Hello, I’m eyeing No Man’s Sky for past 10 years and haven’t decided it’s a game for me yet. On paper it’s my childhood dream come true - deep space, commanding ships, discovering planets, seeing alien life forms, basically everything I dreamt about as a kid reading Clarke and Asimov…
I’m not a kid anymore, but the itch is still there to some degree. Nowadays I do enjoy slower paced RPGs, interesting story and distinctive art and music style. Thinking games like old KOTORs, Morrowind, Gothic, or Pillars of Eternity, Disco Elysium or Pentiment from newer ones. I did enjoy some hours in Valheim too, but more like exploring and not so much building and micro managing the base. And I play slow. Really slow. I tend to discover all the corners of the map before moving on, just to “check” if there’s something of interest (old Gothic was amazing for this).
Is No Man’s Sky worth its asking price for me? Or will it crush me with never ending space, billions of quests and tedious base building? Does it have “main story line” or something like that?
NMS is closer to Minecraft in genre than a story driven RPG.
It’s an exploration and survival sandbox game, with a little bit of story sprinkled on top.
The most similar game I’ve played to it is Out There. No Man’s Sky is extremely similar to Out There in a lot of ways, except NMS is 3D and things like mining or fighting you have to do in-game rather than in a fade-to-black style cutscene.
Give Out There a try, and if you like it, you will love No Man’s Sky. If you don’t like it, you will probably find No Man’s Sky more enjoyable but a bit bland. Out There is on smartphone app stores as well as Steam.