Over eight years after the controversial launch of No Man’s Sky, Steam consumer critiques have steadily climbed for Hey Video games’ magnum opus. It just lately reached a brand new milestone, with All Critiques turning “Very Optimistic” for the primary time. At the moment of writing, 248,701 consumer critiques give the space-faring title a thumbs-up.

In fact, it wasn’t simply time and forgiveness that resulted on this shift, as Hey Video games has launched one main replace after one other. Engine programmer Martin Griffiths mirrored on this in a brand new tweet, noting the significance of resilience and “to try to strive once more should you initially fail.”

Studio founder Sean Murray post-launch echoed this post-launch to Griffiths, who was “grateful for that synchronicity.” He mentioned the ranking “means an terrible lot” and that the workforce isn’t “even near being completed but.”

It’s saying loads contemplating all the pieces Hey Video games has added to this point, together with mechs, derelicts, underwater base-building, residing ships, fishing, ship salvaging, corrupted planets, a Sentinel revamp, and rather more. It even overhauled planet era, wind simulation, water, and extra whereas regularly enhancing the visuals (together with including 8K assist on PS5 Professional).

No Man’s Sky is offered for PS4, PS5, PC, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X/S, and Nintendo Change.

Rising up in a small, fairly tough city in South Wales, I used to be fortunate to have superb mother and father that taught me resilience and to try to strive once more should you initially fail:

Shortly after the preliminary launch of #NoMansSky I had a gathering with Sean in a pub in Guildford and all the pieces… https://t.co/eVsy9cY9WZ

— Martin Griffiths (@Griff_) November 27, 2024