I picked up EGS years ago and I'm just starting to play it. Right now I'm just gathering resources but I don't know what my next steps are supposed to be as far as base or vehicle building goes. NMS looks interesting as well and it's half off on GOG for the next few days.
Does anyone have any experience with these games?
No Man's Sky is my go-to fuckaround game. It came a long way from its launch debacle (though it was still amazingly chill and interesting for at least so many hours even then), with a little more structure, and they just introduced ship building. As it is, they've introduced several different quest lines, and some new mechanics. The rest of the posts seem a little out of date.
Wish I had a VR set for it.
Keep in mind that it's not really a quest focused game, but there are a slew of random quests at both the space stations and the Anomaly once you've got the story/mechanics quests out of the way.