No Man's Sky's Voyagers Update Brings In Highest Number of Players Since 2016 Launch

No Man’s Sky's latest escaped Voyagers update has taken disconnected successful much ways than one, bringing successful the highest fig of players since it launched backmost successful 2016.

Hello Games' Sean Murray commented connected the accomplishment connected X/Twitter, posting a screenshot commemorating the fig of players who were in-game astatine the clip — 97,986 — adding: "Highest fig of players since launch," and appending a "mind blown" emoji.

Interestingly, the highest has risen adjacent further since then, with Steam reporting a 24-hour highest of 98,285 concurrent players.

No Man’s Sky is simply a crippled astir exploration and survival, acceptable successful an infinite universe. Voyagers adds a agelong database of features, which Murray said Hello Games had worked connected for immoderate time. Chief among them is the Corvette Ship Class and the anticipation for a multiplayer crew, arsenic good arsenic entity diving, varied cockpits, a caller expedition, ngo radar, and more.

A caller experimental physique has besides conscionable been pushed to PC with further incoming fixes and improvements.

No Man's Sky is not the lone crippled seeing a surge of caller and returning players this week, either. While the subordinate number for Hollow Knight looks to person been beauteous unchangeable implicit the past six months oregon so, the announcement of Hollow Knight: Silksong's merchandise day — September 4! — has either piqued subordinate involvement oregon nostalgia capable to treble its accustomed subordinate number fundamentally overnight, breaking the past concurrent grounds acceptable backmost successful March 2022… which is rather thing fixed the crippled released mode backmost successful 2017.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.