Sean Murray says he could work on No Man's Sky "forever" as the game hits 10 years

No Man's Sky turns 10, and Hello Games co-founder Sean Murray says he has no plans to stop — as long as the team and the community stay engaged. In a recent interview with GamesRadar, Murray put it plainly: "If people keep playing it, I could work on this forever. I love it."

Murray traces that passion back to childhood, describing No Man's Sky as the kind of game he would have called a dream project as a kid. He also credits Hello Games' flat structure for keeping development going — there's no management layer forcing people onto projects they don't care about. "As long as they're motivated, we're happy to keep making cool things, but it has to come from the team having ideas that they're excited about," he said. He does acknowledge there "probably is some end date" for updates, but admits that five years ago he would have expected the game to be finished by now. What changed his mind most recently was the reaction after shipping the Voyagers update last year — which he says hit the highest player numbers since launch — when he turned to the team expecting them to say they were done, and instead found them buzzing with energy to keep going.

No Man's Sky launched in August 2016 to a rough reception, widely criticised for falling short of the ambitious features Murray had talked up in pre-release interviews. Hello Games responded not with a reboot but with a years-long string of free updates — Beyond, Origins, Frontiers, Waypoint, Echoes, Worlds, and many more — that steadily rebuilt the game and its reputation into something almost unrecognisable from that rocky debut. It's become one of gaming's more unusual redemption stories, a live-service game run by a small independent studio that never charged for any of its major content drops.

With the 10-year mark now passed and the team still energised, Hello Games shows no sign of wrapping up. Whether Murray's "forever" holds depends on that community engagement staying strong — but a Voyagers update that broke player-count records suggests the audience isn't going anywhere either.