No Man's Sky
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Critic Reviews for No Man's Sky
Relaxing exploration and some lovely scenery coupled with repetitive systems, frustrating menus, and a lack of real discovery.
Hello Games' lush galactic odyssey is a unique work of engineering art - and an engrossing, if flawed, game.
No Man’s Sky has sci-fi spectacle of strange new worlds on its side, but not much else. Its gameplay is underdeveloped and repetitive, and in my dozens of hours played it’s introduced very few new ideas to mix up its crafting, upgrades, combat, or universe. The promise of limitless exploration ended up working against it when I lost faith that it had any more meaningful things to show me no matter how far I traveled. This ambitious game reached for the stars, but its reach exceeded its grasp by light years.
No Man's Sky is a game whose ambitious promises may have hurt it in the long run, but it's hard to deny the impressive framework and gameplay loop Hello Games created.
An inviting universe to explore and exploit, but not much story or gameplay backs up the unparalleled scope of the world
No Man's Sky is a massive machine with broken and missing parts, but dig deep enough and you'll be moved in ways you never expected.
No Man's Sky is an impressive set of tools grafted onto a game with very little going on.
It's light years from being a great game, but there's still something at the heart of No Man's Sky that speaks to the would-be explorer in all of us.
Industry Coverage
No Man's Sky Worlds Part 2 Update Could Arrive With PS5 Pro, Players Think
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“That Amount Of Dedication Deserves An Engineering Fix”: No Man's Sky Player Notices Game-Breaking Bug In 600 Hour Save
A No Man’s Sky bug reveals the key to its success.
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Hello Games Takes "Extra Time" To Save Broken No Man's Sky Save Files
"When a player has put that much into our game it deserves the engineering fix."
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The creature found in the Eissentam Galaxy looks like it'd be right at home with Moo Deng.
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