No Man's Sky

I wated for this game to be fixed and i can say it defintly is a must buy if ur into space games or crafting survial games a true gem

There are frustrating bugs in this game. Today and yesterday I spent hours trying to hook up power generators to my base. Should be easy to do, but it turns out that my base is allergic to new power cables. The UI is fiddly enough that I thought I was doing something wrong, but then I discovered that I can't even reconnect my working solar panels. Generally the bugs are strange things that shouldn't be happening, but there is a plausibility to the behavior. Like the NPCs that have buggy dialogue. Maybe that NPC is that way, even normal people can act erratic sometimes? Anyone can have a bad morning. The world generation is a bit lacking. This game taught a lot of people about Kolmogorov complexity. It's like those Star Trek episodes where Kirk beams down to "the planet", and "the planet" is just one town and everyone living on the planet is from one or two factions. You get more variety just looking out your window! The planets are filled with smatterings of buildings and loot, all selected from a very small variety of options. Whenever you see something interesting it is quite obvious that it's interesting because someone sat down to create it, it wasn't generated. The bases are basically identical. Customization of the character is also quite limited. It promises that you can fly smoothly from deep space to planetary surfaces. Well, I get a noticeable delay when I leave the atmosphere, so it's obvious that some trickery is going on at that moment. Not quite seamless. Whenever you enter or leave a space base there is an animated sequence that stands in for a loading screen. It's the same thing, just done in a neater way. And when you're on the planet it feels like your character forgot their glasses, because the viewing distance is tens of feet. I have to watch my stomach, so I can't play this game any more. But the main quest seems reasonable enough and it appears to have a sci-fi plot, so that might be worth pursuing once they've stopped adding new bugs.

i have this on ste... and i first played it to the end several years ago,was an ok game if a bit boring imo,very repetitive at that time and had little in common with all its developers claims,i also remember having to use mods to make it playable . i do remember thinking the end was rubbish,got to centre of universe etc and there was nothing there lol,it just took me back to the beginning of the game so i uninstalled it and waved goodbye to it. im more putting this up as a warning to maybe check it does still run on win7,as i tried to reinstall the latest version,episode 4? and it wouldnt let me due to my w7 ultimate os/old amd cpu etc so i think theyve changed something major since i last played it.

I'm enjoying this game, it runs fine for me, around 90 FPS. I do have a beefy system though, i7 16GB RAM, GTX 980. The graphics isn't as good as I would have liked, it can look pretty blurry and the pop in is very distracting. But it still looks good once you accept that. The game is all about exploring in space or on foot, gathering resources to fuel up or upgrade your gear. I think a lot of people expected a game with a story and with large cities with characters to interact with with quests etc. I thought the developers made it pretty clear that it is not that type of game. There are characters to speak to and you can slowly learn their language. But the guts of the game is just exploring. With some combat in there. But there is very little interaction with the aliens, trading etc but no quests. If you are into exploring procedural landscapes and creatures like I am, then you will probably enjoy the game. If that is not your thing, I would avoid it.

This is a tentative rating that I'll change if and when the game is patched. I had long feared that this game wouldn't live up to the hype. The game itself is fun (if slow paced), and I find myself yearning to go back and explore the planet I just left a little more. However, the game has a somewhat unfinished, unpolished feel. Most significantly, the game does not seem to be optimized for PC, and performance is quite bad. Wait until it's patched to see if it is fixed.