It has now been seven years since No Man’s Sky launched, which implies there have been seven years of post-release updates. In a trailer launched to have fun the anniversary, Hi there Video games teased the subsequent replace by giving it a reputation: Echoes.
There is no additional details about what the replace will comprise, though a tweet about the trailer did underline simply what number of updates there have been for No Man’s Sky by itemizing all of them.
No Man’s Sky launched not as an incomplete recreation, however as one which targeted on solo interplanetary exploration and useful resource gathering in a largely empty universe. It wasn’t the sport folks wished – or the one they felt they’d been bought in trailers and developer interviews. (This downside would have been solved if extra folks learn my preview when the sport was introduced.) (We loved it at launch anyway.)
That core loop (land on planet, zap and scan stuff, collect sources, fly to new planet) continues to be current, however No Man’s Sky’s updates have broadened and deepened the expertise nearly past recognition. There’s multiplayer now, and base-building, and mechs, and flying creatures, and a greater story, and seasonal challenges, and even big sandworms. Hi there Video games persevering with so as to add extra to the sport solely is sensible, given it is nonetheless being performed by hundreds of individuals on Steam at any given second.
Hi there Video games’ final new recreation was 2021’s brief puzzle-adventure The Final Campfire. Nearly as good because it apparently was, I hope they sooner or later make one other recreation as madly formidable as No Man’s Sky.
(As I used to be penning this put up, my Spotify playlist threw up this fittingly named song, so now you may have it.)