The development of blockbuster triple-A games is fraught with financial risk. With most new projects, the EAs, Ubisofts, and Activisions of the world must tightly balance fresh and original ideas with what has proven to be financially successful in the past. It's why . But doing all of this while exploring a procedurally-generated galaxy, full of procedurally-generated worlds which you can seamlessly land your spacecraft on and encounter procedurally-generated wildlife, is unlike any game we've seen before. What also differentiates No Man's Sky is the sense of solitude; despite being a multiplayer game and a connected universe, you're unlikely to encounter many other players in your quest to reach the center of the galaxy.