Summary
No Man’s Skyjust brought in the most players it has in years following the new update. In the past 24 hours, 48,499 players logged in onSteamalone, the most that it’s pulled in since its last big spike in 2019.
This coincides with the release ofthe new update, Worlds Part 1. This huge overhaul introduces improvements that developerHello Gameshas made while working on its next project,Light No Fire. Rather than plough ahead with its next release, the devs have sprinkled some of those changes into No Man’s Sky, and it’s proving to be a hit with the playerbase.
No Man’s Sky Worlds Part 1 Update Causes Huge Player Spike
As perSteam Charts, No Man’s Sky’s 24-hour peak on Steam is 48,499. This is the most players that have logged in since August 2019, when a spike in players saw 61,535 Steam users start playing at once.
It helps matters that the Worlds Part 1 update is free to all players. So, it’s likely that many long-time fans are logging back in to see what changes have been made since the game’s heyday.
However, this also signals that No Man’s Sky is in a very strong place, even as it rapidly approaches its eighth birthday next month. With this in mind, it’s not such a bad thing that we have no idea when Light No Fire will be with us - Hello Games fans seem to be very happy to spend their time in No Man’s Sky while they wait.
It would have been hard to imagine No Man’s Sky in this position when it launched in 2016. Back then, it was overshadowed by controversy, as players criticised the game for lacking promised features. It was also met with mixed reviews from critics, who found it to be far from the grand space-faring adventure that was promised in promotional material. However, in what is perhaps the single biggest comeback story in the industry, Hello Games won back goodwill with numerous free updates, which as we can see, continue to this day.
No Man’s Sky
WHERE TO PLAY
Lose yourself in a vast sci-fi odyssey as you explore a near-infinite, procedurally generated universe.
Set out from the edge of the Euclid galaxy and carve out your own interstellar existence in a vast universe teeming with life, danger and near-endless mystery.
No Man’s Sky is a hugely-ambitious, heavily-stylised, sci-fi adventure that spans entire galaxies all brought to life with procedural generation. Travel through an endless array of increasingly diverse and dangerous star systems, prospecting for rare materials, trading with alien life, populate planets and searching for clues to the meaning of the universe’s mysterious existence.
How you survive is up to you. Assemble entire fleets of dreadnought-class freighters and tear across the universe; build sprawling habitable bases across planet surfaces, beneath the ground or under the ocean; buy and upgrade your own weapons and star ships and do battle with outlaw space pirates, hostile alien fauna or the mysterious sentinel fleets.
The universe is yours to explore - trillions upon trillions of planets, waiting to be discovered.
