By gaining skills and know-how, you’ll have to set out to survive in a galaxy filled with challenges - it also involves collecting bounties and trading. It is just as grand in scale, with 400 billion star systems to jump to, so you’ll certainly still get your fill of space exploration in its recreation of the Milky Way.Īffording you a similar amount of freedom to go about your space travels as you please, you start out with a small ship and a little money to your name. Instead, you’ll spend your time onboard your customizable ship exploring its expansive open world. Planetary exploration is its biggest difference, since Elite Dangerous does let you land on some planets, but you can’t walk across or explore them in the same way.
The low-poly art also gives it a very appealing aesthetic that brings the colourful worlds to life in a distinctive style.Įlite Dangerous is another open-ended space exploration game that shares some similarities to No Man’s Sky. The planets all have hidden secrets to uncover by scouting across the world’s surface, or even digging right down to its core to discover rarities and unravel the mysteries of the universe.
Once you’re ready to discover more, you can journey to new worlds - every planet is entirely different, and the recent 1.0 update has added another solar system. Setting off into the far reaches of outer space, you crash land on a strange new planet and have to adapt to the new environment and use the world’s resources to repair your space pod.īy using your creativity, you can use anything you mine or discover to craft any number of different items, and build bases and vehicles to travel across the terrain. In this sandbox-y space adventure, you play as an Astroneer who lives in the 25th century during the ‘age of intergalactic discovery’. If you love landing on planets and exploring everything the wonderfully strange alien worlds have to offer, Astroneer is all about just that.