On August 31, No Man’s Sky had a reported peak player count of over 93,000 active users on Steam, the highest the game has seen since 2018. The heightened player count for No Man’s Sky was tallied following the Voyagers content update that launched on August 27, which introduced Corvette ships that players can build and customize to their liking.
The surging player count for No Man’s Sky is the highest it has achieved since its troubled 2016 launch, which was plagued by technical issues and a vast universe that just felt empty to explore. Despite the negativity, developer Hello Games did not abandon its work on No Man’s Sky. Instead, the British game company continued to release several fixes and free content updates in the years that followed. With continued releases from the development team and ports to various consoles, including the Nintendo Switch 2, No Man’s Sky has become one of the top examples of how a game can evolve and overcome a difficult start.
With more players giving No Man’s Sky a try following the Voyagers content patch, the player count has skyrocketed to heights not seen in many years. According to No Man’s Sky‘s SteamDB page, the 24-hour peak of No Man’s Sky as of this writing stood at 93,332. The peak player count is the third-highest concurrent player total for No Man’s Sky since its 2016 release, which boasted a tally of 212,604 Steam players. The next-highest peak following No Man’s Sky‘s launch was in 2018, following the NEXT content update, where the concurrent player count stood as high as 97,723. Before the Voyagers content update went live on August 27, the player count on Steam for No Man’s Sky bounced between 5,000 and 10,000 on average for most of the month.
Since the Voyagers update, No Man’s Sky‘s player count on Steam has continued to increase each day. Despite the surge in players, Hello Games is not resting on its laurels. Given that the Voyagers update has some issues to fix with the newly introduced Corvette ship system, an Experimental content update is available for No Man’s Sky players to test out and provide feedback ahead of its future launch.
Given all that the Voyagers update has to offer, it is little surprise that No Man’s Sky has become one of the best open-world games to play on the last weekend of August. It remains to be seen what Hello Games has planned for future content updates.
7/10
August 9, 2016
T for Teen: Fantasy Violence, Animated Blood
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