No Man's Sky vs Subnautica
Reviews on Steam
Subnautica
1.1× more reviews
Critical reception
Subnautica
12.2pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Subnautica
$30.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Subnautica
1.0× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Subnautica
2 years apart
No Man's Sky
2016 · Action
- Reviews
- 307,436
- Positive
- 85%
- Launch price
- $59.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 29.2M
- Net rev
- $1000.8M
Subnautica
2018 · Adventure
Unknown Worlds Entertainment · Unknown Worlds Entertainment
- Reviews
- 331,738
- Positive
- 97%
- Launch price
- $29.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 29.9M
- Net rev
- $511.4M
Tag overlap
75% shared , 15 shared tags, 5 only on No Man's Sky, 5 only on Subnautica.
Only No Man's Sky
SpaceProcedural GenerationSpace SimSimulationFPS
Shared
Open WorldOpen World Survival CraftExplorationSci-fiSurvivalAdventureFirst-PersonMultiplayerSandboxSingleplayerAtmosphericCraftingIndieActionVR
Only Subnautica
HorrorUnderwaterBase-BuildingAliensSurvival Horror
Sales estimates
Both estimates use the same vv1.0 multi-factor Boxleiter method. Click "How is this calculated?" on either to see the per-factor breakdown.
Sales estimate
vv1.017.5M to 40.9M
units (median: 29.2M)
≈ $600.5M to $1401.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.017.9M to 41.8M
units (median: 29.9M)
≈ $306.9M to $716.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
How comparison pages work
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