No Man's Sky
Fly between generated planets, gather resources and improve your equipment, with this edition adding multiplayer exploration and planetary settlements to oversee.
- AI score · out of 10
- 9.0 / 10
About this game
Pilot a starship across a procedurally generated universe, land on planets and collect resources to trade for equipment. Choose upgrades for your ship, weapon and suit, and improve your engines to reach farther destinations while pursuing exploration, trade or combat. Nintendo Switch 2 Edition also supports discovering, building and fighting alongside other players. You can oversee planetary settlements, constructing and upgrading their buildings as another ongoing project between journeys. Online play requires an internet connection and paid Nintendo Switch Online membership.
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A flexible space expedition for players who want shared journeys or a settlement to develop between discoveries.
Multiplayer can give exploration a shared purpose, while settlement construction offers a project to return to between flights. These additions should appeal most when you want to alternate roaming with building up a place of your own.
Strengths
- Joint discovery and construction can make player-chosen goals into shared projects.
- Settlement building provides a continuing development task alongside travel.
Who it is for: Explorers interested in cooperative discoveries and in developing settlements alongside equipment upgrades.
Play notes: Online play requires an internet connection and paid Nintendo Switch Online membership.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Constructing and upgrading settlement buildings can provide a continuing project between journeys to new planets. | Reviewed | 9.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The resource-and-upgrade loop can support either personal expeditions or shared building and exploration goals. | Reviewed | 8.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Developing a settlement may help an alien planet feel like a place to return to rather than only a destination to survey. | Reviewed | 9.2 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Gyro aiming and touchscreen controls broaden the available input options without establishing how either feels in practice. | Reviewed | 8.7 / 10 | Not provided |
Review sources
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Core information
- Developer
- Hello Games
- Publisher
- Hello Games
- Release date
- Jun 5, 2025
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch 2
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- ec.nintendo.com
- Offline minimum players
- 1
- Offline maximum players
- 1
- Online minimum players
- 1
- Online maximum players
- 4
- Categories
- Adventure · Primary genreSurvival
- Tags
- Main Story 10–20 HoursPuzzle SolvingExplorationSolo-friendlyStory-drivenSurvival3D GraphicsThird PersonInvestigationLinear LevelsSlow Burn
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- CLASSIND: PG
- Play modes
- Single playerMultiplayerNot provided
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- Windows PCWorldwide2016
- PlayStation 5WorldwideNov 12, 2020
- Nintendo SwitchWorldwideOct 7, 2022
- Nintendo Switch 2WorldwideJun 5, 2025
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Sources
- www.nomanssky.comSource revision: 1
- www.nomanssky.com