80
While I’m sure developer Hello Games is still tweaking things and perhaps even creating more content for No Man’s Sky, the current state of affairs is a strong one. This galactic opus still offers an infinite amount of content for those who want to lose themselves among the stars, but now also contains a concrete throughline that will satisfy a wider array of players. It can be irritating at times, but it’s also full of stunning moments and the satisfaction of building a virtual life among the stars. Four years after launch, it’s finally a journey worth taking.
60
The world of No Man's Sky is insanely vast and beautiful, but there’s nothing to do in it! There’s no goal, no destination, no ending, nothing!
60
While No Man's Sky is engrossing for the first few hours, repetition starts to set in and the proceedings grow dull. The developers stated that they plan to add significant features such as base building which could dramatically change the game for the better. There's a promising foundation present, so it's possible to envision a more substantial game down the line. As it currently stands, though, our excitement to cross the universe faded sooner than we expected.
9
Lo desconocido siempre te da un poco de miedo y te hace sentir solo, pero a la vez es lo que te pica el bichito de la curiosidad, y la inmensidad del universo tiene todo eso junto. Como un juego de supervivencia y construcción sandbox ambientado en el espacio profundo, este título pasó de comerse una banda de reseñas negativas cuando salió, a remarla a puro parche y actualización. Hoy por hoy, creció hasta convertirse en una joyita casi perfecta que tiene todo lo que cualquier fanático de los sandbox puede pedir: desde arreglar tu nave hasta armar alto bardo en batallas espaciales, desde la construcción más básica hasta armarte tus propios mechas, y desde arrancar en un planetita perdido hasta recorrer toda la **** te re ceba la inmensidad del espacio, no te podés perder este juegazo.
8
Starte it 2025. Great game, needs some time to get into it, but then it **** you in. There is a lot of potential missing, but it's nevertheless a very good and fun game.
10
Anybody who reviewed it negatively before 2024 should come back and try it again. It's delivered on everything people want and more. This is space exploration to the highest extent. If you still don't like it after everything they've added, what more could you want.
No Man's Sky
Released On:
Aug 9, 2016
Metascore
Mixed or Average
71
User score
Mixed or Average
5.6
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
43% Positive
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56% Mixed
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54 Reviews
1% Negative
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1 Review
Aug 12, 2016
100
No game, film, book or otherwise has been more effectively in capturing what the experience of exploring the universe must be. Lonely, hostile and unforgiving, Hello Game’s effort works so hard to reject the convention on how games are made that it’s easy to understand why people expecting something more traditional might come away disappointed.
Aug 17, 2016
80
It brings a relaxing gameplay design that is geared more towards exploration, rather than sci-fi action. In addition to exploration, it has a healthy crafting system, an interesting monetary structure that adds extra motivation, and an endless amount of adventures and secrets to uncover along the way.
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Mixed or Average
45% Positive
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2232 Ratings
Feb 11, 2026
10
Anybody who reviewed it negatively before 2024 should come back and try it again. It's delivered on everything people want and more. This is space exploration to the highest extent. If you still don't like it after everything they've added, what more could you want.
Jan 16, 2026
10
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Aug 16, 2016
75
Hello Games' procedural dream is becoming a reality, but we'll probably need to wait months/years to see the process completed.
Aug 17, 2016
70
Hello Games achieved what they set out to do. They have crafted a massive galaxy of planets for players to explore. That feat is nothing short of extraordinary, and I think everyone who enjoys games should experience that. Whether you come out of it with a smile or a frown, it is entirely dependent on how much you are willing to put up with to explore a nearly endless galaxy.
Aug 8, 2016
70
No Man's Sky's journey across a massive procedural universe is compelling in how seamless it feels, the way that it allows you to explore at your own pace, and its questioning of the drive toward completionism found in most games. Unfortunately, it's saddled with a terrible interface and a crushing sense of repetition, both of which come to overshadow its more interesting qualities. As such, while it feels incomprehensibly vast at times, No Man's Sky can also feel crushingly limiting. And it's the latter feeling, unfortunately, that keeps its from reaching its full potential.
Aug 16, 2016
60
The universe is huge. It instills such a feeling of insignificance and it is incredibly fun to think of all the possibilities when arriving in a new place, but when it inevitably requires the patience to do the same things over and over, the wonder of exploration loses out on some important magic.
Oct 31, 2016
40
No Man’s Sky is a missed opportunity to do something truly epic, and while the final game, when measured moment by moment, showed glimpses of something more than merely ordinary, the final result, was far less than. Promises aside, there’s just not enough to this universe to make it worth exploring.
Dec 19, 2025
10
It's criminal that at the time of writing this, the game sits at an out of warranty 5.5 user score. The game released with problems, I get that, but as of today it is everything they promised it would be and one of the standout games in the genre. The work the team has done over the years to turn this ship around is commendable and it should be noted. With so many examples of devs abandoning projects when they release to universal distain, they believed in their idea, and realized a masterpiece. That should only be celebrated because in an alternate universe this game would be collecting dust in the deep recesses of forgotten media.
Feb 10, 2026
7
Its ok. I played it after all the updates so its actually pretty good now. Just not my kind of game.
Jul 3, 2025
7
Space-bound explore 'em up that's like a low key cross between an adventure and a resource management/survival game. Discover new planets, explore, mine, upgrade and move on while learning to communicate with alien species. One of those games that's more absorbing than exciting, but it works.
Feb 22, 2024
4
With cartoonish art style and extremely bright colors this game has become just another manga clone for zoomers. Also, all infinite planets somehow look the very same. The core of the game is boring and complex grind and mining rocks. That's it.
Dec 7, 2023
4
I bought it just to play with my friends that was the only reason, well I can’t comprehend why but the game doesn’t let me be with my friends on the same group or session, I’ve tried everything…
SummaryNo Man’s Sky is an exploration and survival game set in an infinite procedurally generated universe. Whether a distant mountain or a planet hanging low on the horizon, you can go forth there. You can fly seamlessly from the surface of a planet to another, and every star in the sky is a sun that you can visit. Where you’ll go and how fast... Read More
Rated Tfor Teen
Platforms:
- PlayStation 4
- PC
- Xbox One
- PlayStation 5
- Xbox Series X
- Nintendo Switch
- Nintendo Switch 2
Initial Release Date:Aug 9, 2016
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