With less than a day to go until No Man’s Sky launches for PlayStation 4 in North America, Hello Games Founder Sean Murray explained exactly what the game is.
Saying “lots of little details have changed (so many, SO MANY, for the better!)” since he first envisioned No Man’s Sky and started to write the first lines of code five years ago, Murray adds that “the game looks and plays just as we aimed to.”
Calling it “an infinite procedural sci-fi-space-survival-sandbox unlike anything you have ever played before,” Murray listed what No Man’s Sky definitely is:

Exploring a universe of pretty procedurally generated worlds, with beautiful creatures
Trading with NPCs
Combat against robots/mechs and cool space battles Survival/crafting in a universe sized sandbox
An awesome procedural soundtrack from my genuine favourite band
For one small moment, you might feel like you?ve stepped into a sci-fi book cover

“If you decide to play it, you?ll see just how closely it plays to those trailers, and to our original vision,” he added. “It?s a weird game, it?s a niche game and it?s a very very chill game.” Murray also knows that No Man’s Sky might not be for everyone, and he expects it to be “super divisive.”
As for what No Man’s Sky isn’t, Murray wrote on Twitter:

To be super clear – No Man’s Sky is not a multiplayer game. Please don’t go in looking for that exp...