No Man's Sky Cosmos

“I've never seen something so damn ambitious pulled off to the extent I've seen in NMS”

“It's more than good enough for me and the roughly 10K typical players per month”

“story is lacking and only reason to progress "main quest" is to unlock certain things by doing the same thing over and over again”

“I like NMS the way it is, like Minecraft, a sandbox.”

“2,000+ variants that still funnel through one predesigned interaction system is not variety.”

“NMS gameplay is just too lonely and when i used to play it, it would reinforce my sense of extreme loneliness”

“it tries to be everything for everyone, and is relentlessly friendly”

“combat is a joke and I can perma farm max bounties playing with my toes”

“Every time I come back to the game and try a new update, the game is indeed sparse after a few hours, and the novelty wears off”

“The systems in the game are very shallow, and overall, everything is too easy, which makes the game feel bland.”

“they could probably have easily had the pvp and economy and soverignty of eve”

“Oh, my mistake, now that you've explained it like this it is magically fun for me now.”

“It's beyond the pale for people to write tablets that are effectively mundane things”

“It also has a narrative, several well-executed threads of them.”

“the missions to go to some random town and talk to someone and escort them back? Horrible.”

“Many of the day 1 game breaking bugs still exist and every time I play it every couple years, they're still there.”

“Would No Man's Sky really be that much different if it just shipped with a handful of pre-defined planets?”

“For me it's the asteroids. Having space being so densely populated with procedural asteroids is immediately, irreversibly immersion breaking”

“the Steam reviews now are generally quite positive from players who've logged tons of hours”

“It's fine to be angry at how the circumstances of NMS's launch, and be sore that Hello Games is getting any praise after all that.”

“This game was an amazing early access release in all but name.”

“The version I bought on Steam runs fine on Linux (in Proton of course).”

“It's a chill sandbox and that's fine.”

“It's a sandbox game yet when it comes to its "space" premise everything is thrown out the window.”

“I've definitely got $25 worth of entertainment from it.”

“it's a factually untrue thing to say "there's nothing to do, game is sparse after a few hours"”

“I won't deny there's probably only 20-40 hours of "real content" in the game.”

“It has a Steam Review Score of 84%”

“thousands of people are continuously happy, the subreddit expresses joy”

“hyping up the game beyond what it could actually do when it was released”

“an unbeatable deal for what it is as a game but it's a frustrating near miss”

“In contrast, No Man's Sky world gen feels pretty tangent to the actual gameplay.”

“it's just a chill game you can potter about doing whatever you want in”

“you can easily miss it if you don't play for 40+ hours”

“It's 10% baked at best. This isn't a game; it's an underwhelming tech demo.”

“their decision to launch before the game was ready”

“it feels fundamentally the same as all the other things you've seen”

“there is little point in simulating the vastness of the universe in a video game”

“a lot of it can feel samey (most of the scanning) and kinda boring”

“The team is excellent and they ship incredible ambitious work.”