No Man's Sky confirms 10th anniversary Cosmos update as 'big things' planned

Hello Games has announced yet another free update for No Man’s Sky, this time celebrating the game’s 10th anniversary with a plethora of new content.

It’s wild to think that No Man’s Sky has been going on 10 years now, having released way back in August 2016.

While the game didn’t have the most positive reception at launch, it has gone through a cultural reappraisal in recent years thanks to the wide amount of post-launch support that Hello Games has done.

The 10th anniversary update for No Man’s Sky is called Cosmos, and brings with it a load of new improvements and changes that long-time players will appreciate. However, as of right now the exact details regarding what’s being added are kept under wraps.

In a message from Sean Murray, co-founder and director of Hello Games, the Cosmos update teases “big things” for the future of No Man’s Sky, with details coming at a later date.

Murray also drops a few interesting facts about the game 10 years on, including that players have only explored around 1% of the planets available in the game, and that most of the developers at Hello Games who worked on the game at launch are still with the company.

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Murray also took the time to briefly mention Light No Fire, a new game cooking at Hello Games set on a single planet the “size of Earth”, and features similar procedural generation and sandbox gameplay mechanics as No Man’s Sky.

At the moment, Light No Fire is slated for a release sometime after 2026, and is only confirmed for PC so far. More platforms may be due to follow though, as was the case for No Man’s Sky.

No Man’s Sky originally launched on August 9, 2016 for PlayStation 4 and PC, and it received mixed reception initially.

One of the biggest issues players had was with the lack of features that were missing from the retail release of the game, with fans compiling a list of all features that were mentioned during pre-release but not included at launch.

This list included planetary physics, in-atmosphere battles, and interaction with other players, but there was a lot more stuff also not included in the final game which was later added as a free update further down the line.

This negative reaction led to No Man’s Sky having one of the worst player ratings on Steam, with reviews bringing the overall reception down to “Mostly Negative”.

Over time, the game gradually improved with regular free updates. Each year, No Man’s Sky gets a handful of updates, each time introducing a new feature and plenty of improvements. This includes major overhauls to existing features, as well as brand new ideas which never existed in the game to begin with.

Ten years later, the game now sits at around 83% positive reviews, indicating that reception is now “Very Positive”. It's also been brought to other platforms, including Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PSVR, and Nintendo Switch 2.