10 Reasons No Man’s Sky Is Finally Worth Playing

10. New Game Modes

The first major game update (titled the Foundation Update) split the game into three distinct game modes, catering to a much wider audience and fixing the complaint that gameplay was far too easy - especially once you began to upgrade your suit and starship.

Still available is the base Normal mode everyone experienced on launch. Added are game modes for those looking for an extreme challenge and those simply looking for restriction free space exploration.

Creation allows you to craft and explore with no limits or risks. Costs are removed entirely from the game as is any risk of death or destruction. It’s a mode made to allow users to express their creativity.

Survival ratchets up the hazards and handicaps the user with limited supplies and resources. Death results in the loss of all your current inventory and surviving requires a great deal of precise resource management.

A fourth game mode - called Permadeath - was added during the Pathfinder update; it's the ultimate challenge, maintaining the extreme danger and limited resources found in Survival mode while adding on another element of danger. In the event you meet your demise, all progress is wiped out completely. You won’t find a “reload at last save” option here.