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Stranded on a hostile planet, repair your ship and explore a generated galaxy to gather resources, build, trade, and survive.
Released 12 Aug 2016
Explore Alien Planets
Build Planetary Bases
Customize Starships
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Developed by Hello Games · Published by Hello Games
You begin as a spacefarer stranded on an unfamiliar planet, with a damaged ship and a suit to keep supplied. Repair the ship and set out across a procedurally generated galaxy of star systems, planets, and lifeforms.
Explore planetary surfaces and oceans, scan and name discoveries, gather materials, and craft supplies. Fly between planets and systems, trade with alien species, take on missions, and choose whether to focus on exploration, combat, or commerce.
Use collected resources and discoveries to upgrade your suit, tools, and ships, and build bases across the galaxy. You can also grow crops, manage a fleet, and pursue story missions or your own goals as your access to equipment and activities expands.
In this sample, players often enjoy the freedom to set their own goals, the anticipation of finding unfamiliar planets and creatures, and the range of activities from building bases to trading and ship upgrades. Some also value the calm pace and scenic exploration, as well as the developers’ continued free updates. Other reviews find that planets and activity loops can become repetitive, and that individual systems may lack depth.
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.
Play with all major updates since launch: Foundation, Pathfinder, Atlas Rises, NEXT, The Abyss, Visions, the 2.0 BEYOND update, Synthesis, Living Ship, Exo Mech, Desolation and the 3.0 update, ORIGINS, Next Generation, Companions, Expeditions, Prisms, Frontiers, Sentinel, Outlaws, Endurance, Waypoint (4.0), Fractal, Interceptor, Echoes, Omega, Orbital, Worlds Part I (5.0), Worlds Part II, Relics, Beacon, VOYAGERS (6.0), Remnant, Xeno Arena and The Swarm.
And now with added Cross-Save! No Man’s Sky now supports Cross-Play and Cross-Save between a huge number of platforms including PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 5 Pro, Xbox One and Series X/S, Game Pass, GOG, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck, PlayStation VR 1 & 2 and PCVR.
Available for PC and Mac (see recommended and minimum specs for details).
An epic voyage to the centre of a shared universe awaits, allowing you to explore, trade, fight and survive alone or with friends.
At the centre of the galaxy lies an irresistible pulse which draws you on a journey towards it to learn the true nature of the cosmos. But, facing hostile creatures and fierce pirates, you'll know that death comes at a cost, and survival will be down to the choices you make over how you upgrade your ship, your weapon and suit.
Your voyage through No Man's Sky is up to you. Will you be a fighter, preying on the weak and taking their riches, or taking out pirates for their bounties? Power is yours if you upgrade your ship for speed and weaponry.
Or a trader? Find rich resources on forgotten worlds and exploit them for the highest prices. Invest in more cargo space and you'll reap huge rewards.
Or perhaps an explorer? Go beyond the known frontier and discover places and things that no one has ever seen before. Upgrade your engines to jump ever farther, and strengthen your suit for survival in toxic environments that would kill the unwary.
The galaxy is a living, breathing place. Trade convoys travel between stars, factions vie for territory, pirates hunt the unwary, and the police are ever watching. Every other player lives in the same galaxy, and you can choose to share your discoveries with them on a map that spans known space. Perhaps you will see the results of their actions as well as your own...
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 27 |
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| Players | 1–32 |
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| Multiplayer | No Man's Sky supports single-player and online multiplayer. Official store data confirms Online Co-op, Online PvP, and Cross-Platform Multiplayer. The provided text describes a shared galaxy, optional multiplayer settings, a multiplayer hub called the Anomaly, co-op missions, trading, base visiting, community expeditions, and playing alone or with friends. Reviews repeatedly cite up to 4-player co-op, and some reviews cite 32-player multiplayer lobbies after the BEYOND update. |
| Multiplayer & mods | One review advises against mods generally and says they are unstable, but the provided information does not state any specific multiplayer mod support or multiplayer-specific mod effects. |
| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 61/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
