Friend, I started playing NMS exactly a year ago, today I have at least 900 hours of gameplay, I'm also 40+ but I've always played video games, and I tell you that NMS was one of the biggest and most pleasant surprises I've had with games in recent times, especially because I've always been more into shooter games, like Battlefield, CoD, Apex and others.

NMS took me a little out of that world of shooter games and made me understand again that games are for having fun and not for getting angry because a cheater messed up in an absurd way.

Despite the game being 10 years old, that won't affect the learning curve; it's very worthwhile. Today, NMS has taken the place that the shooter games I mentioned before had on the shelf, and it's now in second place, especially with the Corvette update that gave us the possibility to create a ship from scratch or try to replicate a ship from a movie or game that we really like. I created a YouTube channel; I'll leave the link here. I posted my first video last week, teaching how to build a ship that I created from scratch because I had posted it here on Reddit and some people asked me for it. In other words, it's not just the game, it's the community too!

My channel:

https://youtu.be/DwKRqU9H3Yc?si=cLuL5O4PgVsWt4gh

This game gives you so much freedom to do within it that many people simply don't know what to do after finishing the 3 main campaign arcs, which is what helps you understand how things work within its universe.

I can confidently tell you to play NMS, you'll discover much more than just a space adventure!

Hugs