"No Man's Sky" gameplay may confuse players because of its vast, unexplored universes.
It was previously revealed that the "No Man's Sky" gameplay will feature 18 quintillion planets. It may also take four billion years to explore it at a rate of one planet per second.
"We are attempting to do things that have never been done before," Murray said when the project was announced publicly.
"No game has made it possible to fly down to a planet, and for it to be planet-sized, and feature life, ecology, lakes, caves, waterfalls, and canyons, then seamlessly fly up through the stratosphere and take to space again."
Players will take on the role of astronauts and the main objective is to get to the center of the universe. Hello Games' founder Sean Murray admitted in an interview with Edge magazine, via GamesRadar, that people's first "No Man's Sky" gameplay experience will leave them confused.
"It's really fun to watch, because people spend their first half hour with the game getting lost - hopefully in a good way," he said.
"Then you see something: suddenly they start treating it as a real place, using landmarks [to navigate]. They'll say, 'Oh, I'm at the other side of that lake now.' They'll land their ship and say, 'I'm leaving my ship by those trees,' remembering places like that to find their way back. That's quite a nice thing."
"No Man's Sky" gameplay is mainly about exploration. Players can earn through taking notes of the planets and creatures they encounter and uploading the information to a network called Atlas.
First discoveries matter since players can get to name planets and creatures. These discoveries will be forever noted in the game's database.
"A lot of people will share those discoveries," Murray said. "Not just by uploading them [at beacons], but by actually pressing the Share button, or uploading to YouTube, or creating little animated GIFs of the specimens that they've found, because you do find some weird, hilarious creatures."