'No Man's Sky' may finally be launching on Mac soon

Sean Murray, founder of Hello Games and creator of "No Man's Sky," may have revealed the game's imminent Mac launch, or given the proximity to WWDC, an Apple VR Headset release.

It's no secret that "No Man's Sky" is coming to Apple Silicon Macs. The game was teased during WWDC in 2022 alongside "Resident Evil: Village" to promote Apple's new Metal 3 API.

While "Resident Evil Village" launched in October 2022, there hasn't been any word about "No Man's Sky," at least until Monday.

Sean Murray, the founder of Hello Games and creator of "No Man's Sky," tweeted out an Apple emoji. That tweet was quoted by Hello Games with a green apple emoji.

Of course, this should be interpreted simply that "No Man's Sky" is finally launching on Mac. That launch could take place during WWDC and be one of Apple's "available now" moments during the keynote.

However, Apple isn't just announcing software during WWDC, at least according to rumors. So speculation has already amped up over these emojis.

https://t.co/Zd4G91odPF
— Hello Games (@hellogames) May 29, 2023

If Apple does reveal its long-awaited Apple VR Headset doing the keynote — "No Man's Sky" could be announced as a launch title.

That isn't too far of a stretch, given that the game already runs in VR on other platforms like PSVR and Windows. If Apple is pushing VR gaming as hard as rumors suggest, it will need titles to share at launch.

At the least, "No Man's Sky" is coming to Mac. Murray has been known to tease things on Twitter before announcing them, and a second tweet of a green Apple emoji could mean anything.

Perhaps, Murray and Hello Games are just pulling our collective leg, and they are just sharing their love of Apple emojis. The WWDC keynote is on June 5, so we don't have long to wait and find out.

5 Comments

Marvin 15336 comments · 18 Years

About 1 year ago

AppleInsider said:
That isn't too far of a stretch, given that the game already runs in VR on other platforms like PSVR and Windows. If Apple is pushing VR gaming as hard as rumors suggest, it will need titles to share at launch.

That makes sense for the delay if they were getting it right for an AR/VR launch as they'd need to test it, especially the UI interaction as it uses hand-tracking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wActwkWy_CM

This game had a rough launch as it uses procedurally generated content and the random outputs weren't always very good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvAwB7ogkik

but they have kept at the development since 2016 and it looks like it still has a stable userbase even after 6+ years:

https://steamcharts.com/app/275850#All
https://steamcharts.com/top/p.5 (position 122)

Some players have spent over 2000 hours playing it. This is the kind of game that would work for Apple Arcade subscription because it offers long-term gameplay.

Apple's headset will likely be more compact than the following so should be pretty comfortable for gaming and will probably allow switching to a non-VR device to continue playing.

iqatedo 1811 comments · 21 Years

About 1 year ago

If the acronym xrOS stands for Extended Reality OS, I wonder whether Apple first explored registering/trademarking erOS. That name would have been fitting :D