A First time Players Review of No Man's Sky - No Man's Sky Review 

Welcome Interloper! As someone that joined this community less than a year ago, I can tell you it as been a great adventure. Take it slow, enjoy the ride and don't be shy to interact with players. Everyone loves to share and help each other. 🖖👽

its hard to imagine how it feels to start now and learn it all at once. i began at the beginning and came back with every subsequent update to learn about it and enjoy it. im glad the game survived and is still gathering new players. its truly a game worth experiencing

I started playing no man’s sky back in November and played on and off for about 50 hours since. Those first 25-30 hours were fun but a bit tedious, as there was the resource gathering part and understanding systems, but also because of my own obsession to find the perfect planet to make a base and call home, I just endlessley warped through galaxies, looking for the planet I wanted. Eventually I did, and set up a small base to start there. I then started going though my quests, now, that was when the real fun began. I started having so much fun for those next 20 hours, most of which have been in the past few weeks, and I’d return to my base occasionally and build it out a bit more each time. However, I then found a better planet, and it then clicked for me that I don’t need one base only, with the way the storage works in the game, I can have as many bases as I want, all across the galaxy, all with different designs and vibes, and then I rely understood what they meant by a universe sandbox. I have no idea what I’m gonna do each time I boot the game up, And I fucking love it.

No mans sky is the sole reason you shouldn't judge books by there covers, the complete 180 this game has pulled since its release is truthfully amazing.

For any newbies i recommend finishing the story line till yu get all the glphs and a portal,,after that yu are free to play the game how yu want as the glphs and portal opens up everything for no man sky like free ships and such,,enjoy

Haven’t watched the vid, but seriously guys, get it, get on a creative world, get the best of everything and start exploring. Been at it for nearly all day every day. Never gets boring

The comeback this game had is absolutely amazing and I couldn't be happier that there are more people actually giving it a shot!

Was playing over a year ago, started again a week ago, there’s so much to love about the game. The massive updates really make it better. I can’t stop playing now lol

As someone who has played from the beginning it's awesome to see how this game went from dying and being hated on to such an amazing game, I always loved the game and I knew it had so much potential, now it has finally delivered so much more than asked for and its really nice to see the community grow.

An honest and up-front review, and about what I'd give it. NMS is really fun -- for about the first 50 to 60 hours of gameplay. Then you start noticing something: All of the planets, creatures, plants and buildings are things you've seen before in slightly different variations. Stuff starts getting less fresh and wondrous, and starts becoming more routine and grind-y. But I'll tell you, it's a fun grind for some people, like me. Set your own goals, have your own kind of fun, and just try to overlook how many times you've seen the same squat, armadillo-like animal or giant cactus with maybe one or two extra limbs. I have over 800 hours in NMS, so this isn't just some BS I'm talking about here. I have thoroughly experienced what the game has to offer, and I can say that, if I were making it, I would not use procedural generation for the basic engine. It's a neat idea, but it just doesn't really work for open-world games.

They are doing a massive update tomorrow

I stayed away from the game at release due to how poorly received it was, but picking it up now just a week ago, I really feel like the game has grown in all the right ways. So glad they kept updating the game and never gave up on something that always had a fundamentally great concept. Glad I picked it up when I did.

I do in fact listen to the soundtrack very frequently in my spare time. Especially when driving I feel like piloting my ship.. or at least feel this peaceful freedom again

A well constructed review. Regarding the freighters or as you called them carriers. After you warp a few times you'll get a chance to save a freighter and acquire it for free.

What I'd like is having some main villain, or have the existing factions fight eachother periodically. Be able to take over systems by capturing their bases, building your fleet, arming it, and having it fight other fleets, not just trade. Having space shipyards, not just plain space trade docks. Be able to raid bases with AI Squadmates which you will arm with whatever you want.

I started playing during Path Finder. I logged over 1000 hours on various games before more updates came. I stopped playing after desolation. There’s too much to do and I feel like I need to start over. Permadeath game made it to Universe 2. I left before they really made good end-game content. It was an amazing ride.

I have never been into survival games, but I have played my fair share of No Man's Sky since the great Lockdown, it's more about this atmospheric feeling of you breaking away for a while from all the issues from life and jumping into those classic illustrations of scifi where the horizon always promises new vistas, I No Man's Sky is meditation in digital format.

It's cool to see the comments filled with people who already play the game, like myself! I've loved this game for 4 years now and it still drags me in regularly thanks to loads of new content being added. It's also very cool to see new players constantly joining the game. I'd recommend this game to most people and say take it slow, reach out to the community on Reddit, Twitch, RU-vid and Discord and you will find tons of help in no time. The community of this game is second to none and I'm proud to be part of it. You could even just go to the anomaly in game and ask people for help and they will probably be happy to show you tons of cool stuff, you will likely be gifted some valuable resources too that will help speed up your progress. You can get whatever you want out of the game, there are so many ways to play and basically an infinite game world to do it.

Funnily enough, I just started playing exactly a month ago, and I have been enjoying every minute of it! Totally agree with this review. I just subbed🤝

Oh my gosh 11K views! What’s going on here!! I’m out there enjoying the summer as a shameless slacker. You’re making legend over here!!!

I started playing this game a month ago and now it's the only game I want to play. It's not brilliant, but it's a bag of fun. And just when planets begin to seem repetitive, you see something you haven't before. I can only imagine what Hello Games would do with a sequel. But for now, there's enough regular new content and tweaks to keep me playing. I've now clocked dozens of hours and am still navigating the seeming endless supply of content.

Great review! I am a pre-purchase, day one player who has stuck with the game the last 6 years, and Hello Games has truly come through in their many free subsequent updates. Hope to see you in the Anomaly someday!

I’ve been playing this game since it came out and it was rough from the start but it’s always been stunning

Been playing since right before '19. Seen the game evolve so much in that time. Welcome to the universe, interloper

Great video. I appreciated that you didn’t cram it with redundant, useless content just to get it over 10 minutes. Cheers!

Welcome to the Galactic Brotherhood! I have over 1600 hours in this game, and I have only had it since Dec 2020. Survival Bob amd Jason Plays sold me on it. There were so many bad reviews cus if you remember... in 2020 it was hip to hate everything. Bob and Jason were having a lot of fun in NMS, so I checked it out. 1600 hours... and still not sick of it. Whenever I approach boredom, conveniently a new expedition or update drops and it comes roaring right back. Each save I have is a different playstyle. One is my building save. One is my baller save, with 4 billion space bucks, 28million nanites and everything top shelf. One is my industrialist save, i build whole systems to facilitate making Stasis Devices or nanite farms. One is an explorer/shiphunter save thats got like 50 galaxies I have been to. And my permadeath save is a Pirate. I dont mine, I dont farm. I jack freighters and sell the booty, run derelict freighters for nanites, and search for buried treasures. Once you are comfortable w the systems, do a no starter ship challenge. Ignore the Radiant pillar and that 1st part of a new game and walk til you find a crashed ship or a trade post. You may know by now, but there is an amazing community, and there are great guides for everything NMS. Bob n Jason have good gameplay guides. If you like building, check out Beeblebum and Action Pants Gaming. And Xxiou games has the best community events and chill streams. And of course... you can make some NMS content now too. Its really the best community in gaming.

My only critique: You should DEFINITELY look up the soundtrack for the game. You only hear a fraction of it while playing. No guarantee you'll like it, but its worth a shot.

What a great review in less than 5 minutes. This was a great bite sized and passionate review, and your voice is honestly chill and confident in a way that made the review even better. Great work, you get a subscribe from me!

Acquiring units can be a bit difficult at the start of ones NMS journey. Let me help you overcome that hurdle quickly, and earn a monstrous 40+ slot ship in the process. First, empty your exosuit and ship inventory for anything that can't be sold and then fly to a space station to sell the rest. Its important to save up a little bit: around 2 million+ is good so that you can start by buying low end ships. Farm the 2 mil quickly, either by selling salvaged data or by selling mined resources and then get your ass to a space station and stay there until you hit around a 100mil. Which really doesnt take that long. You just.. stay a station, jump on top of your ship and use it as a vantage point from where use your scanner to quickly see how much the ships that arrive costs. (Can only be seen with the analysis visor the second the ships hit the ground.) Run to the ships NPC, trade the ship, so that you essentially swap ships (for this to work, your ship needs to be the priciest of the two, hence a bit of starting capital.) then you *immidiately* run back to your old ship, talk to the NPC again before they leave (it takes a while for this to happen, so chill, from corner to corner of the space station, you can easily make it before they fly off with your ship). Say you wanna buy the ship, go through the same process of trading ships and you will see that one of the purchase buttons says something along the lines of: trade (Claim ship, free) There we go, now we own both ships, free of charge. Then you go to the ship initially owned by the npc, enter it to make it your current *primary* ship (VERY IMPORTANT STEP) then, go to the ship terminal at the space station, break it down for parts and sell it at the galactic trade terminal on the other side of the station. Rinse and repeat at your leisure. One loop is about 2minutes. The wait time is looking for ships, which can easily be triggered by flying and and back in to the station, if you feel that you've waited long enough without ships. This method starts slowly, if you start with a few million units, but builds RAPIDLY and you wont need units for anything after having done this for a few hours. It also farms you a metric ton of resources of all kinds from destroying ships. Fastest damn way I've ever gotten 10k Chromatic metal, lemme tell ya. 42+ slot ships net you at least 40. mil units, thousands of resources and if its an S-class, dope level upgrades for your ship as well. As a sidenote, you're obviously farming for rare ships while doing this. And they will come. They will aaaaaalll come to you. A 3 starred Gek system economy (requires economy scanner) is a real money maker. Save that station. Easily a billion in a day.

Really shocked at the sub count and view count, this was honestly a very well-made video/review. Keep it up!

yup, captures how I first felt when I got the game. But I must say that even if its a bit unethical I would suggest using money glitches. the large majority of the playerbase use dupe glitches to sell stacks of resources then use that money to most commonly, buy more resources to build. but of course other players like the feeling of the grind. either way its a fun game, Im just on the side that likes to be able to do whatever on a whim

The current expedition is a ton of fun. It's really unique that you start on a freighter for this one.

I just subscribed that was a very well done review I've been playing the game for at least 3 years now and have it on Steam and Xbox

Thank you. I've been trying to find a video that closely explains almost everything to do in NMS or at least sum it up to send to a friend of mine and yours is the only one I can find. Thank you for not just being a "before you buy!" Review.

Excellent video - glad to see a fellow traveller! I was surprised at the end of this, as I listened and I was forming my commentary, one of the things I knew I wanted to touch on was how professional and intelligent your narration was. Nice use of tone and inflection - and best of all, no um, uh, and my least favorite - the word "like" every other sentence. Good job! You have a new subscriber!

The soundtrack at the beginning of the video is just awesome. NMS has one of the best recent soundtracks!

Nice Review, it’s a game I get sucked into for 50 hours at a time. Get distracted by something else then come back to every few months and keep going. 80 plus videos you talk and present really well! I have no doubt your channel will grow much much bigger! This is my first but for sure I’ll follow along and check out some more. Can I request a review on “Soma” if you haven’t already.

Welcome to your new life :) I played from its first day and have loved it ever since even through its terrible years. Its now a beautiful game and the best space game ive played since playing Freelancer. Your voice was good btw and soothing. Keep at it.

a good strategy for making money is cobalt. get a hauler with a big inventory (I use this old beater C class) and fill it with cobalt. then go to stations and sell it all at once. this will set the demand for cobalt in that system to around -80%. you can then buy all of your cobalt back at an 80% discount. repeat this over and over for millions of units.

Love the video! Crispy clear sound and love the b-roll!

Me as a player in no man's sky with over 4,000 hours and seven different save files most of them with (S) class freighters enjoy this game it rocks and it just keeps getting better thank you for joining the no Man's sky community thank you from boss Jillian RU-vid channel

I played this for the first time recently, it was in the ps5 black friday deals...late to the party...but ive sank 20 hours into it already. Its so beautiful and captivating, especially if you are interested in the wonderment of the universe. Pure chill to play.

I first played this on ps4 when it came out. and i absolutely hated it. never touched it until NMS Next but only for about a coouple of hours, i said the update was not enough to keep me invested in the game, and earlier they released Outlaws, i saw the cape, the cool ships and i said, this might be the time to play the game seriously, and so i did, and just last month they released an update i was just thinking about, fleshing out the freighter and i absolutely loved it. i just finished the expedition yesterday and had a lot of fun interacting with people and just hanging out in the anomaly chatting with some random peeps.

all this game needs now is actual biomes, more different types of enemies and better combat.. on foot FPS combat, imagine if this game had gun combat like idk Destiny, I'm not a fan of Destiny but I will admit that the gun play is amazing..

You release just as the next update comes out today... lol... btw, gud review Btw, you can get a carrier for free after warping 5 times and playing 3 hours

Re not having a set goal: the Expeditions do exactly that, step by step goals with rewards. Welcome, Traveler! It’s unique in multiple ways, including that you pay for it once, receive many free updates and expansions, and never see a microtransaction. The welcoming, creative NMS community is unique too.

This felt like a very professional and well thought out video for how low this channels sub count is. Well done! 👍 you've got a new subscriber

Welcome to the true Neverending Story. NMS has grown, morphed, changed and evolved a great deal since day one. Every update has been free and there seems to be no end of them in sight. It's a game you can play alone or with friends. The only limit is your imagination.

Best thing about NmS is the community and the developers that really listen to their fan base.

The first time you play it, the first 300 hours, the music, the feel. Excited about every single free update.

Love your style. Keep doing your thing!

Happy to say that I was the 1000th subscriber. Great video, simple and to the point. Keep up man

1:00 Hello, Todd Howard.

Just bought the game yesterday for the first time. I remember all the negative press back in 2016, but was never really interested (felt like they were overpromising). Fast forward 5 years, I kept hearing people say "man, all they need to do is No Man Sky that game" and I was like "wut?" Last night, was looking for a new game to play alone / with my partner. Stumbled upon No Mans Sky. Read a few reviews and it seemed interesting. Mind you, I had zero expectations... Started at 8 PM last night. Ended at 3 AM because I had stuff to do today. When i'm done with said stuff, I'm going back to play more. What an absolute gem. Hoping that this doesn't sound too nooby, but it feels like Subnautica in Space, and I loved Subnautica... everything about NMS, so far, has been amazing.

Godlike content quality. Subbed.

I'm planning to buy NMS today but looked for recent reviews. Yours is really great, I'm gonna buy it now :) thank you!

Amazing review and with quality; I enjoyed watching it while eating my breakfast

Great review, thank you.

Thanks for making this review about your experience instead of making a comparison. I’m definitely gonna buy this 😃

Good review. Interested in more NMS content.

How do you have less than 1000 subs. Really good review bro, keep it up. New sub 👍

Every update has stabilized multiplayer a bit more, and I'm noticing little hints here and there in lore and team missions point towards larger group missions now and in the future. It use to cap out around 10 or 20 I think, now I go to community events where 30 people are on a planet, with no major issues. Sometimes if it's an insanely huge base it doesn't load right for some people. With all the latest weapon updates PvP has been a ton of fun. I'm not sure why people don't think PvP is any good - they must not look for the people that do it. Fantastic game! Fantastic review. Subbed :)

Welcome my friend i joined the nms community recently

Great review man!

Great review friend!

I’d give it an A minus instead of your B plus just for the PSVR experience. The ‘minus’ on that A has less to do with Hello and more to just the PS4 trying to run VR with the hardware at hand. In spite of the long load times and the draw distances, this game was incredible for me. I remember anticipating it back in the day, but I purchased it after all the updates and patches landed. I’m actually giving away my PS4 and PSVR to my brother in anticipation of the PSVR2 launch. I know this vid didn’t get into it but NMS is truly a fantastic example of entry level VR. Sony polishes their product and there’s just no better way to experience a game like this when you look down and see a different body, arms moving around in real time, the sun of some alien planet washing out the glass on the screen of your ship so you have to lean your head a bit go the left to get a better view.

Welcome to NMS friend! The community is almost as good as the game btw :)

An honest review of the game, great video! 💪

This is going to be a million+ subbed channel

Set a personal record for consecutive game play when I 1st started... Only complaint is once you learn it is too easy to make $$ IMO (I would also not recommend taking any hand-outs when you first start)

Started playing this game with a friend. My journey began on an hostile frozen planet. After dying over 20 times to frost damage or some random sentential only to repair one module I got so frustrated with the game I quit playing for a while. Picked it up a few weeks later and with a lot of frustration got my spaceship finally repaired only to find out that the game gets extremely repetitive and boring really fast. After a while all the planets look the same. On top of that the multiplayer section is non existent. No base building together, every multiplayer mission is nothing more than a glorified single player mission. The game just feels empty for me.

I miss the days of open mics in the anomaly .

Nice review, and good on you for recognising that it's not perfect or for everyone. Some people want it to be the 'everygame' altogether in one. Also, a new update just dropped. I hope you don't mind me adding you to my list of 'People who reviewed the game right as a bunch of new features were added.' XD

Great review

I want to be a space cowboy! I’ll definitely buy and play this.

welcome to space my man hope you enjoy it for more hours to come.

I just recently got NMS and I haven’t had more fun playing a game in a long time.

My first video games were on the BBC acorn electron around 1984 (I think) which at the time, blew me away. But I always wanted a sci fi game and No Mans Sky has come very close to. There was the original Elite, but I never played that. Gamers are incredibly spoilt nowadays with the variety of games that are available! I look at what is available now compared to then and it’s amazing that we not only have large worlds to play around in but with NMS, an entire galaxy! Mind blowing! And yet, people still complain.

yup i got the game not long after it came out and since then have went through times when ive played it for ages then left it for ages, right now i cant put the joypad down as i now have two living ships and am about to build a mold farm so i can get nanites a wee tip: getting the eggs for a living ship can take a while so plug in your joypad to charge and stand inside the anomaly, sooner or later some cool guy will give you one in fact someone gave me five😃 as well as someone giving me items to sell that gave me 3 billion 😁

Welcome, Traveller. You are not alone. I find you'll enjoy this 5 course meal of sci-fi and redemption.

I just loaded up game a couple days ago and it is do overwhelming and interesting

Welcome traveler. :)

Legend says that he still hasn't put down his controller yet

If you want an interactive way to earn a lot of credits (meaning no farming), then all you need to do is get yourself a cheap hauler class ship, the better ones can be found in Wealthy 3 star economies, empty as much space as you can in the cargo bay (48 slots max), then crash the economy in wealthy systems. You do this by purchasing the entire stock of an item from a space station until the purchasing price drops to about 79% the galactic average. The most lucrative way is to purchase those items that are worth like 50k per item. Once the price drops to it's max threshold you then buy back the entire stock once more and sell it at a different star system. This method is also the most lucrative way to run a trade route between economy types because each economy sells special items that sell really well at the adjacent economy in the cycle.

Voice was great, no worries. 👍

Love your voice.

I just suscribed to check games before i bye them like no mans sky i thought it was bad but gave it a chance and now im addictid

It’s a lot to absorb right off the start. Take it slow and just explore. 👽👍👍

totally great in Vr too

Just purchased a PS4 Pro, mainly getting advanced start on it as part of my retro console collection ….mad eh?! Made a bee line for NMS and Cyberpunk as each has had time to bed in and benefit from patches.

I don’t even like playing apex legends after playing no man’s sky, only thing I want is a dedicated server for a pvp experience like rust. Yes there’s multiplayer but a server to hold more than I think 20 players would be cool af, I’d also like them to fix the duplication bugs so people are forced to become self sufficient and actually learn how to play the game

I already know the game is great. I wanted to see this video so I can hear other ppl talk about how great it is :)

First time players "What do i do...i dont get any of this!" Long time player's and day one players (Myself)....."FFS......what do you want? Me to hold your hand?"

good review good game

No Man's Sky is another great example, after Sea of Thieves, what can happen if developers actually care. Sea of Thieves also was a disaster at launch (not as big as NMS tho), and now it's THE coop game to play with a bunch of friends just for shits and giggles. I tried NMS five times and never played for longer than 30 minutes before uninstalling it. This time, I forced myself through the initial experience, and it clicked. Oh boy, how it clicked. After learning the basics, I jumped into the Polestar expedition (finished now), and I'm having a blast. This game is a wonder. I can't stop thinking about it. If Xbox game pass contained only No Man's Sky and Sea of Thieves, I would still pay for the subscription. It's games like these that are a shy ray of light in the vast ocean of shit that is the modern game industry.

I think it needs some more optimization, but NMS is easily my favorite VR title.

The fact that you can mod the game makes it 10x better.

The graphics are dependent on what console or pc you’re playing on. If you’re playing of a hard drive you’ll get pop in but it is reduced big time playing on an SSD. The level of detail & texture is great through out and planetary sparseness doesn’t change that. Every world isn’t going to be a paradise planet. Some are supposed to be barren & a bit ugly.

I’m interested in NMS. Is it possible to just venture out and do what you want and unlock more items without having to follow the storyline? Thanks in advance.

Like Subnautica the heart of the game is the exploration.