Them: What do you even do in that game?

Me: yeah, I kinda just…do shit. I mean, there’s a story and some quests but the game pl-

(30 minutes later)

…have a tool that allows you to mine different elements to recharge your equip-

(3 hours later)

…get it. But if you trade ships it’s a discount and you can also recruit them into your squad to fight with you in epic-

(Several topics later)

…if you put them together they light up because they’re giving bonuses so don’t use them in a straight row, try to group them-

(Fifteen videos on YouTube and 2 months later)

…which could be sold for nanites if your starship is already upgraded. There are-

(During the wedding)

…want to combine salt with oxygen to make chlorine and use that as a way to get money, or you could crash the marke-

(In the hospital during childbirth)

…make different types of buildings with a set of simple modular pieces that can either snap together or have free-

(At your kid’s baseball game talking to a stranger)

… emoji and then soon after a new update drops generally on a Wednesday. The most recent one is endurance, but the first one was-

(During graduation)

…ings us to the NEXT update which added a bunch of amazing improvements to so many different aspects-

(While filing for divorce)

…an have more than one starship. They give you a total of 9 ships to have. There are fighters, explor-

(At the nursing home)

…ion of the royal multi tool that really made you feel like a badass and went really well with-

(On death bed)

…editions were added. The first major reward was a golde-

(During funeral)

“We remember them well, always talking about their favorite game, No Man’s Sky. It’s a game where you-

Edit: Holy shit everyone, thank you so much for the awards! This community is amazing. Thank you so much.

I didn’t expect the plot of this game to capture my attention as it did, but it touches upon one of my favourite phylosophical topics. This game is very hard of phylosophy of existentialism and Nietzchean nihilism. It quite literally tackless the idea of death of god. But if Nietzche meant it in metaphorical way, on a sense of how one can find meaning in life where there’s no god, but No Man’s Sky takes a more literal approach. God is quite literally dying and you are faced with the idea of your own mortality and finality of the universe. Also, we find out that Altals is an AI that simulates the world, thus mirroring Nietzschean idea of ‘dead god’. We are not some beings created by a divine master with a plan, we are here just because we happened to be here. But in the case of Travellers, they were actually created by a diety with a plan, but their existance in the end is meaningless in a similiar way, because they’re nothing more than simulations in the mind of a dying machine. Here’s where the idea of Nietzschean ‘overhuman’ and nihilism comes in. The core idea of nihilism is belief in no god and the finality of your existance, it’s directed towards accepting the fact that you won’t be here for an eternity and that you should make peace with nothing that may come after. The ‘overhuman’ of Nietzsche is an individual that is capable of setting their own goals and morals, deciding for themselves what they should do with their life in the face of absense of a higher divine purpose. The main question of phylosophy of overhuman is how can one be happy in the world where there’s no higher purpose and no life after death? How one can fight against existential terror that comes with understanding of you own mortality? Even Atlas faces their own finality and are terrified of it. This is the core idea of No Man’s Sky and it is fascinating!