No Man's Sky — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
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| Introducing No Man's Sky Xeno Arena | 2026-04-08 | 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 latest update. Full patch notes here.Our new update is called XENO ARENA and it's pretty wild! Xeno Arena lets you raise, train and battle the alien creatures found across the universe. Most of the planets you’ve visited in your travels have always been teeming with wildlife - and now, for the first time, those creatures are not just your companions, but your squad and mayb |
| Introducing...No Man's Sky Remnant! | 2026-02-11 | 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 significant updates in Relics, Beacon and Breach. Today we’re pleased to announce that our first update of 2026, our 10th anniversary year, is already rolling out. It’s called Remnant and it introduces something that we and the community have been aching to introduce to No Man’s Sky since the beginning…a fully operational gravity gun! Full patch notes are available here |
| Limited Winter Edition Traveller and Gek Plushies Now Available | 2025-12-18 | 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 Years day.Wishing you the best for the rest of the year and excited as our journey continues into 2026.Sean |
| 2025 - one of our biggest yet! | 2025-11-24 | 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 would mean the world to our tiny team if you could take a few moments to nominate us for the “Labor of Love” category in the upcoming Steam Awards. It feels like, this year in particular, there’s been a lot of “labor” to love, with 5 major updates and 4 expeditions. We kicked off the year in January with the release of the much anticipated Worlds Part II update. Complet |
| Announcing..the 2025 Expedition Reduxes | 2025-11-07 | 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 in January this year, with the release of the huge WORLDS PART II, which furthered the transformation of the universe with new stars, planets, mountains and oceans, creatures and biomes, and lore. The team felt very passionate about this return to some of the fundamentals of No Man's Sky, and we could feel the anticipation building for this follow-up to WORLDS PART I, so |
| Introducing...No Man's Sky Breach | 2025-10-22 | 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 leans into the thrill of custom ship assembly, space-walking, skydiving, and community spirit introduced in Voyagers. It is free to download today for existing players. Full patch notes are available here.In Breach, players will traverse a desolate and abandoned universe and on their travels encounter the abandoned remains of ill-fated corvette ships, all ripe for scavengi |
| Introducing...No Man's Sky: Voyagers | 2025-08-27 | 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! Name a sci-fi film, book or game, and I want to talk to you about the spaceships in it! We know No Man’s Sky players feel the same - they spend countless hours searching the universe for their perfect ship. But what if you could design your own ship? If you could get out of your pilot's seat mid-flight and walk around? If you could invite your friends on board as crew?I |
| Celebrating our 9th Anniversary with Gek and Traveller Plushies! | 2025-08-10 | 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 hear from you as you embrace new updates, the creativity we see as you build your own bases, customise your own ships, form your own groups – it means the world to us.We have a few surprises planned, including collaborating with youtooz to bring you something a bit special.We really love these plushies and we’re happy to let you know they’re now available from youtooz. T |
| Introducing...No Man's Sky BEACON | 2025-06-04 | Hello, Today we’re pleased to announce the release of our latest update for No Man’s Sky. BEACON completely overhauls settlements, bringing towns and their management to No Man’s Sky. There are huge new robotic settlements to discover, with impossibly new sci-fi buildings. Full patch notes are available here. Players can become town mayor and take ownership of multiple settlements. You can construct buildings and upgrade each one, with new building types like jukebox bars where you can choose the music, merchants where you can build custom starships or even ponds you can chill and fish at. One of the coolest additions in BEACON is the arrival |
| Introducing...No Man's Sky: RELICS | 2025-03-26 | Hello! Following hot on the heels of the massive Worlds Part II update back in January which introduced a whole range of visual enhancements, gameplay additions and quality of life improvements, the small No Man’s Sky team have let their imaginations run wild and been having a lot of fun playing around with something really whimsical but remarkably transformative for what is possibly our most surprising update yet. We’re calling it RELICS and it is available to download free to existing players from today. Full patch notes are available here. Since launch, because of the way that No Man’s Sky’s planetary terrain works, No Man’s Sky players ha |
| Expedition 17: "Titan" Now Live! | 2025-02-12 | Hello everyone! Following on from last month’s massive Worlds Part II update, today we are launching our seventeenth expedition: TITAN, and inviting the entire community to explore some of the new planets introduced in Worlds Part II. Awaken upon the spectacular but dangerous New Aftesfi, a titanic gas giant ravaged by tornadoes and encircled by moons. Chart a course between rendezvous points to reach a dazzling array of new stars and new worlds, endless oceans and cloud-skimming mountains. Titan begins today, and will run for approximately six weeks. Participating Travellers can complete milestones to earn a generous spread of exclusive rewa |
| Introducing...Worlds Part II | 2025-01-29 | Hello! No Man’s Sky is a game that we all genuinely truly love. Last year we released Worlds Part I and I remember thinking at the time that this is just the beginning. We can’t wait to show people what we’ve been working on! There’s new solar systems, new planets with more variety, new terrain types, even new Gas Giants, and of course new adventures. Our next update is called Worlds Part II. Full patch notes are available here. Worlds Part II allows us to push the boundaries of our engine with new technology. Across the universe we’re adding billions of new solar systems and trillions of new planets, and introducing new biomes and terrains w |
| Aquarius Expedition back for a limited time only | 2025-01-08 | Hello! As part of our season of 2024 Expedition Reduxes, the Aquarius Expedition goes live today. It will run for two weeks until 22nd January. Back in September 2024, we launched the Aquarius update, and with it introduced fishing to No Man's Sky, partly because it's just a fun thing to do alone or with friends, but mostly to show off the new water effects which the Worlds Part I update had ushered in a few months before! It's fair to say that introducing something as seemingly incongruous as fishing into a sci-fi world has been met with almost universal joy from the community. Clearly there was a pent-up need to pause the exploration, base- |
| Limited edition "Starborn Phoenix" to celebrate our TGA Community Support nod! | 2024-12-12 | Hello Everyone! The first of 2024’s holiday expeditions has just come to an end: the redux of Omega. We’ve loved reading everyone’s expedition anecdotes and positive feedback, and seeing the incredible popularity of the Starborn Runner starship. However, if you missed this opportunity to claim the Starborn Runner (or if you just can’t get enough of its hovership design) we have some very good news… Today, in association with The Game Awards 2024 and to celebrate our Best Community Support nomination, we are excited to reveal the Starborn Phoenix, a limited edition golden starship. The Starborn Phoenix is free to claim on Steam right now, unti |
| Feeling "VERY POSITIVE" | 2024-11-28 | Hello Folks! Last night we finally did it! After eight years, we crossed the 80% positive review threshold on Steam to earn a "Very Positive" badge on "ALL REVIEWS". Honestly, I didn't think we'd ever do this, and it's all thanks to you all in the community. Thank you, thank you, thank you. We have nearly quarter of a million reviews, so mathematically it's pretty hard to change the % that are positive! For every 10,000 players, maybe 100 review the game. If 80% of those reviews are positive, the first 79 don't change our %, only that 80th person makes a difference! Ten thousands players, resulting in a single extra positive, dropped into an |
| 2024 Expedition Reduxes are now on! | 2024-11-27 | Hello Everyone! 2024 has been another impactful year for No Man’s Sky, with the team pouring so much love into every update. OMEGA, ORBITAL, WORLDS PART I and AQUARIUS added breadth and depth to so many areas of the universe - from a complete overhaul of the expedition system, starship customisation, elaborate new space stations, new planetary biomes, incredible rendering improvements to water and clouds, and so much more. A few weeks ago, we even introduced CROSS-SAVE between our huge number of supported platforms. This year has also seen no fewer than five(!) community expeditions, bringing Travellers together in a certain corner of the uni |
| Cross-Save, PS5 Pro and...the return of the Normandy! | 2024-11-07 | Hello, This year has already been a very busy one for No Man’s Sky, with 6 updates already this year, including the huge Worlds Update. Our last update, The Cursed, dropped just a couple of weeks ago, and players have been loving the spooky Halloween vibe. In game development some features take weeks or months, and others take years. Today we are releasing some features that have been years in the making. Cross-Save Starting from today we are rolling out Cross-Save support on all platforms. This has been a huge undertaking, and is one of most requested features. Being able to jump seamlessly between platforms is really transformative. Players |
| Introducing..The Cursed Expedition! | 2024-10-23 | Hello Everyone! Our last update saw players enjoying a nice chilled time, fishing in No Man's Sky. Our next update couldn't be more different! As we approach Halloween, we are embracing the spookier side of the No Man's Sky Universe, drawing upon threads first established way back in Atlas Rises, when ancient portals began to open and the boundaries between realities first began to crumble… Today, we are announcing expedition sixteen: The Cursed - where players will fight to keep a grip on reality while haunted by visions and voices from another dimension. Full patch notes can be found here. The Cursed takes place in a sort of twilight realm, |
| Introducing...No Man's Sky Aquarius | 2024-09-04 | Hello Everyone! Today, the Aquarius Update is free to download for existing players and introduces something we have been tempted to add ever since we stood on the shores of No Man’s Sky’s planets and looked out across their watery expanses - fishing! Full patch notes are available here. Players can now explore the universe to find their perfect waterside spot, hopping with fish - sit and relax alone with their thoughts, or with fellow Travellers looking out over alien vistas waiting for a bite. Fishing Fishing in No Man’s Sky is a uniquely relaxing experience, either alone with your thoughts or with the companionship of others. Grab a rod an |
| Introducing Worlds Part I - the 5.0 update | 2024-07-17 | Hello! I’m here to give you a heads up about the largest No Man’s Sky update of the year so far. So much so that we’ve made the usual trailer, and also this Deep Dive video that shows a glimpse behind the scenes. Our next update is called Worlds Part I, and I’m so proud of the team here, the love they are putting into it. We are refreshing the universe with new technology, new flora, new fauna and new gameplay. Full patch notes can be found here In No Man’s Sky, what you see on screen is generated by the computer. The level of variety we are achieving is far beyond what was possible before. With every update we still want to surprise. Eight y |