Posted on: July 4, 2021

takemyfuckingmoney

Games: 29 Reviews: 5

Utterly atrocious performance

It doesn't matter whether you're running a modern high end GPU with a high end CPU, or a laptop half a decade old with a middling GPU and CPU at the time. Both are as likely as the other to achieve equally poor framerates on equally poor resolution with equivalent playability. My laptop legitimately runs it better than my SSD desktop because for some reason the game doesn't play nicely on SSDs but on my old, crappier 5400 RPM 1tb HDD. The SSD causes massive and unplayable stutter that seems entirely a lottery draw on whether or not your configuration works with this game. For a game that has "redeemed" itself, the core gameplay of exploration is no different from launch, with only static "building" components of the game tacked on. On top of the utterly atrocious performance, this is unacceptable for a game five years post release.

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Posted on: December 6, 2021

TehYearOfTehWolf

Verified owner

Games: 536 Reviews: 54

Unfortunately it's still raw &bugged

I have played it for 14 hours, hurting myself in the process and I can't recommend it, sorry. The good things: - The story makes sense - Everything is recyclable into useful resources - Everything is craftable The bad things: - Everything takes too much time - Crafting makes little sense - I built a WOODEN shelter on a radioactive planet and was okay? WUT? - If you go blind and select Permadeath, you're gonna die. I mean, I guess it's like real world, but the planet you land on is totally random, so if you land LIKE ME, on a TOXIC RADIOACTIVE PLANET WITH PREDATORY FAUNA However, the worst is yet to come: Gamebreaking flaws follow: 1 - Not everything is recyclable into useful resources - let me explain here - if you are a game developer and you make world objects in a game where you can mine and convert the landscape YOU BETTER F_____G MAKE THOSE WORLD OBJECTS DESTRUCTIBLE AND RECYCLABLE AS WELL - this, by the way is an unforgivable flaw in the light of the insane mechanic of attribution/connection with nanites 2 - all objects like factories, ruins, outposts, crashed freighters are impermanent and leave no trace of their existence (go ahead, leave a navigation marker or even a save point there). It would have been okay if those objects were destructible, like I mentioned before, in a game with a supposedly "persistent world" it's just playing peekaboo with an adult player, which is insane and insulting to the intelligence 3 - non-permanent usable item duplication - by that I mean, the crashed ship I have found in the second part of the (20 or so HOURS-LONG) tutorial, which is connected, duplicated, and in addition to having repaired the original second ship, I was now offered, nay, required to repair the third "crashed ship" all over again, which had me pixel hunting over the hull to find how to enter my original, repaired crashed ship. 4 - cannot sell the ship for scrap, because can't unequip technology because "wrong type of slot". I know game, I know 1.5/5

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Posted on: May 2, 2019

xepha88

Games: 0 Reviews: 1

Cannot play with those on steam

I have no experience playing no man's sky; I bought it during the recent sale so that I could play with my friends. They happen to own this game through steam. There is currently no way for us to play multiplayer together, so I asked for a refund. This needs to get fixed; it's ridiculous that you can't pick your friend's server, especially for an open-ended game like this where there playing with people you know is a significant part of the draw to multiplayer. I'll be leaving a similar review on steam...for what it's worth.

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Posted on: February 10, 2025

Nallatheryth

Verified owner

Games: 88 Reviews: 3

in 1 minute?

I started the game, adjusted a few settings, it required a restart and a review request pops up? really? algorithm seems off... waaay off

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Edited on: October 17, 2025

Posted on: October 10, 2025

Innuen_Doe

Verified owner

Games: 11 Reviews: 1

Meh

Don't buy it at more than $15, and buy it at GOG, for the meme (to illustrate the abyssal technical skill of developpers in the video game industry): - game loop quickly become boring - UI is a mess with half the screen space wasted - alt-tab while streaming with streamlabs/obs will crash the game - inventory management is suck a pain is the a$$, you will miss your last colonoscopy. (basic sorting not even working correctly) - sound spacialization is often horrible - enemy AI is non-existent - Artistically good: colorfull, some nice npc models, great music. (when they don't ruin everything with a weather storm, and they do it a lot) - Technically... I don't know how to say it... it's ridiculous, it's so bad, with some basics not even mastered, you are relieved they don't work in aeronautics, otherwise it would rain planes In any other industry, if you deliver a piece of software like that, you lose your job immediatly, and the boss help you to pack your stuff.

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