No Man's Sky Sees Its Highest Steam Player Count Since Launch Following Latest Update

"Long gone are the days of No Man's Sky being billed as a massive disappointment, as not long after its ninth anniversary the game appears to have no problems pulling players back in. Last week the game's latest major update, Voyagers, went live, adding in a laundry list of features as the game's updates tend to do. With that, it also seems to have brought in a large influx of players, as the game has hit its highest number of players since launch."

"Hello Games co-founder and No Man's Sky programmer Sean Murray took to X to acknowledge the fact, sharing a screenshot of the game's concurrent player count at the time of posting. Murray's own screenshot showed 97,986 players all in-game at once, but SteamDB actually shows it went a bit higher than that yesterday, reaching 98,285 players. That's still less than half of the game's player count peak of 212,613 it achieved at launch,"

"The Voyagers update was, as usual, a hefty one, with the standout new feature being the addition of a new class of starship, the Corvette. With this particular ship you can completely customize it piece by piece, inside and out, and once you've built it you can walk around inside it, as well travel through space with your friends in it."

No Man's Sky has experienced a strong resurgence following the Voyagers update, which introduced numerous features and drew a large influx of players. Concurrent player counts reached 97,986 in a screenshot shared by Sean Murray and peaked at 98,285 according to SteamDB, marking the highest concurrent total since launch but still below the 212,613 peak at release. The update added a new Corvette starship class that can be customized piece by piece, entered and explored internally, and used to travel through space with friends. Hello Games is developing Light No Fire and plans to incorporate technology from Voyagers into that upcoming fantasy survival title.

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