No Man’s Sky: everything you need to know before playing

No Man’s Sky is a game that lets you live out your wildest science fiction exploration fantasies, and it does so without falling into traditional gaming categories. It doesn’t have realistic guns, scripted action set pieces, or a Super Bowl-ready marketing campaign. This game, created by a comparably small team of artists and coders, has captured the interest of large swaths of gamers and non-gamers alike based almost solely on its unprecedented premise: there are 18 quintillion plan