How many copies has No Man's Sky sold?

indielist estimates No Man's Sky has sold between 17,685,276 and 41,265,644 units (median 29,475,460), derived from its 310,268 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 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.

Who published No Man's Sky?

No Man's Sky was published by Hello Games, developed by Hello Games. See Hello Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

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 310,268 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.

Is No Man's Sky worth playing?

Steam players rate No Man's Sky 85% positive across 310,268 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

No Man's Sky

Aug 12, 2016 Action $59.99

Developer Hello Games Publisher Hello Games

Profile updated May 2026

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.

No Man's Sky is a 2016 Action game developed by Hello Games and published by Hello Games. On Steam it has gathered 310,268 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 method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 17.7 million to 41.3 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

310,268

Positive

85%

Steam appid

275850

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

10,070

Fresh snapshot · 2026-07-24 15:15 UTC · 24h peak 10,070

Sales estimate

v1.0

17.7M to 41.3M

units (median: 29.5M)

≈ $606.0M to $1414.0M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

17.7M median 41.3M

+ How is this calculated?

310,268 reviews × NB(95) = 29,475,460 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2016	+30
price_$60	+15
positive_85%	0
final NB	95

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for No Man's Sky at roughly 17.7 million to 41.3 million copies, with a median around 29.5 million, derived from its 310,268 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1010.0M 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

54 observed days · window low $22.34

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $22.34 to $59.99. The tracked-window low was $22.34 on 2026-06-25.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

Where to buy

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Platforms

macwindows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has No Man's Sky sold?: indielist estimates No Man's Sky has sold between 17,685,276 and 41,265,644 units (median 29,475,460), derived from its 310,268 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 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.
Who published No Man's Sky?: No Man's Sky was published by Hello Games, developed by Hello Games. See Hello Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
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 310,268 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
Is No Man's Sky worth playing?: Steam players rate No Man's Sky 85% positive across 310,268 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like No Man's Sky can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Breathedge, Voidtrain, Subnautica, The Forest, 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.