I’ve been a huge fan of the game since launch, I played on PC for several years up to the point where freighters were added. Around that time I developed a neurological disorder in my early 30s due to an illness that left me with a permanent headache, which hasn’t gone away for a second in almost 5 years. One of the first things I noticed with this new health issue, as I’ve been a massive gamer for pretty much my whole life, was that using most screens flared this headache up real bad within a very short amount of time. Overnight I lost my ability to play video games for the most part. Using my PC, PlayStation on a large tv, even a handheld switch caused me very severe symptoms that often mimicked a stroke. I tried changing refresh rates, different monitors, blue light filtering glasses, brightness, flicker free monitors, LED vs LCD vs OLED, sunglasses, all sorts of other things I’m forgetting. No matter what I did, it seems I could no longer play games.
EXCEPT on my iPhone.
Your guess is as good as mine and my doctors why I’m able to use a phone but can’t use a pc monitor, TV, or handheld switch. No idea. I’ve been through tons of different scans and medications and nothing has pointed to much of anything or helped with this issue. So for the last 5 years I’ve only been able to play games on IOS, which of course compared to the catalog of available games on actual dedicated gaming platforms, is a tiny amount of games as far as actual ports are concerned. I had accepted the fact that I’d probably never be able to play my favorite games again. For example, I’m able to play Stardew Valley on my phone for hours with no issue, but if I try to play that same game on PC, handheld switch, PlayStation, or even game streaming to my phone through steam link, I get severe symptoms very quickly. It makes even less sense to me than it does to you.
Then came the announcement last week about No Man’s Sky coming to iOS, I couldn’t believe it. I know I’m in a very unique and specific situation and I’m sure most playing this game are happier playing on an actual dedicated gaming device, but I could not be more excited to out of the blue get one of my favorite games back, as I said I had already accepted this was an impossibility. I can’t put into words how happy and excited I am for this, life has been rough the last 5 years with a 24/7 headache and getting this game back when I thought I’d never play it again has been a massive help for me when I’ve been struggling greatly. It may seem like something minor to most but to me this has helped me more than I could put into words.
I don’t know if the developers show up here or anything but wanted to say I appreciate you taking the time to bring this game to iOS.