The No Man\u2019s Sky universe is about to get a little bit smaller \u2014 but in a good way. Hello Games announced that its long-running sci-fi exploration game will be coming to iOS, with versions for both the iPhone and iPad available starting on October 28th.<\/p>\n
According to Hello\u2019s Sean Murray, the mobile version of the game is essentially the full No Man\u2019s Sky experience. \u201cI guess I should say this is not No Man\u2019s Sky Lite,\u201d he wrote in a blog post. It includes all of the game\u2019s many, many updates that have come out since launch \u2014 like the gigantic Voyagers expansion<\/a> from last year \u2014 and the only major features missing will be multiplayer and the planetary settlements. Murray likens the iOS version to when the game initially launched on the original Switch<\/a>. \u201cOn Switch we have listened to players and built from there, including with a much expanded version on Switch 2<\/a>,\u201d he says. \u201cBased on feedback and player numbers we will support iOS in a similar way.\u201d<\/p>\n The game will be playable on the iPhone 11 and 3rd generation iPad Air and above, and the studio says that the download comes in at a surprisingly scant 5GB. It also has newly-designed touch controls, as well as support for controllers, screen casting, and mouse-and-keyboard on the iPad. Murray also notes that \u201cPerhaps most importantly we\u2019ve put tons of work into battery life and thermodynamics, and we\u2019re super proud that No Man\u2019s Sky can be enjoyed for really long comfortable play sessions.\u201d It\u2019ll be \u201cfree to try\u201d at launch, though it\u2019s not clear how much the full version will cost.<\/p>\n It\u2019s now been a decade since No Man\u2019s Sky first launched, and the game has changed dramatically since its debut. iOS will be joining a huge list of supported platforms, including Mac, PC, and essentially every modern console, and there\u2019s also a VR version available<\/a>. Just as significant, Hello has continued to keep the game vibrant with a constant stream of free expansions, including the recent Cosmos update in September<\/a>, which fleshed out the vast expanse of space with more things to explore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The No Man\u2019s Sky universe is about to get a little bit smaller \u2014 but in a good…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[146,5968,85,46,43,125],"class_list":["post-644185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-entertainment","tag-gaming","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}