How many views did “The Engoodening of No Man's Sky” get?

Internet Historian · published 2020-06-01 · TubeCount #68, played 2026-08-18

Why this one

No Man's Sky shipped in August 2016 as the most anticipated game in years — 18 quintillion procedurally generated planets, multiplayer, space combat — and arrived with virtually none of those features. Hello Games went quiet for months, then spent three years releasing free updates that rebuilt the game completely. By 2019, No Man's Sky had become the most famous comeback story in gaming. Internet Historian turned the resurrection into a 26-minute documentary and attracted 26 million viewers to watch it — roughly 6.5 times his usual audience. Post-mortems of failures draw millions; post-mortems of recoveries draw the millions who followed the failure, plus everyone who just wanted to see the ending.

How everyone did

6 players called this one. The average score was 35 out of 100, and on the thumbnail alone people were typically 18× off.