Highlights
- No Man’s Sky just had its highest player count in around five years.
- This comes after its latest update, Worlds Part 1, which overhauls multiple areas of the game.
- This is a great place to be in as No Man’s Sky approaches its eighth anniversary next month.
No Man’s Sky just brought in the most players it has in years following the new update. In the past 24 hours, 48,499 players logged in on Steam alone, the most that it’s pulled in since its last big spike in 2019.
This coincides with the release of the new update, Worlds Part 1. This huge overhaul introduces improvements that developer Hello Games has 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 per Steam 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.
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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
With an almost limitless universe to explore, No Man’s Sky is a sandbox action-adventure game that uses procedural generation to create its open world. You must explore, gather resources, upgrade your equipment, and survive.Â