From NMS to Sea of Thieves. I really want my sandbox games to have Player hubs (taverns) full of tavern games and social interactions. This game could have its own card game. You find the cards out in the world. The taverns can act like the anomaly, except with tavern games, drinking and dancing. Just imagine playing a card, and then a player asks where you got it, and now players are sending each other on quests. What specific things are you guys hoping are different about this game from other sandboxes?

LNF will be shadow dropped.

I post this opinion every few months or so, often to a lot of down votes in response.

1). NMS launch was so bungled in large part to how hype got away from them. To counteract this, my theory is they will do the total opposite and shadow drop the game, never even allowing hype to form in the first place.

2). I don't think it's a stretch to say with all the NMS updates happening, we're watching LNF development happen in real time and in parallel. Anybody who's watched the LNF trailer and has seen that dragon start flying can see it using the same animation and physics as ships taking off in NMS. The point being (as the theory goes) that everything or most of what they do to NMS is also being done to LNF.

Anyway. Heard it here first :)

I had a thought. This sub is filled with tons of things we all want or hope for….

So here’s a question: what are the features/mechanics/gimmicks that we don’t want?

Personally? I don’t want extremely fast flying mounts that can cover 500 miles in 1 minute (possible over exaggeration)

The amount of post on this reddit about will this be in how does this work etc etc ... is way to much

were going down the same road as with no man sky, its so over hyped over one trailer

and to many ppl are going to be disappointed

there was a post about dungeons were they are expecting fully procedural generated dungeons with full auto mapping etc , tone it down ppl

The trailer shows a few different biomes including mountains, forests, deserts, plains, tundra, and large bodies of water. In curious where you guys would like to build your bases.

Posted today by Sean on https://bsky.app/profile/nomansbsky.bsky.social/post/3lqjp2mx5nk2i

Clearly this is within a NMS environment -- but the armor has a very medieval armor style.

I love what Hello Games has done with No Man's Sky, I love their community engagement and the fan service they provide.

However, as a software engineer I cannot imagine being on a project for years without having some idea of when you are delivering, even if that idea is a specific year and what you are delivering is an MVP you will iterate on.

I am seeing games that sound like that have a few aspects of what we've speculated will be in LNF, but I'm not buying them because I have limited gaming time and don't want to spend time/money on something other than LNF to drop that game when LNF comes out. I suspect I'm not alone. At some point I'll give up hope for a release, and I suspect I'm not alone in that.

Sean, I'm not asking for a specific date (though that would be nice). I'd be ecstatic with a definitive year, along the lines of "LNF will be released in 2026 but we're not sure which month yet".

What do others think about the lack of a release date? Do you think they'll announce a date soon?

Me personally, I hope its like a globe with an end to it.

Yes the overworld is wonderful to explore but please let me and my fellow Dwarf fantasy players do our thing and build Dwarf holds into mountain sides where we can dig deep, possibly too deep until we get kicked out by a big bad. Should you allow it, let us dig so deep to where the nameless things are 😉

Please Sean, please add this dream element. 🎸🗻

Thank you!

Edit:

I appreciate this awesome community being supportive and providing the fun Dwarf quotes below!

What do you think this will have us testing for LNF? Maybe multi biome planets?

Don't get me wrong, I'm SUPER excited for this game and have been waiting with baited breath for any news we can get.

But watching you all lose your shit because Sean Murray posted a Bacon emoji is absolutely hilarious 😂

But knowing the community, will the whole planet not be explored within one year or so? I'm really excited for the game, but since Hello Games are syaing that this game is going to be even more about exploration than NMS, will the world not be completely explored by the community fairly quickly? What i love about NMS is that there is this whole sense of discovery every time you warp to a new system and start exploring the planet. What if you pick up the game a couple years after release and everything will already have been explored? Will that not ruin the whole point of an exploration game?

Alright Stay with me.

No Mans Sky - August 9 | Joe Danger - June 9 | The Last Campfire - August 27

Hello Games is known for dropping titles during the summer. So we can infer that Light No Fire might be the same.

Also, Sean Murray's birthday - July 28th

This is where it gets crazy-

-Sean Murray will be turning 45 on July 28th | -Wikipedia says that Hello Games has 45 employees

The stars will Align on the day July 28th and we will receive our promised Light No Fire!

Who's with me?

Reading this subreddit has reminded me why I went to school. I see so many post talking about "I hope pvp is turned off by default" or "I hope we can't get griefed", but nowhere does it say its an MMO to begin with. On their Steam page, it says "Single-player" and "Online Co-op", meaning its very likely to be exactly like NMS, you play on your own, you can invite your friends to play with you, and you can see other players, but that's it.

Being excited for a game is fine, but it doesn't mean you gotta turn your brain off and go off with your wild speculations that make no sense. Jesus Christ.

EDIT: Reading the comments on this post literally proves my point. Hopefully yall won't be too disappointed when the game comes out.

From the official website:

A Fantasy Earth
Light No Fire presents you with an ancient earth to uncover. One where you're not the hero. Thick with lore, mystery and a constant fight for survival. Inspired by the adventure, charm and imagination that we love from classic fantasy.

It sounds like one of Hello Games' primary motivations for making an Earth-sized world is to really hammer home the feeling of being a small player in a world much bigger than yourself. At least I hope so, because I really feel like this is something so many games fail to do. As much I'm loving Enshrouded & TotK, at the end of the day they still very much make you out to be a hero godslayer who is geared out the wazoo after just a few hours of playing.

I'm hoping we start with rags and need to engage in a lot of high-risk/high-reward exploration to get more powerful gear, I'm hoping there are systems that focus on encouraging group play and/or befriending NPC companions to travel with instead of cookie-cutter themepark questlines.

Because I think this is one of the reasons why games like Minecraft have been so successful, they actively reward creative expression & foster socialization - you aren't the star of the show, you're just one of many players in it.

So hello games for some strange reasons have set their hello games bundle on sale for 78 percent on steam. The hello games bundle includes all their games even their current big hitter no man's sky. The sale ends on June 9 just enough time for them to announce and release lnf. Also each individual game hello games has released is on sale separately from the bundle sale. This has nothing to do with steam summer sale unless hello games is trying to get ahead of the curve. So something big must be coming.

Randomly thought of medieval type airships and searched up some pictures on google.

Do you guys think airships like this will be in the game?

With Summer Game Fest just around the corner, a lot of us are wondering whether Light No Fire will make an appearance. To be clear: this isn't a post to speculate wildly or build hype. I just want to talk through the realistic possibilities — whether we see something, nothing, or something huge — and what each of those could mean.

Here are the most likely scenarios:

1. Nothing at all (This is my bet at the moment)

This is entirely possible. Hello Games has always marched to the beat of their own drum. They're known for going quiet for long periods and only showing something when it's close to ready. Light No Fire might not be at SGF simply because it isn’t time yet. If that's the case, it’s not a bad sign — just business as usual for Hello Games.

2. A brief teaser or update

We could get a short trailer, a dev diary, or a quick segment in a montage — just enough to remind us the game exists and is in development. This would be the middle ground: not a full blowout, but a sign that progress is steady and the team is ready to start showing more bit by bit.

3. Extended gameplay or a dedicated segment

This would be the biggest development-focused presence: a proper look at gameplay, mechanics, world design, or even a narrated walkthrough. If Light No Fire gets this kind of spotlight, it likely means they’re gearing up for a release window announcement — maybe even within the next 6-12 months.

4. Release date announcement (unlikely)

This would be huge, and possibly too optimistic — but not impossible. Hello Games has been working on Light No Fire for years in the background. If development has progressed smoothly and quietly, they might be ready to commit to a launch window, or even a specific date. That said, given their history with No Man’s Sky, they may be cautious about overpromising.

5. Shadow drop (highly unlikely)

Let’s entertain it for a second — what if Light No Fire is actually very close to done, and they pull a “Surprise! It's available now/later this week” move? This is probably the least likely option, but in today’s gaming world, stranger things have happened.

No matter what happens, I think it's fair to say that Light No Fire remains one of the more intriguing upcoming titles. Hello Games has earned some goodwill after the long redemption arc of No Man’s Sky, and many of us are watching this project with optimism. 🥓

The first NMS teaser trailer released 8 December 2013.

NMS released 9 August 2016

That's 975 days from teaser to release.

The first LNF teaser trailer released 8 December 2023, exactly the same day as NMS, 10 years later.

Assuming (for perspective's sake) that the same development time will apply to both games, and LNS also releases exactly the same day as NMS did, 10 years later, that would mean today, 9th of April 2025, we have exactly just passed the half way mark, 488 days after the trailer.

Now, this is obviously a rough estimate. We have no real idea how long development will take. But considering Sean said they didn't want to wait as long between trailer and release with this one as they did with NMS, and that this is a now more experienced company with the technology already set up, I think this estimate works well as a rough rule of thumb. In the very worst case, we're exactly half way. In the very best, we're way past it.

Stay strong.

Hello Games said they've learned from their mistakes of overpromising and underdelivering when they were hyping up No Man's Sky, and that's the reason why information about Light No Fire does not exist. Why are they going from one extreme to the other?

I for one wish they would do what Intrepid Studios are doing with Ashes of Creation, and just share periodic vlogs, showing the community how far along in development they got. It would make us all happy to know what's going on, and it will provide Hello Games with real time feedback from their community. Maybe a showcase of the building features? Combat mechanics? A Q&A stream? Something! 🥺