{"id":809084,"date":"2026-08-10T15:34:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/809084\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T15:34:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:34:26","slug":"sean-murray-explains-why-we-havent-seen-more-of-light-no-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/809084\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Murray Explains Why We Haven’t Seen More Of Light No Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Light No Fire<\/a> was first revealed over two years ago at the 2023 Game Awards<\/a>. It was the next open-world survival game from Hello Games, the studio behind No Man\u2019s Sky. It would trade the galaxy-spanning sci-fi adventure of the former for a new fantasy RPG experience that encompassed a massive simulation of a planet<\/a>. Fans are hyped, but we\u2019ve seen nothing since the initial trailer. Director Sean Murray says that wasn\u2019t the original plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought we would have chatted about it more by now,\u201d Murray told me in an interview last week, part of a victory lap to mark the 10th anniversary of No Man\u2019s Sky for a studio that rarely does press. \u201cWe dropped a trailer like two years ago, two and a half years ago, and I had a plan of like, \u2018OK, we\u2019ll do this. We\u2019ll tease it. Right?\u2019 It\u2019s how I saw that 90-second trailer. And then I was like, \u2018OK, and now I know what we\u2019ll show next. We\u2019ll really explain the game.’\u201d<\/p>\n

He had planned to provide a deeper dive into what players will actually spend their time doing in Light No Fire roughly six months later at Summer Game Fest 2024. Instead, the game has been a no-show at every Geoff Keighley showcase since 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had actually intended that we were going to show it six months later, but, you know, we\u2019ve like shot up the Steam wishlist charts;\u00a0we\u2018re like number two on there. And I was just like, \u2018OK, that\u2019s enough. You know, we don\u2019t need to say any more. Why? Why do any marketing?\u201d<\/p>\n

Back when he was launching No Man\u2019s Sky, a PlayStation 4 exclusive at the time, Murray was everywhere, including late-night talk shows. The whirlwind ended up getting the game into trouble, with the launch version failing to live up to the hype as fans debated missing features and empty planets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look back and it\u2019s madness, Murray said. \u201cI sort of cringe at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the decade since, No Man\u2019s Sky has become the quintessential post-launch redemption story in gaming. Murray doesn\u2019t need to go on Stephen Colbert to get people excited any more. A simple emoji on Twitter is enough to send entire subreddits spiraling with speculation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Murray says he sits and plays Light No Fire \u201cmost days,\u201d and the game\u2019s tech is frequently mentioned in updates about new features for No Man\u2019s Sky. He wouldn\u2019t tease a release window, or even confirm if he has an idea in his own head of when the game will be ready, but he did say that the team at Hello Games, which is only around 50 employees, has been \u201cready\u201d to show more of it for a while.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think people realize just how ambitious it is and how crazy it is,\u201d he told Kotaku. \u201cAnd I look forward to people finding that out and to showing them. But I\u2019m very happy right now just working on it in my own little cave and not having to worry about anything, trying to pretend the outside world doesn\u2019t exist right now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Light No Fire was first revealed over two years ago at the 2023 Game Awards. It was the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[343370,343371,81551,343372,74],"class_list":["post-809084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-hello-games","tag-light-no-fire","tag-no-mans-sky","tag-sean-murray","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}