No Man's Sky
Last updated: 2025-12-20
- Consistent free updates and developer support
- Exploration and discovery rewards players generously
- Relaxing immersive atmosphere enhances experience
- Repetitive and shallow gameplay mechanics
- Numerous bugs and glitches persist
- Weak combat mechanics limit engagement
Emotions
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 392,804
- Positive
- 331,97384.5%
- Negative
- 60,83115.5%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 24,353,112
- Estimated revenue
- $1,460,943,189
- Game price
- $60
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 5550.93%
- Estimated copies lost
- 34,409
- Estimated revenue lost
- $2,064,196
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 5580.9% Avg playtime 1h | 6651.1% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 4,0136.7% Avg playtime 111h | 54,31091.2% Avg playtime 163.1h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 17.5 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 395.3 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 628.6 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 3,411.6 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
59,546 total
Organic purchasers43,47673.0%
Voted up: 92%
Key activations16,07027.0%
Voted up: 92%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
59,546 total
First impression0-2h1,7943.01%
Voted up: 62%
Mid game2-10h9,19515.4%
Voted up: 89%
Late game10-20h7,19012.1%
Voted up: 92%
Endgame20h+41,36769.5%
Voted up: 94%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
94.0%
Global baseline 92.3%
911 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 392,804 total.