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Will I like No Man's Sky? It's on sale right now and considering it and one other game. (hexbear.net)

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Is No Man's Sky a good game after all the updates and fixing and adding all the stuff they promised?

I love space stuff but am not the biggest fan of Minecraft style crafting/mining. I don't mind it in Stardew and factory games are a favorite genre of mine, for reference. Basically I like the mechanics but it matters how they are implemented.

I've been trying to find a game that I can just turn my brain off and chill after a long day and right now Stardew is starting to get a bit stale(or I'm just dreading winter since there isn't much to do).

The game looks beautiful and I did spend maybe 100 hours on Starbound, which is like 2D NMS I think, but even on sale, it's at the upper limit I'd like to spend.

The other game is Hyperlight Drifter and it's $6 right now so I'm probably gonna get that one regardless.

Edit: I went ahead and grabbed it. I think my kid will also enjoy watching me play it.

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[–] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

You can run trade routes for money, although what that amounts to is finding a route through a bunch of systems and then running through them buying low and selling high at each stop. The trade system is pretty barebones tho, nothing as deep as old Privateer or X games- economies are static and your actions don't really affect the local markets.

Later on in the game you can get a capital ship and hire fleets of freighters to send out on expeditions, but mechanically it's just a passive way to farm resources rather than a management sim mini-game.