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?
No Man’s Sky doesn’t sound like thr game you’re looking for. Nothing in this universe is crafted to be interesting – there is no exploring every corner of the world to find the last secret interaction, because there are no setpieces.
Everything is generated. There are no real quests, or characters, or stories, there is only you and your ship and the bases you build along the way. You can create your own stories, but you will not be experiencing storytelling.
It’s morrowind without the cities or people or combat. There are fun parts to it, but I don’t think the things that you look for in games are what you’ll find here, based on the other games you listed.