A crossover between Palworld and No Man’s Sky is one of the more openly teased team-ups in games right now, driven almost entirely by two developers flirting with the idea in public. The heads of both studios keep replying to each other on X, fans keep drawing up wish lists, and yet nothing has been signed, dated, or shipped.
Quick answer: No Palworld x No Man’s Sky collaboration is officially confirmed. Neither Pocketpair nor Hello Games has announced content, a date, or a partnership. The public exchanges show mutual interest only.
What has actually happened between the two studios
The current buzz comes from Hello Games founder Sean Murray replying to Pocketpair publishing lead John “Bucky” Buckley on X with an enthusiastic but vague message: “Bro @Bucky_cm bro @Bucky_cm brooooooooooo ❤️.” There is no product, no reveal, and no logistics attached to it. It reads as goodwill and a running joke more than an announcement.
Buckley answered by leaning into the bit, riffing on Eminem’s “Stan,” casting himself as the fan anxiously waiting for his idol to write back. Murray then played along in the same joke, taking the role of Eminem replying to Stan. As of now, the No Man’s Sky account has not turned the exchange into anything official.
This back-and-forth has been building for months rather than appearing out of nowhere. Back in April, Buckley replied to one of Murray’s posts with “Sean…email me, my man! It seems there could be a FUN COLLAB IDEA!” That message landed around the No Man’s Sky Xeno Arena update, a Pokémon-style pet-battling feature. In the update’s announcement, Murray said the team are “huge fans of Pokémon, Palworld, and pet battling in World of Warcraft,” directly nodding to the genre Palworld sits in.
Buckley has also named No Man’s Sky as a specific wish-list pick. Asked about future crossovers, he listed Enshrouded and No Man’s Sky and said plainly, “If we could make it make sense, we would do it tomorrow.” So the interest is on record from both sides, but interest is all it is.
Why the interest is worth taking seriously
Pocketpair rarely does crossovers, which is what makes the signaling notable. Despite Palworld’s scale, the game has shipped only a small number of official collaborations, and Buckley has said the studio turns down far more pitches than it accepts. He has framed the ones that do happen as fandom-first, saying the Terraria and Ultrakill crossovers happened simply because “we like them,” and that earning the trust of developers the team admires feels like “a dream come true.”
| Crossover | What it added | Timing |
|---|---|---|
| Tides of Terraria | New islands, a dungeon, and Terraria-themed gear | Early 2025 |
| Ultrakill | V1 and V2 combat gear | December 2025 |
Both arrived as free content updates rather than paid add-ons. The Ultrakill pairing also drew skepticism before launch, since a bloody retro shooter and a creature-collecting survival game seem to have little in common. That precedent matters here, because it suggests a genre mismatch alone would not rule out a No Man’s Sky tie-in.
How a Palworld x No Man’s Sky crossover could fit
Palworld already has a space and alien angle to build on. Semi-random meteorite landings arrived in the game in mid-2024, bringing the Xenovaders along with them. Because those outer-space elements already exist, dropping in creatures or hardware inspired by No Man’s Sky through a similar arrival mechanic would not be a stretch. For now, that remains fan speculation and nothing the studios have described.
No Man’s Sky has a track record of guest content too, having previously added the Normandy from Mass Effect. A crossover would fit both studios’ established habits, which is part of why the idea keeps gaining traction.
How to tell if it becomes real
Treat any confirmation as coming from the studios themselves, not from the joking replies. A real crossover would show up as a formal announcement from Pocketpair or Hello Games, with named content and a release window, most likely as a free Palworld update in line with how the earlier collaborations were handled.
Until that happens, the accurate read is simple. The two teams clearly want to work together and keep saying so in public, but no deal, content, or date is confirmed, and the logistics remain unsettled. The mutual interest is genuine; the crossover is not yet a thing you can play.