No Man's Sky

I am looking at this game's review page on GOG and am displeased to see so many old reviews that are still in the top spot. At this point in this game's lifecycle you should know whether or not you would like this game but I just want to through a couple cents into the ring and not a full review. In 2016 this game was very lack luster and had too many problems for any full price game to reasonably have. The creator made so much money that he could have just left the industry like Phil Fish but instead they are STILL working on making things right. "If the creator is still working on it after 4 years, does that mean that he is slow at working or that there is 4 years worth of content?" I'm proud to say that it's the later. 4 years of content since 2016. At some point, the games trajectory had it in line with other survival and creation games but just with the twist of space travel and bad inventory management. But with the game's trajectory not slowing down they have continuously put out massive updates that, at the very least, is worth you looking into. TL;DR take a look at the massive updates that have released since 2016 and think to yourself if they sound interesting enough on top of the base game to give this game a shot. For full price? Maybe not, it has been 4 years, but any discount makes this game worth it.

Dedication and effort on the part of the developers have allowed this game to realise its full potential. Granted it took some time, however the choice to fix NMS rather than abandon it like so many others would have reflects positively on both the game and its developers.

After all the free updates, this game is now worth playing.

Great game and great experience. Since 2019 massive update came into the No Man Sky world and todays average rating is not what the game is. If you will check last 6 month replys it`ll be 5 star rating average. With the 50% discont is the best game for enyone who dreams of space journey and non rail storytelling. 5/5 waiting for more content

Yes this game has done a great job recovering from a poor initial launch - kudos, great. I don't really care because I waited till the community said it was ready. I don't suppose it fails to deliver on many of its technical promises, but what I heard when it was announced - as a lifelong sci-fi nerd - was that I would finally get my own ship on explore a universe as diverse and complex as the real one. I don't know if people 'cut it some slack' because of the mathematical limits of procedural generation but trust me - it's not this limited. I really was expecting self-consistent unique ecosystems, biomes, evolutionary systems, and just a lot more diversity of experience and content. Even in 'creative' mode I feel I'm being shoehorned into mining and crafting (play styles that hold no interest for me), and frankly all planets are roughly the same perhaps half-dozen basic flavors. Creatures don't even make sense, why would an organism have evolved in that way? Examine them -- do you detect any correlation between their environment and their biology? SO MUCH could have been achieved with this game, it's tragic. Sure it's pretty - great. I guess some people find it fun - great. But the only way in which a post-NMS world differs from the one before is that people may be that much less likely to take serious the assertion that a game is going to take seriously the job of simulating free exploration of an actual, scientifically plausible galaxy. Sorry NMS, I wanted more than anyone to love you. I guess I'm still waiting for my Rogue Space Explorer simulation.