{"id":87343,"date":"2026-08-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87343"},"modified":"2026-08-10T11:36:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:36:38","slug":"after-a-decade-of-no-mans-sky-players-have-explored-less-than-1-of-the-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87343","title":{"rendered":"After a Decade of No Man&#8217;s Sky, Players Have Explored Less Than 1% of the Planets"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/no-mans-sky\">No Man\u2019s Sky<\/a> developer Hello Games is celebrating its 10-year anniversary with a few eye-catching stats and a tease for the upcoming update.<\/p>\n<p>The hotly anticipated No Man\u2019s 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 \u2018overwhelmingly negative\u2019 Steam user review rating, a clear sign to anyone who visited its Steam page that something was very wrong.<\/p>\n<p>But Guildford, England-based developer Hello Games continued to update No Man\u2019s Sky over the years, improving player sentiment to the point where it is now considered superb. It took two years to hit \u2018mixed,\u2019 then another three to hit \u2018mostly positive.\u2019 At the time, five years after launch, Tim Woodley, Head of Publishing at Hello Games, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/no-mans-sky-gets-mostly-positive-steam-review-5-years\">explained how hard it was to claw back Steam user reviews from such a low base<\/a>. No Man\u2019s Sky now sits on \u2018very positive\u2019 on Steam user reviews.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"image-with-caption\" data-image-url=\"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2026\/08\/10\/no-mans-sky-update-montage-1920x1080-1786364991391.png\" data-image-title=\"null\" data-image-class=\"article-image-full-size\" data-image-link=\"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2026\/08\/10\/no-mans-sky-update-montage-1920x1080-1786364991391.png\" data-caption=\"No%20Man%26%2339%3Bs%20Sky%20has%20seen%20a%20lot%20of%20updates%20over%20the%20last%2010%20years.%20Image%20credit%3A%20Hello%20Games.\" \/>\n<p>Today, Hello Games development chief Sean Murray penned a note to fans expressing his delight that No Man\u2019s Sky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Man\u2019s 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\u2019s 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":87345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87347,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87343\/revisions\/87347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}