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3.15 from 1885 ratings
5987 members have it in their collection · 410 playing now · 1672 backlogged · 979 wish listed
How long? Main story 61h · with extras 105h · 100% 86h (from 19 logged playthroughs)
Status BMO Oct 31, 2020
It’s hard to will yourself to go and explore when there’s a random chance that when you return your refiners may have emptied themselves of all your resources.
It’s also great when your portable refiner refuses to refine. It’s full of fuel and makes the refining sound but every fifteen minutes you check on it there’s still fifteen minutes remaining.
Status BMO Oct 28, 2020
I've found myself in a needless resource harvesting loop. I have established multiple colonies, all of which are either growing plants, mining minerals, collecting gas or some combination of two or more of those processes. Now I spend most mornings and evenings running between the bases collecting the resources produced and refining them into trade commodities to bring in billions …
Read moreI've found myself in a needless resource harvesting loop. I have established multiple colonies, all of which are either growing plants, mining minerals, collecting gas or some combination of two or more of those processes. Now I spend most mornings and evenings running between the bases collecting the resources produced and refining them into trade commodities to bring in billions of units. I've essentially stopped doing anything else because I only have short windows each day to play. It's become an obsession, and I grow wealthier but for what purpose? I think I need to take a break from the resource grind.
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Status BMO Oct 28, 2020
So maybe I do need a launch PS5:
No Man’s Sky coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X on launch day with free upgrade
The reduction in load times when teleporting between bases is super attractive.
Status BMO Oct 22, 2020
I found a derelict space station. It’s exciting because the station is still configured the way all stations were at the launch of NMS. It feels especially bittersweet because it reminds me of the enjoyable time I had at launch and that everything I knew from that time is now essentially obsolete, like the station itself. The derelict not only …
I found a derelict space station. It’s exciting because the station is still configured the way all stations were at the launch of NMS. It feels especially bittersweet because it reminds me of the enjoyable time I had at launch and that everything I knew from that time is now essentially obsolete, like the station itself. The derelict not only represents a hypothetical past within the narrative space of the game, it also represents my real past. It’s a convergence of reality and experience that leaves me with a bunch of feels!
Status BMO Oct 21, 2020
I love this game but the frequent game crashes are a big damper on my enjoyment. I have save beacons all over the place as a result, but today lost a whole bunch of work synthesizing roughly 500 million to 1 billion units worth of items. That includes refined items that will take actual time to get back. I usually …
Read moreI love this game but the frequent game crashes are a big damper on my enjoyment. I have save beacons all over the place as a result, but today lost a whole bunch of work synthesizing roughly 500 million to 1 billion units worth of items. That includes refined items that will take actual time to get back. I usually save like it's going out of style, but I forgot to and now have to start all over.
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Status BMO Oct 19, 2020
My three current ships. The top, Apostle of Madness (best randomized name ever), is my primary ship. It’s an odd little S-class I found early on. I’ve dumped most of my augments into expanding it and it’s a decent little pirate killer. It’s also decent at hauling mined minerals.
The second is another S-class, a variation on the design of …
My three current ships. The top, Apostle of Madness (best randomized name ever), is my primary ship. It’s an odd little S-class I found early on. I’ve dumped most of my augments into expanding it and it’s a decent little pirate killer. It’s also decent at hauling mined minerals.
The second is another S-class, a variation on the design of Apostle of Madness. I couldn’t resist grabbing it from a Gek at a trading post.
The third is only a C-class ship but I couldn’t resist. It’s like a space hot rod. It also has a little R2-unit lookalike on the wing. I’d love to find an S-class with the same design but with all the random combinations possible I might just upgrade it down the road.
Lastly a shot of all three together.
Status BMO Oct 12, 2020
I found this little natural room-like pod on a planet earlier this week. It appears to be a natural formation and not something made by a life form. It also had natural illumination within. It was a fascinating discovery and I’ve never seen anything like it. I also couldn’t find anything else like it anywhere one the rest of the …
I found this little natural room-like pod on a planet earlier this week. It appears to be a natural formation and not something made by a life form. It also had natural illumination within. It was a fascinating discovery and I’ve never seen anything like it. I also couldn’t find anything else like it anywhere one the rest of the planet. I love this game.
Status BMO Sep 29, 2020
I found this somewhat terrifying planet in the second star system I jumped to. I affectionately call this planet the grave of stars. It is most certainly a graveyard full of starlike objects. Most of them are long dead and ossified, but a few still move about. My scanner tags them as both fauna and some sort of anomaly. The …
I found this somewhat terrifying planet in the second star system I jumped to. I affectionately call this planet the grave of stars. It is most certainly a graveyard full of starlike objects. Most of them are long dead and ossified, but a few still move about. My scanner tags them as both fauna and some sort of anomaly. The grave of stars was the first planet I visited in this system and I left in a bit of a hurry, but I think I need to take a trip back and investigate some more. Who knows what I will discover there!
Status BMO Sep 28, 2020
I've begun a new journey, starting from scratch and I am once again addicted. This also means that my tendency to take photos of landscapes featuring knowledge stones has resumed. There's just something about knowledge stones against a pretty horizon that I enjoy.
Status SIGINT Jul 26, 2020
I have always liked learning and clearing off a to-do list, and as a result found my first couple hours mining, crafting, and scanning through this game’s extended tutorial section to be pretty addictive and relaxing as it constantly feeds you new mechanics and systems to learn and make use of. I even stuck with it through terrible load times …
I have always liked learning and clearing off a to-do list, and as a result found my first couple hours mining, crafting, and scanning through this game’s extended tutorial section to be pretty addictive and relaxing as it constantly feeds you new mechanics and systems to learn and make use of. I even stuck with it through terrible load times on the OG Xbox One, occasionally sketchy performance, and a hard crash in the first 40 minutes that lost me half my early progress (yikes).
It’s just survival-y enough to be engaging but not so much that I’m overwhelmed and turned off by having to cook food every 20 minutes or whatever. My starting planet’s climate was very hostile and almost lead to my death several times before I had repaired the ship. Those tense moments right away really felt like the beginnings of my own unique player story. I think it’s about to set me loose since I’m close to being able to leave the galaxy, which is good because my eyes started glazing over the moment it started teaching me about building a complicated base. Looks like the game can appeal to a lot of different tastes. I‘m ready to go around looking for all that nice procedurally-generated animal life!
Status 8BitHero Jun 21, 2020
Yesterday I landed my ship on top of a huge rock cube. After doing so I jet packed over the edge and fell into water; this was fun.
Swam about all carefree and blissful. I got out of the water and wanted my ship back so I attempted to call if over to the bank of this beautiful pond.
I …
Yesterday I landed my ship on top of a huge rock cube. After doing so I jet packed over the edge and fell into water; this was fun.
Swam about all carefree and blissful. I got out of the water and wanted my ship back so I attempted to call if over to the bank of this beautiful pond.
I tried but the thrusters were out of fuel, gosh dang it. How the hell am I going to get fuel to my ship? I can't jet pack all the way to the top of the cube.
So I mined some Hydrogen, crafted thruster fuel, then swam over to the cube where my ship was perched helplessly on top.
I was out of range, the cube must be 500 feet tall!
Then I thought "wait a minute I can use my terrain manipulator tool! I jet packed above the water, blasted a tunnel in the cube. Landed in the tunnel. Blasted up, jetpacked, rinse and repeat. Holy crap, that was pretty fun and I solved a puzzle (how to get to my ship I left on top because, well, jumping off the side into water was too fun!).
I really love this game!
