Posted on: May 28, 2022

Infocommie

Games: 453 Reviews: 3

I Just Don't Get It! No fun here!

I have tried to play this game. Several times. And I keep it installed to try again at some point. But so far it is uninteresting and tedious! They make such big promises like unlimited worlds but every world seems almost the same as every other world. Different colors. Terrain rearranged. Maybe 3 or 4 creatures that all can be ridden or milked or tamed. They all react mostly the same way. And they are all built from the same limited toolbox of critter parts. The tedium begins immediately because your ship is broken and you must mine stuff to fix it. Once I got my ship I thought "OK, now it will get fun!" but...NOPE! Once I discovered other sentient creatures I thought "OK, NOW it will get fun!" but again...NOPE! I even got off the planet to a space station and got bored really quickly "talking" to a variety of beings who all seem to be humanoid in shape except for their heads! I tried to learn their language...ONE...WORD...AT...A...Time! So I asked my (adult) son to give this a try and...he doesn't get it either! The only fun we managed to have was to ride creatures around at double-speed while playing the Benny Hill music! That fun lasted just a few minutes. This "game" just seems horrible to me! Maybe I just don't get it. I welcome anyone who can show me where I am missing the point of this thing.

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Posted on: December 25, 2023

Dr.Gruselglatz

Verified owner

Games: 26 Reviews: 5

Gets boring

Saw a nice video and got hyped, but it's just mediocre and gets boring too early

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Posted on: September 4, 2025

zaktheevil

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 2

Good but updates always break something

Good and a very unique game overall but major updates always break some mechanics and some aspects of the game and it takes months to get most (not even all) problems fixed. Some issues never get fixed and go back years. Also, the new features always feel half baked and poorly implemented and often don't even work properly at first and require several patches. Poor UI/UX that requires mods to make the game enjoyable. After 2000 hours on Steam I got the game on GOG to avoid forced updates and that helped to some degree: I can keep playing a stable, older version and wait for the game to be fixed. But the recent issues with broken base and freighter textures, that were introduced with Beacon and somewhat (not entirely) fixed in 5.75, came back in Voyagers and are even worse so I'm about done with this game.

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Posted on: August 13, 2016

gumbo1919

Games: 153 Reviews: 3

No Man's Sky fun relaxing game

Hopefully they can get some of the issues sorted out for the people that are having them. For me, the game runs fairly solid usually floating around 80-100 FPS with max settings and vsync turned off. I currently have an i7-4790k and a 980ti on Windows 10 with all latest updates and drives. I am not having the stuttering issues and have around 6 hours of gameplay with no crashes. The one issue I do have is the game does not like alt-tabbing out. The few times I have tried it I cannot get back to the game. Otherwise, the game runs pretty good and looks ok. If you like open world explorations with a heavy emphasis on crafting, this game is an excellent choice.

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Posted on: August 13, 2016

Propheta13

Games: 171 Reviews: 1

Quite dissapointing at the moment

Considering level of hype and expectations i am quite dissapointed with the game. For £40 you are getting game that getting boring after few hours (played arounnd 4, hoping it to became better). You are getting exploration game where it is nothing interesting to explore. You are getting "survival game" without possibility of building shelters and tools in priper manner. While expecting something new and fresh i got something boring and overestimated. Considering all this an awful performance on not bad hardware - i regret spending money on it. Going togive it some chance, try to explore history little deeper but don think that this will work.

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