--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: 10. No Man's Sky image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf80a50f1a988cbe7/6998cd3be1ba008edc98e4bd/time-hi-res.webp?branch=production&width=640&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Nov 14, 2016 # 10\. _No Man's Sky_ by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  There’s what [_No Man’s Sky_](http://time.com/4444324/no-mans-sky-review/ "undefined") turned out to be, what a vocal minority assumed it would be, and the chasm of misunderstanding that lies between. The heir to a game like _Elite_ it’s not. But taken on its own terms, as a Zen zoology simulator framed by freeform exploration of a procedurally generated universe with bouts of interstellar combat, it’s an extraordinary achievement. If _Minecraft_ is about refining and reorganizing distributed bits of information — all those cubes of dirt and rock and ore into recognizable objects and structures and mechanisms — then _No Man’s Sky_ is a procedural game about instead cataloguing all that visual output while reveling in the five-star views. **_Buy now:_** [**_PlayStation 4_**](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ZQB28XK/ref=as%5Fli%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00ZQB28XK&linkCode=as2&tag=timetechvideogames-20&linkId=a6e4fe651a1f480697e269d94e04bfcf "undefined") 10\. No Man's Sky ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-list-2016/4570394/no-mans-sky-4/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-list-2016/4570394/no-mans-sky-4/"},"headline":"10. No Man's Sky","datePublished":"2016-11-14T20:16:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:16:59.836Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-list-2016/4570394/no-mans-sky-4/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf80a50f1a988cbe7/6998cd3be1ba008edc98e4bd/time-hi-res.webp?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf80a50f1a988cbe7/6998cd3be1ba008edc98e4bd/time-hi-res.webp?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-list-2016/4570394/no-mans-sky-4/","name":"10. No Man's Sky"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"No Man's Sky Sean Murray Interview","description":"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/miIIBrIz/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-04-08T18:36:15.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/miIIBrIz.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-list-2016/4570394/no-mans-sky-4/","duration":"PT3M7S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-list-2016/4570394/no-mans-sky-4/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```