No Man's Sky Concurrent Players Increase Nearly Six Times On Steam (2024)

Following the recent Outlaws update, No Man's Sky has gone past thirty thousand concurrent players for the first time in six months on Steam.

By Najam Ul HassanApril 16, 2022

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No Man’s Sky was by no means an easy undertaking for Hello Games. The game promised a universe and mechanics the likes of which had never been seen before, consisting of eighteen quintillion planets (18000000000000000000 for us regular folk), interplanetary travel, each planet having unique flora and fauna thanks to procedural generation, survival mechanics, trading, and so much more. Considering all that it promised, it isn’t surprising that it had quite a lot of hype surrounding it, and a keen eye from the gaming community. Sony itself provided the funding for promotion and initial publication, and its E3 showing helped Hello Games a lot with getting the game out therein the public eye.

However, it seemed that the developer had promised too much to be able to produce a good product. Following its launch, No Man’s Sky received bad reviews from all around. Many criticised the game for the number of bugs it had and various performance issues, many also aimed towards the game’s direction and pacing, the repetitiveness, and lacklustre survival elements, among others. This did not stop Hello Games from working tirelessly on the game to address the present issues and fix them to make No Man’s Sky something somebody would want to play. Over the past 6 years, the developer has delivered quite a lot of updates and polished the game, which has raised its standing in the gaming community. The most recent update, named Outlaws, has the community buzzing.

Outlaws is by no means a small update for No Man’s Sky. Just as the name suggests, it brings about a host of changes an outlaw would need, such as improved space combat, outlaw stations, forming your own outlaw squadrons, interstellar piracy, and so much more other than the typical bug fixes and core game improvements. This update has brought back a lot of players, who may have been waiting for the update for quite some time. After all, who wouldn’t want to be a gun-toting space rebel and try to be as close to Han Solo as possible? The renewed interest in the game shows as well, according to the numbers on Steam Charts.

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As can be seen in the charts, No Man’s Sky has almost 30,000 concurrent players on Steam as of the time of writing, with the 24-hour peak being 30,240, meaning that it had slightly over 30,000 concurrent players at a certain time in the previous twenty-four hours. This is also the most amount of concurrent players No Man’s Sky has had in the last 6 months on Steam, or, since the Frontiers update, which drew in quite a lot of players.

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In the days preceding the recent update, the number of concurrent players ranged between four to eight thousand, mostly being much closer to the former and peaking on odd occasions. The Outlaws update launched on April 13, which implies that just three days following the update, the 24-hour peak average from March 2022 has been raised by 10.18%, with the peak player count going from eleven thousand in the last month to thirty thousand now. The story doesn’t end here. Following the hotly anticipated update, No Man’s Sky is now fourth in Steam’s Top Sellers list, third if you account for duplicate entry of LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga possibly due to a different edition of the game.

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This is proof enough that the recent Outlaws update has brought back attention to No Man’s Sky on a significant scale. With the update having been released just three days ago, these numbers are sure to rise and may even go way above the current thirty thousand mark. Seeing the above list, it can also be noted that Elden Ring is back on the top in the Top Sellers list on Steam, having been dethroned by LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga a few days ago. For now, it seems that there is no stopping this beast of a game.

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How many people are playing No Man's Sky on Steam? ›

No Man's Sky
MonthAvg. PlayersPeak Players
Last 30 Days20,997.054,901
July 202417,408.254,901
June 20248,135.820,046
May 20245,123.814,956
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What is the highest peak concurrent players steam all time? ›

Top 15 Steam Games Ranked by Concurrents
  1. PUBG: Player Unknown's Battlegrounds. Concurrent Player Record: 3,257,248.
  2. Counter-Strike 2. Concurrent Player Record: 1,818,773. ...
  3. Lost Ark. Concurrent Player Record: 1,325,305. ...
  4. Dota 2. Concurrent Player Record: 1,295,114. ...
  5. Cyberpunk 2077. ...
  6. Elden Ring. ...
  7. New World. ...
  8. Hogwarts Legacy. ...

What is the max player count for no man's sky? ›

Up to 32 players on PC or 16 on console can be in the same instance of a star system.

Is No Man's Sky still active? ›

No Man's Sky is continuously evolving with major updates which grow and expand the universe with new ways to play.

What game has the highest player count? ›

Top 100 Games by Current Player Count (Top Concurrent Players)
PosGame nameCurrent players
1Counter-Strike 2906,154
2Dota 2471,839
3Banana337,824
4PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS166,044
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Is no mans sky bigger than minecraft? ›

From there, we take a huge leap in size to Minecraft's unfathomably large 4,096,000,000 km2 map, before going straight up cosmic with No Man's Sky's galactic sandbox of 18 Quintillion planets tallying up to 31,7000,000,000,000,000,000,000 km2.

How long does it take to 100 percent no man's sky? ›

Powered by IGN Wiki Guides
Single-PlayerPolledAverage
Main Story11530h 33m
Main + Extras19083h 30m
Completionist87182h 31m
All PlayStyles39289h 57m

Is there a 3000 limit in NMS? ›

The game displays a generic "unsuitable location" error message once the limit has been reached. There is also a limit of 16,000 base objects per save and a 3,000 components upload limit per base. Bases which use more than 3,000 parts cannot be uploaded.

What is the max amount of money you can have in no man's sky? ›

The maximum number of units that a player can accrue is 4,294,967,295 (approx 4.3 billion) (being FFFFFFFF in hexadecimal, thus being an overflow error) after which the number will not rise any further. It will NOT wrap around to zero.

Is No Man's Sky ending? ›

Hello Games' commitment to constantly revisiting and revising old systems means that the galaxy of No Man's Sky is one of the most cohesive and consistent experiences in all of online gaming — and this process could continue forever, as long as everyone keeps showing up to see how it turns out.

Is No Man's Sky map endless? ›

No, it's not infinite. It's just really, really big.

What is the goal in No Man's Sky? ›

The Goal. The goal is to reach the center of the universe, but the player has immense freedom in where they go and what they do. Even after reaching the goal, players may continue to explore the universe.

How big is no mans sky steam? ›

Total size on disk is 36.56 GiB and total download size is 31.89 GiB.

Who has the most games on Steam? ›

Most Games Ladder (Worldwide)
#Steam IDGames
1Sonix38,758
2gt436,973
34inarik36,299
4Donald J. Trump Donald J. Trump35,886
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How many players does steam have? ›

Steam has 132 million monthly active users (MAUs). Stream's active user base has grown by 10% over the past year, adding 12 million new monthly active users in 2021.

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