I really wanted to like this game, and I did like this game until it did show glaring signs of repetition, 2 hours into the game. One thing to remember: this is a space sim game, space sim's are most likely not for everyone. I for one, love EvE online & X3 terran conflict. But this game was hyped to such extreme proportions that there was no way it could live up to expectations, but what we got instead was disasterous.

I'm going to start out with some basic complaints.

The UI is basically a copy paste from the PS4 exclusive game "Destiny." A Inventory system / menu system that was dreadded amongst players, obviously created to make it easier for the console players, but did not work that well in practice. Well- now it's made it's way to the PC market, in no man's sky. The fact that I have to go in to options in order to exit the game is just pure madness. In short: The UI is a mess.

You'd think a game that focuses on space travel would put a lot of work and thought in to actually commandeering your own space ship? Well, you are incredibly wrong. The controls (played most of the time with a controller, but I did try out with a keyboard and mouse.) are so damn sluggish. The ship feels so damn limited and just slow. Space combat is just a dogfight, a constant dogfight with you being unable to do the manouvers you'd think you'd be able to do, since they're logical, but ah, you are in the wrong, you can't do them. This game is so scared of letting you out into the vast unknown that it even steers your ship for you. Yes, that's right! You can't crash into anything when you're on a planet's surface. It's like a invisible field pulling you away from the mountain. Spaceship dogfighting on planets are so damn horrible- since the AI's ships can go so close to the ground, but you can't because of reasons, i guess! In space, that's where it get's infuriation. I've lost count on how many times i've warped from one system to another, only to crash into an asteroid, spacestation or a cargo ship. You feel as if you want to avoid space combat as much as possible, because it is not rewarding at all. Some space shuttles are sending you a distress call, and is being attacked by 10 ships? Don't bother, you won't get anything for it, except for faction standing being increased, something which you can't even track the progress on.


Milestones. Good god, the milestones. The game has it's on way of giving you achievements, they are called Milestones. They completely block up your UI and make you unable to do anything (well almost anything) when they pop up. They cover your screen only to say "YOU WALKED X AMOUNT OF MILES." or "WARPED X AMOUNT OF TIMES." In the beginning, you try to shy it off, but it happens so frequenmt it drives you nuts. Try not to go crazy when you're in a space dogfigt and suddenly "MILESTONE ACHIEVED" pops up.


Space is a dark, cold and empty place.
One thing the developer did correctly is to create the sense of you being alone out there, because at first this was a multiplayer game, and then it wasn't. I for one, do not care that much for it. However: There is no interaction whatsoever. There's no NPC or race that you will feel attatched to over time. You can see you reputation standing with a race by the left coner, when talking to one of the many races, not knowing how your progress is doing. You'll learn their language by doing them favors, finding monolith's and knowledge stones with cryptic messages that make absoloutely no sense whatsoever. It's a vast game of nothing.

You go in to a space station, there's most likely 1 npc there, something you can learn from him/her, cool. NPC's fly in to the hangar and you can do trading with them, cool. Can you have proper conversations with them? No. Does any race and/or NPC have a distinct personality? No. I might not have played enough in order to encounter this- but there's not one city in all of the planets i've been to. Not one foothold of civilizastion except for the space stations, so all you are doing is exploring barren wasteland with a few outposts that contain 1-2 NPC's that have the personality of a rock.



I did mention that the game became repetetive after 2 hours as well. I chose not to apply for a refund, because I thought there was no way whatsoever that I could've experienced a glimpse of the game at just two hours. But the thing is, i had. This is a game, about exploring, that punishes you for exploring with such monotinous tasks as "THRUSTER FUEL EMPTY" and/or "NOT ENOUGH THRUSTER FUEL." You start the game off at a random planet, trying to find resources so you can fix your ship up, that you've crashed on the planet. Once gathered the resources, you lift off. ANd you will lift off a lot on a single planet. But just 2-3 times is enough for you to run out of fuel, so you try to find plutonium for your thrusters, but by doing that, you limit your inventory slots which are exteremely limiting from the get-go.

So you charge up your fuel, decide to lift with your ship and a glitch tosses you out to space when you lift off and you crash into an asteroid (which you can't land on even though the game devs have said you can land on asteroids.) So, you make your way back, find a new place to farm, land, BOOM, thrusters down to 65%. Oh, ok. Rinse and repeat, gather material for 10 minutes, go to the space station, sell off, etc. That's it, that's the core mechanic. Hello games said you could do a lot of different things in this game, instead of gathering resources. Which is a complete and utter blatant lie. You HAVE To gather resources, and the game punishes you for going out to gather resources.

When you finally get more inventory slots in your exosuit and a ship with a reasonable amount of inventory slots, you'll farm (instead of 10 minutes) 20 minutes! Since you've an upgraded mining laser so gathering material goes faster, and you know what, i can get that. What to you do when you sell off your riches to the space sation? Well you save up for a new ship, of course! There's nothing else to do! What do you look for in a new ship? A ship with more slots of course! And that's the premise of the game.

This game is so boring, i can't believe it. It lacks so much when it promised to offer so much. It is a slap in the face for consumers and a blatant lie. One of the screenshots at the store page (the 4'th one) shows of an event that will NEVER happen in the entierty of the game, in it's current state.

I really wanted to like this game, and I did like this game until it did show glaring signs of repetition, 2 hours into the game. One thing to remember: this is a space sim game, space sim's are most likely not for everyone. I for one, love EvE online & X3 terran conflict. But this game was hyped to such extreme proportions that there was no way it could live up to expectations, but what we got instead was disasterous. I'm going to start out with some basic complaints. The UI is basically a copy paste from the PS4 exclusive game "Destiny." A Inventory system / menu system that was dreadded amongst players, obviously created to make it easier for the console players, but did not work that well in practice. Well- now it's made it's way to the PC market, in no man's sky. The fact that I have to go in to options in order to exit the game is just pure madness. In short: The UI is a mess. You'd think a game that focuses on space travel would put a lot of work and thought in to actually commandeering your own space ship? Well, you are incredibly wrong. The controls (played most of the time with a controller, but I did try out with a keyboard and mouse.) are so damn sluggish. The ship feels so damn limited and just slow. Space combat is just a dogfight, a constant dogfight with you being unable to do the manouvers you'd think you'd be able to do, since they're logical, but ah, you are in the wrong, you can't do them. This game is so scared of letting you out into the vast unknown that it even steers your ship for you. Yes, that's right! You can't crash into anything when you're on a planet's surface. It's like a invisible field pulling you away from the mountain. Spaceship dogfighting on planets are so damn horrible- since the AI's ships can go so close to the ground, but you can't because of reasons, i guess! In space, that's where it get's infuriation. I've lost count on how many times i've warped from one system to another, only to crash into an asteroid, spacestation or a cargo ship. You feel as if you want to avoid space combat as much as possible, because it is not rewarding at all. Some space shuttles are sending you a distress call, and is being attacked by 10 ships? Don't bother, you won't get anything for it, except for faction standing being increased, something which you can't even track the progress on. Milestones. Good god, the milestones. The game has it's on way of giving you achievements, they are called Milestones. They completely block up your UI and make you unable to do anything (well almost anything) when they pop up. They cover your screen only to say "YOU WALKED X AMOUNT OF MILES." or "WARPED X AMOUNT OF TIMES." In the beginning, you try to shy it off, but it happens so frequenmt it drives you nuts. Try not to go crazy when you're in a space dogfigt and suddenly "MILESTONE ACHIEVED" pops up. Space is a dark, cold and empty place. One thing the developer did correctly is to create the sense of you being alone out there, because at first this was a multiplayer game, and then it wasn't. I for one, do not care that much for it. However: There is no interaction whatsoever. There's no NPC or race that you will feel attatched to over time. You can see you reputation standing with a race by the left coner, when talking to one of the many races, not knowing how your progress is doing. You'll learn their language by doing them favors, finding monolith's and knowledge stones with cryptic messages that make absoloutely no sense whatsoever. It's a vast game of nothing. You go in to a space station, there's most likely 1 npc there, something you can learn from him/her, cool. NPC's fly in to the hangar and you can do trading with them, cool. Can you have proper conversations with them? No. Does any race and/or NPC have a distinct personality? No. I might not have played enough in order to encounter this- but there's not one city in all of the planets i've been to. Not one foothold of civilizastion except for the space stations, so all you are doing is exploring barren wasteland with a few outposts that contain 1-2 NPC's that have the personality of a rock. I did mention that the game became repetetive after 2 hours as well. I chose not to apply for a refund, because I thought there was no way whatsoever that I could've experienced a glimpse of the game at just two hours. But the thing is, i had. This is a game, about exploring, that punishes you for exploring with such monotinous tasks as "THRUSTER FUEL EMPTY" and/or "NOT ENOUGH THRUSTER FUEL." You start the game off at a random planet, trying to find resources so you can fix your ship up, that you've crashed on the planet. Once gathered the resources, you lift off. ANd you will lift off a lot on a single planet. But just 2-3 times is enough for you to run out of fuel, so you try to find plutonium for your thrusters, but by doing that, you limit your inventory slots which are exteremely limiting from the get-go. So you charge up your fuel, decide to lift with your ship and a glitch tosses you out to space when you lift off and you crash into an asteroid (which you can't land on even though the game devs have said you can land on asteroids.) So, you make your way back, find a new place to farm, land, BOOM, thrusters down to 65%. Oh, ok. Rinse and repeat, gather material for 10 minutes, go to the space station, sell off, etc. That's it, that's the core mechanic. Hello games said you could do a lot of different things in this game, instead of gathering resources. Which is a complete and utter blatant lie. You HAVE To gather resources, and the game punishes you for going out to gather resources. When you finally get more inventory slots in your exosuit and a ship with a reasonable amount of inventory slots, you'll farm (instead of 10 minutes) 20 minutes! Since you've an upgraded mining laser so gathering material goes faster, and you know what, i can get that. What to you do when you sell off your riches to the space sation? Well you save up for a new ship, of course! There's nothing else to do! What do you look for in a new ship? A ship with more slots of course! And that's the premise of the game. This game is so boring, i can't believe it. It lacks so much when it promised to offer so much. It is a slap in the face for consumers and a blatant lie. One of the screenshots at the store page (the 4'th one) shows of an event that will NEVER happen in the entierty of the game, in it's current state.