After having read so many bad things about this game, I held off buying it for a long time. With the current -60% sale, the 1.3 update (which adds some things which are important for me), and gog's 30-days money back guarantee I finally decided to buy and try it. Performance is okay on my system (Windows 7 64bit, 8GB RAM, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti at 1920x1080 with a medieval and below minimum specs Core2Duo E8500 at 3.33 GHz), comparable to e.g. Elite Dangerous. The only visual problems for me are pop-ins of terrain features and asteroids, and I had to disable motion blur to avoid stuttering when quickly turning while on the ground. The gameplay is quite different from some of the games this title is often compared with, but I didn't expect this to be another Elite Dangerous or X Rebirth. Some things are simplified, e.g. trading (I think the prices at the space station of a system always stay the same) or mining (just shoot at things, the resources will fly into your inventory), but there are many other things to do or manage that keep me engaged and occupied. Some things are much better than in Elite Dangerous: - Being able to save the current game and restore to the last three saves (because this lets me freely try things which otherwise I wouldn't do). And there are other save slots available, e.g. for a creative mode. - And very important: Having a DRM-free version available. - There are many mods available. I haven't used any mods in No Man's Sky yet, but since I used many mods in other games (e.g. the X3 games), this may come in handy at some point. In short: In the two days since I bought it I have played it much more than I should have, and enjoyed it much more than I expected.
