10 Underrated Recent Video Games That Deserve A Second Chance

1. No Man's Sky

Look, No Man's Sky is not that bad. It's just not.

I get the hate against the lies Sean Murray trotted out when (I have to assume) he genuinely thought those parts of his game were going to be intact, but what we got in the end is still a phenomenal achievement.

A universe coded to procedurally generate before your eyes, to the extent where quintillions of planets spring forth from nothing and allow you to traverse them, also letting you see what creatures and plants there are?

I mean, there's some overlap in shapes and the 'parts' that get stitched together to form said creatures, but man if that isn't one hell of a feat regardless.

Sean Murray and the team at Hello Games should have had a better handle on what they were saying, how people were feeling going in, and how they were going to support the game post-launch. But at this stage, taking a step back, divorcing yourself from expectation and just looking at what thirteen people coded to see if they could, should only result in positivity.

Please, don't hate on an ambitious flop. At least look at what it does do, and go from there.

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Which underrated games from the last year or so deserve a second chance? Let us know in the comments!