After eight long years, the Steam reviews for No Man’s Sky are finally great

Tuesday, August 9, 2016. After months of hype, Hello Games’ extremely ambitious space adventure is released No man’s sky is finally released. And it’s a disappointment. It’s not what anyone hoped. This used to be the whole story. But in the modern gaming world, the end of development is just the beginning. Between updates, revisions, new versions, patches and a gradual expansion of the original vision, in eight years No Man’s Sky has finally become the game its creators and players dreamed of. Its success is reflected in various metrics, but now NMS can claim the most coveted status symbol in PC gaming: “very positive” Steam reviews.

The latest No Man’s Sky update adds cross-saves and a tie-in to the sci-fi epic Mass Effect. It’s a testament to Hello Games’ commitment to the space game – even if the first installment was less than the never-ending intergalactic odyssey players expected, after almost a decade, No Man’s Sky finally feels like the adventure it was should be. And now it can wear its success on its sleeve.

As of today, Wednesday November 27th, more than eight years after No Man’s Sky was first released, it has finally received a “very positive” Steam rating based on lifetime reviews. More than 245,000 players have left their comments since 2016, and now finally just over 80% of them are overall positive. This catapults No Man’s Sky from the still admirable “mostly positive” category into the much more glamorous world of VPs, the very positive ones – games like Elden Ring, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Civilization 6.

Of course, there’s still another mountain to climb: If 95% of No Man’s Sky reviews are positive, it will reach the thermospheric heights of “overwhelmingly positive,” the most exclusive of the exclusive, Steam equivalent of the Forbes 500 list. Portal 2. Stardew Valley. Balatro. It’s a small club, but after all this effort and self-improvement, perhaps one that No Man’s Sky belongs to.

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