No Man's Sky Reviews

No Man's Sky is ranked in the 48th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Aug 18, 2016

No Man's Sky is a decent game that could be the foundation for something much bigger but lacks the depth needed to truly be great.

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6 / 10
Sep 7, 2016

Ambitious ideas, great potential, huge world, and very little to do! No Man's Sky is not bad but it's not what promised. The huge world suffers from numerous bugs and the gameplay gets repetitive very soon. Yet, if you are a fan of pure exploration, you may very well enjoy it.

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Simon Brown
Top Critic
6 / 10.0
Aug 21, 2016

An impressive piece of technology capable of generating some truly gorgeous vistas, the game layered on top however disappoints in almost every way and just has no depth. Planets are fun to wander around whilst gathering resources to move on but you won’t linger.

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6 / 10
Aug 18, 2016

The largely solitary experience of No Man's Sky is monotonous, easily frustrating and loses its charm way too early. For a game with the promise of all the wonders of the universe, it delivers so little.

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6 / 10.0
Aug 12, 2016

No Man’s Sky is a shallow package of undercooked ideas that will ultimately go forgotten in a year full of other, better releases.

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Aug 16, 2016

Hello Games has established a universe to explore with an interesting lore and great aesthetic design. However, if you need more than that to motivate you, you probably won't dig this game (as of now).

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6 / 10
Aug 21, 2016

Absolutely bursting with breathtaking vistas, No Man's Sky works best as a stellar walking sim. Sadly the half-baked survival elements only detract from the experience.

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Aug 23, 2016

'No Man's Sky' is the most massive exploration game of all time, but ultimately feels hollow

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Gameplanet
Top Critic
6 / 10.0
Aug 25, 2016

No Man's Sky was never going to live up to the hype, but sadly even those with tempered expectations are likely to be somewhat disappointed. It is by no means a terrible game, it just feels unfinished and empty.

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6 / 10.0
Aug 16, 2016

In many ways everything that led up to No Man’s Sky felt like some sort of conscription ad campaign. “See the universe! Explore the unknown!” It’s all very enticing and delivers on a lot of amazing feelings, but like most things of this nature, it’s not always all it’s cracked up to be.

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3 / 5.0
Sep 27, 2016

I hope that we eventually get that from No Man’s Sky and I will come back and continue to try to find that experience. As it currently stands though this game stands out as being just completely average.

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Aug 15, 2016

No Man's Sky is a gorgeous game that gives players a satisfying sense of exploration, but the experience can be incredibly repetitive.

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6 / 10
Aug 12, 2016

An ocean of stars, a thimble of possibilities.

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Aug 11, 2016

One of the most anticipated games of the year, No Man's Sky is somewhat of a letdown. While it certainly puts its best foot forward with a beautiful audio and visual presentation, to put it bluntly, it's boring. Ambitious as the universe that's been created by Hello Games is, what lies within is a middling survival/crafting game.

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6 / 10
Aug 19, 2016

When you step back and look at No Man’s Sky you can actually see how well it shines, and just how much love and devotion was put into each piece of the universe. It’s a procedurally generated world, but that doesn’t change the fact that Hello Games breathed life into this world. While some mechanics can be grating, it succeeds fairly well at its vision of delivering an eerie galaxy and the sense of discovery in exploring it.

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Erik Kain
Top Critic
6 / 10.0
Aug 20, 2016

For all its color and all its life, No Man’s Sky is still little more than dead space.

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Aug 19, 2016

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.

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6 / 10.0
Aug 12, 2016

No Man's Sky is an impressive set of tools grafted onto a game with very little going on.

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Aug 15, 2016
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6 / 10
Aug 12, 2016

A stunning technical achievement and a mesmerisingly addictive one, even after you realise how simplistic and repetitive it really is.

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