

To celebrate this joint effort and help you pick out the most essential add-ons that you’ll need to make your experience best it can be, we’ve gathered our 20 favorite mods you can install, for free, right now, and radically improve the gameplay. Planets are more varied, the gameplay is more engaging, and the world feels more alive than ever. Thankfully both the development team and a dedicated modding community have been working on the game ever since, releasing mods and entire updates that have slowly made it into what it was originally supposed to be. They made the incredible mistake of grabbing a game that could feel barren because of its sheer magnitude, and actually releasing it devoid of content!

They’d promised too much, painting the picture of a generation-defining game, and then released an incomplete work that felt bloated like a hot air balloon. All hell broke loose back in 2016 when indie developer Hello Games released their intensely hyped space-exploration simulator No Man’s Sky.
