No Man’s Sky
Cross-Play Verification
This page is our investigation of cross-play feature in game called No Man’s Sky. We also want to mention that - we always put manual efforts to find the precise, valid, and what is more important official information about different game features without using AI.
How we group cross-play?
Games can have different cross-play combinations, for example the game can have cross-play between PC, Playstation 5, Xbox X|S, but not between old generations like: Xbox One, Playstation 4, PC. To avoid any misinterpretations, we group them into so called "cross-play variations".
Any store inside the cross-play variation have a cross-play only with a store in the SAME variation. We also want to notice, that we put into variation not platform, but store + platform. That is required because some games, for example, can have cross-play between a Playstation 5 and Steam, but not Playstation 5 and Epic Games.
Variation no. 1:
At the time of its release, No Man’s Sky didn't have cross-play support, but it was added with a few patches after release.
The first patch, released on June 10, 2020, introduced cross-play between PlayStation, Xbox, and PC (via Steam and Xbox Store). You can check the original article on the official website here.
The second patch we got on November 07, 2024, added cross-play to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation VR 1 & 2, PCVR, and the GoG store. The original article is here.
Even though this is off-topic, we would like to mention that the game also got cross-save between all those platforms in the latest cross-play update.