No Man's Sky vs Subnautica

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No Man's Sky

2016 · Action

Hello Games · Hello Games

Reviews: 310,268
Positive: 85%
Launch price: $59.99
Engine: Unknown
Sales (median): 29.5M
Net rev: $1010.0M

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Subnautica

2018 · Adventure

Unknown Worlds Entertainment · Unknown Worlds Entertainment

Reviews: 338,617
Positive: 97%
Launch price: $29.99
Engine: Unknown
Sales (median): 30.5M
Net rev: $522.1M

Tag overlap

75% shared , 15 shared tags, 5 only on No Man's Sky, 5 only on Subnautica.

Only No Man's Sky

Space Procedural Generation Space Sim Simulation FPS

Shared

Open World Open World Survival Craft Exploration Sci-fi Survival Adventure First-PersonMultiplayerSandboxSingleplayerAtmosphericCraftingIndieAction VR

Only Subnautica

Horror Underwater Base-Building Aliens Survival Horror

Sales estimates

Paid-game estimates use the same transparent multi-factor Boxleiter method. Free-to-play games never receive paid unit or revenue estimates.

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.

Sales estimate

v1.0

18.3M to 42.7M

units (median: 30.5M)

≈ $313.2M to $730.9M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

18.3M median 42.7M

+ How is this calculated?

338,617 reviews × NB(90) = 30,475,530 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2018	+15
price_$30	+5
positive_97%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	90

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.

How comparison pages work

Verdicts are objective, they call out which game scores higher on a single measurable axis (reviews, price, sales estimate, recency). They don't claim "better." Tag overlap is computed from the public Steam tag list. Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method whose formula is shown in full on each game's page.

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