Recent reviews by Pyrazol

Works perfectly fine on the Steam Deck

Not sure what Valve is on about, this game works pretty much flawlessly on the Steam Deck.

I usually only play games that are heavy on story and rather short, like Alien: Isolation, SOMA and the like. Games that are overly grindy or where you do the same thing over and over are not really my thing.

This is why I hesitated for a long time before I took the plunge and bought this game. I had originally only heard of it in some kind of pre-release footage that showed a seamless planet landing. I completely skipped all the hype and letdown during release, didn't hear about it at all. A few months ago I searched for this elusive game that had the seamless planet landings and found No Man's Sky again. When I saw that it had mostly negative reviews but still a pretty steep price I hesitated. Eventually I took the plunge during a PS4 sale and bought it there.

What can I say, I haven't been disappointed at all. I've played the game on PS4 for at least 80-100 hours. I started at 1.2 and now 1.3 was released and made the game even better.
Even if I stopped playing today and never touched it again, I'd have gotten my money's worth and then some.
I played this game so much I bought it on Steam as well.

1.3 added 30h worth of story (supposedly). It's very cool to play through.

Discovering new planets and journeying through the universe is very fun and tranquil. You can build a home base, explore your home planet with land vehicles, play the story paths (there are more than one), try getting money to buy a freighter and build stuff on the inside, or just relax, gallivanting around the galaxy to see new animals, plants and landscapes in different biomes.

The least fun parts of the game, I would say, are space combat, and to a lesser extent farming for money and ground combat.
There is not much in the way of ground combat, except fighting the occasional aggressive animal or sentinel. You could probably get into fighting more but I wasn't interested.
Farming for money got a lot better with 1.3, previously you had to basically build a big farm and produce stuff in order to gain larger sums of money, now there are other viable ways too.

It has to be your cup of tea, to be sure, but if it is, you'll be in for a treat!