No Man's Sky — Latest Updates & Patch Notes
No Man's Sky is #59 on Steam with a 24h peak of 39,497; 21,603 playing when sampled at 23:40 UTC. Latest official patch in our feed: A complete overhaul to space arrives in the form of No Man's Sky COSMOS (7.0) (Sep 9, 2026). As of Sep 28, 2026.
Latest official update
"Our Journey Continues" 10th Anniversary Expedition
Hello everyone, Today, we're so excited to be launching our special anniversary expedition: Our Journey Continues. This expedition celebrates ten years since the launch of No Man's Sky, and it felt celebratory to make! Everything from the developer commentary, to the…
See update details ↓Data from Steam · Last updated Sep 28, 2026 · Refreshed daily
- Steam rank
- #59
- 24h peak
- 39K
- Steam weekly chart change
- −15 places
Weekly change is vs last week on Steam's chart. History below compares exact dates in our recorded snapshots.
Latest updates & patch notes
3 English-language official updates in the last 90 days.
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Event Steam · Official
"Our Journey Continues" 10th Anniversary Expedition
Hello everyone, Today, we're so excited to be launching our special anniversary expedition: Our Journey Continues. This expedition celebrates ten years since the launch of No Man's Sky, and it felt celebratory to make! Everything from the developer commentary, to the…
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Official Patch / Release posts · 2026-09-28 UTC
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Patch Steam · Official
A complete overhaul to space arrives in the form of No Man's Sky COSMOS (7.0)
Hello everyone, Thank you for helping us celebrate our 10th Anniversary last month. It was emotional to hear people’s stories and memories from playing over the years. We feel lucky to still be able do big crazy things with No Man’s Sky after ten years, and our next update…
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Event Steam · Official
Celebrating 10 Years (!) of No Man's Sky
Hello! I feel surprisingly emotional today. Ten years ago, on 9th August 2016, Travellers across the universe set foot on their first alien planet in No Man’s Sky. Perhaps you were there ten years ago, or maybe you joined later. It’s very cool to me that all around the universe…
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News Steam · Official
Introducing.. No Man's Sky: The Swarm
Hello, No Man’s Sky turns 10 in August and we feel very lucky that we still get the chance to work on it every day. What we love about sci-fi, and about No Man’s Sky, is that it can be a canvas for so many ideas. Our last update, Xeno Arena, introduced Pokemon-style pet…
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News Steam · Official
Introducing No Man's Sky Xeno Arena
Hello everyone, This is already shaping up to a big year for No Man’s Sky, as we celebrate our tenth anniversary year! Even we struggle to know how we pulled off so many large updates in 2025. 2026 is building steadily on that momentum. Our small team is excited to share our…
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News Steam · Official
Introducing... No Man's Sky Remnant!
Hello, In 2025, No Man’s Sky Travellers were treated to one of our biggest years yet. Even we struggle to know how we pulled off so many large updates last year - Worlds Part II and Voyagers were both transformational and released in the same year, interspersed with smaller but…
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Release Steam · Official
Limited Winter Edition Traveller and Gek Plushies Now Available
Hello! As 2025 comes to an end we’re delighted to collaborate with youtooz once more and introduce our limited winter edition Traveller and Gek plushies. Each is dressed to survive any frozen planet …but only for a short time and will only be available to order here until New…
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News Steam · Official
2025 - one of our biggest yet!
Hello, Well, we’re coming to the end of another incredibly busy year for No Man’s Sky, one that has seen us hit our highest player numbers since launch, and we couldn’t be more grateful for being able to continue this journey with you all nine years after our initial launch. It…
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News Steam · Official
Announcing..the 2025 Expedition Reduxes
Hello Everyone! It's been another incredibly busy year for No Man's Sky. We're honestly amazed by how quickly 2025 has flown past, and so happy and humbled to be back here wrapping up the year with the return of our now-traditional expedition reduxes. We hit the ground running…
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News Steam · Official
Introducing... No Man's Sky Breach
Hello, Well, we suspected that the No Man’s Sky Voyagers update was going to cause some excitement in the universe, but never did we expect such a huge influx- seeing player numbers we’ve not seen since launch… nine years ago! Our update for Halloween is called Breach, and it…
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News Steam · Official
Introducing... No Man's Sky: Voyagers
Hello! I can’t believe it’s been just over nine years since No Man’s Sky first launched. No Man’s Sky VOYAGERS is what we’re super busy with right now and is one of our most ambitious updates. It launches today. Full patch notes are available here. I’ve always loved Spaceships!…
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Event Steam · Official
Celebrating our 9th Anniversary with Gek and Traveller Plushies!
Hello Everyone! It's hard to believe that it was nine years ago that we launched No Man’s Sky! It continues to be an incredible journey and we feel so lucky to have this opportunity to continue to expand this game we love, with such a warm and welcoming community. The stories we…
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Last 14 days on Steam
Tracked since Sep 10, 2026 · best observed rank #39 (Sep 13, 2026) · 18 recorded days.
As of . 18 of the last 30 days recorded.
Rank changes compare with our own dated snapshots: the 7-day figure is vs our snapshot 7 days ago. Steam’s weekly chart comparison uses a separate source.
- Rank vs yesterday
- Down 1 place
- Rank vs 7 days ago
- Down 15 places
- Rank vs 30 days ago
- No comparable sample
- 30-day best peak
- 55,726
- 30-day average peak
- 40,985
| Date (UTC) | Rank | 24h peak |
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| #59 | 39,497 | |
| #58 | 37,870 | |
| #60 | 32,466 | |
| #56 | 32,609 | |
| #50 | 34,275 | |
| #50 | 37,995 | |
| #43 | 39,947 | |
| #44 | 55,693 | |
| #44 | 52,304 | |
| #41 | 43,955 | |
| #40 | 43,067 | |
| #40 | 43,239 | |
| Excluded snapshot | ||
| #39 | 41,562 | |
18 peak samples in the 30-day average. Missing, excluded and unobserved days are not counted; chart absence does not prove zero players.
In the news (12)
Third-party reporting, separate from official developer announcements.
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GamingOnLinux
No Man's Sky Cosmos preps for Steam Frame plus - orbital construction, alliances, colossal shipwrecks and tons more
Hello Games are truly expanding No Man's Sky into a forever space sandbox aren't they? The new Cosmos update is out and it's another massive one. Read the full article here:
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PC Gamer
'What if you could own a space station?' asks No Man's Sky's Sean Murray, as he lets you own a space station
Somehow, it's been 10 years since No Man's Sky launched on Steam, an infamously inauspicious occasion that over the space of that decade evolved from a cautionary tale about the excesses of hype to one of the best and most enduring exploration adventures you can play. And it's…
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PCGamesN
No Man's Sky overhauls space after conquering basically everything else
No Man's Sky update, Cosmos, overhauls space, adding salvage operations, orbital station ownership, and some possible biohazard threats. Read the full story on PCGamesN: No Man's Sky overhauls space after conquering basically everything else
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Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Even 10 years on, Sean Murray feels like he could work on No Man's Sky "forever," even if he knows "there probably is some end date" for it
What's that? It's been 10 years since No Man's Sky launched? Oh! That's gone by a bit too quick! In that time the planet hopping survival game has changed drastically, starting life frequently derided for missing promised features, slowly morphing into what it is now. The game…
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PC Gamer
Sean Murray still loves playing the 2016 version of No Man's Sky: 'It's a little bit weirder, but it's got its charm'
No Man's Sky has changed an awful lot in the 10 years since its launch. Hello Games' space sandbox has received a few dozen major free updates that have added features like base-building, spaceship construction, multiplayer missions, companions, mechs, and even its own version…
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PCGamesN
No Man's Sky is now ten years old, and the best reminder that games deserve time to grow
Hello Games is celebrating the No Man's Sky tenth anniversary and heartwarming success story, as it looks ahead to a new update, Cosmos. Read the full story on PCGamesN: No Man's Sky is now ten years old, and the best reminder that games deserve time to grow
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PC Gamer
No Man's Sky now has its own Death Star with a laser so big it can 'destroy space station sized objects'
Who says you need a mouth-breathing psychopath in black armor and a gross, pale old ghoul in a hood to have a Death Star? No Man's Sky continues its seemingly endless parade of free updates today with The Swarm , which introduces a new threat to the universe: a massive space…
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GamingOnLinux
Fight off deadly swarms and a big space hive in the latest No Man's Sky update
Blimey, Hello Games sure are building up No Man's Sky into a game that just has a bit of everything aren't they? The Swarm Update has warped in. Read the full article here:
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PCGamesN
New No Man's Sky The Swarm update threatens the universe with a murderous, robotic hive - not the bees!
It's hard to think that No Man's Sky is nearly ten years old. I remember being there in the glorious summer of 2016. Pokémon GO was all the rage, but I was even more excited for Hello Games' space game to drop. As we know, it was an underwhelming launch, and so would begin one…
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Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Helldivers 2-esque war against a giant evil robo-eye beckons in No Man's Sky's The Swarm update, invading the galaxy right now
It's the Death Star! Well, sort of. It's a big robo-eye invading the galaxy with a swarm of killer drones, as No Man's Sky goes a bit Helldivers 2 -ish in its latest update. Dubbed The Swarm, it'll see folks filed away from their not quite Pokemon battles to join three factions…
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GamingOnLinux
No Man's Sky channels a little Pokemon with the Xeno Arena update
No Man's Sky is steadily turning into the everything game isn't it? Hello Games have released another big upgrade for it recently adding creature battling. Read the full article here:
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PCGamesN
New No Man's Sky Xeno Arena update adds a full-fledged Fight Club for your alien pets
You can't really go wrong with creature collecting. Give me a colorful world with cute critters to capture and pit against one another and my wallet is yours. It's what being raised on a diet of Pokémon and Digimon will do to a person; not that I'm complaining. No Man's Sky…
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Game overview
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
- Steam rank
- #59 ▼
- Peak (24h)
- 39K
- Genre
- Action, Adventure
- Developer
- Hello Games
- Released
- Aug 12, 2016
- Price
- $59.99
- Metacritic
- 61
- Recommendations
- 317K
Screenshots
About No Man's Sky
Inspired by the adventure and imagination that we love from classic science-fiction, No Man's Sky presents you with a galaxy to explore, filled with unique planets and lifeforms, and constant danger and action. In No Man's Sky, every star is the light of a distant sun, each orbited by planets filled with life, and you can go to any of them you choose. Fly smoothly from deep space to planetary surfaces, with no loading screens, and no limits. In this infinite procedurally generated universe, you'll discover places and creatures that no other players have seen before - and perhaps never will again. Now including... Play with all major updates…
Game details
- System requirements (minimum)
- Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10/11 (64-bit versions) Processor: Intel Core i3 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1060 3GB, AMD RX 470 4GB, Intel UHD graphics 630 Storage: 15 GB available space VR Support: SteamVR
- Languages
- English * , French * , Italian * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Dutch, Japanese * , Korean * , Polish * , Portuguese - Portugal * , Portuguese - Brazil * , Russian * , Simplified Chinese * , Traditional Chinese * *…
- Controller
- Full controller support
- DLC
- 1 available on Steam
- Official site
- www.nomanssky.com/
Frequently asked questions
- Is No Man's Sky free to play?
- No Man's Sky is listed at $59.99 on Steam.
- What is the latest No Man's Sky update?
- The most recent official update in our feed is ""Our Journey Continues" 10th Anniversary Expedition" (Sep 17, 2026), categorized as Event. Hello everyone, Today, we're so excited to be launching our special anniversary expedition: Our Journey Continues. This expedition celebrates ten years since the launch of No Man's Sky, and it felt celebratory to make! Everything from the developer commentary, to the…
- How many people play No Man's Sky?
- No Man's Sky is #59 on Steam with a 24h peak of 39,497; 21,603 playing when sampled at 23:40 UTC. Latest official patch in our feed: A complete overhaul to space arrives in the form of No Man's Sky COSMOS (7.0) (Sep 9, 2026). As of Sep 28, 2026.
- When was No Man's Sky released?
- No Man's Sky was released on Aug 12, 2016 by Hello Games.
- What kind of game is No Man's Sky?
- No Man's Sky is a Action, Adventure game, featuring single-player, multi-player, pvp.
24-hour peak player counts and update notes are pulled from Steam's public data and refreshed daily (last refresh: Sep 28, 2026). Official announcements and third-party reporting are labelled separately; follow the source links for full notes. No Man's Sky and all related assets are trademarks of their respective owners.