Game

No Man's Sky

2016 · Xbox Series X|S · PlayStation VR2 · PlayStation 4 · Nintendo Switch 2 · PlayStation VR · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Shooter · Simulator · Adventure

73IGDB player score
674 ratings

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A 73 average, but 674 ratings means plenty of people love it anyway. Survival is the whole game — scarce resources, bad odds, and every small win feeling huge. The story is the main course; the multiplayer is the reason it's still installed years later.

About this game

No Man's Sky is an action-adventure survival game set in a procedurally generated universe containing over 18 quintillion planets. Players explore star systems, gather resources, trade with alien species, and upgrade their equipment while following an overarching narrative involving a mysterious entity called the Atlas. The game is built around four pillars: exploration, survival, combat, and trading. Since its 2016 launch, it has received numerous free updates adding multiplayer, base building, fleet management, and virtual reality support.

A Traveller wakes on a remote planet with amnesia and must repair their crashed starship. Compelled by an unknown force to reach the centre of the galaxy, the Traveller encounters three alien species and discovers a space anomaly housing two beings, Nada and Polo, who speak of a strange entity at the galaxy's core. Along the way, the Traveller receives transmissions from another lost Traveller named Artemis, investigates their fate, and ultimately comes face to face with the Atlas, a cosmic being managing a simulated universe. The Traveller must choose whether to reset the simulation or reject the Atlas and continue exploring freely.