Last updated on August 29, 2025
No Man’s Sky continues to push boundaries with its ambitious free update called Voyagers, launched in late August 2025. This update transforms the gameplay experience by introducing enormous, fully customizable Corvette-class starships and brand-new multiplayer features, allowing players to explore the cosmos cooperatively like never before.
Build Your Own Unique Corvette Starship
Central to Voyagers are the Corvette-class ships—large vessels that players build modularly at a dedicated Corvette Workshop found at space stations. Unlike previous ships, these corvettes come with fully explorable, habitable interiors. Players can customize every detail, from hull plates and wings to engines, shield generators, and even windows. This extensive customization allows for unique ship designs ranging from sleek, agile profiles to massive, imposing warships.
One of the standout features of these ships is the ability to step away from the pilot’s seat and freely move around inside the ship during flight, immersing players in an unprecedented level of interaction with their vessel. These interiors include sleeping quarters, medical bays, crafting stations, and more, all rendered in intricate 3D environments.
Pioneering Multiplayer with Crew-Based Ships
Voyagers elevates multiplayer gaming by allowing players to invite friends onboard their Corvettes as crew members. This social gameplay expands cooperation, with teams able to share missions, control ship functions, and explore planets together using their ship as a mobile base.
New multiplayer missions and a mission radar system help crews coordinate objectives in real time. Additionally, players can float in space performing spacewalks, or even skydive from orbit down to a planetary surface, turning exploration into a truly shared adventure.
Community Expedition to Jumpstart Your Corvette
To ease players into the new mechanics, the update features a time-limited community expedition. This narratively rich adventure challenges players to build their first Corvette while fending off the relentless Sentinel horde. Completing the expedition unlocks unique ship modules and progression opportunities, along with exclusive rewards like the charming Mecha-Mouse companion.
Graphical and Technical Enhancements
Voyagers introduces several visual upgrades, including advanced rendering techniques for translucent surfaces like glass, improving realism on windows and cockpits. These enhancements extend to improved lighting on player characters and environments.
The update also brings compatibility with cutting-edge AI rendering technologies such as NVIDIA DLSS4 and Intel XeSS 2, boosting performance and image quality across supported systems. These improvements ensure smooth and immersive gameplay, particularly in virtual reality modes.
Additional Gameplay and Quality of Life Improvements
Beyond the headline features, Voyagers includes multiple quality of life upgrades. Players can now use an autopilot system for ships, allowing a relaxed journey while exploring or completing missions. The interface sees improvements in usability such as scroll-on-hover in menus, clearer base editing options, and extended control rebinding on consoles.
More planets now feature buried ancient bones and salvageable scrap containers, enriching exploration rewards. Visual glitches, multiplayer crashes, and other bugs have been addressed to create a refined, stable experience.
Technology Sharing with Light No Fire
Importantly, much of the innovative technology developed for Voyagers serves a broader purpose. Hello Games will leverage these advancements in their upcoming highly anticipated fantasy role-playing game, Light No Fire. This new title will feature a planet-sized world with realistic oceans and large boats requiring crewed operation, benefiting from the multiplayer and procedural generation techniques pioneered in No Man’s Sky.
Broad Platform Availability
The Voyagers update is available across major gaming platforms, including Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Windows PC, and Xbox consoles (with inclusion in Xbox Game Pass). This cross-platform release ensures that the wide No Man’s Sky community can enjoy the update regardless of device.
Conclusion: A Quantum Leap for No Man’s Sky
With Voyagers, Hello Games redefines space exploration by combining massive ship customization, cooperative multiplayer gameplay, and immersive new mechanics. The update offers a fresh, dynamic universe where players build, crew, and conquer the stars together. Fans new and old can now experience a level of customization and collaboration previously unseen in No Man’s Sky, signaling the game’s continued evolution and Hello Games’ commitment to innovation in the space exploration genre.
