No Man’s Sky announces Expedition Redux, rerunning the year’s expeditions

No Man’s Sky achieved the highest number of simultaneous players in game since the game launched nine years ago, a milestone Hello Games made via Steam blog post. Within the update post, Hello Games stated that, following the launch of Beachhead, No Man’s Sky will be celebrating a re-run of the year’s expedition over two-week intervals throughout the holiday season. 

Here is a timeline of the events, with brief descriptions taken from the official source: 

• Beachhead: Nov. 7 to Nov. 18: “The inhabitants of the Space Anomaly have detected something impossible: a fluctuation in history already written. A new pattern is emerging in the stories of the ancient Gek, Korvax, and Vy’keen. Something is coming: a legendary weapon that always appears whenever it is needed…”
• Titan: Nov. 19 to Dec. 2: “Chart a dazzling array of new stars and new worlds formed in Worlds Part II: gas giants, endless oceans and cloud-skimming mountains. Earn exclusive rewards, including a unique living ship dredged from the inky depths of a water world.”
• Relics: Dec. 3 to Dec. 16: “Sign up with the Galactic Palaeology Society and join the community on a journey to recreate ancient lifeforms, uncover secrets left undisturbed for millennia, and earn a complete living stone appearance override.”
• Corvette: Dec. 17 to Dec. 30: “Your former starship has been damaged beyond repair, and the Sentinel horde is closing in. Assemble your own corvette-class starship, maximise its stats and potential, and take refuge amongst the stars! Earn an array of exclusive rewards, including the one-of-a-kind Mecha Mouse robotic companion.”
• Breach: Dec. 31 to Jan 13: “Traverse a desolate and abandoned universe, confronting both the awe and the horror that lurks in deep space. Follow the tale of the ill-faded Fireship Arcadia, step into zero-gravity, and scavenge modules from its wreckage to enhance your own corvette builds. Complete milestones to earn a set of ancient, powerful Atlas-themed corvette modules.”

The developers stated that they have a lot more content planned and in active development, but did not disclose the exact details. But they did promote their upcoming title: Light No Fire, which can now be wishlist’d on Steam. 

No Man’s Sky is a science fiction exploration survival game that initially released on Xbox One on August 9, 2016. The game achieved a peak concurrent player count of over 100,000 on Steam during the beginning of September.

The title was later ported for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch. The original Nintendo Switch version did not support multiplayer; the port had limited draw distance and frame rate fluctuations. The Switch 2 edition is marketed to be a free improved version of the game for the upcoming console.