Immediately, UK unbiased developer Whats up Video games celebrates the tenth anniversary of No Man’s Sky, by far its greatest and hottest title. For the event, studio founder and managing director Sean Murray shared a prolonged letter with the neighborhood, reminiscing about all the things that occurred all through this decade: 40 major (and free) updates, in addition to ports to virtually each noteworthy gaming platform apart from cell.
Murray highlights that “tens of tens of millions of gamers” have been within the recreation, spending a whole bunch of tens of millions of hours exploring the almost infinite universe (to this date, they’ve found lower than 1% of the planets). Furthermore, the sport noticed its highest participant figures since launch in 2026, and the developer is much from accomplished, teasing the following ‘COSMOS‘ replace. These within the upcoming title Light No Fire obtained a nod, too, as Murray famous that the workforce continues to be “busy cooking” on that one.
Ten years in the past, on ninth August 2016, Travellers throughout the universe set foot on their first alien planet in No Man’s Sky. Maybe you had been there ten years in the past, or possibly you joined later. It’s very cool to me that throughout the universe, different Travellers have woken up on numerous different planets, light-years aside from one another. They took their first steps on their first planet and introduced a brand new, unexplored universe into existence collectively. Since then, tens of millions of gamers have made No Man’s Sky their dwelling, created insane bases, constructed communities, made mates, and constructed actually inventive customized ships.
For any recreation to succeed in its ten-year milestone is spectacular, and I feel that’s very true for No Man’s Sky. It’s actually a testomony to the eagerness of the workforce right here and of the gamers for the sport that this yr we’ve seen our highest participant numbers since launch and gained a TGA and BAFTA for greatest evolving recreation.
Over the past decade, the No Man’s Sky gamers have joined us in one other sort of journey as we grew, expanded, and deepened what No Man’s Sky could possibly be. With now 40 main updates, all free, we’ve expanded our sandbox universe with base-building, exocraft, settlements, mechs, pets, residing ships, expeditions, and rebuilt the universe a number of occasions over. Assist for Swap, XBox, VR, PSVR, Switch 2, PS5, XBX, and extra has been added alongside the best way. In actual fact, No Man’s Sky is supported on about as many platforms as there are workforce members!
It grew to become a little bit of a meme on the time, me holding up the gold grasp disc of No Man’s Sky, however I’m proud to say that the general public in that photograph are nonetheless at Whats up. The No Man’s Sky workforce has advanced over that interval, in fact, however it’s not actually that a lot larger. Since then, tens of tens of millions of Travellers have spent a whole bunch of tens of millions of hours exploring and sharing their discoveries and the universe is extra vibrant now than it ever has been. Voyagers launched final yr noticed extra gamers than we’ve had since launch… and nonetheless, all these years later, gamers have explored lower than 1% of the planets in No Man’s Sky.
In the same means, our small workforce feels we’ve rather a lot left to discover in what No Man’s Sky may be. Within the background, we’re busy cooking on our subsequent recreation, Gentle No Hearth, and large issues for the way forward for No Man’s Sky, with the tease of our upcoming replace titled “COSMOS”. Extra will comply with!
Those that saved up with trade information a decade in the past will undoubtedly recall the difficulties the sport encountered at launch. Apart from technical points, there was additionally the matter of the product not matching the pre-launch hype; customers compiled lists of lacking options that Whats up Video games had promised, and the UK’s Promoting Requirements Authority even investigated whether or not the studio had misled clients. No wrongdoing was found, although, and Whats up Video games slowly but surely improved the game till No Man’s Sky turned out to be one of the shining examples of a comeback from a detrimental early reception.
In September 2021, roughly on the midpoint of this decade, the game’s Steam page finally displayed ‘Mostly Positive‘ user reviews, displaying that the neighborhood’s sentiment had modified. These days, No Man’s Sky sits at a snug ‘Very Constructive‘ consensus on Valve’s platform.
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