No Man's Sky: Eight tips to get you started

The highly anticipated exploration game has finally arrived. Here's what you need to know to begin your journey

Well, it's finally here. After two years of beautiful trailers, ambiguous claims and lofty expectations, No Man's Sky has touched down and opened its blast doors. Judging by its opening hours at least, it is a big, bold and bewildering experience.

In my first few minutes, I headed out across my starting planet to find the necessary materials to fix my crashed spaceship, saw my first animal and promptly scared it away when I destroyed the rock it was prancing around, fell down a big hole, was discovered by a sentinel drone, and died.