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?
I’m approaching almost a thousand hours played in NMS (according to Steam), 90% of that in VR. NMS frequently goes on sale at 50% off and is well worth that price, IMO.
You can play it for the exploration, the base building, the ship building, farming, animal husbandry, faction alignment, piracy, settlement overseeing… There are lots of things that you can do, or not do, depending on how you like to play.
That said, taking off from the planet surface and flying seamlessly to the stars in VR is phenomenal.