No Man's Sky mobile is coming, but not everyone can explore new planets

No Man's Sky has picked its next planet to land on, and it's your iPhone. To be honest, after its Switch 2 release, I never really expected the game to come out on mobile, given its complicated procedurally generated worlds and dense menus. Nonetheless, a mobile port is coming to your nearest Apple device on October 28, 2026, with pre-orders available now. The No Man's Sky dev team may have done the impossible by making the iPhone the game's next intergalactic base. After all, the procedurally generated game is 30.2GB on Nintendo Switch 2, demanding both significant storage capacity and the power to create the world you're standing in, let alone render it. However, it seems like the team has been hard at work optimizing the game for both iPad and iPhone, as the file size will be less than 5GB, and you won't even need one of the latest devices to use it - No Man's Sky will run on iPhones as early as the iPhone 11, and on iPads as old as the iPad Air 3rd gen. The dev team also says they've been working on battery efficiency and preventing overheating, which is welcome news. I'm scorned after some of my other experiences with otherwise great mobile games.