Bought NMS when it came out. I was pretty much oblivious to the hype and to the masses of negative reviews.

Instead I was happily travelling the galaxy by myself.

Five years later and I’m still playing this game. Still loving the experience and pottering around in my part of the galaxy.

No other game I’ve played in my 40 years of gaming has done this. And no other game has continually been upgraded, updated and made even more enjoyable, (For Free!) by a team that truly loves what they do.

Nothing beat the excitement of accidentally bumping into another Traveller. Or building a base on your perfect planet. Or exploring the galaxy alone.

Reading the community posts and threads shows also what a wonderful and non toxic group of players we have too.

Long may it continue.

Thank you Hello Games. Thank you fellow travellers.

TIL another cool feature of ancient ruins. I had started a survival-mode playthrough and was getting to the very first stages of constructing a base to have a shelter available from the environment. Earlier I’d found an ancient ruin and I decided to drop a base computer right next to it. Long story short, I discovered the entire flat circular area around the ruins was basically treated as a big building by the game. No weather or storm damage! Pretty nice in the early game when I have yet to upgrade the old exosuit! 😄