After its initial reveal in 2013, anticipation for No Man’s Sky was astronomical–till it fell off of a procedurally generated cliff as keen digital house explorers discovered the preliminary 2016 launch somewhat too anemic, and missing many options promised by Whats up Video games co-founder Sean Murray. The sport’s devs, nonetheless, weren’t glad letting NMS drift off into the vacuum of forgotten video games.
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The Voyagers update, the most recent within the studio’s persistent efforts to enhance and deepen the expertise of exploring its procedural universe, has been successful with the sport’s neighborhood. Permitting gamers to assemble their very own ships with totally traversable interiors and extra, the replace has seen a wild inflow of gamers come to the sport, probably the most since its launch on Steam in 2018.
Taking to X, Sean Murray shared that on September 1, which coincided with the Labor Day vacation within the U.S., NMS noticed just below 100,000 concurrent gamers.
Highest variety of gamers since launch 🤯 pic.twitter.com/d51JpviRb2
— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) September 1, 2025
The sport has additionally surged to second place in the top-10 most played Steam Deck games for the previous week, surpassed solely by Hole Knight (followers of that sport should be enthusiastic about one thing, I think about). With so many gamers leaping in to play with the sport’s new shipbuilding mechanics, the web is stuffed with cool new designs, together with authentic creations, builds modeled after classic science fiction ships, and naturally quite a lot of foolish ones, equivalent to this recreation of a Nokia 3310.
Legends say he flew it right into a black gap and the black gap blinked@NoMansSky #NoMansSky@hellogames@Griff_ pic.twitter.com/Dq7T8LCUcS
— Ray Reynolds (@RayReynoldsNMS) September 2, 2025
However whereas the power to construct new ships with totally furnished interiors is probably Voyagers’ most attention-grabbing addition to the sport, the possibility to lastly float out in house can also be drawing in gamers, inspiring some to take daredevilish skydiving trips from orbit right down to the floor. And sure, folks are doing it in VR as well.
It could be arduous for No Man’s Sky to totally match the extent of hype early trailers impressed within the 2010s, however seeing what gamers are to this point with the Voyagers replace positive as hell makes it really feel prefer it’s lastly change into the epically limitless house sim many people had been so excited to play.
