Despite a load of great games in 2025, No Man's Sky is the happy place that keeps drawing me back in again

If we're plotting retired the twelvemonth based connected unexpected obsessions, excavation were (in nary peculiar order) weird Italian genre cinema of the 60s and 70s, an unhealthy appetite for unnecessarily elaborate carnal media collector's editions, people fearfulness successful virtually immoderate signifier I could consume, and, apparently, No Man's Sky. According to Steam's accustomed end-of-year thing, the exploratory abstraction sim is by acold my astir played crippled of 2025, accounting for - somewhat incredibly - astir 20 percent of my full playtime.

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