No Man's Sky 2016

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No Man's Sky came out on August 9, 2016 for PlayStation 4, then for PC on August 12, 2016 and for Xbox One on July 24, 2018. On Steam, 84% of 318,907 player reviews are positive (Very Positive). 15,032 people are playing it on Steam right now, with a peak of 21,615 in the last 30 days. It is Verified on Steam Deck. The main story takes about 31 hours, doing everything about 132 hours. It won 3 awards, including The Game Awards − Best Ongoing and Golden Joystick Awards − Still Playing Award.

No Man's Sky is an action-adventure survival game set in a procedurally generated universe containing over 18 quintillion planets. Players explore star systems, gather resources, trade with alien species, and upgrade their equipment while following an overarching narrative involving a mysterious entity called the Atlas. The game is built around four pillars: exploration, survival, combat, and trading. Since its 2016 launch, it has received numerous free updates adding multiplayer, base building, fleet management, and virtual reality support.

Story

A Traveller wakes on a remote planet with amnesia and must repair their crashed starship. Compelled by an unknown force to reach the centre of the galaxy, the Traveller encounters three alien species and discovers a space anomaly housing two beings, Nada and Polo, who speak of a strange entity at the galaxy's core. Along the way, the Traveller receives transmissions from another lost Traveller named Artemis, investigates their fate, and ultimately comes face to face with the Atlas, a cosmic being managing a simulated universe. The Traveller must choose whether to reset the simulation or reject the Atlas and continue exploring freely.

What is happening now

No Man's Sky, the space exploration simulator from Hello Games, continues its evolution eight years after launch with the Cosmos update marking its 10th anniversary. The free update delivers a comprehensive overhaul of outer space gameplay, introducing orbital bases, player-owned space stations, salvageable space hulks, asteroid belts, and a gravity gun for combat encounters. Players can now form alliances with others to explore and conquer shared objectives across the galaxy. The Cosmos update addresses what Hello Games identifies as one of its most requested features since the game's 2016 debut. Beyond the new space infrastructure and salvage operations, the update enables players to finally reach and visit the sun itself. The studio has also signaled that technology developed for Cosmos will serve as a foundation for its larger upcoming project, Light No Fire, hinting at shared systems across Hello Games' expanding universe of games.