with all the beauty and lack of content that you'd expect from a AAA game. Too bad this isn't a AAA game considering they're asking $60 for this... I would not recommend to anyone.
  5. Runfocovah
    Aug 14, 2016
    4
    Solid 6.. Game its fun and original, great sense of being on a universe and make you feel small, its cool to wonder around lush planets BUT after 15-20 hrs in, everything gets repetitive. Theres no real incentive for this grind fest. Fight controls on foot and spaceship are clunky and need to be fixed. Poor inventory design swell as menu interface ala destiny (but worst). Planets can feelSolid 6.. Game its fun and original, great sense of being on a universe and make you feel small, its cool to wonder around lush planets BUT after 15-20 hrs in, everything gets repetitive. Theres no real incentive for this grind fest. Fight controls on foot and spaceship are clunky and need to be fixed. Poor inventory design swell as menu interface ala destiny (but worst). Planets can feel new only the first couple of times... seen one? seen them all. AI its missing, just bland unless characters (aliens and planet creators alike).

    NMS needs to be patched ASAP; Crashing every time I warp, creatures half trapped on the ground, need bigger stacking on every slot on inventory, better spaceship handling, better space fights, and the most important of all KEEP MY SAVED FILES ALIVE!!! i have restarted this damn game twice because my save file its "corrupted".

    Its a must buy don't get me wrong, but like in 5-6 months once its cheaper and everything gets fixed.    … Expand
  6. Gampy
    Aug 13, 2016
    4
    Alien cities? Nope.
    Traces of the devastating wars and cataclysms? Nope.
    Planets with various climate zones? Nope.
    Remnants of the extinct civilizations? Nope
    Maybe basic physics? Nope.

    Land -> Collect resouces -> Learn alien words -> Trade and upgrade equipment -> Repeat.
    That's it, the game has nothing else to offer.
  7. Danceswithsheep
    Aug 10, 2016
    4
    From the hype I really didn't expect this to be a survival slog, exploration is very much secondary to managing a tiny inventory.

    I play Elite Dangerous on my PC so I don't mind the general pointlessness of the exploration for its own sake, I enjoy it. But having to spend more time balancing resources that are used up at an alarming rate just suck that enjoyment out of it. The    From the hype I really didn't expect this to be a survival slog, exploration is very much secondary to managing a tiny inventory.

    I play Elite Dangerous on my PC so I don't mind the general pointlessness of the exploration for its own sake, I enjoy it. But having to spend more time balancing resources that are used up at an alarming rate just suck that enjoyment out of it.

    The gathering element is particularly frustrating when you get involved in an entertaining dog fight and have to run away because you used up all your ammunition and need to go wander around looking for isotopes elements. Yeah, that sounds kinda simmy and so you can say it makes sense but it replaces fun with chores too much of the time, maybe more inventory slots will alleviate it but I get the feeling the resources are meant to hamstring you and won't be surprised if bigger ships with bigger inventory space will just need more of the resources to operate so your not better off.

    Meeting aliens and learning a language is 'neat' and is a form of resource gathering that I do find enjoyable.

    In the end this isn't really a game about exploring but about gathering resources and in that respect I get way more fun out of subnautica but if titles like 'Don't Starve' rock your boat then maybe you will probably get more than I did from this.    … Expand
  8. psycros
    Aug 26, 2016
    4
    About five minutes at a stretch was all I could take of the clunky, zero-context UI and non-optimized console port performance. The PC version of NMS is every bit the over-hyped mess you've heard about. As for content and gameplay, you'd get more satisfaction from Garry's Mod. Not even close to ready for release. This is pretty typical of small developers, unfortunately..particularlyAbout five minutes at a stretch was all I could take of the clunky, zero-context UI and non-optimized console port performance. The PC version of NMS is every bit the over-hyped mess you've heard about. As for content and gameplay, you'd get more satisfaction from Garry's Mod. Not even close to ready for release. This is pretty typical of small developers, unfortunately..particularly Scandinavian ones. Hard to believe it took four years considering it offers less than any other first-person, high-res sandbox - even those in early access. Not even worth pirating IMO.… Expand
  9. OwtDaft
    Aug 19, 2018
    4
    + Impressive on a technical level.
    + Nice graphics on some planets.
    - Geez it's soooo BORING. - Quests are boring, mining is boring, everything is boring. - The world feels dead. NPCs are dull they don't move they are dull. - There are less than 10 different types of small buildings that just repeat on all planets. - How is this game so buggy still. It's the most buggy game on PS4.    + Impressive on a technical level.
    + Nice graphics on some planets.
    - Geez it's soooo BORING.
    - Quests are boring, mining is boring, everything is boring.
    - The world feels dead. NPCs are dull they don't move they are dull.
    - There are less than 10 different types of small buildings that just repeat on all planets.
    - How is this game so buggy still. It's the most buggy game on PS4.
    - Did I mention how boring this game is?    … Expand
  10. Snuggle_Fox
    Aug 9, 2016
    4
    Oversold and under delivered. There is 0 multiplayer, 0 sense of community as we cannot share or publish our discoveries. The game is very accessible at least which is a positive and there is some joy and wonder to be had.
    Sadly the 'gameplay' is more tedious than minecraft mining - but without the joy of creation and building. You're forever upgrading your gear just so you can gather    Oversold and under delivered. There is 0 multiplayer, 0 sense of community as we cannot share or publish our discoveries. The game is very accessible at least which is a positive and there is some joy and wonder to be had.
    Sadly the 'gameplay' is more tedious than minecraft mining - but without the joy of creation and building. You're forever upgrading your gear just so you can gather faster to make gear to gather faster to make more gear to gather even faster just to see the centre of the universe...
    Those amazingly diverse planets we were promised, after a few hours in, all feel quite samey.
    Had this game been released at half the price with half the hype I'd say it was a decent little experiment.
    As it carries a AAA game price (in fact higher) and offers such limited gameplay and is missing promised features, I'd wait for a bargain bin or rent this title.    … Expand
  11. JakeSteel
    Nov 16, 2017
    4
    Almost zen like. You can spend hours ignoring your wife and children, this is like Civ V without the excitement or strategy. 10/10 would strip mine planets again.
  12. Nobilis1984
    Apr 13, 2020
    4
    Man hatte zu Release viel Versprochen aber das kommt alles jetzt erst. Nach über 3 Jahren ist das Spiel so wie es sein sollte. Recht spät.
  13. YellowKoala
    Aug 30, 2017
    4
    I bought the game after hearing the patches have made it much better, but find the game very tedious. Everything costs a fortune in the game, but there aren't any fun ways to make the all units (the game's currency) you'll need. It's fun at first, but quickly becomes repetitive. There's a creative mode, but then it cuts out the work. It needs a mode in between regular and creative whereI bought the game after hearing the patches have made it much better, but find the game very tedious. Everything costs a fortune in the game, but there aren't any fun ways to make the all units (the game's currency) you'll need. It's fun at first, but quickly becomes repetitive. There's a creative mode, but then it cuts out the work. It needs a mode in between regular and creative where costs are not so outrageous that the game becomes tedious. It would also be better if resources required to refuel were lower (I find myself spending 10min of every hour restocking the basic items before I can resume collecting more useful items needed to progress).… Expand
  14. MerodeTalks
    Aug 22, 2016
    4
    I am really disappointed with this game. I understood perfectly well what it is (or what rather it was advertised as) before picking it up for full price.

    What I was expecting: 1. The game that is concentrated on exploration of amazing and exotic alien planets and star systems. 2. Cataloguing various strange species of animals and plants. Some I would not have thought about if I    I am really disappointed with this game. I understood perfectly well what it is (or what rather it was advertised as) before picking it up for full price.

    What I was expecting:
    1. The game that is concentrated on exploration of amazing and exotic alien planets and star systems.
    2. Cataloguing various strange species of animals and plants. Some I would not have thought about if I haven't seen them before
    3. I was expecting unique planets, species and plants. I was expecting incredible generation engine for everything I have mentioned.
    4. Cool flying mechanic as I have always dreamed of my own spaceship

    What did I get:

    1. NMS is a really buggy game (first crash after 40 minutes of gameplay). I have played the game for about 15-20 hours on versions 1.03 and 1.04. I have encountered the total of about 7-10 crashes.

    Scanning flying creatures is extremely difficult (you have to point crosshair exactly on little red dot below flying creature and it doesn't always register). You can waste up to 5-10 minutes scanning flying animal if you're unlucky.

    2. Animals and especially plants are VERY REPETITIVE. This is the worst thing you can say about a game which is sold on the premise of infinite procedurally generated universe with each planet unique. Some plants can be found on every planet. Some plants differ very, very slightly from planet to planet.

    Animals are generated by attaching body parts of different animals together. For example - I have found eagle with bunny's head. These body parts are varied by size/colour/length. There are people on internet who have found exact same animals as me. I have found the same animals on several planets (or almost exactly the same animals).

    This kills this game. I don't expect to be amazed by yet another planet. I see everywhere almost the same vegetation and same animals. I was expecting body parts not to be predetermined by human developers but rather be generated by math functions.

    3. Gameplay mechanics are not only boring, but also tiresome. Inventory size is the only driver in this game. Inventory management is tiresome. If construction if item A requires 4 pieces of item B, you cannot create instantly item A, but have to first create 4 pieces of item B (which never stacks).

    Consider this. You start with about 10 free inventory slots. You collect some precious stuff and are left with 2 inventory slots. You find better ship which is crashed. To fix it you need to craft 4 pieces of item B and therefore 5 free inventory slots. Well, you have to throw out everything you've collected. You want to tag this place and come back later after you sell stuff? No, there's no place tagging in this game.

    Surviving in this game is what takes up most of your time but it's boring and actually takes away your attention from what is important. Life support tells you that it's low on power every 25% (even at 75%, which is just stupid). You also have to recharge your mining laser and ship. It takes about half your playtime. Mining is boring. Point at rocks, pull the trigger and stop thinking.

    What should be cool is finding animals. You get the biggest money rewards for cataloguing all animals on the planet and game lets you know how many more are left. And that's about it - if there's one left and you spent 3 hours on planet, there's absolutely no mechanic to help you. You're tired of this place and would like to travel to other planet but on the other hand you're one species away from big reward. It is not pleasant.

    4. Alien interactions are limited to small puzzles and knowing as many of their language's words as possible. For example, alien wants something from you and you can pick from 3 options: give him A, B or C. If you pick right, they teach you some new tech. If you pick wrong it reduces your reputation with these species. Reputation is not worth much. With high enough rep, aliens can heal you, fix your ship etc.

    Most interactions with alien ruins and various stations/buildings are limited. There are 2-3 mini puzzles that are recurring. It's actually ridiculous:
    a. You see 3-4 numbers and have to guess fourth. Numbers are ALWAYS moved to the left (1234, 2341, 3412, ????) and you have to guess fourth.
    b. You see 3-4 numbers. Every next number is multiplication of previous and in each step multiplier is increased by 1 (12, 24, 72, ???)
    c. You see 3-4 numbers. Every next number is the previous one with some value subtracted. The amount subtracted is increased by 1 in each step (72, 66, 61, ???)
    The funny part is - THESE PUZZLES ARE STATIC AND THERE ARE ONLY 3 TYPES. VALUES ARE REPEATED. Even such simple puzzle is not randomized and generated. After a few you memorize correct answer and don't even read them.

    5. I'm running out of character limit. I'll put it shortly - developers lied. A lot of stuff from trailers was cut. I don't even care about multiplayer, but where is that cool big ship wreckage from icy planet?

    I feel cheated. YOU MESSED WITH MY CHILDHOOD DREAMS.    … Expand
  15. Sweetew
    Aug 17, 2016
    4
    Wow. This game is truly unique, in the sense that it made consider to stop playing videogames. Because developers can say whatever they want, without any consequence. What are you talking about, you might ask, well let me tell you:

    FORTY Features were cut from the game. Features that was talked about FOUR months ago, in interviews, in gameplay videos etc are all gone. Gone. Here comes    Wow. This game is truly unique, in the sense that it made consider to stop playing videogames. Because developers can say whatever they want, without any consequence. What are you talking about, you might ask, well let me tell you:

    FORTY Features were cut from the game. Features that was talked about FOUR months ago, in interviews, in gameplay videos etc are all gone. Gone. Here comes the insulting part:

    You know those four trailers that they made between June and August to hype us all more, and show us the four aspects of the game? Yea, a lot of stuff that is in those trailers, aren't in the actual game. yea that's right, surprise surprise, we were lied to by Hello games and Sony. That's called false advertising.

    My recommendation? Stay the hell away from this game, because right now, it's not worth its asking price. It may be worth it in one year, but until then, stay away.

    I will personally try to get a refund.    … Expand
  16. Plain_Sight_Doc
    Aug 30, 2016
    4
    A universe of infinite size that is as deep as a puddle.

    No Mans Sky is a great, big, colorful and fantastic canvas for a game that hasn't been painted yet. Unfortunately the reviewers who state this game is nothing more than a tech demo are sadly correct. This is a game where the limited imaginations or poor planning or ineptitude are apparent at every turn. The fact that it is ALMOST    A universe of infinite size that is as deep as a puddle.

    No Mans Sky is a great, big, colorful and fantastic canvas for a game that hasn't been painted yet. Unfortunately the reviewers who state this game is nothing more than a tech demo are sadly correct. This is a game where the limited imaginations or poor planning or ineptitude are apparent at every turn. The fact that it is ALMOST a game is disapointing and it is more akin to the recent wave of indie developed walking simulators and resource gathering snoozefests that have plagued the "indie" genre for some time now. As of writing this review there is just not all that much or that interesting do or to have taken part. The premise of No Mans Sky is brilliant and it works for moments so brief and fleeting, in between an ocean of inventory management, repetition and cosmetic palette swaps.

    By far the best and most interesting parts of the game are really hidden, non existent or barely a part of No Mans Sky. Upgrades and different multi tools and ships were supposed to be meaningful and unique. Ships boil down to just a random mush of interchangeable ugly parts. Upgrades can all easily be earned without much effort or searching early in game. Landing on a gold mine planet is all too common and really hurts the early game progression system.

    Some of the most awe inspiring moments were some of the most dissapointing. I had landed on a planet and realized its sun would create an eclipse in a few minutes. Standing there holding my binoculars and staring into the sky, I watched and waited. Taking screenshots of the first moments of the eclipse were amazing and awe inspiring. A double eclipse seen perhaps for the first time. Where two planets block out one star in the same place at the same time. As I waited and watched the final minutes of sunset and eclipse I watch the darkened crescented planets hover in the twilight sky realizing most everything the developers said about this game was a lie. These planets would always and forever create an eclipse here in this very spot. The planets, stationary and inanimate. These were not living breathing planets or solar systems or galaxies.. They did not truly rotate, or orbit, or have true ecologys or biomes. These stars could never truly be reached. And the house of cards and all of the walls and illusion that was No Mans Sky collapsed. All in one eclipse. For me it was a look into the heart of how a game is created and perhaps perception itself. For all the things that should be learned from this game is that the reality is only real to the unaware perciever of the illusion. And perhaps reality itself just an illusion, like the word "game" in space game.

    No Mans Sky truly has a few unreplicable moments and grand moments. These moments unfortunately allow you to see the infinite walls for what they truly are, barriers.

    + Truly unique and almost perfect spacecraft flight.
    + True Open world.
    + Moments of awe

    -Very limited crafting and upgrading systems
    -Almost nothing to do but sightsee.
    -No real cutscenes other than the endgame cutscene or real story mode.
    -No variety in planet types (No ringed planets, no biomes, no gas planets, no planetary or cosmic phenomena other than black holes which are almost useless most of the time.)    … Expand
  17. christhewiz
    Aug 23, 2016
    4
    What happened to the game we were expecting? Well, nothing... It was just all about the money! Mr. Murray has misled gamers and created expectations of a game that never matched the product in the making. The end product is a mere husk of his very "vivid" descriptions. Wake up, wipe that grin from your face and stop talking bullsh... Fix this mess of a game and deliver the product you promised.
  18. Andi17
    Aug 14, 2016
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I feel like this game has lied to me in all those trailers and info that they gave me. They said you can travel to 18 billion planets or something but what they didn't tell us is that its 18 billion copies. When i enter a new system i feel like i just went around in a circle and ended up in the same area, every system contains the same old same, just a few planets a space station and some other things. Its just very boring, i don't mind grinding in a game but when i feel like there is no reward or purpose to grind for its just a waste of time. I feel like this is absolutely not worth 60 bucks. I think people with a lot of imagination might find some fun in it but for me its just not at all what i hoped for. The game also does not explain anything in the beginning so you basically don't have any idea what it is u gotta do. After 20 hours you're doing exactly the same as in the first hour and probably at the end of the game u pretty much have been doing the same all the time. The planets don't feel different at all, some planets might be a bit different but the only thing that is different is the colours and some animals. I probably won't be playing this game anymore because it just feels like a waste of time. Overall i think people that expect a huge game with all kinds of different worlds are going to be disappointed.… Expand
  19. SuperMe
    Aug 15, 2016
    4
    I've been awaiting this game with anticipation for some time I really wanted to like it but unfortunately the two words I'd use to describe it are boring and repetitive. The purpose of the game is to gather resources; unfortunately that's it. You start with little storage capacity which means a lot of what you gather you have to discard. You strive to accumulate enough money to buy aI've been awaiting this game with anticipation for some time I really wanted to like it but unfortunately the two words I'd use to describe it are boring and repetitive. The purpose of the game is to gather resources; unfortunately that's it. You start with little storage capacity which means a lot of what you gather you have to discard. You strive to accumulate enough money to buy a bigger ship so you don't have to throw as much stuff away. The game boasts are huge number of planets but the difference between them is just the colour and what's available to pick up. After a couple of days play I feel I've got all the enjoyment I can from this game.… Expand
  20. AfterShave
    Oct 4, 2016
    4
    This game is more like a 6/10 if you just go by the product itself, it's cool for 1-2 hours but then it gets really boring. Also the ending is literally non-existent, you fly to the center and it just restarts the game, there's nothing worth seeing.

    I've decided to take 2 points off because of the false advertising by Hello Games, Sean Murray promised all kinds of **** and hardly any of    This game is more like a 6/10 if you just go by the product itself, it's cool for 1-2 hours but then it gets really boring. Also the ending is literally non-existent, you fly to the center and it just restarts the game, there's nothing worth seeing.

    I've decided to take 2 points off because of the false advertising by Hello Games, Sean Murray promised all kinds of **** and hardly any of it made it into the final game. For god's sake they lied about the game having multiplayer, that's downright stupid.

    Don't buy this game, go torrent it. These developers don't deserve a cent of your money, much less sixty dollars.    … Expand
  21. T-Razor
    Aug 14, 2016
    4
    I've played No Man's Sky for about 20+ hours and I will say this: This game is beyond any doubt the worst PS4 exclusive I've ever played. It's boring, repetitive, and has crashed on me at least 10 times. And the worst part is it's priced at a full AAA release of $60. DO NOT waste your money on this game.
  22. pypes
    Aug 14, 2016
    4
    As a technical feat it's amazing, as a game it's boring. It's occasionally stunningly beautiful but it's also frequently ugly, and for all the myriad possible procedural generated landscapes and locations you feel like you've seen everything there is to see after 2 or 3 hours.

    I've heard people say it's a "make your own fun" sort of game, a la Minecraft before Notch decided to tack on    As a technical feat it's amazing, as a game it's boring. It's occasionally stunningly beautiful but it's also frequently ugly, and for all the myriad possible procedural generated landscapes and locations you feel like you've seen everything there is to see after 2 or 3 hours.

    I've heard people say it's a "make your own fun" sort of game, a la Minecraft before Notch decided to tack on an endgame. However for there to be emergent gameplay one must first have a broad pallet of game mechanics to play with. This is exactly where No mans Sky falls down, there is very little to do and very little variety in how you do it. If you could clip along at mach 3 blasting space dinosaurs, or carve your name into the side of a mountain I can guarantee this game would not be getting bad reviews.

    What is there plods along at a snails pace, walking feels like crawling, sprinting feels like walking and even the bad-ass stiletto hulled space-ripper ships amble through the atmosphere as if they were pleasure craft. There are a host of other things that one would thing should never have made it out of beta, ruins are less useful than knowledge stones. One of the atlas path goals requires that you spend hours documenting every living thing on whatever planet you happen to be on, the puzzles are kindergarten grade easy, and every single alien encounter plays out in exactly the same way. The sound design (which I have seen others laud) consists of generic muzak, overlaid with random animal cries and mechanical nonsense that has no bearing on whats going on around you.

    I can forgive Hello Games, they are an indie studio with indie budgets and indie mindsets. What I'm less inclined to forgive (and we as gamers are as much to blame for this) is having them dragged out twice at E3, hyping this thing into the AAA it isn't, and me traveling round 3 different retail outlets to find a boxed copy for £40. This thing ought to have been £15 digital only, and I honestly wouldn't be surprised if this gets pushed out onto PS plus as a freebie in the next 12 months.    … Expand
  23. Euknowia
    Aug 13, 2016
    4
    I’m not entirely sure what the foresight was with regards to steadily incentivizing exploration- or even if there was one. With no real story, borderline nonexistent multiplayer, and a baffling lack of player implemented creativity (i.e. structures/bases, ship designs, and character designs) I found myself struggling to maintain the willpower to discover. Even though a bit of my journeyI’m not entirely sure what the foresight was with regards to steadily incentivizing exploration- or even if there was one. With no real story, borderline nonexistent multiplayer, and a baffling lack of player implemented creativity (i.e. structures/bases, ship designs, and character designs) I found myself struggling to maintain the willpower to discover. Even though a bit of my journey was exciting and immersive in and of itself, my entertainment was exceptionally temporary as the looming realization of stagnant progress encroached evermore on my fleeting happiness.

    Further still:
    -There are several mechanical bugs/glitches, render distance/pop-in issues, texture and clipping bugs, screen tearing, frame drops, UI and AI problems, and audio glitches
    -Frequent game crashes
    -Game saves can occasionally fail to load/do not load properly
    -Unstable 30fps
    -Simple RNG, even at the beginning, weighs too heavily on game difficulty (balancing issues)
    -Cannot change (a remarkably zoomed) FOV, and options in general are fairly limited
    -Text “puzzles” are excessively easy
    - Inventory space is bizarrely small (and ease of management could be improved)
    -Combat (in space and on the ground) is exceedingly awkward- as are the controls in general
    -Planet, alien race/monster, structure, and ship designs too quickly exhibit their “copy and paste” similarities (perhaps inspect/change how planets in proximity are generated or add further biomes/textures/structures/races, etc.)
    -Proper trading (with price forecasting per location) is contradicted by procedural generation (which further conflicts with inventory management)
    -Interactions with aliens is simple, repetitive, and often completely trivial
    -Indications of player taking any damage too closely resembles typical indications of player taking fatal damage
    -Weather phenomenon is sometimes an underwhelming spectacle
    - And many, many more issues

    I personally would not value the game at $60, even with the proposal of future updates (most notably base building). I would recommend waiting until the price drops (by at least 50%), and several patches iron out the more detrimental bugs. To really determine whether or not my criticisms would be sufficiently reflected in others, however, I’d encourage one to watch streams or pure gameplay footage (as opposed to tailored marketing videos/trailers). Surely, I would expect some to find this experience much more enjoyable and valuable than I have.

    (Written after 18-19 hours of gameplay)    … Expand
  24. Steviefive
    Aug 14, 2016
    4
    When considering the score for this game I asked myself a set of questions.

    1. Is it worth the $60US price tag that would normally come with a AAA game? 2. 6 hours into the game, do I feel like I have experienced diversity, a repeated sense of wonder and a drive to do more to achieve goals? 3. Is the feeling of immersion unbroken? In answer to all three of these questions I would    When considering the score for this game I asked myself a set of questions.

    1. Is it worth the $60US price tag that would normally come with a AAA game?
    2. 6 hours into the game, do I feel like I have experienced diversity, a repeated sense of wonder and a drive to do more to achieve goals?
    3. Is the feeling of immersion unbroken?

    In answer to all three of these questions I would have to say no. $60 is FAR too much for a game in such a state. If I pay AAA prices the I expect a finish to the overall product that doesn't leave me wondering what could've been nor what the time frames for fixing it look like. Not only does it have an overwhelming feeling of rinse/repeat but since I discovered the simple process of harvesting Vortex Cubes I have now achieved the goal of a large ship so now what? The 'story' is so thin that there is no sense of achievement in following it beyond it being some direction. Interaction with aliens is so superficial that learning their language is a waste of time. In fact the only reason why I enjoyed monoliths was for the break in the tedium of flying around trying to find extra nodes to learn words. Finally the buggyness and sloppy feeling of flying has left me feeling like immersion is almost non-existent. You just start getting into it and then it starts chopping up. You approach a base and engage landing and it lands you next to a platform not on it!!!

    Frankly I'm not interesting in what it could be, I expect that paying AAA prices means that I'm buying what it is, and what it is, is a $15 game at best and that's what I'd pay. However I would consider paying more for expansions and not feel ripped off. Right now though it's not a great experience and far too repetitive    … Expand
  25. redmandana
    Aug 12, 2016
    4
    This game is terrible..being very repetitive and pointless.. every planet... Is the same dam planet just a different random skin... The game is kind of fun.. being you actually have missions sometimes...this game is just totally pointless... Got bored the first few minutes.. cant even play with friends.. everything is just anouther random planet...
  26. Conran
    Aug 9, 2016
    4
    In one word; shallow. Fun for an hour or two, then it's the same tedious mechanics over and over and over again.

    I mean sure, exploring at first is great but the procedural generation just grows boring. I get it's meant to be unique but this seems closer to a barebones tech demo than a finished product.
  27. badgerryan19
    Jun 19, 2017
    4
    Like many people I was excited for this one and for good reason. I mean unlimited worlds, unlimited loot and gear, fly across the galaxy exploring new creatures and locations. Whats not to love there? And then we got the game. What a massive colossal failure and the team just lied to our face. I can't say what hasn't been said already.
  28. andreasng
    Aug 22, 2016
    4
    When I play a game I divide the hype with the attitude of the developers, which I then divide with the price, which I then again divide with the actual game.

    No Man's Sky (NMS) and the developers promised a hell of a game - I was expecting a cross between physically sound "Space Engine", FFE and Dwarf Fortress. Instead what is given to us is a shallow, non-physically sound, random(at    When I play a game I divide the hype with the attitude of the developers, which I then divide with the price, which I then again divide with the actual game.

    No Man's Sky (NMS) and the developers promised a hell of a game - I was expecting a cross between physically sound "Space Engine", FFE and Dwarf Fortress. Instead what is given to us is a shallow, non-physically sound, random(at its worst) experience with no real sense of life and wonder.

    In NMS everything is "awesome" - which makes nothing awesome.

    There is life everywhere. Cargo crates everywhere. "Rad" things to see everywhere. Space stations everywhere. And if there is stuff everywhere, stuff is not going to matter. Your experience of finding stuff will bomb within 20 minutes time.

    The thing is - NMS has all the modules, all the code and all the design there to create a wonderful and deep planetary exploration experience. But it is not put together in any fantastic and thoughtful fashion - rather it is put together in the most "meh" of ways.

    Sad.

    My most anticipated game of 2016 apart from The Last Guardian. Dropped on the floor.    … Expand
  29. njja02
    May 15, 2018
    4
    I had a great time for the first few hours of the game. I enjoyed the style, music, and variety in planets. That's until the facade disappeared and it became a repetitive grind fest.
  30. Brandondwn
    Mar 22, 2018
    4
    Came back to re review after patches and I gotta say. It was never gonna be good. It was over promised and too ambitious for a small company and yeah, Sony pushed them hard and we all kinda go caught up in it. I feel bad for the team and i feel for the people like myself who bought and tried to defend it because it came from a small team. One day I hope to get a truly great experienceCame back to re review after patches and I gotta say. It was never gonna be good. It was over promised and too ambitious for a small company and yeah, Sony pushed them hard and we all kinda go caught up in it. I feel bad for the team and i feel for the people like myself who bought and tried to defend it because it came from a small team. One day I hope to get a truly great experience like what was promised prior to this games release.… Expand
  31. sashaCZ1
    Aug 9, 2016
    4
    No Man's Sky seemed to me as a completely new and unique experience for the first time. However, this game might become the disappointment of 2016. There is no interesting gameplay that would make you want to play this game again. Every planet is basically the same as others. This game, unfortunately, doesn't have any depth it was supposed to have. Also, I don't usually care about graphicsNo Man's Sky seemed to me as a completely new and unique experience for the first time. However, this game might become the disappointment of 2016. There is no interesting gameplay that would make you want to play this game again. Every planet is basically the same as others. This game, unfortunately, doesn't have any depth it was supposed to have. Also, I don't usually care about graphics but I expected way more next-gen. 4/10.… Expand
  32. Crackfarmer
    Aug 13, 2016
    4
    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    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
  33. Sheep_198
    Aug 18, 2016
    4
    The game feels so dead, nothing feels alive in the game, animals and aliens you met, no characters at all, all like robots behaves the same way. Good space experience and spaceship flying, but that doesn't keep me hooked. Other games easily takes priority over this. No replayability. The game needs way more work and patches and staff!
  34. Hectik
    Aug 14, 2016
    4
    I took a big risk in buying this game but I wanted something different to all the usual games I play. No Man's Sky is a different game to most but the differences are pretty boring and repetitive.

    At the beginning I have a damaged spaceship in need of repair. Probably the only time I was excited out of this whole game. It's a goal, to fix this ship and get out of this **** hole of a    I took a big risk in buying this game but I wanted something different to all the usual games I play. No Man's Sky is a different game to most but the differences are pretty boring and repetitive.

    At the beginning I have a damaged spaceship in need of repair. Probably the only time I was excited out of this whole game. It's a goal, to fix this ship and get out of this **** hole of a planet with weird animals you'd see in a Cirque De Soleil performance.

    Done.

    I'm in space, let's jump into another planet. Mine **** learn an alien language, try not to make the alien's angry, solve a puzzle get an upgrade for your multi tool. **** I already have it. Finish with the planet.

    Jump to another planet do it all again. Visited all the planets in the system? Get a Hyperdrive, jump to another system. Do it again. Not once, twice, three times...BUT FKN A QUINTILLION TIMES!

    If you're into botany and zoology naming animals and plants this is a game for you. I did a fair share of naming animals. Blade Headed Space Fox is probably my best species. Look for it on planet 'Why Did I Buy This Game'. (Btw that is the actual of my planet). Blehh

    My wait for Ark: Survival for PS4 continues    … Expand
  35. awholenother
    Aug 10, 2016
    4
    No Man’s Sky effectively portrays the loneliness of space by providing so little for the player to do that it’s tempting to flush one’s self out of an airlock just to break the tedium.

    Not that you can do that. That would be too interesting. After all the hype, all the promises, all the boasting of procedurally generated wonder and dynamic encounters, Hello Games’ “ambitious”    No Man’s Sky effectively portrays the loneliness of space by providing so little for the player to do that it’s tempting to flush one’s self out of an airlock just to break the tedium.

    Not that you can do that. That would be too interesting.

    After all the hype, all the promises, all the boasting of procedurally generated wonder and dynamic encounters, Hello Games’ “ambitious” spacefaring game is little more than just another crafting and survival experience, more about performing mundane, repetitive tasks than providing unique and exciting encounters.

    If you’re not sick of the hundreds of survival games out there already then No Man’s Sky, with its endless resource collection and irritating inventory management, might be for you.

    For anybody else, the allure of hopping from planet to planet just isn’t all that intriguing – once you’ve completed a long and dull journey from one world to another, you’re going to touch down and basically do what you did everywhere else.

    02

    The game’s biggest feature – that no one planet is the same – means very little when your interactions on each one are practically identical.

    Yes, there are dry planets, watery planets, cold planets, stormy planets – but they all adhere to the same simple rules. The major difference between a poison planet and a nuclear planet is the fact you’ll get a different logo next to the timer that tells you how long you can stay outside.

    The animals, mixed and matched quite obviously from a pool of recycled body parts, can be fed to uncover rare materials, but you can’t do much beyond that. Aside from the few that are hostile and prone to attack, the animals are just there to look weird.

    Upon encountering a large, dinosaur-like creature, I proceeded to use my **** jetpack (and boy is it ****) to ride on its back. I thought that would be fun. Instead, I just fell through its back because it had no solidity, leaving me to sigh and return to yet more mind-numbing resource collection.

    My disappointing experience with the dinosaur has come to exemplify No Man’s Sky‘s biggest problem – everything is so obviously faked, so unabashedly illusory. The universe is devoid of credible, tangible life. For as much as the game promises dynamic adventures, everything is scripted, static, held in place like cardboard cutouts in a fairground ride.

    Sentient aliens met along the way are never found just wandering the land. They remain stood or sat in place like static quest givers in an MMO – without the quests. Every now and then, other starships land nearby, but nothing ever gets out of them. To interact with their pilots, you must interact with the ship, at which point a character model pops up and you can have a text-based conversation with a pop-up character model.

    The world of an average Elder Scrolls game may be far smaller than No Man’s Sky‘s galactic sprawl, but it’s inherently more meaningful, vivid, and lively, because it actually has stuff to do and people to meet.

    03

    No Man’s Sky is indicative of a big problem the games industry has – conflating the size of a game’s world with the quality of its character. It’s yet another game that pushes scale above everything else, but when it comes down to actually playing the thing, sheer landmass doesn’t account for much.

    I simply do not care that I can explore a universe when that universe contains animals a mere window dressing, lifeforms that stand affixed to one spot, abridged visual novel confrontations, and an endless need to shoot rocks and trees to continue micromanaging every banal detail of my character.

    The endless collection of resources needed to refill multiple fuel sources is a total drag, but it’s really the best bit of substance the game has to offer. An incessant journey from planet to planet, zapping carbon and iron out of plants and stones so you can journey to more planets in order to zap more plants and stones.

    This constant feeling of chasing one’s own tail for the sheer sake of it is found in many survival games, and it’s just as prevalent here. Everything is a chore, everything needs some special sort of fuel source, and there’s not enough room to carry it all. You start out slow, unable to sprint for long, with a terrible jetpack for a modicum of enhanced travel.

    One’s abilities can have upgrades crafted for them, but upgrades share the same restricted inventory space as everything else, meaning you need to choose between being able to sprint for an acceptable amount of time or being able to carry more things. This becomes less of a problem when you buy bigger starships to carry more loot, but it remains an annoyance and it makes the early game an uphill battle against crushing ennui.

    04

    Breaking up the “enjoyment” of filling your tiny (if slowly expandable) inventory with materials are frequent attacks from Sentinels – robotic annoyances that seem to be everywhere and further drive home the uniformity of this allegedly varied universe.    … Expand
  36. lievcr
    Aug 30, 2016
    4
    This game as a software is revolutionary but as a game is too simple and boring, If you like computer software is a good software for a algorithms study. Some problems and bugs is like a student Project.

    Sorry Hello Games
  37. shogun221
    Aug 17, 2016
    4
    Now that I'm 30 hours in, and trapped in the exact same grim resource-grind that I began on my starting planet, I'm ready to call it a day with NMS. The gameplay doesn't evolve or advance and what's there isn't enough to carry the game through completion.

    NMS does has its moments; the seamless transitions when travelling between planets, occasional beautiful vista and    Now that I'm 30 hours in, and trapped in the exact same grim resource-grind that I began on my starting planet, I'm ready to call it a day with NMS. The gameplay doesn't evolve or advance and what's there isn't enough to carry the game through completion.

    NMS does has its moments; the seamless transitions when travelling between planets, occasional beautiful vista and procedurally-generated creatures can lead to some rather profound experiences early-on. For me, the magic wore off pretty quickly; I began to dread landing on planets just to chase after resource icons and hoover-up rocks. Perhaps if Hello Games adds some of the features they talked about during development that didn't make the final cut, this game will have the content needed to stand on its own. As it stands, NMS' universe is a dreadfully boring place.    … Expand
  38. iRam360
    Aug 11, 2016
    4
    The most dissapointing videogame I've ever played... Seriously... It is only selling a lot because of all the 'free' advertising that is receiving from so many online magazines.

    The game turns out boring and repetitive after 4 hours.

    Great potential, worse execution.
  39. TheDarkAssassin
    Aug 19, 2016
    4
    Just another overhyped game as usual. It's unfortunate, because I really wanted to like this game, but I just got so bored after a few hours. The game had a great concept, but unfortunately falls short in execution. Yeah, it's fun for the first few hours, but soon after, the repetitiveness got so bad, I couldn't play anymore. When 95 percent of the gameplay is resource collecting...well,Just another overhyped game as usual. It's unfortunate, because I really wanted to like this game, but I just got so bored after a few hours. The game had a great concept, but unfortunately falls short in execution. Yeah, it's fun for the first few hours, but soon after, the repetitiveness got so bad, I couldn't play anymore. When 95 percent of the gameplay is resource collecting...well, the game is just flat out boring. The whole procedurally generated environments and such is both good and bad. I mean, if you're lucky, you could end up on some really cool planets and see some cool animals and stuff, but then maybe you'll just get a bunch of boring planets like I did, with nothing cool half the time, which made the game for me stale and empty. The fact that this game had no story, just a general objective of trying to reach the center of the universe, which could take who knows how long, was a turn-off for me as well. Maybe if the journey getting there was a little more exciting, then I would see this game differently. I'm not trying to be so pessimistic, but I think we were all promised something that we never actually got. In my opinion, this game is not worth your $60.… Expand
  40. Ragamuffins
    Aug 25, 2016
    4
    Updated review: this game is endless in the way a hamster wheel is endless.

    You can repeat the same mindless loop of activity without end, but you won't see anything new. Planets are all very similar with infinitely repeating geological patterns. Fly over a planet and watch repetition of the same hill/cave/crater, next to the same clearing/pond/crevice, and then the same building    Updated review: this game is endless in the way a hamster wheel is endless.

    You can repeat the same mindless loop of activity without end, but you won't see anything new. Planets are all very similar with infinitely repeating geological patterns.

    Fly over a planet and watch repetition of the same hill/cave/crater, next to the same clearing/pond/crevice, and then the same building you've seen on the past 10 planets.

    Off-planet, space is exactly the same in every system.

    The animals rarely change significantly from one planet to the next. I've seen the same birds and same jellyfish looking thing on almost every planet.

    The buildings are all copy-paste from one plane to the next.

    And that's the entire game.

    Exploration implies, in my mind, the hope of finding something notable that nobody else has seen. That's why running in a hamster wheel isn't exploring, and flying from one plane to the next in this game doesn't feel like exploring.

    If you don't want to run in the hamster wheel, there's nothing else to do.

    I never would have bought this game if there was truthful advertising.    … Expand
  41. yourherojames
    Aug 10, 2016
    4
    I've tried finding good in this game and the only way I can is the concept; the emphasis was on exploration, but predominantly it seems survival is the main focus. So many things you must keep active and recharge just to survive. And because of this, it takes away from the fun factor of exploration.

    The best way I could describe the feeling is that it feels like a 'play to play' game    I've tried finding good in this game and the only way I can is the concept; the emphasis was on exploration, but predominantly it seems survival is the main focus. So many things you must keep active and recharge just to survive. And because of this, it takes away from the fun factor of exploration.

    The best way I could describe the feeling is that it feels like a 'play to play' game ... you are forced to play this game and mine materials and do exactly how the game wants you to or else you're out of luck and can't advance at all even if you just wish to roam the planet looking for stuff.

    This game isn't for the majority of people. The fact that Sean Murray said it has 'hundreds of hours' of gameplay and I barely made it to 2, makes me question just what they were doing when they made this. If you enjoy this game, good for you, but the repetition for many will set in early, and if you're like me, you'll see the non-vibrant planets and the non-intelligent creatures that just feels tacked on and for all intents and purposes, falls flat.    … Expand
  42. NuttyBoltHead
    Aug 9, 2016
    4
    For the first hour or so, the game is amazing, and it is fun, But listen to me :
    After around 5 hours, this game become... Mundane.
    With the extreme vastness, it is great, don't get me wrong, But the game give this vibe "We don't want to work on the fun thing that can be done, lets just make it in space, so that we can fill the space with nothing but, Space!" It becomes amazingly    For the first hour or so, the game is amazing, and it is fun, But listen to me :
    After around 5 hours, this game become... Mundane.
    With the extreme vastness, it is great, don't get me wrong, But the game give this vibe "We don't want to work on the fun thing that can be done, lets just make it in space, so that we can fill the space with nothing but, Space!"

    It becomes amazingly mundane sadly    … Expand
  43. GamecubeLover
    Aug 15, 2016
    4
    This game is meh I mean the graphics are beautiful and it does have appeal but it doesn't appeal to me and the game left me unsatisfied cause of how boring and cliche it is.
  44. BronzeBeard
    Aug 23, 2016
    4
    One Man's Lie - No Man's Buy.

    This is supposed to be the game they showed us at E3??? I won't even mention all the stuff which is missing from what they had promised....All planets feels the same after you visit a few and there is nothing to do! Biggest slap right in the face is that mystery in the center of the galaxy....I really wanted to like it - but no, NO way. All in all it's    One Man's Lie - No Man's Buy.

    This is supposed to be the game they showed us at E3??? I won't even mention all the stuff which is missing from what they had promised....All planets feels the same after you visit a few and there is nothing to do! Biggest slap right in the face is that mystery in the center of the galaxy....I really wanted to like it - but no, NO way.

    All in all it's not entertaining - just boring    … Expand
  45. Death-Reaper
    Aug 14, 2016
    4
    OK when you first get into No Man's Sky it can be breath taking but after hours of gameplay It got repetitive. Planets and life on the planets are just slight variations of the planet you were on. On 5 different planets, 2 were from one system and 3 from another I encountered life that had the same spider legs or they looked almost identical except for color.

    They should have done 100    OK when you first get into No Man's Sky it can be breath taking but after hours of gameplay It got repetitive. Planets and life on the planets are just slight variations of the planet you were on. On 5 different planets, 2 were from one system and 3 from another I encountered life that had the same spider legs or they looked almost identical except for color.

    They should have done 100 different legs, body, eyes, face, etc that way when the new planet with life you land on would have a greater chance on not looking the same. The same could be said about the planet generator as well.

    The big set back is there is no REAL multiplayer and Sean Murray is very contradicting with multiplayer. He said you would be able to meet other players but there's a extremely small chance but then says its not a multiplayer game. The game info on the game case, on steam, and on PSN all say 1 player. To top it off 2 players got to the exact same spot on a world yet they could not see each other like Sean Murray said they could.

    Verdict: 4/10 - Its a great game if you just want to relax and explore space in your spare time but there's lack of content and poor random generator. No multiplayer which could've added more hours of fun being able to explore with friends or a random person you come across.    … Expand
  46. FatherTime67
    Aug 10, 2016
    4
    After playing for 6 hours i am bored. Game play is repetitive. Controls that help you navigate are not mentioned except online.no apparent auto navigation on planet even if you've ben there before have to take 10 minutes to fly there

    Planets are very similar. A big yawn
  47. ALtheKiller86
    Aug 18, 2016
    4
    No Man's Sky is the epitome of a one sided idea. It feels like the developer came up with a cool & unique engine, but had NO idea what to do with it. So they released what is inherently a tech demo of said engine, called in No Man's Sky, and are charging people $60 for it. The result is the most pretentious and dull gaming experiences you're likely to have, well, ever! Let me be veryNo Man's Sky is the epitome of a one sided idea. It feels like the developer came up with a cool & unique engine, but had NO idea what to do with it. So they released what is inherently a tech demo of said engine, called in No Man's Sky, and are charging people $60 for it. The result is the most pretentious and dull gaming experiences you're likely to have, well, ever! Let me be very specific and distinct here: THERE IS NO GAME. It's the world's most elaborate screensaver. If you're interest in the game is unwavering, at least do your wallet a solid and wait until the game can be picked up for $20 used at your local Gamestop. I couldn't possibly recommend this title to any serious gamer, unless you're suffering from insomnia. In that case, have at it! Otherwise...just go back to The Witcher 3. There is nothing here to see.… Expand
  48. Sillybear
    Mar 17, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. While I appreciate that they have vastly improved the game over the last 3 years, it is only now approaching what was promised at launch. The game's base concepts are just not good enough to hold my attention or make me feel like I would rather be playing this than something else, which is a shame. The worst part of all of this is that they feel that they are still sensible in charging $59.99 for this, which is absolutely obscene.

    My advice is that if you want some good fun with randomly generated stuff (including space) then go pick up Spore for a third of the price (or cheaper if you can find it on sale). Also, I have about 35-40 hours but I originally bought the game when it launched from the GOG store.    … Expand
  49. salmansohail_
    Jan 15, 2017
    4
    No Mans Sky is an embarrassment to video games and just media in general. It hurts me to write this review. This game would have much better if we weren't lied to us and if we were given the same information and game play as the game really looked like it would have gotten much more praise.

    The universe is huge but what makes it good? Thats it, its just "Big". Travelling through out the    No Mans Sky is an embarrassment to video games and just media in general. It hurts me to write this review. This game would have much better if we weren't lied to us and if we were given the same information and game play as the game really looked like it would have gotten much more praise.

    The universe is huge but what makes it good? Thats it, its just "Big". Travelling through out the entire universe is boring and just going from one planet to another is just a chore and just feels like it takes too long. There is no story and no real goal for this game, so overall you just feel useless and underpowered. You start off trying to fix your ship but it gets overly boring from there. There is no multiplayer (Which was a huge selling point for the game). There was no caves to explore, no customizable FOV and best of all. The graphics looked like it was straight barf! In the gameplay trailers we were shown huge beautiful worlds. But in No Mans Sky we are just given an optimization pile of trash. There was no interest in the game and it wasn't difficult or have any difficulty in it at all. Atleast the game is playable ill give it that. And it did feature the main theme. But what good is the main theme if you cant do anything interesting. Overall I give No Mans Sky a 4/10. Do not buy this game. Maybe if it was free, maybe...

    Cons:
    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

    Pros:
    Atleast they tried (or did they..)    … Expand
  50. James_Blanco21
    Aug 9, 2016
    4
    Honestly at first I was hooked, but then realized 4 hours later I was doing the same thing on another planet. Most animals don't do anything except for help drop the warm generic items that all help do the same thing. The only I can say for this game is that is was disappointing, it's like so much content but a lot of that content has very little depth. Also of course the framerate is badHonestly at first I was hooked, but then realized 4 hours later I was doing the same thing on another planet. Most animals don't do anything except for help drop the warm generic items that all help do the same thing. The only I can say for this game is that is was disappointing, it's like so much content but a lot of that content has very little depth. Also of course the framerate is bad in most fight scenes and the textures are pretty bad for a Ps4 game. Also the ship combat is a little dissatisfying and it seems like the game really doesn't want you to crash, even if you want to.

    It is almost like an ocean wide game that is only a pond deep.    … Expand
  51. Bunkum
    Sep 23, 2016
    4
    It's one hell of a hot mess. I have a little sympathy for Hello Games, but they really didn't do themselves any favours with their vague pre-release claims and their almost complete silence since release.

    It wouldn't be so bad if it was £20.
  52. M0rbidR00ster
    Aug 18, 2016
    4
    Well, I'm back. after initially giving this game an 8 after 2 hours, I'm back after I have put in 32 hours. I am now done with this game. I will be taking it back to GameStop so I can get some money back as it became overwhelmingly redundant after hour 10-15. The planets might have different fauna and textures but the actual terrain is exactly the same from planet to planet. There are onlyWell, I'm back. after initially giving this game an 8 after 2 hours, I'm back after I have put in 32 hours. I am now done with this game. I will be taking it back to GameStop so I can get some money back as it became overwhelmingly redundant after hour 10-15. The planets might have different fauna and textures but the actual terrain is exactly the same from planet to planet. There are only few different materials really to collect, as plutonium gives you everything to survive, move, and mine. Titanium, Iron and Zinc help with creating tech. And other than that you have a revolving door of "precious metals" to collect for no other reason than to make money, and are found and mined the same way. I'm frustrated as Sean Murray alluded that you can create things like minecraft, but in reality you have to find blue-prints and cannot use imagination to create things. Then again, there aren't enough different elements to make that challenge worth while. The caves are all built the same way. There are no rivers or anything that would break up a very patch-work environment. Everything in Space (planets, space stations, ships) is static except the pirates that seem to come after you much like spam ads hit you on the internet. The ships aren't even attackable or trade-able, they are their for background. For story, its very shallow text based experience. Understanding races languages does very little to change anything other than improving very boring dialog during trading stations that gives marginal benefits. I don't want to tell you too much about the end-game, but the game has a redundancy that extends beyond jumping system to system, but galaxy to galaxy that will make you want to pull your hair out. There is no sense that others are in the same galaxy. You are completely alone, as Sean Murray explained THE DAY BEFORE RELEASE. I personally do not believe we share the same universe, but share a multi-dimension universe where we are just uploading names of places. The game was an absolute joy for the first 10 hours..... but then, I started wondering what the damn point was. I did buy the game for a lot of reasons that Sean was talking about during the IGN first and videos prior. I did not realize that a lot of the ideas he was floating earlier would not make it into the final product as they just plainly ran out of time. Its a shame, because the game has an idea, and for a team of 14 people, pretty amazing..... but if it is not what was explained to people, it should not be a $60 AAA game. Some blame the gamer for the misunderstanding of the game. I don't, I blame the marketing of Sony and the numerous streams of Sean Murray for not being honest about the final build of the game. Anyway, I will return this game to Gamestop, pick up Uncharted 4 which I haven't played yet, and wait for the Nukaworld DLC for fallout 4 to drop..... Because this game was overwhelmingly disappointing.… Expand
  53. bobbob123
    Aug 9, 2016
    4
    This game is fun, it really is. The notable thing about this game is that it crashes which of course gets annoying. This game is random which can be a good thing. For some people the game can be very easy but for others the game can be one of the hardest things they have played in a while. After playing the game for around 5 hours it has already gotten repetitive, but like I said the gameThis game is fun, it really is. The notable thing about this game is that it crashes which of course gets annoying. This game is random which can be a good thing. For some people the game can be very easy but for others the game can be one of the hardest things they have played in a while. After playing the game for around 5 hours it has already gotten repetitive, but like I said the game is random. I think when you buy this game you are taking a gamble. I don't think it is worth the current price tag. This is just another game that was very over hyped. This game looks very pretty and is huge but the hugeness of this game can come at a cost of doing the same stuff over and over again.… Expand
  54. ps4_gamereview
    Aug 9, 2016
    4
    I'll admit, I fell for the hype of No Man's Sky. How could a game with literally infinite possibilities go wrong? I wouldn't exactly say this game went wrong, it just failed to deliver. Discovering planets is fun for maybe the first three hours, after that nothing that you can find is really unique enough to be enjoyable. No Man's Sky is poetically ironic in this case, as the largestI'll admit, I fell for the hype of No Man's Sky. How could a game with literally infinite possibilities go wrong? I wouldn't exactly say this game went wrong, it just failed to deliver. Discovering planets is fun for maybe the first three hours, after that nothing that you can find is really unique enough to be enjoyable. No Man's Sky is poetically ironic in this case, as the largest gaming world of all time feels almost empty and repetitive. The dev team made way, way too many promises and failed to deliver.

    Just a note: Yes, people are brigading this page with bad reviews, but if you are giving this game a 10 just because of that, you are just as bad as the bridagers. Think about what you're doing and rate the game honestly.    … Expand
  55. elbergudo
    Aug 9, 2016
    4
    Wow this is not even worth 20$,is basically farming materials forever and visiting dead ass planets with barely anything interesting to do. Most of the monster you find are just ugly and super random with deform bodies and there is no reason to revisit planets or to think in names for them since they are infinite and a random mess. If you are willing to waste money in this wait for it toWow this is not even worth 20$,is basically farming materials forever and visiting dead ass planets with barely anything interesting to do. Most of the monster you find are just ugly and super random with deform bodies and there is no reason to revisit planets or to think in names for them since they are infinite and a random mess. If you are willing to waste money in this wait for it to drop to 10$ or below on a steam/pstore sale, otherwise you will end up feeling like you got scammed for the absurd price they are asking for this space farmville simulator.… Expand
  56. mortalitas
    Aug 9, 2016
    4
    I honestly expected more from this game. I got bored after 5 hours into it. It gets very repetitive, mine resources -> craft/upgrade something -> go to another planet -> mine resources to craft something again. Sure NMS is huge, but planets are boring, there is nothing to do except scanning creatures and mining or mindlessly wonder around. Game is absolutely stunning at first, but you soonI honestly expected more from this game. I got bored after 5 hours into it. It gets very repetitive, mine resources -> craft/upgrade something -> go to another planet -> mine resources to craft something again. Sure NMS is huge, but planets are boring, there is nothing to do except scanning creatures and mining or mindlessly wonder around. Game is absolutely stunning at first, but you soon realize there is not much to it. I honestly regret spending money on it.… Expand
  57. Kibbi88
    Aug 9, 2016
    4
    This is one of the worst next gen games I've ever played on PS4. I feel like the developers chose quantity over quality. The idea of visiting an infinite number of randomly generated planets is cool, but realize that they aren't goanna spend the time making each of them interesting. After visiting a few planets, I realized that the planets were very similar in landscape, plants, elements,This is one of the worst next gen games I've ever played on PS4. I feel like the developers chose quantity over quality. The idea of visiting an infinite number of randomly generated planets is cool, but realize that they aren't goanna spend the time making each of them interesting. After visiting a few planets, I realized that the planets were very similar in landscape, plants, elements, and animals. The humanoid life forms I ran into do nothing but sell or trade. The game doesn't have a story line or multi-player. The idea of this game is for you to visit and explore these randomly generated planets. It won't take long for you to realize how repetitive this game is and how plain the design of the landscape is. I recommend to stay away from this game and save your money.… Expand
  58. Greebo12
    Aug 10, 2016
    4
    The game looks very nice, and also makes quite fun, but 60Euro / Doller are too much!
    As the game like other Survival games and makes nothing new but the other games only cost 20-30 euros / Doller.
    The NPCs are lifeless and have little animations the world is very empty and the space is still empty!
    I say for because price is a 4/10 and is not worth 60 Euro / Doller.
  59. akshaysk
    Aug 10, 2016
    4
    No Man's Sky is an average game, at best. But it will win a fair few of the end of year GOTY awards, the technical ones especially. How do I know this? Because the hype train for this game was speeding along so fast, so unerringly, it was hurtling towards only Editor's Picks and great reviews.
    The gimmick of the procedurally generated planets wears thin soon, and shockingly the game does    No Man's Sky is an average game, at best. But it will win a fair few of the end of year GOTY awards, the technical ones especially. How do I know this? Because the hype train for this game was speeding along so fast, so unerringly, it was hurtling towards only Editor's Picks and great reviews.
    The gimmick of the procedurally generated planets wears thin soon, and shockingly the game does not have anything to base itself upon that beyond that.
    It's as if a comedian told his best joke at the beginning of open mic night and then proceeded to regale the eager crowd with a story of his favorite shoe color.
    The survival and FPS gameplay is arduous at best and frustrating at worst. The Sentinel robots begin to try one's nerves after the sixth millionth time you've encountered them in the same galaxy.

    Inventory management is an absolute shambles as well. Micromanaging the small inventory space really starts to grind soon. I know there will be many free updates (and no paid DLC) to this game, but even if they gave me infinite space I still wouldn't like an inventory where resources and upgrades go together.

    The only thing that can be said in the game's favor is that the procedurally generated planets are a technical marvel, and should be appreciated for the sheer audacity of the idea.

    But I think they chose the wrong gimmick to hype up, and they should have spent more time on polishing the other elements. Fair play to Hello, but I think I have 18 quadrillion other games to play instead.    … Expand
  60. Spiritfox11
    Sep 2, 2016
    4
    There is a perfect foundation for an incredible game in No Man's Sky; however, with Hello Games being the shady group paving the way for the game's future- that future seems bleak. I'm in an awkward spot: should I return the game because of Hello Games' lies? Or should I hold on to it so that the developer will pull themselves together, right their wrongs and maybe the game will have aThere is a perfect foundation for an incredible game in No Man's Sky; however, with Hello Games being the shady group paving the way for the game's future- that future seems bleak. I'm in an awkward spot: should I return the game because of Hello Games' lies? Or should I hold on to it so that the developer will pull themselves together, right their wrongs and maybe the game will have a chance to one day be the game everyone wanted it to be? History tends to repeat itself, and so I have little faith Hello Games will pull through. Because of their trickery, they blew the one chance they had; and so I think it's time to say goodbye to Hello Games. Sean Murray, I hope the money was worth it-I'd hate to be you right now.… Expand
  61. HappySpaceInvdr
    May 2, 2017
    4
    This one really is going to divide opinion. If you're one of the people over the last 12 months asking "but what do you actually **do** in No Man's Sky?", then this game is not for you. In fact, a lot of the stuff you're suggested to do in the game was really only added at a late stage, when the developers decided to try and market the game for a large audience.

    In terms of gameplay,    This one really is going to divide opinion. If you're one of the people over the last 12 months asking "but what do you actually **do** in No Man's Sky?", then this game is not for you. In fact, a lot of the stuff you're suggested to do in the game was really only added at a late stage, when the developers decided to try and market the game for a large audience.

    In terms of gameplay, think Minecraft, but without actually building (just the mining and crafting part). The discovery and scanning parts (and the general aesthetic) feel to me rather like Metroid Prime. And the broad concept (i.e. exploring a massive and realistically scaled universe) is pure Elite. You will get out of this game precisely what you put into it... there's nothing helping you along. There are a couple of ways in which you could theoretically "finish" the game... to be honest, I'm not in the least bit interested in that. In fact, I will actively seek to avoid it. I'm quite happy pursuing my own quest to translate the local alien dialect of the area in which my game started out, and getting the necessary keys to unlock some of the locked areas.

    It really helps if you understand (and I mean **really** understand) just what the developers have achieved too... this will help you overlook the fact that the graphics are quite basic, and draw distances (when flying close to planets at speed) are frequently compromised by a weird dithering effect.

    Also, you have to be forgiving where the developers have compromised real physics in favour of playability. Docking/landing your ship is basically done for you; gravity is depicted as per Hollywood movies (i.e. not related to the mass of objects), some of the "things" from which you get "elements" are quite illogical and space itself is bizarrely blue & pink... never black. This is very much SciFi with the emphasis on "Fiction".

    So... not realistic enough for anyone expecting Elite; way too open-ended for the majority of video game players. Who is this going to appeal to exactly? The answer is right here in the Metcritic reviews.    … Expand
  62. kiptenbingo
    Aug 11, 2016
    4
    Have been waiting for ever for this game and am a total fan of the genre going back to Elite on my Commodore 64 lol. I have to admit I was really enjoying the first hour or two, it still felt like it was going to deliver. Every time I went to a new area I thought, this is going to be it, this is when it starts....but it just never did. I think the developers have built a fantastic universeHave been waiting for ever for this game and am a total fan of the genre going back to Elite on my Commodore 64 lol. I have to admit I was really enjoying the first hour or two, it still felt like it was going to deliver. Every time I went to a new area I thought, this is going to be it, this is when it starts....but it just never did. I think the developers have built a fantastic universe but ran out of time to actually put a game into it. Hopefully a few patches over the next few months takes care of that and I will come back again with a higher score.… Expand
  63. Teomanson
    Aug 12, 2016
    4
    The idea was actually really good, but it wasn't simple making work. The execution is basically poor, it's not that interesting travel through all this procedural planets, without a purpose and find that many of these planets are actually empty, very boring to explore, in the most of them there's literally nothing to see and to do. I would have preferred a non procedural game, with farThe idea was actually really good, but it wasn't simple making work. The execution is basically poor, it's not that interesting travel through all this procedural planets, without a purpose and find that many of these planets are actually empty, very boring to explore, in the most of them there's literally nothing to see and to do. I would have preferred a non procedural game, with far less planets to explore but with much more variety between them and the game would have also benefit in fun which is actually simply not funny at all. I would have given 5 to this game, but I prefer to low the score at 4 since i think the price is too high for what is a clearly indie game that could be sold for much less.… Expand
  64. mwalmsleyuk
    Aug 26, 2016
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is my second review and after playing it for sometime and watching videos of all the promises of what was supposed to be in the game I am doing a new one. I realised when watching said video why I was so hyped for the game as all the things Shawn said would be included, the list is far too big to mention here but watch one of the many 'NO MANS LIES' videos on Youtube or Angry Joes review. Not to mention that but also the ending which was a total pisstake. Luckily Amazon have been good enough to refund me my money and let me send the game back (got to love Amazon!) so I have no ordered Deus Ex! I heard that Hello Games were being sued for the use of the generation system the game uses, maybe this was why so many features were left out? Maybe Sony pushed to release it quickly? Maybe they run out of money to add all the features? I dont know but what I do know is by watching Angry Joes review it reminded me of all that was promised and that is not the game I received. If anyone saw any of the gameplay demos with lush planets and amazing creatures flying in the air or huge Dinosaurs and so on, none of this is anything like what I saw when I visited these barren, dry and bleak planets. All the animals looked fairly alike and it was just boring. Unfortunately this game is not worth £60 and even at a price of £20 you are going to get bored very quickly only to find out that if you do make it to the center of the galaxy you will find there is no pay off, like none at all, like there isnt anything there so all the grinding is for nothing. I am so happy I found that out before going there myself as I had make sure I stayed clear from spoilers but Angry Joes reviews made me need to find out what was at the center. I stuck up for this game as they were a small indie outfit who was getting lots of bad press and reviews but they deserve it because they lied to us about everything. The game is a shell of what was promised and if I hadnt been able to get my refund I would be very upset. That being said the first time you fly out from the planet you start from it is something special, after that however the monotony sets in. Such a shame as this could of gone down as one of the best games ever!… Expand
  65. Ayane
    Aug 12, 2016
    4
    Let's see, you start off on a planet looking for parts for your ship, which got repetitive after the first few seconds. You run out of breath too fast which got annoying, also there's too much of the same element like iron ect..
  66. Litvin
    Aug 13, 2016
    4
    Crafting simulator. No plot. Sorry for the money spent. After a day of games get bored of the monotony. Price for such a game should byat twice below.
  67. TheIslancer
    Aug 14, 2016
    4
    If you are looking for well a huge sandbox this is the game for you! It is painfully repeatable. Also the i5-4460 and Msi Gtx 1060 gaming x (O.C.ed +140/ +700) maxing well almost every single game on 1080p atm had fps drops, spikes. Graphics looks quite good but it doesn't make up for empty planets (come on 10 npc met in 2 hours of exploring?). Only thing that does go for me is that IIf you are looking for well a huge sandbox this is the game for you! It is painfully repeatable. Also the i5-4460 and Msi Gtx 1060 gaming x (O.C.ed +140/ +700) maxing well almost every single game on 1080p atm had fps drops, spikes. Graphics looks quite good but it doesn't make up for empty planets (come on 10 npc met in 2 hours of exploring?). Only thing that does go for me is that I wanted to see what is going to be further in the galaxy but even before reaching Atlas (?) I gave up exploring. 4/10… Expand
  68. FreeLookMode
    Aug 15, 2016
    4
    Defenders of the came keep saying that critics don't like it because they misunderstand the game. I didn't misunderstand the game. I knew that it was survival based. I knew that it was a slow paced game where exploration, gathering, and trading would be key. I get all that. The reason why No Man Sky is a dud for me is because Hello Games promised a gigantic universe to explore butDefenders of the came keep saying that critics don't like it because they misunderstand the game. I didn't misunderstand the game. I knew that it was survival based. I knew that it was a slow paced game where exploration, gathering, and trading would be key. I get all that. The reason why No Man Sky is a dud for me is because Hello Games promised a gigantic universe to explore but only has about 1000 or so core assets - meaning this "huge" universe start to look the same within the first few hours.

    My excitement dropped immensely when I landed on just my second planet and found the SAME flora asset that just had the name changed. The the SAME rock/Iron asset, again with just the name changed. Then the SAME minerals and crystals. The creatures looked almost identical, with variation so small I couldn't actually notice the difference (though to be fair, I saw more variation in creatures eventually.)

    The first 10 planets I explored I saw repeats of the same assets over and over again, so I'm using my scanner to make this "new" discovery, and its just the same exact plant I've already seen 20 times, just with a different name.

    THAT, friends, sucks. That is cause for legitimate disappointment. It doesn't matter how enormous the game world is if only 10% or so of it feels truly unique. After a while I starts to feel like basically "ah this is the green planet, that's the red planet, here's the blue planet -- where everything on it looks more or less the same.

    Guess what's worse? The structures for every alien race, every outpost, every shelter that I visited in my 30 hours of gameplay use the SAME damn models. Talk about immediately killing any sense of vastness or difference or exploration.

    The Sentinels on planets is also a let down. Every planet I've visited has them. Sometimes they are more aggressive, sometimes they aren't - but I never got to a planet where I truly felt like I was the FIRST to explore. Someone's always been there before me. It is also annoying has hell to have sentinels constantly interfering with your efforts to do the most basic things like harvest a mineral. And talk about repetitive. Sentinels follow the exact same script, in the exact same way, on every single planet I've been to so far.

    I don't feel like I was confused about what kind of game this is. I feel like the execution on what the game aspired to be is unfortunately quite poor.    … Expand
  69. Scryre
    Aug 15, 2016
    4
    I was so excited about this game and I was watching the progress about 2 years. I expected huge open world with various activities and live universe. After few hours of play I realised that the scale of the game is just about visage. You will see many places like no other, but in the end.... they are all the same.. There are no new cultures, no different planets - with society or else.I was so excited about this game and I was watching the progress about 2 years. I expected huge open world with various activities and live universe. After few hours of play I realised that the scale of the game is just about visage. You will see many places like no other, but in the end.... they are all the same.. There are no new cultures, no different planets - with society or else. Alien activities are all the same around the universe and everything is just the same as at the start of the game. Such a disappointment :-(… Expand
  70. NoManHype
    Aug 16, 2016
    4
    I played the game for about 15 hours and read many reviews here and i think the people who gave it a mediocre score are the ones with a more realistic view on the true nature of this game. The concept of this game is very interesting and that's the reason i pushed my playtime a little more, despite i was already bored with it.There's absolutely nothing to do in the world(s) of No Man'sI played the game for about 15 hours and read many reviews here and i think the people who gave it a mediocre score are the ones with a more realistic view on the true nature of this game. The concept of this game is very interesting and that's the reason i pushed my playtime a little more, despite i was already bored with it.There's absolutely nothing to do in the world(s) of No Man's Sky. Only thing you do is grind, grind, grind to get better stuff. I like to grind in games but i don't want to play a game that has nothing to offer besides grinding. It has to be a less prominent role in a game. This game is behind the interesting idea (on paper) so shallow and thin that it is almost unbelievable this game had a green light for a release. It's not a finished product. Maybe this game was better suited for something like a demo, a promotion thing of a game producer. To show what can be done with nowadays technology, because this game is missing it's core: Gameplay.
    It's an unripe apple, plucked from the tree too soon.    … Expand
  71. Traxpoge02
    Aug 17, 2016
    4
    As I sit here writing this my game has now crashed for probably about the 15th time and I put down the controller. When I went to work the first day after playing No Man's Sky I gave it a resounding 8/10. I'll admit I was one of those who bought into the hype but I severely scaled back my expectations right before the game came out after the reports from Dameon who bought the game earlyAs I sit here writing this my game has now crashed for probably about the 15th time and I put down the controller. When I went to work the first day after playing No Man's Sky I gave it a resounding 8/10. I'll admit I was one of those who bought into the hype but I severely scaled back my expectations right before the game came out after the reports from Dameon who bought the game early for 1300 bucks. Despite a hefty day one update he was still mostly dead on accurate. But after experiencing semi frequent crashes (Btw of the 3 friends I have who play this all of their games have crashed numerous times. One of them can't even get in the game the last two times so he stopped trying until a patch is finished.), lazy building/resourse modeling, unengaging gameplay that requires you to be sitting pointed at rocks and other resources (which all look exactly the same) for hours on end, and endless weak instances of getting attacked by the same two enemy types (Pirates and sentinals) for the entire game. I have now landed at a 4. For a game that seemed to have endless imagination, Hello Games managed to put almost no imagination into a story or purpose behind all of this monotonous crap. I've logged probably about 40 hours into this game btw. I held on hoping that as the story unfolded and my gear was upgraded I'd be treated to a more pleasurable gaming experience, but the enjoyment never game. I found myself sick of landing on the same types of planets over and over again, disappointed with the thrown together piles of body parts they called creatures, and annoyed with the constant need to find resources to continue on my journey. I set my sights on one thing in the end, reaching the center of the galaxy. Boom I started blasting off flying from planet cluster to planet cluster hoping for an epic finish to what has been a lackluster journey. After 40 hours of total gameplay I seem to be no where near a finish to this game which sucks cause its hard to want to finish. Why 15 Quintilian?? If your going to just lie or being incredibly vague about the multiplayer aspect of the game, at least give people the satisfaction of saying, "Oh hey someone named this planet already. Wow that's hilarious. Great Job Hello Games!!" But pretty much no ones said that. Cause when this shotty games connection to the network is actually active you don't see dick from other people. Not a planet, definitely not a creature, and not even a system. This game is so big to the point where it removes the "moments" Sean Murray blabbed about for months leading up to the game. After 40 hours I'd expect to see at least a planet named by someone....but every planet I've found so far I've discovered. Seems to kinda defeat the purpose don't you think? But I could forgive all the multiplayer bs, the lazy modeling, and the complete lack of a compelling story if the game was just fun, but to say it is would be an outright lie. Sloppy controls to the combat make it hard to enjoy which leaves mining resources and looking at procedurally generated planets as the only real enjoyment factor to this game. The only reason its not lower than a 4 is occasionally I would land on a planet and look out over a field of blue grass and be like "Yup this is the only thing that makes this journey worth it". But without more even that seems to fall flat on its face. So I leave you with this question folks. If you were to buy a brand new Tesla automobile with the latest technology in electric vehicles and it ran like absolute crap, would you consider it a good car just because the technology was so advanced? No. You wouldn't. Because people don't buy cars just to look at them. They buy for the ride. No Man's Sky has deprived me of the thrill of the ride while charging me for a cutting edge sports car. I don't think we should praise using new technology badly just because there was new technology at play.… Expand
  72. BriMach
    Aug 18, 2016
    4
    Over-hyped, tedious, boring. The promise of No Man's Sky and the way the trailers captured the imagination don't even come close to the reality of this grind-fest. Infinite possibilities... more like 5. Land, scan, shoot rocks, enter the same looking tiny space trailers (apparently every alien is trailer trash) then take off and do it again. All this while dealing with a lousy inventoryOver-hyped, tedious, boring. The promise of No Man's Sky and the way the trailers captured the imagination don't even come close to the reality of this grind-fest. Infinite possibilities... more like 5. Land, scan, shoot rocks, enter the same looking tiny space trailers (apparently every alien is trailer trash) then take off and do it again. All this while dealing with a lousy inventory system and constantly micro managing your equipment. Plus no map... no map, yup not even a mini map. Your only meaningful goal (other than grinding for better gear) is reach the center of the galaxy which for me turned into a mad rush. I stopped caring about planet hopping because they all started looking the same and I just rushed to be done with it all. Last, and most important point is the blatant lying by Sean Murray about multiplayer. No one can deny the many youtube videos of him lying about multiplayer. This is a $20 game marketed into a $60 game.… Expand
  73. ShaunFinn
    Aug 18, 2016
    4
    I'm sorry, this is just not a good game. It's not worth $60, more like $15-$20. It caused my PS4 to crash numerous times. I returned it for a full refund after 10 hours of gameplay. It's boring, repetitive and biggest disappointment of 2016.
  74. AngerIssuez
    Aug 19, 2016
    4
    No Man's Sky is a game that will go down in history; not because it's good, but because there has never been a game that has been this disappointing. No, really; I can't think of a single game that was missing so many advertised features on launch.

    But, let me start off with the positives. When you start up to game and explore your first planet, it's a magical experience. You find    No Man's Sky is a game that will go down in history; not because it's good, but because there has never been a game that has been this disappointing. No, really; I can't think of a single game that was missing so many advertised features on launch.

    But, let me start off with the positives. When you start up to game and explore your first planet, it's a magical experience. You find all of these minerals and see these goofy animals and plants, and you just have a generally good time. The ambient music is very well made, along with most of the in-game sounds. The system for learning to understand alien languages is really cool too. But as soon as you begin to really get into the game, you'll realize that there is something fundamentally wrong with it.

    Every planet you go to hardly differs from the other ones you visit. Almost every single planet has nearly the exact same resources. The buildings you find are carbon copies of each other, and you'll start recognizing patterns in the animals ridiculously fast. Then, there's the space stations. You'd think they'd be bustling hubs of business with plenty of space-faring life to interact with. There is literally ONE actual alien in them. You can talk to the various space pilots in their ships, but you can't actually see them outside interacting with each other. The big freighter ships that are in the game don't move, and you can't pilot them. The various ship types that Murray emphasized are nearly null and void; you just look for the one with the biggest inventory, no matter what. Another thing Murray talked about was landing on asteroids, which you can NOT do!

    And then there's the factions. They're basically worthless and your ties to them don't do anything to benefit you. You don't get ships to guard you from pirates while navigating the galaxy, or unique parts to attach to your ship; they're just, there. And this wouldn't be such a problem if there was actual multiplayer! And the "Sean Murray said you would probably never find another player!" excuse doesn't defend them NOT INCLUDING IT.

    The life on planets does not get crazier and more mutated as Murray said. There's no brontosaurus creatures or dune worms; and the large animals in the game don't have their animation speed scaled correctly. Almost every animal in the game looks off.

    And yes, I understand the Hello Games is a small team. But the fact of the matter is that they were backed by Sony. **** SONY! They knew that people would expected most of these features in the game, but yet they refused to Let Sony increase their team! And on top of that, Sean Murray back over his statement about the game not having paid DLC! Everything surrounding this game is shady, and I feel like we've been cheated out of what could have been the best game of all time.    … Expand
  75. LucianoGB
    Aug 21, 2016
    4
    Why do we need millions of planets if none feels unique?

    Gameplay consists in repetition and items gathering. You will find yourself doing the same things like searching transmissions and visiting outposts. After 10 planets you will realize that you only do that to upgrade your slots capacity. In terms of pure gameplay Skyrim or The Witcher 3 have more variety tt all these millions    Why do we need millions of planets if none feels unique?

    Gameplay consists in repetition and items gathering. You will find yourself doing the same things like searching transmissions and visiting outposts. After 10 planets you will realize that you only do that to upgrade your slots capacity.

    In terms of pure gameplay Skyrim or The Witcher 3 have more variety tt all these millions of planets combined. The storytelling is almost non-existent. There are only 2 main objectives and there is really no point in following them since there is no story conclusion at all.

    Graphics are mediocre (played on PS4). Lots of bugs and popping up. Planets are only different because of colors and nothing else. This game is a perfect example of why you should not get on board the Hype train. I recommend to skip it, but if you can not resist it, just rent it for a few days.    … Expand
  76. xvvolf
    Aug 23, 2016
    4
    I have put over 60 hours into NMS already and thoroughly enjoy it, BUT...

    The Bad: 1. Crashes. I currently have the most recent patch (1.05) and I'm still getting crashes. Before 1.05 it was enough to frustrate me, now it's once in a blue moon and "tolerable". 2. Bugs. I have discovered all species on 4 planets yet have only been credited with the 'journey achievement' on 2. The    I have put over 60 hours into NMS already and thoroughly enjoy it, BUT...

    The Bad:
    1. Crashes. I currently have the most recent patch (1.05) and I'm still getting crashes. Before 1.05 it was enough to frustrate me, now it's once in a blue moon and "tolerable".

    2. Bugs. I have discovered all species on 4 planets yet have only been credited with the 'journey achievement' on 2. The last planet which I am still on, I spent the past 3 days looking for one more creature, to find it and get a 15/15 found but only a 93% completed rate. After this, I have zero incentive to continue scanning and searching for creatures as I gain nothing from it, except wasted time.

    3. Graphics. IMO the graphics are actually fine, except in the most recent update I find the pop-ins much worse.

    4. Pirates and space combat. I probably should list this at number 1 as I find it the most annoying, I can hardly travel in space without being attacked. Since I can't fly away from them and space combat is horrible, I just let myself get killed and fly back to retrieve my items. Oh and did I mention the space combat is horrible? I have managed to destroy one ship, but it was on its own. Usually you're taking on 3 ships at once.

    5. Things really aren't that different. I have been to countless planets and systems, but after you've seen a dozen planets with different creatures etc. it all ends up looking the same. I have found 'space whales' on 3 planets so far that are all absolutely identical. I can't say I feel the excitement of finding something new when I land on a new planet now.

    6. Maxing things out happens fairly quickly. After about 50 hours my exosuit is maxed out with 48 slots. After you purchase one ship with say 20-25 slots (around 2-4 million units), all you have to do is find crashed ships and gain an extra slot until your happy. I'm at a 30 slot ship despite only buying 1 ship so far worth 1.8million units that had 24 slots. In other words I have 4.8 million units now but see little reason to spend on anything now.
    Also gaining all the basic blueprints can be accomplished in just a matter of hours. Afterwards you just keep finding or receiving ones you already know.

    7. Cost. I judge all games I buy on cost vs enjoyment I get. It's $80CDN which is what AAA games cost here. I rarely purchase games at this price as I'll wait for price drops or sales, but I figured it would be worth the gamble as I was looking for a more relaxing game to play. The last game I spent $80 on was Uncharted 4, which is a well polished and amazing game that I can say gave me $80 worth of enjoyment.
    Spending $80 on a game that crashes constantly, has bugs that doesn't recognize your progress simply isn't worth it. I actually do like NMS, but I would say it's a $40CDN game at most.

    8. Inventory. I nearly hit submit before remembering the inventory. The worst thing is if your ship or exosuit are full, then you can't see materials required to craft or add technology, meaning you must either sell or just destroy items to free up a slot.

    The Good:
    1. Well, my favourite thing to do in games like GTAV or Just Cause3 is wander around and do my own thing. That's pretty much what NMS is. Wander around and do you own thing. I find that relaxing and a nice change of pace from other games I play.

    Despite having more negatives I do actually enjoy NMS and it could still be a good, solid game in the future. However in its current state at its current price, I simply could not recommend this game to anyone.    … Expand
  77. agnesone
    Aug 24, 2016
    4
    Seriously?
    After 30+ hours of play I can say that the only word that burns in my head is: seriously?
    I love the exploration games . I like the chill games . But , seriously ? I never believed the multiplayer, and I don’t care. They have been promised many things that aren’t, but I thought it does’nt matter to land on asteroids or take part in huge battles. Maybe in the next game or    Seriously?
    After 30+ hours of play I can say that the only word that burns in my head is: seriously?
    I love the exploration games . I like the chill games . But , seriously ?
    I never believed the multiplayer, and I don’t care. They have been promised many things that aren’t, but I thought it does’nt matter to land on asteroids or take part in huge battles. Maybe in the next game or patch or dlc.
    But, seriously?
    They said, and I‘ve seen, living planets, with a logic, with a sense.
    Some planets where exploration made you say " wow " everytime . This is what they did see.
    They spoke about exploration. They only talked about exploration.
    But, seriously?
    There is no life. There are always the same (stupid) things in every planet you visit, and even the randomness of the procedural system can make it look different.
    They could make an effort to create the “bricks” more numerous and varied.
    There are 10 kinds of trees , 10 types of stones , 10 types of bushes, 5 tyes of flowers, 20 kinds of elements. How can a procedural system create live planets , each one different from the other?
    Where are the mountains , the plains , seas or rivers ? Where is the randomness of a living planet?
    Only the color and the position of the things are different. But, serously?
    How can a ridiculous animal species produce exactly the same ridiculous sound light years away?
    How can one more identical baby-face dog make me feel to be alive on an alien planet?
    How can give me the pleasure of exploration?
    Another fan-kind stone that give you carbon. Seriously? Is the same stone that I cataloged in the system that I just left ! why should I give it another name ?
    I’m stupid? Yes I’m stupid. But not is my fault.
    Though I might have to wait to buy this "technical on**ism "    … Expand
  78. superwiiman
    Aug 25, 2016
    4
    No Man's Sky - the first couple hours I enjoyed.
    No Man's Lie - before I started to wonder where all the missing features were that Sean Murray said were in the game.
    No Man's Cry - by the time I had reached the next system of planets everything dull planet becomes the same.
    No Man Don't Buy - I wouldn't call it a game, more like a tech demo that crashes a lot.
  79. Shuhan
    Aug 26, 2016
    4
    Huge disappointment. Too many unforgivable weaknesses that spoil some (too few) great features.
    Empty, repetitive, PASSIVE, unoriginal, RANDOM... It doesn't work at all sorry and NMS is nothing more than a tech demo.
  80. BenBennBennn
    Aug 27, 2016
    4
    Quite an average boring game with loads of potential, shame it was hyped so much, wish I'd never wasted my money and time on this as most of the game isn't even what it was intended. The start of the game was great but it gets very repetitive fast, hello games lied about far too much stuff in this game and for that reason I'm not going to play this anymore. Goodbye games!
  81. xMauricepw
    Aug 28, 2016
    4
    Das Spiel bekommt von mir 4 und nicht nur 3 Punkte, weil ich erstaunlicherweise bis zu einem gewissen Punkt sehr viel Spaß damit hatte. Wofür man es auf jeden Fall loben muss ist die Atmosphäre, der Soundtrack und dieses Gefühl, dass irgendwo einen irgendwas zum Staunen bringen könnte, und sei es nur irgendeine gewaltige Tierart oder ein schöner Planet.

    Ansonsten ist das Spiel technisch    Das Spiel bekommt von mir 4 und nicht nur 3 Punkte, weil ich erstaunlicherweise bis zu einem gewissen Punkt sehr viel Spaß damit hatte. Wofür man es auf jeden Fall loben muss ist die Atmosphäre, der Soundtrack und dieses Gefühl, dass irgendwo einen irgendwas zum Staunen bringen könnte, und sei es nur irgendeine gewaltige Tierart oder ein schöner Planet.

    Ansonsten ist das Spiel technisch ein Wrack, die Grafik hat ihren eigenen Stil, aber auch nicht mehr. Das Gameplay ist nur eine "Hülle" - nichts ist wirklich zuende gedacht und wirklich KEIN Gameplay-Element bindet oder motiviert den Spieler! Es ist unfassbar, wie "einfach" das Spiel ist, und wie sinnlos man sich in allem was man tut vor kommt.

    Meine einzige Motivation, dieses Spiel zu spielen, war es einmal alles gesehen zu haben, was das Spiel zu bieten hat (Und das ist nicht viel), ein besseres Schiff zu bekommen, ein cooles Multiwerkzeug, und die Warp-Reaktoren um zu anderen Sonnensystemen reisen zu können, in der Hoffnung, dort mal sehenswerte Planeten zu finden.

    Das Ende (Zentrum der Galaxy) ist ein Witz, und die prozedurale Generierung durchschaut man bereits nach 2 Stunden, und ab dann fängt es an zu nerven!

    Es wurde so viel versprochen, und nur gefühlt 30% davon findet man im fertigen Spiel...

    4/10 Punkten, knapp an der 3/10 vorbei gerauscht. Größte Enttäuschung des Jahres.    … Expand
  82. GG_Bowman
    Sep 11, 2016
    4
    No mans sky is a beautiful game,colourful and intriguing. Opening the game to your first planet set's in a whole host of emotion's. The anticipation of what you might find in the galaxy is overwhelming. Naming that new planet,finding that new ship and even naming strange animals and plants is a wonderful feeling. However the depth of this game becomes apparent after around 30 hours playNo mans sky is a beautiful game,colourful and intriguing. Opening the game to your first planet set's in a whole host of emotion's. The anticipation of what you might find in the galaxy is overwhelming. Naming that new planet,finding that new ship and even naming strange animals and plants is a wonderful feeling. However the depth of this game becomes apparent after around 30 hours play time as most of the animals and plants become very similar to one another. The WOW factor of discovering thing's almost becomes a chor when you realize everything is just a re-skin of the other. N.P.C's have no personality or meaning other than to provide you with a multi-tool or new word in their language. At the moment all in all No mans sky is little more than a farming and inventory management simulator.… Expand
  83. UnbiasedGamer11
    Sep 13, 2016
    4
    This game was extremely hyped up and I had a feeling it would not be able to live up to the hype. There is a lot to explore but sadly there isn't any real story line and there isn't much to do in the game. I didn't have any technical difficulties on the game which is a plus but the gameplay in general wasn't what I was hoping for. A game that had so much potential but ultimately failed.This game was extremely hyped up and I had a feeling it would not be able to live up to the hype. There is a lot to explore but sadly there isn't any real story line and there isn't much to do in the game. I didn't have any technical difficulties on the game which is a plus but the gameplay in general wasn't what I was hoping for. A game that had so much potential but ultimately failed. Not the worst game I've ever played but definitely not the best.… Expand
  84. Jwellman
    Sep 23, 2016
    4
    When I first saw the commercial for the No Man’s Sky game, I was really excited about the possibilities the game was bringing to the table. A universe that could be explored for infinity, an entire lifetime for myself literally! During the buildup and hype surrounding this game I was wondering what the premise of this game actually was. Well, I downloaded No Man’s Sky off of theWhen I first saw the commercial for the No Man’s Sky game, I was really excited about the possibilities the game was bringing to the table. A universe that could be explored for infinity, an entire lifetime for myself literally! During the buildup and hype surrounding this game I was wondering what the premise of this game actually was. Well, I downloaded No Man’s Sky off of the PlayStation store, because it was sold out in all of the gaming stores in Ames, Iowa. The downloading portion only took about thirty minutes, which was probably one of the only things I was pleased with. So sad to say it folks, but this game was a big disappointment in my eyes. When I first started playing the game, there was a few things that caught my eye. Graphics, flying the ship, and exploring was really exciting. After a few hours of not knowing what was going on, and no real mission driven plot, plus the terrible soundtrack, I was fed up! I didn’t mention the very tedious mining and collecting of resources to do anything, and when I say very tedious I mean that with my entire heart. Plus not to mention exploring and time it takes to get places in the game play was ridiculous! Even when you did collect enough resources to get an upgrade, it was a sad disappointment. Even upgrading your own ship, which is a big accomplishment in the game, offered nothing special except more slots for mindless resources. Even the fighting gameplay with your ship is very difficult and almost impossible to hit a target flying through space with you. This game was defiantly not for a person like myself. I would say this is more driven to people that do not mind taking a long time collecting resources, and really figuring out the game for themselves. This game is not going to hold your hand, and push you in to the right direction. You are going to have to spend a lot of time finding your way, which is why I did not enjoy this game past a few hours. Overall I am going to give this game a 4 out of 10, and wouldn’t recommend it to anyone at 60 dollars. Wait for it to go down to 20 dollars.… Expand
  85. CDR_Aleks
    Sep 28, 2016
    4
    No Man's Sky. A game that was truly hyped and well anticipated from the moment it was announced at E3.
    I'll be honest, I didn't hear about the game until just before it came out, but I very quickly fell for what I had heard and could not wait until I got a copy for myself.
    This could very well have become my new favourite game of all time. I spent a majority of the day I got it playing    No Man's Sky. A game that was truly hyped and well anticipated from the moment it was announced at E3.
    I'll be honest, I didn't hear about the game until just before it came out, but I very quickly fell for what I had heard and could not wait until I got a copy for myself.
    This could very well have become my new favourite game of all time.
    I spent a majority of the day I got it playing it, and spent a further few hours the following day on the game as well. However, I have not touched it since then and have no intention to either.
    I'll start with the good:
    -The planets you find in this game have the potential to be gorgeous and full of life. Truly, some breathtaking sites.
    -Learning alien languages word by word is an interesting, yet fun concept. and can offer up better trades for you.
    -The overall look of the 'solar systems' and galaxies is, once again, breathtaking to say the least.
    And now, we journey to the other side of things:
    -Yes, there are some amazing planets, but they are few and far between all the barren ones you will come across, not to mention toxic, hot or freezing ones that take away you life support power.
    -The creatures you encounter are nothing like those in the trailer. They are procedurally generated to provide new combinations, but they often looked mashed together. Kind of like when you play with lego when you're younger and put different pieces together to make something entirely new, only for it to be like something you made earlier.
    -Space combat is, once again, nothing like the trailer. It is oftentimes tedious and difficult early on in the game.
    -No factions like in the trailer. Maybe there is factions in the game, but none that are apparent to the player, and certainly none you can join.
    -All the ships are the same just with more slots for your inventory. There are no advantages to specific ones otherwise.
    -No multiplayer at all. Personally, not a fan of multiplayer games but coming across other players would have been nice and the fact it was advertised and then turned out not to have it was rather...disappointing.
    Overall, I did not enjoy this game and find too many issues to consider giving it higher than a 4.
    Do I think it's a bad game? No.
    Do I think it's overpriced and lacking in multiple areas? Yes.
    Had this game been a £20, early access title on steam, I would probably love it, but a £50 game on the PS4 is far too much for something horrendously lacking in features that may come in future updates.
    Buy this game when it's on sale, but don't fork out anything above £30, as I truly do not believe it to be worth it.    … Expand
  86. Mollozoman
    Sep 5, 2018
    4
    I put about 20 hours into this game and I remember feeling very impressed with the game for the first 5-10 hours. My first planet was this icy planet with low temperatures that killed me very quickly. After realising how to replenish my suit to help me survive on this planet, I was excited to explore the world that I found. I spent ages trying to discover every plant and animal on myI put about 20 hours into this game and I remember feeling very impressed with the game for the first 5-10 hours. My first planet was this icy planet with low temperatures that killed me very quickly. After realising how to replenish my suit to help me survive on this planet, I was excited to explore the world that I found. I spent ages trying to discover every plant and animal on my planet, and was excited to finally leave in search of exciting planets. However, that feeling of excitement quickly wore off for me. After a while you realise the games limitations in what is supposed to be an infinite universe. Planets would start to look the same, space stations lacked any variety, and interaction with npc's became very limited. On a side note, how am I the first person to discover a planet if there are already alien life forms scattered around said planet? Putting aside the lack of gameplay features that people were told would be in the game, No Man's Sky feels extremely bare bones. What is the point of having 18 quintillion planets in a game? Why create a game where 99% of it will never be discovered? The only reason I carried on playing this game was the hope of finding something new an exciting in the universe. Needless to say, I didn't. Maybe this game will improve with regular updates and added gameplay features. But considering how quiet Hello Games and Sean Murray have been since launch, I wouldn't be surprised if this game remains the way it is. Obviously, I don't want that to happen because this game had so much potential, if just failed to deliver and turned into a rather dull experience.… Expand
  87. zGoldenOG
    Sep 8, 2019
    4
    O game trazia propostas ambiciosas demais para uma desenvolvedora indie,infelizmente o trailer enganou milhares de pessoas e o game foi um fiasco. Alguns aspectos ainda permanecem positivos, porém a maioria do que foi prometido no jogo não aconteceu. Jogo repetitivo e monótono,sem história envolvente.

    Edit: atualmente o game está jogável,e tem tudo que prometeram...porém,tarde demais.
  88. briandt75
    Nov 4, 2016
    4
    What a waste of time. No content. No momentum. No progression. No ending. It has about 20 hours worth of compelling gameplay before you start to feel suckered. People will say it's a "chill game" or that "it's all about the journey", but there is no journey. Every planet is nearly identical. Every system is nearly identical. Every upgrade is nearly identical.
  89. bartalex
    Dec 7, 2016
    4
    Juego platinado en 20 horas
    Muy aburrido con planetas muy poco laborados con experiencia grafica muy pobre
    Y no tiene multijugador
    En general es una mala compra.
  90. CanadianYeti
    Jul 17, 2017
    4
    Every planet is, aside from the weather and colour scheme, essentially the same. I hopped around a sector, visiting each planet, and I came off feeling that there wasn’t a single planet that was unique in any way, aside from the initial excitement of “ooh, a snow planet!” They’re all littered with the same types of resources (there’s rocks of every colour imaginable, but they all turn intoEvery planet is, aside from the weather and colour scheme, essentially the same. I hopped around a sector, visiting each planet, and I came off feeling that there wasn’t a single planet that was unique in any way, aside from the initial excitement of “ooh, a snow planet!” They’re all littered with the same types of resources (there’s rocks of every colour imaginable, but they all turn into iron), and while it’s cool to see a large t-rex looking creature walking across the horizon, the animals are ultimately just there to look pretty.… Expand
  91. CoreGamer1408
    Jun 27, 2023
    4
    NMS is a hard game to rate they keep updating it all the time and with free content. I picked this up at the update NEXT, since then ABYSS, VISIONS and now BEYOND update have dropped. The many planetary graphical pop-ins I have found quite jarring. I am running this with a very low FOV also, because the frame rates on the planets can suck. In space the frame rate seems stable and prettyNMS is a hard game to rate they keep updating it all the time and with free content. I picked this up at the update NEXT, since then ABYSS, VISIONS and now BEYOND update have dropped. The many planetary graphical pop-ins I have found quite jarring. I am running this with a very low FOV also, because the frame rates on the planets can suck. In space the frame rate seems stable and pretty ok.

    Story wise everything kind of makes sense in this universe when the revelation bombs hit. Though the story and/or the copy/paste side missions is not what drives my interest in this game.

    The Developers give you a lot of cool fun unlock-able stuff to mess about with on land, in underwater and in space. The main personal carrot on the stick is all the researching and chasing after new tech or rare/exotic gear/equipment. All to the backdrop of looking at colorful vibrant worlds while listening to the great in game soundtrack. The game does offer other things like mining, base building, trading, bounty hunting, fleet management, farming, pets and cataloguing.

    The game is far from complex or deep. Pretty easy to pick up and put down on normal difficulty and not much of challenge. It does have survival mode which is not even that hard ( perma-death as of yet to be tried ). This a pretty chill laid back gaming experience for sure. Took my mind of the Pandemic BS for sure.

    2021 Updates have tanked the frame rates. PC and Console gamer hey developers no excuse not to put graphical and effects slider bars/toggles in the console versions. Which consoles games tend to run worse anyway, because they don't have beefier or upgradable tech. WTF is this 20-25 FPS crap?

    Game comes with in built VR. The pixelation is alll pretty bad and the planets in space didn't look very VR. The VR cockpit was pretty cool, but not as amazing as Infinite War cockpit. After trying several different VR games the motion sickness has finally gone. Still with all that plastic and rubber on the head? Head overheat happens pretty quicky. Yeah even when using a massive floor fan to try and counter it. Maybe I need to use PS/VR in the winter or something?    … Expand
  92. uqbl9999
    Aug 31, 2018
    4
    This game has risen from its own ashes. It is appreciated that the developers did not abandon it. And they kept updating it. To bring to the level of the players expectations.
    Now he's totally worth his money.
  93. Stonewallish
    Oct 20, 2018
    4
    Despite its numerous and chunky content updates, No Man’s Sky still manages to be one of the most boring games I’ve ever played. The great art style and settings do little to motivate any players to progress its weak story offering, and offers little to no incentive to do anything beside mindless crafting and terraforming. The base building system is serviceable, but I don’t feel likeDespite its numerous and chunky content updates, No Man’s Sky still manages to be one of the most boring games I’ve ever played. The great art style and settings do little to motivate any players to progress its weak story offering, and offers little to no incentive to do anything beside mindless crafting and terraforming. The base building system is serviceable, but I don’t feel like recommending the game based on that alone.

    No Man’s Sky is simply put, a boring game. No amount of added content or multiplayer can change what is essentially an empty game without anything valuable to offer. .    … Expand
  94. pyhriel
    Dec 18, 2022
    4
    The game is pretty dull and repetitive. The best feature is the exploration, but even then it is pretty average.

    Most of your time is spent categorizing species & fetching resources, which you will need to replenish your various tools that depletes themselves and to get some specific resources for crafting. The various game mechanics are average at best and there are numerous time    The game is pretty dull and repetitive. The best feature is the exploration, but even then it is pretty average.

    Most of your time is spent categorizing species & fetching resources, which you will need to replenish your various tools that depletes themselves and to get some specific resources for crafting.
    The various game mechanics are average at best and there are numerous time wasting gameplay (refining, piloting, excavating). I get the intent of giving a sens of grandeur to the entire world, but once you choose a destination and just travel for minutes, there kind of isn't any point to making it that long.

    Anyway, even though the intent of the game is nice, I wouldn't recommend it, the implementation end up providing a somewhat dull experience.    … Expand
  95. ShakesBeer
    Feb 6, 2021
    4
    Space exploration, base building, alien creatures, what could go wrong? Procedural generation, that's what. The designers could have crafted 5-15 beautiful and interesting planets with varied biomes. But instead we've got an infinite number of randomly generated planets, most of which inevitably wind up boring and empty.

    So prepare to spend hours and hours and hours searching for a    Space exploration, base building, alien creatures, what could go wrong? Procedural generation, that's what. The designers could have crafted 5-15 beautiful and interesting planets with varied biomes. But instead we've got an infinite number of randomly generated planets, most of which inevitably wind up boring and empty.

    So prepare to spend hours and hours and hours searching for a pleasant planet for your home base, only to find that once you've found one and started started building, you're in a constant struggle with your inventory size, the game's confusing mechanics, and refueling everything you own or use. Can't find a particular material on your planet? You'll have to fly off of yours, but oh wait no launch fuel. Oh wait no hyperdrive fuel. Oh wait can't find a planet with the material. Oh wait your mining beam is out of fuel. Oh wait you're out of storage space. It all feels much more tedious than in other survival games.

    And once you've built your base, a couple cool vehicles, you realize - there's nothing of interest to actually be explored and there isn't much story to speak of. There are barely any threats to your health and safety, and the variations among different kinds of flora and fauna basically amount to: wow, a vaguely cow-shaped thing with longer legs than the last cow thing.

    That's my 10-hr story with No Man's Sky. I tried. I really did. And I wanted to like it. Some people do find this infinite randomly generated space exploration thing interesting. But for everyone else, go play Subnautica, The Forest, Conan, Ark or The Outer Worlds, Mass Effect, Astroneer - really any other survival or space game instead.    … Expand
  96. Jollyolfun
    Mar 16, 2022
    4
    played it when it first came out. i've heard it's great now but i havent quite gotten to it. but it was stinky at the time of release
  97. Tomplexthis
    Jul 8, 2022
    4
    Everyone Says, It got better, and well, i bought it day one.
    It has more stuff. cool, but its still the same boring, scan stuff game
    Exploration, is pointless. combat is also pointless Base building, pointless. its just fun to fly around and look at But it sucks, and always has, and i have 500 hours on it The new update for towns, running a town, it sucks its built on actual Mobile    Everyone Says, It got better, and well, i bought it day one.
    It has more stuff. cool, but its still the same boring, scan stuff game
    Exploration, is pointless. combat is also pointless
    Base building, pointless. its just fun to fly around and look at
    But it sucks, and always has, and i have 500 hours on it
    The new update for towns, running a town, it sucks
    its built on actual Mobile game timers. so yeah, pass, its bad, always has been    … Expand
  98. AGCR
    Jun 22, 2023
    4
    Today is a very good game, in his first months the game was very bad but after the updates is very good
  99. noquarter
    Aug 10, 2016
    3
    This feels like they built a world for a game but haven't built a game in it yet. There is nothing to do except wander through a repetitive landscape, and when you realize there is nothing to do you fly to another world with another repetitive landscape and nothing to do.
  100. USarmygamer
    Aug 10, 2016
    3
    What appeared to be beautiful at the initial reveal at E3 2014, is not. The games textures are inconsistent. There is a nice amount of alien life to be found if you can get close. The fact that I couldn't crash my ship even when I try is ridiculous. This game has turned out to be one of the most boring ones I ever played. I guess one could argue it isn't a bad game as it is what it is. NoWhat appeared to be beautiful at the initial reveal at E3 2014, is not. The games textures are inconsistent. There is a nice amount of alien life to be found if you can get close. The fact that I couldn't crash my ship even when I try is ridiculous. This game has turned out to be one of the most boring ones I ever played. I guess one could argue it isn't a bad game as it is what it is. No MP? Ok, they never claimed there would be but with the gameplay being so repetitive and monotonous, maybe there should have been? I am sorry I believed in this. Its boring and weak.… Expand
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  1. GameCritics
    May 8, 2020
    80
    While I’m sure developer Hello Games is still tweaking things and perhaps even creating more content for No Man’s Sky, the current state of affairs is a strong one. This galactic opus still offers an infinite amount of content for those who want to lose themselves among the stars, but now also contains a concrete throughline that will satisfy a wider array of players. It can be irritating at times, but it’s also full of stunning moments and the satisfaction of building a virtual life among the stars. Four years after launch, it’s finally a journey worth taking.
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  2. BaziCenter
    Feb 10, 2017
    60
    The world of No Man's Sky is insanely vast and beautiful, but there’s nothing to do in it! There’s no goal, no destination, no ending, nothing!
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  3. Easy Allies
    Dec 1, 2016
    60
    While No Man's Sky is engrossing for the first few hours, repetition starts to set in and the proceedings grow dull. The developers stated that they plan to add significant features such as base building which could dramatically change the game for the better. There's a promising foundation present, so it's possible to envision a more substantial game down the line. As it currently stands, though, our excitement to cross the universe faded sooner than we expected.
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