Despite Rough Launch on PC, No Man's Sky Becomes Biggest Steam Launch of the Year 2022

Since its reveal at E3 2022, No Man's Sky has turned millions of heads. Hello Games, the relatively small indie game studio, made sure the hype around their space exploration game grows leaps and premises by bringing out all the unique stuff that the game has to offer. The hype along with the developers' hard work has paid off; despite having a pretty rough launch-twenty-four hours, No Man's Heaven has come up out on top as i of the biggest game launches Steam has ever seen in terms of concurrent players.

Despite Twenty-four hour period-1 Performance Problems, No Human'south Sky Had One of the Biggest Steam Launches Ever

No Man's Sky came to PC three days later than PlayStation 4, and things didn't commencement off well. The highly anticipated game had a crude launch, with players reporting poor operation on Steam. A big number of users left negative reviews due to technical issues, such every bit FPS drops, stuttering, crashing and screen-tearing, that made the game almost unplayable upon its release. All this, equally it turns out now, didn't end players from jumping right into the game and starting their journey beyond its vast universe.

Co-ordinate to SteamDB, a resource that compiles data from Vavle's official Steam Stats, 212,620 people were simultaneously playing No Man's Sky on Friday, its launch day. That means, at least 46% more players were playing the game at same time compared to any other game launched on Steam this year and then far. For comparison; XCOM two saw about 133,000 summit concurrent players, Dark Souls III saw around 130,000, and The Segmentation saw 114,000. Of form, games like Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Fallout 4 and GTA V top the list, but none of those games was released this year.

Of course, this doesn't necessarily hateful No Homo's Sky sold more copies than any of the games it topped. These are non sales figures, they really evidence how popular a game is among the community. How well the game is doing in sales department is yet to be seen. But needless to say, popular games elevation the sales charts past selling in millions. Hello Games' dominate Sean Murray tweeted that an "insane" amount of people were playing the game inside 15 minutes its launch.

No Human being's Sky is currently available on PC and PlayStation iv. Hi Games is currently working to fix various issues that are currently affecting the game'south performance on PC. A patch to reduce lag on PS4 is also in the works.