No Man's Sky Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-06
- Vast open-world space exploration
- Extensive base building mechanics
- Free updates without paid DLC
- Repetitive procedural generation
- Frequent bugs and glitches
- Bad launch and rough start
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMpositiveWindows 8-11GB VRAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 422,181
- Positive
- 360,02385.3%
- Negative
- 62,15814.7%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 18,097,145
- Estimated revenue
- $1,085,647,729
- Game price
- $60
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 460.38%
- Estimated copies lost
- 1,972
- Estimated revenue lost
- $118,300
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 480.4% Avg playtime 1h | 970.8% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 6855.6% Avg playtime 153h | 11,35593.2% Avg playtime 209.1h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 3.3 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 80.7 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 165 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 3,701.2 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
12,185 total
Organic purchasers9,10774.7%
Voted up: 94%
Key activations3,07825.3%
Voted up: 94%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
12,185 total
First impression0-2h2321.90%
Voted up: 75%
Mid game2-10h1,38411.4%
Voted up: 94%
Late game10-20h1,27210.4%
Voted up: 93%
Endgame20h+9,29776.3%
Voted up: 95%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
97.2%
Global baseline 94.0%
249 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 422,181 total.