Overview
- Hello Games opened pre-orders on Monday and will release No Man’s Sky for iPhone and iPad on October 28, 2026, with a free‑to‑try option and a reported one‑time full unlock price of $19.99.
- The studio says the mobile build is the full No Man’s Sky experience, including around forty major free updates such as Voyagers and the recent Cosmos expansion, while excluding multiplayer and planetary settlements at launch.
- Hello Games rebuilt touch controls for mobile and added controller support, iPad mouse‑and‑keyboard, and TV casting, and it prioritized battery life and thermal management to allow long play sessions on devices as old as the iPhone 11 and 3rd‑generation iPad Air.
- The team compressed and optimized the game so the App Store download is under 5GB and requires modern Apple hardware and software (reports cite iOS/iPadOS 26 and A12/M‑series class chips), and no Android release has been announced.
- Hello Games developed the port over roughly three years and credits shared engine work with its in‑development Light No Fire and prior ports for the technical gains, continuing a decade‑long pattern of adding major features after initial platform launches based on player feedback.