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No Man's Sky
Active since 2017-06-01
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The No Man's Sky ARG - an ARG that began with 16 mysterious cassette tapes.
Type [[List_of_Investigations#Official|Official]]
Creator Hello Games
Discovered 2017-06-01

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Note: This page is under construction - more information is still being added!

The No Man's Sky ARG was created by Hello Games. It began with 16 cassette tapes being mailed to prominent individuals in the No Man's Sky online community. At this time, it is unclear what these cassette tapes are leading to. It is speculated that when the mystery of the tapes is solved, a new update for No Man's Sky will be announced.

This ARG is currently being solved by the No Man's Sky community: in particular, the No Man's Sky subreddit. Most of the information on this page has been compiled from stickied posts.



The first cassette tape, mailed to /u/StuartGT

Cassette Tapes

Beginning on June 1, 2017, moderators of the No Man's Sky subreddit started to receive cassette tapes in the mail. Each cassette tape was labelled with a number out of 16.

Here is a summary table, showing each tape's number, current status, and owner:

Tape Number Tape Status Tape Owner
1 /u/StuartGT Uploading
2 Unknown Unknown
3 /u/MrUnnoticed Hasn't shared
4 /u/Tony-Towers Played, not yet uploaded
5 Unknown Unknown
6 /u/BaRKy1911 Not yet played
7 /u/UnimatrixZeroOne Uploaded
8 Unknown Unknown
9 Unknown Unknown
10 [https://www.reddit.com/user/swampthing3000 /u/swampthing3000 Not yet played
11 Unknown Unknown
12 /u/Nevadander Uploaded
13 Unknown Unknown
14 Unknown Unknown
15 Unknown Unknown
16 Unknown Unknown

Tape 7

The spectrogram of tape 7 (courtesy of /u/UnimatrixZeroOne)

Tape 7's B-side consists entirely of garbled noise. When running the noise through a spectrogram, a sequence of characters can be clearly seen:

706s7274616p

Running this ciphertext through ROT13 and then decoding the resulting hex yields the following string:

portal

Additional Resources


This page is a work in progress, and will be updated as new developments emerge.