How To Port Forward No Man's Sky

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July 18, 2017 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 3 minutes

No Man's Sky is an Action, Adventure, Open-World, Survival, and Shooter game published by Hello Games released in 2016.

No Man's Sky game cover artwork
No Man's Sky game cover artwork

Ports Required for No Man's Sky

The specific ports for No Man's Sky are as follows:

No Man's Sky - Steam

  • TCP: 27015, 27036
  • UDP: 27015, 27031-27036

No Man's Sky - PC

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No Man's Sky - Playstation 4

  • TCP: 3478-3480
  • UDP: 3074, 3478-3479

No Man's Sky - Playstation 5

  • TCP: 3478-3480
  • UDP: 3074, 3478-3479

No Man's Sky - Switch

  • TCP: 6667, 12400, 28910, 29900, 29901, 29920
  • UDP: 1-65535

No Man's Sky - Xbox One

  • TCP: 3074
  • UDP: 88, 500, 3074, 3544, 4500

No Man's Sky - Xbox Series X

  • TCP: 3074
  • UDP: 88, 500, 3074, 3544, 4500

We have guides that are custom tailored for No Man's Sky that will show you the specific ports.

No Man's Sky includes the following genres of gameplay.

How to Port Forward No Man's Sky

When you are playing No Man's Sky you might need to forward some ports in your router. Forwarding ports is a useful trick in gaming because it can really help to make your network connection most stable and frequently even faster. Routers were not designed to allow incoming network requests and some games can play tremendously better if an incoming connection is forwarded through the router to the game.

Before You Forward a Port

Before you can forward a port you need to know the following things:

How to click the links to get to your router's IP Address

The easiest way to click the links to get to your router's IP address is to run our free Router Detector utility. It's a part of the Network Utilities suite of tools and it's completely free to use.

How To Forward Ports

The easiest way to do this is to use Network Utilities. Network Utilities can forward your ports in just a few clicks, and close them back down when you are done just as easily. You can also do it the manual way.

The usual process for forwarding a port is:

That should do it; your ports are now forwarded. Need something else forwarded? Check out our list of games and programs.

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