5 space exploration games to play instead of No Man's Sky

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It sounds like it's two completely different games focusing on different things.

It both is and isn't. There's a lot of overlap between the features in the two games, but ED goes into more depth with most of them whereas NMS is mainly focused on exploration of planets with everything else being an afterthought.

And I have literally fallen asleep playing ED because it took me 20min to get to a planet. NMS had me wide awake and playing til 4am, at which point I forced myself to go to sleep

You seem to have missed the point. Regardless, let's expand on this by addressing this:

I have currently more hours on ED than I do on NMS, I've done petty much all there is to do. So I can confidently say that NSM has a lot more content.

In the first three hours of playing NMS, I saw pretty much all there is to do in the game (btw I know what happens at the centre of the universe and it is hilarious). In 250 hours of ED, there are plenty of features I haven't even touched yet. So lets rephrase what I said earlier, you deriving more enjoyment from NMS != more content than ED.

If you enjoy NMS more, then power to you! I'm really happy for you that you're enjoying the game this much. But nobody in their right mind can say NMS has more content when this is objectively false when comparing gameplay systems and features. The only place where NMS has more content than ED is in planetary exploration- and planetary exploration isn't a main feature of ED, nor is it even finished.

And that's where I'm going to step out because things appear to be getting heated and no good can come of that. My post stands and I feel it was very objective. If people disagree with it, then there's really nothing more left to say.