Difference between No Man's Sky and GRAV? (Now with 2 GRAV giveaways!)

Whether it lives up to the hype or not, No Man's Sky will, as far as I know, be released as a completed game (as completed as any game ever is when it's release, these days), whereas GRAV is still in early access and, at least according to the reviewers, abandoned already. And that's just one of the reasons they're really kicking the game's teeth in, over in the review section.

Those are some of the more significant differences, as far as I know.

Hello Games seems to want to keep Sony at arm's length, regarding the actual creation of the game, but I have a feeling if they dropped the ball to the point of people saying it was 'abandoned,' Sony might at least try (for better or worse) to step in and either dump their own money into the team as motivation or try to get some new people working on the game.

To some people, the prospect of a complete and more well-rounded game might be enough to make up for the fact that No Man's Sky is three times as expensive as GRAV. On the other hand, GRAV may garner new attention as a one-third as expensive alternative No Man's Sky, whether it fulfills that role or not. Whether said theoretical new attention would be enough to bring the developers back to work, if the game truly has been abandoned, is anyone's guess.

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Also, to contribute to the discussion, isn't No Mans Sky supposed to be a survival? I thought GRAV was a different type of game, strategy almost. I must be wrong :P

I think its cause of a hype and lots of marketing.

Based on the trailers of GRAV, it focuses on survival, co-op, and being weird.

No Man's Sky focuses on exploration, discovery, and curiosity.

Maybe it just looks more exciting? It's definitely more colorful than GRAV is. I think they both look fun.

Can't speak for GRAV as I've not played it, but from comments here it seems it's got more typical survival/MMO aspects, which I'm not particularly fond of in general. On the other hand I fell in love with No Man's Sky the second it was revealed, and everything Sean Murray has said about the game and his reasons for making it have just bolstered that. I'm a solitary person when it comes to games; I want bright scifi colours and I want to just waste my time exploring Things in Space(TM), and I've not really seen any existing space-based game that's pushed all my childish excitement buttons in quite the same way.

GRAV(played it for a while, abandoned due to hadware performance) and No Man's Sky are completely different games, and there's no real way to compare one to the other.

Great responses in this thread already. For what it's worth, I found GRAV to be a grindy survival 3rd person shooter with rpg elements and unintuitive crafting system. The vehicles in GRAV seem to not allow interstellar space travel. It just uses portals that teleport players to other planets. Scope of the game is much smaller than NMS. Multiplayer is Coop/PvPvE. On the other hand....

NMS seems to be a proof of concept/techdemo pushed by Sean Murray to give players the freedom to interact with this vast galaxy. Even though its a singleplayer game, Sean did mention that the game will leave traces of other players if you manage to visit a place that already has been explored and catalogued. Lore and cryptic artifacts written in a language created by the NMS team seems to encourage a community of explorers and puzzle solvers to share their discoveries with eachother. This IGN vid with Sean has him mentioning that he hopes players will track and find things out online.

GRAV is yet another early access survival crafting game and everything that goes with that.

No Man's Sky is a space exploration game and will hopefully be polished, but beware hype. It's not a true sandbox and there's minimal narrative so it could end up feeling rather shallow and dull if you binge on it.

From very observant deer's point of view: there is a player's back on every GRAV screenshot, and there is a ship on every NMS screenshot =3
Actually, I really don't know much about any of them, but I was fascinated by how you can fly through space and land on different beautiful planets in No Man's Sky - this is the only aspect I'm interested in, don't want any fights or survival elements =<

Where are all the giveaways even coming from for Grav? I'd like to buy it cheap or win a giveaway, but the first option is miles easier :P

Guten abend!
Ich weiß nicht den Unterschied.
:)

Bump, thank you eeev.
I am yet to try it on my new laptop so I can't really tell atm.

In No Man's Sky, mankind doesn't own the sky. In Grav they do.

Just kidding, I have no idea.

i will win no man's sky and i don't enter for grav GAs, that's all i need to know. :3

Here's another small boost. :3.

Level 4: https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/4zODf/grav