The No Man's Sky developer isn't quite ready to talk about it just yet though.
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Hello Games is working on a new project that is apparently so ambitious it would "seem impossible" even with a team of 1,000 members. This is according to Hello Games' co-founder Sean Murray in a brief interview with IGN.

Murray says that what they have been working on since at least September 2021 is not a sequel to No Man's Sky. It is, however, just as ambitious a project.

"For a while now we've been working on something pretty ambitious in the background. It's a small team but we like it that way.

"Similar to No Man's Sky, it's the kind of project that even if we had a thousand people working on it, it'd still seem impossible."
This new project, whatever it ends up being, is still very early in development. Those of you who have been enjoying the constant stream of updates for No Man's Sky shouldn't have much to worry about though. It seems as though the team is still working on creating new content for that game as well.

"No Man's Sky is not being held back by the next project but neither is the new thing being slowed by No Man's Sky," he said. "We're lucky enough to be able to allow folks to move freely to work on what excites them."
We probably won't hear much about this game until the studio is fully ready to deliver on whatever promises they end up making. Murray said previous that he and the team "learned our lesson" when it comes to talking about games too early. You may recall the leadup to No Man's Sky's release was full of promises that never ended up in the initial release. However, the team has been working hard in the six years since that release to not only fulfill those promises but exceed them in countless ways.

If you haven't yet tried out No Man's Sky, now is as good a time as any to jump in. Hell, the studio just released the "Outlaws" update (3.85) for No Man's Sky as recently as today.

This new update introduces new outlaw systems, the ability to recruit your own squadron of fighter pilots, improved space combat, more dramatic explosions, smuggling, in-atmosphere combat, cloth physics, a Solar Sail starship, and a lot more.

Outlaws is out now for the PlayStation, Xbox, and PC platforms today. Nintendo Switch owners will get to indulge in their space piracy fantasies when No Man's Sky is released on Switch this Summer.