Nearly a decade after its release, No Man’s Sky is finally performing very positively on Steam, and the best part is that one developer says it’s “not even close” to being finished.

More than eight years after its first release, No Man’s Sky finally has a very positive rating on Steam, and a developer at Hello Games promises there’s plenty more to come.

I remember before the release of No Man’s Sky in 2016 I was very excited for the game. Growing up with games like Ratchet and Clank gave me a real love for space exploration, and it seemed like a distilled version of that in its purest essence, but when it finally arrived it wasn’t quite what I expected. It wasn’t bad, but it didn’t grab me as much as I would have liked. For other people, it was abysmal and they felt cheated by Hello Games and its co-founder Sean Murray, leading to a lot of negative reviews. Except now, eight years after a rocky launch, the game looks very different, so different that in all the reviews, it has a very positive rating on Steam for the first time.

For context, that means at least 80% of players have rated the game positively, an impressive feat considering its start. And according to a Hello Games developer (spotted by PC Gamer), the team is “not even close to being finished yet.” Taking to Twitter to respond to the news of a very positive rating (recent reviews are now also overwhelmingly positive), Martin Griffths wrote: “Growing up in a small and fairly dangerous town in South Wales, I was lucky to have amazing parents That taught me resilience and to try again and again if you fail initially.

“Shortly after the initial release of No Man’s Sky I had a meeting with Sean in a pub in Guildford and everything he said at that lunch echoed what I had been taught as a child. I am grateful for that synchronicity. Our small team at Hello, Games has grafted and then grafted some more… and while “very positive” may be just a few words, it means a lot, especially since we’re not even close to being done yet. Thank you to all the players who participated. He believed in us and those of you who continue to walk with us.”

It’s obviously great news for fans of the game, although hopefully the team won’t push themselves too hard given they’re also working on Light No Fire, essentially a fantasy version of No Man’s Sky minus the space exploration revealed for the first time last year. There hasn’t been much news on that follow-up yet, but in the meantime, there’s plenty you can stick with in No Man’s Sky anyway.