Games like No Man's Sky
Looking for games like No Man's Sky? indielist surfaces 12 similar indie games by shared genre and Steam tags, ranked by review count. No Man's Sky is a action game from 2016; the closest matches share its tags and audience. The top match by reviews is Voidtrain with 9,490 Steam reviews. Each game links to a white-box sales estimate you can audit. Matches are computed from tracked Steam data, not editorial opinion.
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Voidtrain
2025 · Action
9,490 reviews · 74% positive
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayer
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Survival. Different: leans more into co-op.
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Subnautica
2018 · Adventure
331,738 reviews · 97% positive
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalOpen World
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Survival. Different: leans more into horror.
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The Forest
2018 · Action
570,988 reviews · 96% positive
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalOpen World
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Survival. Different: leans more into horror.
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Starbound
2016 · Action
120,582 reviews · 90% positive
Open World Survival CraftSandboxSurvival
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Sandbox. Different: leans more into pixel graphics.
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ASTRONEER
2019 · Adventure
117,846 reviews · 92% positive
MultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival Craft
Same: shares Multiplayer and Open World. Different: leans more into base-building.
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Subnautica: Below Zero
2021 · Adventure
97,547 reviews · 90% positive
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalSingleplayer
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Survival. Different: leans more into underwater.
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Stranded Deep
2022 · Adventure
43,247 reviews · 74% positive
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayer
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Survival. Different: leans more into realistic.
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Terraria
2011 · Action
1,216,769 reviews · 97% positive
Open World Survival CraftSandboxSurvival
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Sandbox. Different: leans more into 2d.
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Rust
2018 · Action
1,140,437 reviews · 87% positive
SurvivalCraftingMultiplayer
Same: shares Survival and Crafting. Different: leans more into building.
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ARK: Survival Evolved
2017 · Action
579,234 reviews · 83% positive
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayer
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Survival. Different: leans more into dinosaurs.
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Unturned
2017 · Action
563,169 reviews · 91% positive
SurvivalMultiplayerOpen World
Same: shares Survival and Multiplayer. Different: leans more into free to play.
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Subsistence
2016 · Action
13,692 reviews · 72% positive
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayer
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Survival. Different: leans more into building.
Frequently asked questions
- What games are like No Man's Sky?
- indielist matches 12 indie games to No Man's Sky by shared genre and Steam tags, led by Voidtrain (9,490 reviews). The list is ranked by review count.
- How are "games like No Man's Sky" chosen?
- By overlap of Steam tags and primary genre with No Man's Sky, weighted by review count as a popularity signal. It is computed from tracked data, not hand-picked, and updates as the catalog grows.