After a Decade of No Man’s Sky, Players Have Explored Less Than 1% of the Planets

No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games is celebrating its 10-year anniversary with a few eye-catching stats and a tease for the upcoming update.

The hotly anticipated No Man’s Sky launched on August 9, 2016 on PS4 and PC to tens of thousands of negative reviews on Steam, with players complaining about broken promises and a lack of meaningful content, particularly on the multiplayer side. The game quickly settled on the dreaded ‘overwhelmingly negative’ Steam user review rating, a clear sign to anyone who visited its Steam page that something was very wrong.

But Guildford, England-based developer Hello Games continued to update No Man’s Sky over the years, improving player sentiment to the point where it is now considered superb. It took two years to hit ‘mixed,’ then another three to hit ‘mostly positive.’ At the time, five years after launch, Tim Woodley, Head of Publishing at Hello Games, explained how hard it was to claw back Steam user reviews from such a low base. No Man’s Sky now sits on ‘very positive’ on Steam user reviews.