This game is the true open-universe experience. The game makes an incredible effort into giving every single planet something unique but not off-putting. The exploration and loading times are pretty much non-existent and more than once have I been shocked by how well the game made it seem like I was really exploring a completely different universe. The amount of stars not to mention planets is completely unimaginable. There are millions (literally) of solar systems. I tried exploring all the universe in the interface map and I couldn't see even a 0.001% of all there was in 30 minutes of just moving around the map. Being able to be the first person to truly discover something in a videogame is an amazing experience and this game really rewards you for it. This game is a must try, an amazing experience.

No mans sky is one of the few examples of a game that had a bad launch and actually made a recovery. Over the 8 years since the games initial release, no mans sky has received numerous free content updates containing a variety of new things to do which makes the game feel full of life. The story of NMS is nothing to write home about, it's a pretty generic scifi plot but that can easily be ignored due to how fun the gameplay is. All in all, no mans sky is definitely worth a play in 2024 thanks to its many free updates since launch which make for the definitive space exploration game.