10 Best Video Games Of 2024 You're NOT Playing
1. No Man's Sky
No Man's Sky has now had over 30 substantial expansions since 2016, and we've gotten to the point where it is genuinely several sequels' worth of new content, all for free, producing something that after the World 1 update, saw a surge of new players catapult it back into the charts.
At this stage we all know the story of that initial launch version and the runaway hype and lie train that came beforehand, but at some point the apology tour from Hello Games was long over, and this is now a team of unbelievably talented, dedicated individuals, managing a diehard community that's only getting bigger, producing what might be the single greatest sci-fi game of all time.
Handing the reigns of the experience over to players, there is a main story to follow, but Hello Games have blown gameplay options WAY out, even from the starting menu. No Man's Sky is at any time "Minecraft in space", a relaxing exploration and photography game, something where you can dogfight enemies and steal their ships, partner up with friends to explore or build together, customise everything, with every facet unique to each person's playthrough.
The very idea of a "procedurally generated universe" was what got Hello Games and Sean Murray into hot water in the first place, but after almost a decade of nothing but hard work, the version of No Man's Sky you can play today is nothing short of spectacular.