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Exploration and survival mechanics define this title, which first launched in 2016. It maintains an 81% positive rating across 180,158 reviews on Steam. The project is categorized as an indie release and remains available for purchase on the platform.
Overview
No Man's Sky is a 2016 Action game developed by Hello Games and published by Hello Games. On Steam it has gathered 307,639 player reviews, 85% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $60. The pairing of developer Hello Games with publisher Hello Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 17.5 million to 40.9 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, No Man's Sky can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
307,639
Positive
85%
Steam appid
275850
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.017.5M to 40.9M
units (median: 29.2M)
≈ $600.9M to $1402.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for No Man's Sky at roughly 17.5 million to 40.9 million copies, with a median around 29.2 million, derived from its 307,639 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1001.5M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $30.32Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $30.32 to $59.99, averaging $54.75 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $30.32 on 2026-03-16.
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Where to buy
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- GOG.com -60%$23.99 Buy
- Humble Store$59.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$61.18 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
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Platforms
macwindows
Tags
Open WorldOpen World Survival CraftSpaceExplorationSci-fiSurvivalProcedural GenerationAdventureFirst-PersonMultiplayerSandboxSingleplayerAtmosphericCraftingSpace SimIndieActionSimulationFPSVR
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has No Man's Sky sold?
- indielist estimates No Man's Sky has sold between 17,535,423 and 40,915,987 units (median 29,225,705), derived from its 307,639 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed No Man's Sky?
- No Man's Sky was developed by Hello Games and published by Hello Games.
- When was No Man's Sky released?
- No Man's Sky was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does No Man's Sky have on Steam?
- No Man's Sky has 307,639 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has No Man's Sky sold?
- indielist estimates No Man's Sky has sold between 17,535,423 and 40,915,987 units (median 29,225,705), derived from its 307,639 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed No Man's Sky?
- No Man's Sky was developed by Hello Games and published by Hello Games.
- When was No Man's Sky released?
- No Man's Sky was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does No Man's Sky have on Steam?
- No Man's Sky has 307,639 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like No Man's Sky can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Subnautica, Don't Starve, Enshrouded, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Hello Games's other releases and Hello Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where No Man's Sky sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same No Man's Sky page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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