18 Greatest Role-Playing Games Of The Decade (So Far)

13. No Man's Sky

"Oh god, how COULD you?! How could you champion this filth?!" I hear you cry.

Well... because No Man's Sky is still a phenomenal game - just not one that delivered on a whole bunch of features shown in trailers or interview snippets. What is in there though, is a title that explores the very notion of exploration itself: Why do we want to climb mountains and plumb the depths of the deepest oceans? Why take to the stars and find combustable elements to jet ourselves across the cosmos?

No other game has - or probably ever will, considering how much people actively despise this game - created such a sense of pure discovery, of isolation amongst thousands of potential planets, species, plants, all coming together to just let you bask in a fully procedurally-generated universe.

It's one hell of an unprecedented achievement, and although journalist/key media figure Geoff Keighley noted during a talk on No Man's Sky that "Math cannot always create meaning." I disagree, as in this case, the math is the meaning, alongside everything that comes after.