The online game No Man’s Sky is currently being heavily criticized. Too many promises made during the announcement are said to have not been kept.
Now the player and YouTuber TheyCallMeConor took the effort to see how big the planets in the game really are. Sean Murray from Hello Games once mentioned in a video that the planets would have the actual size of real planets. Of course, there can be variations – from moons to gigantic planets that are larger than Earth.
How big are the planets in No Man’s Sky?
However, what TheyCallMeConor has now discovered paints a different picture. The planet he traversed halfway seems to be significantly smaller than Earth. Because it only took him twelve hours to do this. If one were to try to circumnavigate Earth on foot, it would take approximately 10,000 hours. In 5,000 hours, one would have circumnavigated halfway around the equator. It may be that TheyCallMeConor encountered a very small planet and that the running speed compared to the “real” speed in the game is increased. Nevertheless, twelve hours is a significant difference compared to the 5,000 hours it would take to circumnavigate halfway around Earth.
Nonetheless, this experiment also shows that the areas in No Man’s Sky are gigantic. Twelve hours is a figure that only a few other open-world games reach. And this was only half of a planet in a gigantic universe. However, that doesn’t really make up for the fact that most planets are similarly structured and there is hardly anything interesting to discover…
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No Man's Sky is a space open-world game with survival influences, where planets are procedurally generated. Players explore the galaxy and can choose whether to...
