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No Man’s Sky had an admittedly disastrous release with the game being sold at full price but “Fucking Raw” as Gordon Ramsey would say. Hello Games continued to cook and has keeps releasing free updates that have turned its reviews around from Mostly Negative to Mostly Positive (on Steam) over the last few years.
I love this game and considered it fully baked a while ago but they just keep adding to an already delectable journey.
This image was rendered in Blender, most images sourced from Hello Games’ official website other than a few Expedition images that I put together. I’ll comment a link to my wix site where this image can be viewed in full quality since Reddit decided to compress images recently.
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All data sourced from Hello Games’ official website (source: https://www.nomanssky.com/voyagers-update/ )
Image compiled & rendered in Blender3D (tool)
Since Reddit compresses the quality even when I’ve met their file size limit, I’ve created one of those free websites to host my renders better. View the images in the gallery for full quality and I’ve enabled the download option. I’ll keep working on it but this will do for now:
https://sethmichaelca.wixsite.com/sethsstudio
By the time the Beyond update released in 2020, I was already hearing people saying that the game had redeemed itself, which makes it all the more crazy that the rate of updates has only increased since then.
The data is hard to interpret. I’m not sure how that graph reads. There’s lines going up and down in some areas, and no idea what lines lead to what items. Not beautiful data IMO.
When I saw the news about creating custom ships from scratch, I decided to give it another try. The inventory issues and amount of grinding were annoying last time I tried it.
I have immense respect for the developers of NMS for doing this, but I’m not sure if the game will ever be great. It’s still a repetitive grind with very little to do. Don’t get me wrong, couple hundred hours in couple of galaxies (in 2025) was nice, but it’s still a sandbox with surprisingly similar planets in every system.
dog imma be real. this game is still boring af. typical run of the mill gather and craft game. its a glorified minecraft clone.
“A post must be or contain a qualifying data visualisation.”
Your post is missing the qualifying data.
I tried to pick it up again after several years since last played, I noted a lot of ‘shiny new things’ added, with base building, space stations, some directed mission content, the singularity station. Yet as before, my interest spiked early and came down hard. The game feels rudderless in a way Minecraft never did for me. Example: I liked following a trail that led to a distress signal, which led to a damaged and abandon ship only to have the same thing repeat in the next system and then again. I like all the free ships, but dang, its just so repetitive.
I had this idea, whereby Hello Games keeps developing the main IP while handing over narrative scenario development to small developers. This could produce a tidy income for both and give the player more directed and meaningful experiences within areas of the vast galaxy.
are they all free or its also some paid content?
This is really not a fit for dataisbeautiful..
Look, I know this isn’t a popular happy opinion, but No Man’s Sky is unredeemable.
The developers lied their way into millions of dollars of preorders, and have never actually made that up or come clean to their audience.
Spending the time and money to improve NMS is the only thing they could do, because Sean Murray *should* have been run out of the industry on a rail.
It is trivially easy to do what they’ve done with the money they made, and the total lack of other options they had. I’m saying that with 20+ years of experience as a game dev who ran his own team for years.
This isn’t a “developer did right by their audience” story. It’s a “con man fleeced millions from his audience with blatant lies, then does the only thing he can to have any future career whatsoever”.
Hello Games deserves no respect, no praise, no “redemption”.
So wait. If I buy a car and all they give me is the frame – and then over the course of 10 years they slowly assemble the car I bought with “free” updates (tires 2018, windows 2019, engine 2020, steering wheel 2021) so that by the end it’s what should have had in the first place, would you celebrate that too? Or call it a fckn scam like it actually is?
Stop celebrating companies scamming consumers and pretending they’re doing something special that should have been done in the beginning. You people are gullible.
NMS is a great story but sorry to say I don’t think this presentation of the data tells it, at all.
What the hell is the Y axis? I also can’t read the names of the uodates unless I zoom in SUPER far