Howdy Video games co-founder and CEO Sean Murray has thanked gamers for his or her assist on the tenth anniversary of No Man’s Sky.
The procedural action-adventure survival sport was launched on PS4 on August 9 in North America and August 10 in Europe, with subsequent releases over time on PC, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X/S, PS5, Swap and Swap 2.
No Man’s Sky has been thought of one of many greatest turnarounds in video video games, given the reception to the sport when it was launched.
When it initially launched in 2016, reception was combined as most of the options gamers had been anticipating weren’t current on day one.
Since then, developer Howdy Video games has been frequently releasing free content material updates – round 40 main updates thus far – to the extent that the sport because it stands in 2026 is vastly superior to what was obtainable in 2016.
In an open letter to gamers, Murray has expressed his delight on the workforce’s work bettering the sport over the previous decade, and thanked gamers for sticking with the sport all through.
Murray’s letter, in its entirety, reads as follows:
Howdy Video games’ Sean Murray‘s open letter to gamers
Howdy!
I really feel surprisingly emotional at this time. Ten years in the past, on ninth August 2016, travellers throughout the universe set foot on their first alien planet in No Man’s Sky.
Maybe you had been there ten years in the past, or possibly you joined later. It’s very cool to me that throughout the universe, different Travellers have woken up on numerous different planets, gentle years other than one another. They took their first steps on their first planet and introduced a brand new unexplored universe into existence collectively.
Since then tens of millions of gamers have made No Man’s Sky their residence, created insane bases, constructed communities, made mates, and constructed actually artistic customized ships.
For any sport to achieve its ten-year milestone is spectacular and I believe that’s very true for No Man’s Sky. It’s actually a testomony to the fervour of the workforce right here and of the gamers for the sport, that this yr we’ve seen our highest participant numbers since launch, and gained a TGA and BAFTA for greatest evolving sport.
Over the past decade, the No Man’s Sky gamers have joined us in one other kind of journey as we grew, expanded and deepened what No Man’s Sky may very well be. With now 40 main updates, all free, we have now expanded our sandbox universe with base-building, exocraft, settlements, mechs, pets, residing ships, expeditions and rebuilt the universe a number of instances over. Help for Swap, XBox, VR, PSVR, Swap 2, PS5, XBX and extra has been added alongside the best way. The truth is No Man’s Sky is supported on about as many platforms as there are workforce members!
It grew to become a little bit of a meme on the time, me holding up the gold grasp disc of No Man’s Sky however I’m proud to say that the general public in that photograph are nonetheless at Howdy. The No Man’s Sky workforce has developed over that interval after all, however it’s not actually that a lot larger.
Since then tens of tens of millions of Travellers have spent a whole lot of tens of millions of hours exploring and sharing their discoveries and the universe is extra vibrant now than it ever has been. Voyagers launched final yr noticed extra gamers than we’ve had since launch… and nonetheless, all these years later gamers have explored lower than 1% of the planets in No Man’s Sky.
In an analogous approach our small workforce feels we have now loads left to discover in what No Man’s Sky might be. Within the background we’re busy cooking on our subsequent sport Gentle No Fireplace, and large issues for the way forward for No Man’s Sky, with the tease of our upcoming replace titled “COSMOS”. Extra will observe!
I think about myself exceedingly fortunate to work with the folks I do, on a sport I like with one of many nicest communities in video video games. When you’re studying this, then it’s as a result of you’ve proven us a kindness over that interval. Huge or small that helps Howdy Video games do what we do. For that I’m actually grateful.
Thanks a lot,
Sean
