I've had this game for a while now and just kind of had it sitting on the back burner. Since it's been getting better reviews lately and I needed something that would work on my Steam Deck, I loaded it up, not really sure what to expect.

It's actually loads of fun. It's not an RPG with a story line that draws you in immediately, although there is a central mystery. I'm not even sure that I'm some kind of chosen one. I might just be a random traveller in a big universe.

It's more one of those games that feeds a kind of obsessiveness; exploring, finding things, learning new languages, meeting aliens, building a home, and ultimately following a strange signal out into space.

It does space travel and planetary travel very well, much better than Starfield did. I'm having so much fun just tooling around out there that I keep forgetting that are, in fact, quest lines to follow. The planets are procedurally generated, but they are distinctively different from one another, enough so that I'm not bored.

Quite enjoyable.

Thanks so much for your impressions of the game. I remember when it came out that it had some issues, but apparently now it's really good; they spent years making the game better and better. I will show your post to my son, who was also considering giving it a whirl.

I need to check into this one! Thanks, hagatha!

As I said, not a traditional RPG by any means. Not story-driven. I like it because it is a little obsessive. I play Fallout 4 now just so that i can build stuff. This game is a bit like that.

I also hadn't realized that other players are around in my game in the space stations. You can team up , apparently. But I'm always a lone wanderer.



I had my first big blunder last night -- lost an entire inventory by answering a couple of texts and not realizing that my character had died of cold exposure not once but several times.

Note to self: save game before going off to do anything else.

No Man's Sky is a sandbox game like Minecraft, with exploration, survival, building, and crafting as the main focus. Storytelling is just secondary. Other than the threadbare main quest, there is no other quest. There is lore, of course, but lore shouldn't be confused with stories. You can find info on alien races, planet types, technology of space travels, things of that nature. That's lore. But you won't find any RPG-type story elements -- plot, characters, side quests, etc. It's an enjoyable game if you like sandbox games. I've played it for over 100 hours, and I've built different types of homes, discovered different planets, and built many spaceships.

I haven't got to the spaceship-building part of the game for lack of money, but that's because I've been planet-hopping.