You could set out to learn the languages of various alien species one word at a time. You could find a nice planet and settle down. You can take on ever changing community missions to earn cool rewards. You can continue following the story but you by no means have to. Reviewing No Man’s Sky as a game becomes much more difficult beyond this point. But I’ve long felt No Man’s Sky is an exploration game. No Man’s Sky is often called a survival game, and put into the same category as ARK Survival Evolved, Subnautica, or even Minecraft. By the time you do leave this starting planet and venture out into the stars, you’ll have a good handle on how to survive, which shifts the focus from keeping your bars full, and more towards wondering what’s on the next planet. Yes, there are a myriad of resources to gather that can be refined into more complex resources, crafted into tools and parts, or even used to construct buildings, but you’ll start with carbon and ferrite dust, slowly building your understanding. As a result it is less intimidating than this kind of game often can be. No Man’s Sky opens up more slowly than many other games of this kind. Your goals are laid out simply one at a time, slowly teaching you exactly how to synthesize parts for your ship, and to charge your own life support systems. Plants can be broken down into carbon, rocks into ferrite dust. As I loaded up a new game and found myself once again on one of many trillions of planets in this universe, I couldn’t help but fall in love yet again.Īfter awakening near a crashed ship on the surface of a random planet, you’ll need to repair your ship by gathering resources from your surroundings. Now six years later, I bought it again, on Nintendo Switch. Since launch, No Man’s Sky has been one of my most consistently played games and one of my favorite games of all time. I bought a second copy on Xbox when it left PlayStation exclusivity two years after launch, and wound up picking it up on PC as well. As update after update hit, it became clear that No Man’s Sky would not only meet the goals set out in those infamous pre-launch interviews, it would exceed them. Was I hopeful that all of Hello Game’s ambitions for it would eventually come to pass? Of course, but I loved that launch day version. While the rest of the gaming public argued whether Sony had pushed out the game before it was ready and debated whether an indie developer speaking passionately about his hopes for his game should be taken as promises, I was simply devouring No Man’s Sky. I bought the special edition of the game at launch. In 2016 I purchased a PlayStation 4 to play No Man’s Sky.
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