No Man's Sky

This game sounded great and looked pretty cool before it was released. It could have been great if they spent more time on an actual game with a story and didn't obsess with the "inifinte universe." It's a massively open world exploration experience that promises endlessly varying worlds to explore. Even with a quintillian different planets every thing you do and see always feels like de ja vu. I got tired of the game after a few hours of gameplay because the plot (if there even is one) is barely there and adds nothing. Honestly I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do anyway since it seems the game stops giving you clues once you get to around your 3rd hyperspace jump. Planets are all VERY similar despite what they'd tell you in the hype. Every building, space station, encampment, ruin are repetitive and uninteresting. Combat is pointless and not fun as it is now. You have to recahrge shield from the menu, but while you do there is no pause. You continue to get pummeled while you fumble around doing so. Upgrading your ship and gear is a grind and inventory management is annoying and a huge pain. For example when you sell items the game always defaults to all of your stock. You can lower the number, but you have to sit there a click or hold the button for what feels like an eternity if you need to lower significantly. Puzzles are simple and are either total guesswork if you don;t know enough of the alien languages, or they are simplistic number puzzles that a 5yr old could figure out. That said the exploration potential could have been massively fun. The art style is interesting cool with the vibrant yet somehow pastel-ish color schemes. I really hope the dev's take this engine and put a proper game around it one day or let others use it to do so.

A $60 lesson to young gamers who "can't wait." Hopefully, it will be the last time my son is taken in by the hype. He says he's done with pre-orders. It simply does not live up to expectations...and of course, it doesn't run smoothly, so it's a lesson in frustration, rather than a fun break from the day. Echo the 10 fps at low res/perf/low everything. Echo poor optimization. Echo just about every other complaint. But even with performance issues resolved: "I thought I'd be able to do anything, that it would be open-ended. I thought I could build, explore, form allegiances, play with friends...but no, I couldn't do any of that." So, it's a failure on both performance & game play...game play based on pre-launch marketing. And...so far, GOG isn't showing any inclinations at a refund. My son wishes he'd bought it on Steam because their refund policy is hassle-free.

What Hello Games said they were making sounded like something I could have lost myself in for weeks at a time. Minecraft stole me away from everything for weeks when I picked it up in ALPHA/BETA and I kept coming back to it for years. NMS hasn't drawn upon me at all since release. This full retail release game doesn't even touch that era of Minecraft for content/things to do. There were repetitive actions there too sure but that was with the goal of then building into that world. There's not even simple building in this game (note: I don't believe HG ever said there would be 'building' in their game, and I don't wish to imply they did) which would at least be something to work for. This game is nothing, there is no game. You do busy work solely for the goal of more busy work. It's like the worst of early access survival games but without the expected features. It doesn't look all that great either. Still a ton of pop in, world colour palettes are to similar - this is BLUE world hope you like blue, this is BROWN world I'm sure you love brown! I'm sure other issues with inventory and ships etc. are mentioned ad nauseam in other reviews so I wont go in to it. Just frustrating. Over all I am very, very dissatisfied with this game and very much regret purchasing it. Just... just stay away from this - at least until they've made SIGNIFICANT and FREE improvements to it.

I really, really tried to give this game a good run. In the end, there were many reasons to end up hating this game. A lot of the features that were advertised as part of the game-play that led me to my decision to purchase this game just simply are not in the game. Such as fighting with/for a faction in space battles, space station destruction. the large complexes and crashed freighters. exciting and challenging combat with the sentinels... hell 3 of those are in the game pictures that they released. in the end the game we all saw in the preview videos and in the twitch streams Isn't here here. they even reversed course on their free DLC platform AFTER the game release. saying it was 'naive of them to believe that they could use that model.' I really wanted to support GOG so I bought this game here, now i'm regretting it. Everything that CD-project RED stands for, hello games has done the opposite. If I had bought it on steam I could get a full refund. With GOG if the game works there is no refund. with all of steams problems and as much as I hate it at least with steam I can get my money back if a game company lied to me and defrauded me...

this game is a resource collection game just like any other EXCEPT its in space and you get to see different planets WOHOO now thats about as far as the difference goes its ok to play has a very limited story and SPOILER ALERT it has NO END just keep going and going move from one galaxy to the next keep having to re-repair your ship to start etc Very tedious at this price ? (59.99$) dont but it