No Man's Sky review: beautifully crafted galaxy with a game attached

Hello Games has created a gorgeously realised, constantly regenerating universe for players to get lost in, where the incredible journey trumps the destination

Nowadays it seems difficult to consider a game separately from the months or years of expectation that preceded its release. Just as science fiction is built on speculation, so too was the conversation surrounding this science-fiction video game. Two-and-a-half years ago, the team at Hello Games presented their concept for a practically infinite procedurally generated galaxy, and since then they've been suffering the consequences of that pitch's success, faced with the task of creating a real game that would somehow measure up to thousands of different imagined ones.