No Man’s Sky‘s newest free Voyagers replace has taken off in additional methods than one, bringing within the highest quantity of gamers because it launched again in 2016.
Hiya Video games’ Sean Murray commented on the achievement on X/Twitter, posting a screenshot commemorating the quantity of gamers who have been in-game on the time — 97,986 — including: “Highest quantity of gamers since launch,” and appending a “thoughts blown” emoji.
Apparently, the height has risen even additional since then, with Steam reporting a 24-hour peak of 98,285 concurrent gamers.
No Man’s Sky is a recreation about exploration and survival, set in an infinite universe. Voyagers provides a protracted listing of options, which Murray mentioned Hiya Video games had labored on for a while. Chief amongst them is the Corvette Ship Class and the likelihood for a multiplayer crew, in addition to sky diving, diversified cockpits, a brand new expedition, mission radar, and extra.
A new experimental build has additionally simply been pushed to PC with additional incoming fixes and enhancements.
No Man’s Sky shouldn’t be the one recreation seeing a surge of new and returning gamers this week, both. Whereas the participant rely for Hole Knight looks to have been pretty stable over the last six months or so, the announcement of Hole Knight: Silksong‘s launch date — September 4! — has both piqued participant curiosity or nostalgia sufficient to double its ordinary participant rely basically in a single day, breaking the final concurrent document set again in March 2022… which is kind of one thing given the sport launched method again in 2017.
Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, in addition to a critic, columnist, and guide with 15+ years expertise working with some of the world’s greatest gaming websites and publications. She’s additionally a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually Excessive Chaos. Discover her at BlueSky.