No Man's Sky

 PlayStation 4
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4.8

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 5473 Ratings

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  1. kinglab
    Aug 18, 2016
    1
    The biggest disappointment in gaming. The first hour will be exciting. Launching into space, exploring the universe. These were all things that many of us were looking forward to in this game. But what we are met with instead is an incredibly poor game. Every single planet is the same. Every drop pod in every planet is the same. Every abandoned building in every planet is the same. EveryThe biggest disappointment in gaming. The first hour will be exciting. Launching into space, exploring the universe. These were all things that many of us were looking forward to in this game. But what we are met with instead is an incredibly poor game. Every single planet is the same. Every drop pod in every planet is the same. Every abandoned building in every planet is the same. Every beacon or monument in every planet is the same. Every alien in every building, in every planet looks the same, does the same thing.

    I cannot stress how bad this game is. It truly is unbelievable. This is the gaming equivalent to a political scandal. They sold us tonnes of lies, got our hopes up and delivered nothing that they promised they would

    Hello Games should be called Goodbye Games because this should be the last time they are allowed to make games.

    This game retails for £45, and that's just for the basic release. Imagine all the poor sods who forked out on special editions.

    I am surprised that people are not demanding their money back for this joke of a game. And guess what happens at the end of the game? Nothing. That's right. Absolutely nothing. I am not kidding. The aim of the game is to get to the center of the galaxy and when you get there nothing happens.

    DO NOT BUT THIS GAME! Wait until its free on PS Plus or give it another week and if you know anyone that has it I guarantee they will be more than happy to get rid of it. They may even pay you to take it from them.    … Expand
  2. Rob_Jobbs
    Aug 19, 2016
    1
    1 question. will this game win an award for having the biggest difference in scores between critics and players? this game is helping to root out all the payed reviews from authorized "critics"... so sad
  3. Vittel1234
    Aug 19, 2016
    1
    They say that there is way too many things to do ,but there is not, you have a spaceship but the mechanics of the game is bad, you cant feel the experience of using a spaceship, it just feels like a rock is moving. What is the point of going to one planet gather some resources then go to another one and it goes on like that until you die. I would expect building your own spaceship , orThey say that there is way too many things to do ,but there is not, you have a spaceship but the mechanics of the game is bad, you cant feel the experience of using a spaceship, it just feels like a rock is moving. What is the point of going to one planet gather some resources then go to another one and it goes on like that until you die. I would expect building your own spaceship , or station things like that I mean more content. This game could be much better.… Expand
  4. pentagon_usa
    Aug 22, 2016
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Разработчики просто пидорасы халтурные, какой на дворе нахрен год? чтобы на консоли игры вылетали так часто я еще не видел! вообщем это просто кал, а не игра, слава богу что взял диск и сбагрил его быстро, прежде чем что-то создвать играйте в это сами где-то неделю! если вас начинает тошнить, то игра кал и стоить ее передылывать с нуля!… Expand
  5. dmr30
    Aug 22, 2016
    1
    I am happy with this game as it was currently worth enough to trade for uncharted 4 at my local game shop ( I think soon it will be worth enough to trade for a old soccer game from the ps3 era). I played for ten hours until I realised everything is not generated with a complicated formula it is just purely random. Flying mechanics are bad with no risk of crashes. Shooting mechanism areI am happy with this game as it was currently worth enough to trade for uncharted 4 at my local game shop ( I think soon it will be worth enough to trade for a old soccer game from the ps3 era). I played for ten hours until I realised everything is not generated with a complicated formula it is just purely random. Flying mechanics are bad with no risk of crashes. Shooting mechanism are bad/boring. Why bother resource gathering when resources are everywhere and abundant. With the latest patch downloaded to my ps4 the game crashed 3 times. You cannot fly into the sun so all the talk about real physics of planet rotation etc was wrong. For the development team I think they could fix the game and make it enjoyable by 1. Making resources hard to get/less abundant and survival more difficult 2. Making flight mechanics real with total player control in flight and in landing and 3. Have proper enemies defending some areas and include real physics and different gravity on planets and moons. The one mark out of ten was for some of the art direction as some of the atlus buildings are impressive when you first enter them.… Expand
  6. Invader4000
    Aug 23, 2016
    1
    This game is by far the worst thing i ever played... "you can do whatever you want" ...running around and mine, until you get tired, fly to a new planet, and basically rinse and repeat, buy/sell crap..
    Huge universe, with nothing to do in it.. This game is oceanwide, but puddle deep. 12 hours gameplay, and you find out how awful this game is. the survival part is way too easy, inventory    This game is by far the worst thing i ever played... "you can do whatever you want" ...running around and mine, until you get tired, fly to a new planet, and basically rinse and repeat, buy/sell crap..
    Huge universe, with nothing to do in it.. This game is oceanwide, but puddle deep. 12 hours gameplay, and you find out how awful this game is. the survival part is way too easy, inventory system (slot based, not weight based), is complete garbage, and shows how rookie this company is.. this game is something between watching grass grow, and watch paint dry . dunno which one..
    Your company has 15 employees, and you change the same as bigger game companies with 750 employees for a game...Happy games got rich with false promises.. well done..    … Expand
  7. odinisme
    Aug 26, 2016
    1
    This game is boring and feels really empty .It does look good and has a lot of potential but right now it just not good . Hello games just lied about what the game would be .
  8. MajinSasuke
    Sep 11, 2016
    1
    Oh! look, again the press giving bad media good reviews, ¿where have we seen it before?, the game really feels incomplete, it was supposed to be multiplayer but it was only avalible online, and lets not forget that they even tried to hide it! if we were talking that way, this game is FRAUD, even the world exploration is ****
  9. TudorelU
    Aug 31, 2016
    1
    This is one of the most disappointing games i've ever seen. I though, like many others, that's gonna be a good game. But when it finally released, it has proven that this game is a big pile of ****
    It's repetitive and boring. The only thing you do is to go to a planet, get resources to go to another planets where you find more resources to find more planets and in the end, to find the    This is one of the most disappointing games i've ever seen. I though, like many others, that's gonna be a good game. But when it finally released, it has proven that this game is a big pile of ****
    It's repetitive and boring. The only thing you do is to go to a planet, get resources to go to another planets where you find more resources to find more planets and in the end, to find the centre of the universe, which is just another planet. Also even if it's impressive how the planets are generated, it's only how it looks, because you won't find anything outstanding on any planet.    … Expand
  10. Rasiak100
    Sep 1, 2016
    1
    Terrible. Its the first game I have ever felt angry about I was angry that i wasted my money and angry that a game I was looking forward to turned out so bad. Gonna see if i can recoop at least half what I paid for it. The free game on PSN this month rebel galaxy is a hundred times more fun than this and it was free. My advise don't waist your time or your money.
  11. Cumguzzler
    Sep 18, 2016
    1
    Wow is this game terrible. There's a lot of creative criticism I could give, but it's just awful. No Man's Sky is an entire universe in the hands of the player to do what they want, but holy cow **** is it repetitive. All the planets are the same.Wow is this game terrible. There's a lot of creative criticism I could give, but it's just awful. No Man's Sky is an entire universe in the hands of the player to do what they want, but holy cow **** is it repetitive. All the planets are the same. All of them. sure, one has aluminum and the other has gold and by golly this one has omegon! but its the same thing over and over and over again. You will get bored of it in roughly 5 hours. The combat systems boring, there's only 3 races of alien, and that's it. But what about a few positives? Well, the graphics are fantastic, and there's over 14 quintilian planets (even though they're all unfathomably similar) and thats it. Nice graphics and many planets. There's also the 'galactic core' but it takes forever to get there. It's not a Journey, its just moving the courser 1/1500th of the way there and holding X. Keep in mind, this game is 60$. Call of Duty is 60, The Witness is 60, NFL 2017 is 60. This game isn't 30. If you hate yourself enough to buy this game, get some help. Talk to a trusted adult or a close friend. God bless you, and if you need help, ill be leaving the national suicide hotline number for you: 1-800-273-8255 Call this number if you need to recover from this God damn Time Vampire… Expand
  12. dr_jmar11
    Sep 26, 2016
    1
    Se ofreció a la venta con información engañosa, muy costoso, no tiene modo multijugador, el precio es elevado para un juego indi. Requiere de más tiempo de programación.
  13. user47589
    Oct 4, 2016
    1
    I was a rabid die hard fan of the concept before release, I was a defender of the product upon release, but having had the game for over a month I'd really like my money back, or at least a portion of it. The game is worth the $20 price point suggested by quite a few people but unless there are some earth shattering updates announced, and soon, I may just throw my hat in with thoseI was a rabid die hard fan of the concept before release, I was a defender of the product upon release, but having had the game for over a month I'd really like my money back, or at least a portion of it. The game is worth the $20 price point suggested by quite a few people but unless there are some earth shattering updates announced, and soon, I may just throw my hat in with those screaming fraud.

    I still contend concept art seen in pre-release trailers do not raise to the level of "promised features that never manifested" and none of my disappointment for the game has to do with that oddly contemptuous online debate.

    I also don't think the game is in anyway improved by adding hyper realistic planetary physics, the ability to spend uncounted hours slowly crawling from one star to another, the ability to fly into the suns of the different galaxies found, or the lack of in your face baked in multiplayer capabilities as in nearly every discussion of this game pre-release it was driven home pretty hard the experience would be a solitary one that only occasionally saw you stumble across another player.

    What changed my mind from rabid fan boy to disgruntled whiner is as follows;

    The game is boring because of how little "procedurally generated content" actually manifests. In a game with no other plot points, story lines, or objectives this was the games only real hook or selling point so to find this concept is only robustly applied to an extremely small set of game details is a major let down.

    The phrase "procedurally generated" is used with such a loose relationship to the actual definition of both words it's easy to see why people feel swindled.

    The animals you're able to discover all share the same dozen or so basic body types with probably two dozen or more different appendages that just get randomly swapped around but even then only to a certain degree and the flora, ships, NPC alien races, colonial outposts, monoliths, ruins, and plaques all suffer the same problem.

    Until it's pointed out the lack of flowing water, sand, or other obviously missing planetary features at first seem to be part of the randomly generated magic of exploration until you discover it's just not present anywhere in the game.

    It's at first very hard to upgrade weapons, suit, and ship but then incredibly easy until you discover in an "infinite" universe you've essentially become nigh invincible which is fun but only if there's a reason to wield those abilities and sadly, there's really not, save for the occasional easy to beat NPC pirate ships.

    You are constantly being attacked by pirates in space but never see evidence of them in the games otherwise non-existent story line despite constantly running into the same three alien races.

    There are many beautiful details that could, and hopefully someday will, lead to rich story lines and sub plots that entice at first only to abruptly cease to serve any point or have any relevance when you discover they're just more repetitive aspects to a planet you will see varied slightly the next time you touch down.

    That's about it.

    I would give this game a ten out of ten if there were any small indicators from Hello Games major content patches were even just being planned with tentative dates but the absolute silence from them since the beginning of September, when bug squashing patches were being released almost weekly with zero patch notes, leads me to believe the furious backlash from the gaming community has forced Sony to demand the bug squashing patches but otherwise shutter the entire foray into this game and its creators in an attempt to save face and minimize financial blow back.    … Expand
  14. BCE_COCYT
    Oct 12, 2016
    1
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  15. shadowsworkshop
    Oct 16, 2016
    1
    Who gave this game good reviews?..... its most likely is Sean Murray the director of hello games, who created a created a great base, but no content in the game worth playing....sell the company to a company who can actually use your idea and make it a actual game worth playing,
  16. Gazzar
    Nov 26, 2016
    1
    Well.
    I'm a few hundred hours in, but lets just get some basics out of the way.
    The graphics are fine, a colourful stylistic rendering of a sci-fi universe is pretty bang on the nail with the makers description, limited to 30fps on the PS4, nevertheless, they do the job. You regularly come across some amazing vistas in this game, so, yes HG, we'll let you off with that one. Now    Well.
    I'm a few hundred hours in, but lets just get some basics out of the way.
    The graphics are fine, a colourful stylistic rendering of a sci-fi universe is pretty bang on the nail with the makers description, limited to 30fps on the PS4, nevertheless, they do the job.
    You regularly come across some amazing vistas in this game, so, yes HG, we'll let you off with that one.
    Now gameplay.
    To say this is a missed opportunity is a massive understatement.
    Let's start with the NPCs.
    They sit, they move their heads and they make gestures. That's it. You never see them anywhere else. Not wandering around like you, not even shambling to another room.
    Apart from interactions in the hut or space station they are glued to, their offerings create no tension and have no ramifications anywhere in the game. Pointless.
    When your 'reputation' is increased via these encounters, it means nothing. If I'm favourable with one, the other does not try to gun me down in space (not that it's ever really made clear WHO is trying to do that anyway).
    Money. Useless.
    The end game for this might be better ships or tech. The game gives the tech away, you can't buy it, only materials. the ships may look quite different, but none really offer anything approaching different capabilities.
    So, you find a ship eventually that looks nice, has enough space, and that's that. No reason to change.
    I could go on and on.
    No missions, no tension, alien bases EVERYWHERE. Recycled noises, animals, plants, planets. No territorial issues in the local or galactic maps.
    it's essentially an interactive screen-saver tech demo.

    I hear HG games have announced "base building".
    Why would I need to build a base when every single planet has millions of shelters on, and the galactic map is so unfriendly towards tracking destinations, or POI's or anything else.

    Very poor.    … Expand
  17. differently
    Dec 4, 2016
    1
    Started out promising, but nothing materialized from there. In the first ten or fifteen minutes, you do basically all that there is, and longer play times consist of repeating that experience over and over again. I was disappointed. There's not much to do and it gets boring extremely quickly.
  18. GamerxWolf
    Mar 3, 2017
    1
    Well, crap.
    Just by watching gameplay for 30 minutes, I instantly become bored of No Man's Sky.

    Well I guess you could say that, 'No Man' Should play it.

    Very unoriginal, but I don't care.
    The game was very, very bad upon release.

    I liked the idea 'Hello Games' tried to create and produce, but it turned out to be repetitive gameplay.
  19. Kladhun
    Mar 11, 2017
    1
    JOGO DE BOSTA, QUEM TIVER DANDO REVIEW BOA PRA ELE É PORQUE SÓ JOGOU AS 2 PRIMEIRAS HORAS DESSE LIXOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! HORRIBLE GAME TO THE CORE!
  20. patatus
    Mar 9, 2017
    1
    universo enorme planetas bastos y grandes mis cojones!!! Cada planeta está más vacío que el anterior las criaturas tienen un diseño de risa y encima las mentiras de la desarrolladoras iba tener online mis cojones las texturas son asquerosas el rendimiento es fatídico y no hablemos de la versión de pc buff no la voy ni a valorar es tan mala y repugnante que no merecen que la valúen.
  21. EXTREMO456
    Jul 8, 2017
    1
    na e3 de 2014 o jogo promedia todo na verda e mai um jogo nao tem o modo online o jogo e repetivo cada planeta e o jogo acabou ex pega 10 coisas rosa e 5 vermelho 2 azuis e jogo acabou
  22. Naruto78909
    Mar 31, 2018
    1
    No mans sky or no mans lie is just a bad as star wars battlefront 2 the entire dev team lied to us the universe and many of the planets are boring and are the same no mans sky takes 10 minutes to go to planet to planet this game is one of the worst its a more boring version of other survival games and no mans sky is huge but its extremely boring sony is so disspointed that they let theNo mans sky or no mans lie is just a bad as star wars battlefront 2 the entire dev team lied to us the universe and many of the planets are boring and are the same no mans sky takes 10 minutes to go to planet to planet this game is one of the worst its a more boring version of other survival games and no mans sky is huge but its extremely boring sony is so disspointed that they let the game come on the xbox one and no mans lie is no longer a exclusive even though it will be bad on the xbox as well… Expand
  23. DicaIdealGamer
    Apr 14, 2018
    1
    They are asking $ expensive for this game. If it were free to play I would give a 6 or 7. As an expensive $ I give 1/10

    - This game of Ps4 was promised to be online and nothing was delivered ... bad game, they took process by deceptive divulgation ...
  24. mandibleman
    Aug 26, 2018
    1
    I heard that the new 2018 patch had fixed a lot of the issues. So I picked this up for $10 on sale thinking that it'd be a chill space exploration experience. Oversimplified in the wrong places (oversimplified space combat ironically making it more difficult, there's no way to remap controls to a typical flightsim pitch/roll configuration) and mind-bendingly obtuse in others (just aboutI heard that the new 2018 patch had fixed a lot of the issues. So I picked this up for $10 on sale thinking that it'd be a chill space exploration experience. Oversimplified in the wrong places (oversimplified space combat ironically making it more difficult, there's no way to remap controls to a typical flightsim pitch/roll configuration) and mind-bendingly obtuse in others (just about everywhere else). Died multiple times just in the beginning becuase there's no intuitive way to recharge your enviro-protection. Inventory management makes no sense. Things randomly attack for no reason whatsoever. It's a nonsensical mess of an experience that I wouldn't recommend to anyone. The most satisfaction I got was when I snapped the disc into tiny pieces and chucked them in the bin.
    1/10 gfys hello games    … Expand
  25. DazTattoo
    Mar 3, 2019
    1
    Imagine Elite the game (Frontier Elite 2) Etc. But in this game you have to get off the planet before you can go to space. Its BORING...Hard work, collecting tiny amounts of resources, I gave it 6hours then uninstalled it. A game is supposed to entertain or at least be exciting ! OK some nerd out there will like it (spending hours and hours just for 1 objective). It's NOT straightImagine Elite the game (Frontier Elite 2) Etc. But in this game you have to get off the planet before you can go to space. Its BORING...Hard work, collecting tiny amounts of resources, I gave it 6hours then uninstalled it. A game is supposed to entertain or at least be exciting ! OK some nerd out there will like it (spending hours and hours just for 1 objective). It's NOT straight forward, you have to mix the resources together to make something else useful. Then you repeat repeat repeat until you have 4 things useful THEN you mix the 4 things useful to make something that works. All with virtually no guidance or instructions. But to be positive to the producers of this game, its on a massive scale and would (if you had a few months spare) be a lifes time work. You'd probably feel very proud if you made it into space.… Expand
  26. Flashyboy89
    Nov 3, 2020
    1
    I played and got the platinum trophy for NMS back in 2016. The main problem with the game is that it is not rewarding in anyway whatsoever. Everything is a grind and the crafting system over the years of updates has just turned it in to a cluster **** I would think gamers with autism love this game.
  27. Davor11
    Feb 21, 2021
    1
    Game is good,but motion sickness its to big to play it!!! Need add option for this problem!To much blink lights and other stuff! Need disable shake camera!!! -_-
  28. AdverD
    Jun 14, 2022
    1
    This game does not have an option to inver X-axis camera control, which means I can't properly control the camera, aim etc, thus this game is virtually unplayable. I've heard that Hello Games put a lot of effort in turning NMS into a proper game after disastrous launch, but it seems they decided to tell people who prefer a certain controll scheme to screw themselves.
  29. capthavic
    Sep 20, 2016
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. NMS feels like a cheap early access survival game rushed out and made on a small budget...except it was released as a final product for $60 after three years, two delays and with the backing of a major publisher...oh dear.

    The two big selling points of NMS were the sheer number of randomly generated planets and the sense of exploration and discovery of a practically infinite number of worlds. The problem is while buzz words like "procedurally generated" sounds good on paper, the reality of that means everything looks and acts practically the same. There was not one memorable thing about any of the planets I visited or reason to ever go back. They all have the same generic resources, mined from the same generic nods, scattered about the same generic wastelands. You can't build any structures or settle down on a particular planet, only adding to the disposable and forgettable nature of them.

    Perhaps not having the "ending" spoiled might have provided some sense of drive or purpose for me to keep playing, however I'd rather know there wasn't going to be a payoff to save myself the time and frustration. Some say the reward is in the journey and not the destination, but this is simply not a journey worth taking in my opinion. I went into this with low expectations after hearing all the controversy and even then I found it interminably dull and underwhelming.

    Judging the game by itself I probably would have given it a 4 at best, however I feel it would be remiss not to take the marketing and PR debacle into account. I didn't pay much attention to the game leading up to release, but looking back now at all the documented interviews and demonstrations for the game, I simply cannot see it as anything but misleading at best if not outright lying at worst. Regardless of intention or malice Sean Murray/Hello Games should be held accountable for their actions along with Sony for allowing things to get out of control if not outright encouraging it.

    I give No Man's Sky a 0/10 for being a boring, sub-par game and completely unacceptable business practices on the part of both the developer and publisher.

    (full disclosure: mine was a rental copy, played for three hours straight before calling it quits due to myself and everyone watching being put to sleep)    … Expand
  30. runfromfire
    Aug 29, 2016
    0
    I wanted so badly to like this thing but it is completely unlovable. There is no storyline, there is purpose, there is no fight. There is only THE GRIND. And the entire thing was sold to us on a pile of lies. I'm adding Sean Murray to my "God I really want to put him in the face" list.
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 96 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 41 out of 96
  2. Mixed: 54 out of 96
  3. Negative: 1 out of 96
  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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