No Man's Sky
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Action AdventureFirst-Person ShooterOpen WorldSandboxSimulationSurvival
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- Released
- 2016
- Developer
- Hello Games
- Platforms
- 7 systems
- Critics
- 61
- Steam Deck
- verified
- Download
- 15 GB
What is No Man's Sky?
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Description as published by the developer on its own store page, read 30 August 2026. It is marketing copy, not our assessment.
The record
| First released | 9 August 2016 |
|---|---|
| Developer | Hello Games |
| Publisher | Hello Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment |
| Platforms | PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck |
| Genres | Action Adventure, First-Person Shooter, Open World, Sandbox, Simulation, Survival |
| Languages | 14 supported |
Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata Q15297043, seeded 30 August 2026. Store data from Steam, read 30 August 2026.
How was No Man's Sky received?
Method. Player figures are Steam's own totals for the PC version, read 30 August 2026. The Metacritic score is the one Steam publishes on its store page and can lag the site itself. Metacritic page. Neither is our opinion. We have not published a review of this game.
Accessibility
Seeing
- Color Alternatives
- Subtitle Options
- Camera Comfort
Hearing
- Custom Volume Controls
- Stereo Sound
- Surround Sound
Input
- Full controller support
- Playable without Timed Input
Difficulty
- Adjustable Difficulty
- Save Anytime
Method. Features the publisher declared on its own store page. A declaration is a floor, not a review.
What does it support?
| Capability | Support |
|---|---|
| Controller | full support |
| Cloud saves | Yes |
| Cross-platform play | Yes |
| Mod support | No official workshop |
| Online play | Yes |
| In-game purchases | No |
| Steam Deck | verified |
| Download size | 15 GB |
| Add-on content | 1 DLC listed |
| Age gate | None |
Method. Read from the publisher's Steam listing on 30 August 2026. Describes the PC version. Console versions differ.
What does it cost?
Steam price in US dollars, read 30 August 2026. Prices move hourly and vary by region. Check the current price.
Is No Man's Sky worth it?
85% of 414,641 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. It costs $59.99 on Steam, and critics score it 61/100.
That is the data, not a verdict for sale: whether it is worth it depends on the price you pay and what you want. Players do report problems — see the reported-problems section below before buying. We have not published our own review of this game.
How long is No Man's Sky? How long to beat it
Total play time for No Man's Sky is about 157.9 hours to do everything, and around 32.3 hours to reach the end of the main story. These are player-submitted times from HowLongToBeat, not our own, shown with the number of players behind each.
| How you play | Hours | Players logged |
|---|---|---|
| Just the main story: straight through the critical path | 32.3h | 171 |
| Main + the extras: story plus the side content most people do | 76.9h | 267 |
| Completionist: everything: 100% the game | 157.9h | 117 |
At its current price of $59.99, beating the main story works out to about $1.86 per hour. That is the price divided by the hours, a value read and not a verdict: a longer game costs less per hour, which is not the same as being the better game.
Source: HowLongToBeat community submissions, read 2026-10-19.
No Man's Sky system requirements
The minimum requirements from No Man's Sky's Steam page. These are what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings.
| Memory | 8 GB RAM (other games at this level) |
|---|---|
| Processor | Intel Core i3 |
| Graphics | Nvidia GTX 1060 3GB |
| Storage | 15 GB (more games this size) |
| System | 64-bit OS required |
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Where No Man's Sky sits on the grid
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Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
- Multi-platform
Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.
How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
- Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
- Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
Estimated sales for No Man's Sky
These are estimates, not reported figures. Hello Games has not published unit sales for No Man's Sky, and nobody outside the company can measure them. What follows is arithmetic on the review count, with the method printed below so you can check it or reject it.
How this was calculated
Steam sales track review counts closely enough that dividing one by the other across games with published figures gives a usable multiplier. This is the standard method for estimating sales from outside a publisher.
| Reviews on Steam | 414,641 |
|---|---|
| Sales per review | 30 to 60 |
| List price | $59.99 |
| Assumed average selling price | 33% to 66% of list |
What this cannot tell you
Steam only. Console, Epic, GOG and retail sales are not in here. For a game that sold heavily on PlayStation this is a fraction of the real number.
The band is wide because the method is imprecise. Review rates vary with price, genre, launch era and how insistently a game asks. Published analyses put the ratio between 30 and 60 for paid games, and we show the whole range rather than picking a point in it.
The owner estimate above measures something else. SteamSpy counts accounts that have the game, which includes free weekends, bundles, giveaways and gifts. It sits higher than a sales figure for that reason, and the two are not alternative answers to the same question.
Revenue is the shakiest line. It assumes an average selling price well below list because most copies move in sales, and it ignores regional pricing, refunds, key resellers and whatever deal the publisher actually has with Valve. Treat it as an order of magnitude, not a figure.
If Hello Games publishes a real number we will use that instead and say where it came from. Our editorial policy covers how we handle figures we cannot verify.
No Man's Sky price & deals: is it on sale?
We have one reading so far: $59.99 on 30 August 2026. Prices are checked daily from here, and this becomes a chart once there is more than one point to join. A single observation is a price, not a history.
Latest No Man's Sky updates & patch notes
Pulled from No Man's Sky's own Steam feed on 5 September 2026. Posts marked as from the studio were written by the developer; the rest are articles Steam syndicated from elsewhere. Every one links to its source.
- Light No Fire от авторов No Man’s Sky будет крайне амбициозной игрой, но поклонников просят запастись терпением
- Even 10 years on, Sean Murray feels like he could work on No Man's Sky "forever," even if he knows "there probably is some end date" for it
- Celebrating 10 Years (!) of No Man's Sky
- Sean Murray still loves playing the 2016 version of No Man's Sky: 'It's a little bit weirder, but it's got its charm'
- No Man's Sky is now ten years old, and the best reminder that games deserve time to grow
- No Man's Sky now has its own Death Star with a laser so big it can 'destroy space station sized objects'
What readers say about No Man's Sky
Reviews written by people who have played it. These are separate from the GamingPickz Score and are never averaged into it: that score comes from thousands of Steam reviews with a sample-size correction, and a handful of unverified ratings would distort it rather than improve it.
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Problems players report
We read the 300 most recent negative Steam reviews of No Man's Sky on 30 August 2026 and counted what they mention. These are complaints, not confirmed defects: we have not reproduced any of them, and a review describes one person's machine. What the counts tell you is which problems more than one person ran into.
- Crashes and freezes15 of 300 (5%)
I'm on the third planet starting a base and this game is CRASHING ON LOAD.
Steam review, 10 August 2026 · 15 hours played · 4 readers marked it helpfulThe only consistent flaw Ive noticed is that theyll literally crash into mountainsides and bug out like crazy.
Steam review, 30 July 2026 · 720 hours played · 4 readers marked it helpful - Performance and stutter11 of 300 (4%)
For me the game just isn't playable, and I refuse to play on this framerate.
Steam review, 11 August 2026 · 5 hours played · 2 readers marked it helpfulNot to mention the optimization.
Steam review, 9 July 2026 · 41 hours played · 2 readers marked it helpful
A further 27 reviews call the game buggy or broken without saying how, which is why they are counted separately rather than assigned to a theme. Counted by keyword across review text, so a review discussing two problems is counted under both. Read the reviews yourself.
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Where No Man's Sky appears
The ranked lists and finder pages No Man's Sky qualifies for, from its own genre and platform to what it takes to run.
- Best action adventure games
- Best first-person shooter games
- Best open world games
- Best sandbox games
- Best simulation games
- Best survival games
- Best PC games
- Best PlayStation 4 games
- Best PlayStation 5 games
- Best Xbox One games
- Best Xbox Series X and Series S games
- Best Nintendo Switch games
- Best Steam Deck games
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Common questions about No Man's Sky
What platforms is No Man's Sky on?
No Man's Sky is available on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck. It first released in 2016.
How much does No Man's Sky cost?
$59.99 on Steam in the United States, read on 30 August 2026. Prices move often and vary by region, so check the store before buying.
Do players recommend No Man's Sky?
85% of 414,641 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. That is players rating it, not our review. We have not published a review of this game.
What is the Metacritic score for No Man's Sky?
61 out of 100 for the PC version, as published on the game's own Steam store page. Steam can lag Metacritic by a few points.
Does No Man's Sky work on Steam Deck?
Valve rates No Man's Sky as verified on the Steam Deck, from its own testing. That means it works out of the box with no configuration.
How big is the No Man's Sky download?
15 GB on PC, from the storage requirement on its Steam listing. Console versions differ.
Who made No Man's Sky?
No Man's Sky was developed by Hello Games and published by Hello Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment.
Is No Man's Sky worth it in 2026?
85% of 414,641 Steam reviews are positive (Very Positive), and it is $59.99 on steam. That is the strongest signal we hold; "worth it" depends on the price you pay and what you want, so weigh the sentiment against the current price above.
Is No Man's Sky on sale?
Not at the moment. No Man's Sky is at its $59.99 list price on Steam, read on 30 August 2026. It has been cheaper before; the price history above shows when.
What are the system requirements for No Man's Sky?
At minimum, No Man's Sky needs 8 GB RAM, a Intel Core i3, a Nvidia GTX 1060 3GB, 15 GB of storage, from its Steam listing. That is what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings. Check it against your own PC on the can-I-run page.