Hello Games has marked ten years of No Man’s Sky, and the studio used the milestone to spell out how much the game has changed since launch. In an anniversary post on the PlayStation Blog, the developer said players first landed on an alien planet on 9 August 2016 and that the game has since received 40 major updates, all of them free.
That free-update count is the number worth holding on to. The same Hello Games anniversary post lists what those updates added: base building, exocraft, settlements, mechs, pets, living ships and expeditions, with the studio saying it rebuilt the universe several times over. On PlayStation specifically, the developer credits support for PSVR, then PS5, then PSVR2, each pass pulling the sandbox closer to a first-person exploration game you sit inside rather than look at.
Two other figures from that post frame the scale. Hello Games says tens of millions of players have spent hundreds of millions of hours in the game, and that last year’s Voyagers update drew more players than any point since launch. The studio also notes that players have collectively explored less than one percent of the game’s planets, which says more about procedural generation than about player appetite.
The practical takeaway for anyone who bounced off the 2016 release: the game you’d install today is a different product. Sony’s No Man’s Sky product page still lists it for PS4, PS5 and PS VR2, with optional online play, so the entry cost is a download rather than new hardware.
Hello Games ended the post by confirming it is working on its next game, Light No Fire, alongside further plans for No Man’s Sky, without dates for either. If you track PlayStation’s monthly lineups for something to play in the meantime, our rundown of the PlayStation Plus games for June 2026 covers the current catalogue additions.
