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It has now been seven years sinceNo Man’s Skyreleased, which means there have been seven years of post-release updates. In a trailer released to celebrate the anniversary, Hello Games teased the next update by giving it a name: Echoes.
There’s no further information about what the update will contain, althougha tweet about the trailerdid underline just how many updates there have been for No Man’s Sky by listing them all.
No Man’s Sky launched not as an incomplete game, but as one that focused on solo interplanetary exploration and resource gathering in a largely empty universe. It wasn’t the game people wanted - or the one they felt they’d been sold in trailers and developer interviews. (This problem would have been solvedif more people read my previewwhen the game was announced.) (Weenjoyed it at launch anyway.)
That core loop (land on planet, zap and scan stuff, gather resources, fly to new planet) is still present, but No Man’s Sky’s updates have broadened and deepened the experience almost beyond recognition. There’s multiplayer now, and base-building, and mechs, and flying creatures, and a better story, and seasonal challenges, and even giant sandworms. Hello Games continuing to add more to the game only makes sense, given it’s still being played by thousands of people on Steam at any given moment.
(As I was writing this post, my Spotify playlist threw upthis fittingly named song, so now you can have it.)
