No Man's Sky Is (Almost) The Only Space Sim That Isn't A Disappointment
While No Man's Sky may have been a disappointment at launch six years ago, it has managed to grow and evolve, releasing over a dozen major updates in that time and rivaling the competition as one of the best space sims on the market. The space genre has been growing at a rapid pace over the past couple decades, with popular games rising through the ranks such as Elite Dangerous, Star Citizen, The Outer Worlds, EVERSPACE 2, and EVE Online to name a few, all of which have accumulated massive player counts over the years and become staples within the genre. While these games excel at providing expansive worlds and detailed mechanics, they tend to lack content in other areas that No Man's Sky includes on top of its space-based gameplay elements, especially with No Man's Sky's RPG elements in the Outlaws update that released last month.
The space genre has grown to encompass many sci-fi tropes, from spaceships and aliens to the mysteries of the universe. While many of the genre's most popular games include these elements, No Man's Sky includes them in a seamless way that incorporates them all into a singular gameplay whole in its overarching story. Games likeElite Dangerous include quests between warring factions and charting the galaxy to find rare resources, but the player perspective is primarily fixed to the inside of a ship or a rover, making it difficult to fully experience new planets if the player can't get out and walk around on most of them. This problem also exists in games like EVE Online and EVERSPACE 2, where the spaceship essentially acts as the player character, with no way to leave it.
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With each title taking its own approach to the genre, with
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