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No Man's Sky

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Developer
Hello Games
Publisher
Hello Games
Franchise
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Release date
Aug 12, 2016
Store page updated
Sep 15, 2026
Price
−60% $59.99 $23.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

84.7/ 100

Based on 421 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 92% of 3,848
All time 😄 Very Positive 85% of 418,851
“became one of my favorite games very quickly”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+0.47
Freedom +4.07
“can do gun fights, terrain digging, spaceship customization, base building, farming, fishing, and dozens more activities” (53)

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Story & World
+0.86
World +3.05
“genuinely cozy, slow-paced space sandbox, low-stress way to unwind” (34)

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Content Volume
+1.76
Volume +3.99

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Visuals & Sound
+3.27
Visuals +3.68
“It looks ok, exploration is fun for a little while” (37)

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Multiplayer
+2.59
Playing together +1.71

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Fairness
+0.80
Monetization +4.44

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Tech & Ops
-0.18
Developer support +3.98
“free updates year after year, full redemption arc” (82)

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
20%40%60%80%100%
Aug 2016Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 3,713 reviews, peak 556/day
05001k
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 419 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English26%
  • Russian16%
  • Chinese13%
  • Spanish11%
  • Portuguese10%
  • German6%
  • Other19%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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