Genre SurvivalReleased Aug 12, 2016

No Man's Sky

Developed and published by Hello Games
Estimated lifetime revenue
$194.33M
Gross, before Steam's cut
Net revenue
$152.46M
After Steam's 22% cut
Units sold
6.99M
≈ 17 sales per review
Confidence
High
Based on 422,936 reviews
How we estimate →
Reviews
422,936
Very Positive85% positive
Playing now
14,841
29-day peak 41,721 · low 14,841
New reviews, last 29 days
+4,986
≈ 172 a day since Sep 14

History

Sep 14 – Oct 13

423.3K421.4K419.5K417.6K
Sep 14Sep 28Oct 13

Total Steam reviews. The slope is the signal: a steady climb long after launch means the game is still selling.

How it compares

Survival →

Against the 120 most-reviewed Survival games on Steam

Outearns 95% of them — in the top 10% of the group.

Median
$26.00M
127,953 reviews
Top 10% start at
$107.40M
This game
$194.33M
83rd pct. by reviews

The group is the games with the most reviews under this tag, not every release, so it leans toward games that sold — a percentile here is a harder test than the same percentile across the whole store would be.

About

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

Developer
Hello Games
Publisher
Hello Games
Genre
Survival
Released
Aug 12, 2016
Steam app ID
275850
Data updated
Oct 13, 2026
Estimates, not reported sales. No developer-published figures are on file for this game. See the methodology for how the numbers are built.