2016 · Open World · Space · Open World Survival Craft
How long isNo Man's Sky?
by Hello Games
35 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 12 hours and 94 hours
No Man's Sky among the 104 survival crafting games here
The whole tier list#7
of 104
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 84%
- got past 2 hours
- +19 on the kind's 65%
- 45%
- past 20 hours
- +14 on the kind's 31%
- 94%
- launched it
- +16 on the kind's 78%
- 621
- libraries own it
- 1 in 4 of the 2,483 read here
Next to it in the ranking
A full turnaround: 55% of its first month's reviews recommend it, and 92% of the last year's.
46% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
76% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
79% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
82% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
87% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
92% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
94% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
94% recommend it at 200 to 500 hours
95% recommend it past 500 hours
Does No Man's Sky hold up?
Grows on people
76% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at 2–5 hours played, and 95% past 500 hours played.
Earned when the share recommending a game rises 8 points or more from its first stage past the two-hour mark to its last, never falls 5 points on the way, and at least 80% of all its Steam reviewers recommend it. Every game that holds it.
Do the first two hours of No Man's Sky tell you?
In the first two hours46%recommend it
After that87%recommend it
15 in 100 said no: 12 after the window had closed, 3 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 35 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 12 hours and 94 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 423,000 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It grows on people: 76% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 95% past 500 hours.
5% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 46% of those recommend it. After the window, 87% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 81% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 13 hours in.
When would you get there?
5weeks
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 35 hours on Saturday, December 19.
Half of its reviewers had played between 12 and 94 hours: Nov 26 to Feb 16, 2027 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Is No Man's Sky worth it?
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One hour, at list price
No Man's Sky
- Steam list price, US
- $59.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 35 h
- survival crafting game rate
- $1.43/h
- 35 h at that rate
- $50
About the going rate
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is No Man's Sky worth it? Yes.
Fair price
About what a typical survival crafting game charges: $1.71 an hour
Liked
87% recommend it after the refund windowmost survival crafting games: 83%
Gets played
94% of owners here have played itmost survival crafting games: 80%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $59.99, the typical player's 35 hours come to $1.71 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 87% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. An hour of No Man's Sky costs about what the typical one of 153 survival crafting games here charges $1.43.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (survival crafting games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Is No Man's Sky better now than at launch?
August 2016
55%
≈ 53,300 reviews
Now
92%
≈ 50,500 reviews
55% of the Steam reviews posted in its first 30 days recommend it; 92% of those posted in the last 12 months do.
Earned when the Steam reviews of a game's last 12 months recommend it 10 points or more above those of its first 30 days, at 80% or higher, and the rise is still there between players with the same hours. Every game that holds it.
How this is counted
Its Steam reviews began in August 2016. Of those posted in the first 30 days, 55% recommend it; of those posted in the last 12 months, 92% do.
One token is 2% of the reviews first posted in its first 30 days, and in the last 12 months. Each counts with the verdict it carries today, so a review its author has since changed shows the new one. The biggest comebacks and falls.
Where can I play No Man's Sky today?
Almost anywhere
PC, PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2 and 4 more.
- todayPS42016
- todayXbox One2018
- todayPlayStation VR2019
- todayXbox Series2020
- todayPS52020
- todaySwitch2022ported
- PlayStation2023
- todayPC2023
- todaySwitch 22025
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines No Man's Sky came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like No Man's Sky?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like No Man's Sky, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long No Man's Sky would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
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Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
What did people here do with No Man's Sky?
- C
The middle pick of 12 players on the Steam tier list
1 in 19
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more. The tier is the middle player's on the Steam tier list, shown once ten players have ranked it.
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No Man's Sky, but single-player, and with base building
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No Man's Sky, but built by hand, and a quarter of the hours
Liked · 81%Games like Breathedge
How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from No Man's Sky: a kind of game it is that No Man's Sky is not, a feature its tags carry that No Man's Sky's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.