After supporting No Man’s Sky for ten years, Hello Games’ next adventure Light No Fire aims to create an entire planet-sized multiplayer Earth set in a fantasy realm where all gamers play together simultaneously.
Revealed at The Game Awards 2023, is described as the first true open world. A game world created to be the same scale of Earth, as opposed to the smaller planets of No Man’s Sky, the fantasy world of Light No Fire will allow player to engage in a never-before-attempted type of multiplayer adventure.
Developed by a small team at Hello Games of about a dozen creators, the new open world game allows players to work together to harvest resources, build settlements, climb Everest-sized mountains, tame flying creatures and more.
On stage at The Game Awards, Hello Games founder Sean Murray explained that Light No Fire is the next huge adventure for the indie studio. After a decade of providing huge updates to No Man’s Sky, the team wants this new multiplayer open world game to be its focus in the same way their space adventure game has been for the past ten years.
“This is a game I’d still like to be updating ten years from now,” Murray said to The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley.
Murray explained that Light No Fire will be the first game to provide a true planetary scale. Just like our Earth, mountains will have a true to life scale, multiple explorable biomes exist, a variety of creatures and plant life can be found and players can exist and survive through sheer determination.
“This is something very different, something maybe more ambitious than No Man’s Sky,” Murray explained. “For No Man’s Sky, we generated an entire universe of sparse alien planets and that wasn’t easy. It was hard but there’s something much harder we wanted to do. For our new game, we wanted to create an Earth.”
“A planet that is as varied as a universe,” Murray continued. “Something with mountains, real mountains, not video game mountains but mountains that are miles high, taller than Everest. Something that when you climb it you can look out and see rivers, canyons and continents.”
Light No Fire’s trailer shows a dense fantasy world with many secrets to discover. However, something we still have yet to discover is when the game will release and where. Unfortunately, no platforms or release date has been revealed for the game.