No Man's Sky
Worth it · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $23.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Mar 2016.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.74/hr
- Reviews▼
- 85% of 424,250
- Critics
- 61 players 24 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 12% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 32.4h
- To 100%
- 156.4h 4.8x the story
- Achievements
- 27
Price and sales
- Sales
- 101 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $23.99 June 2017
- Sale every
- 32d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 14,091 now
- Recent reviews
- 91% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 69% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
73% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 101 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $23.99 at 60 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 12 percent. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. Among the games that feel like it, ASTRONEER ($29.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Cubic Odyssey ($24.99, scores 31).
More about No Man's Sky
Critics scored it 61. Players sit 24 points higher at 85 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
17 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 16,746 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 32.4 hours; clearing it takes 156, which is 4.8 times the campaign.
424,250 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
This game is very interesting. It had a lot of updates. Downside is it still buggy as hell. And to get to any of the new stuff is kinda confusing. there's a lot of moments where the game asks you to do things and it just assumes the player knows how to do it and never explaining stuff if you're continuing from an old save. maybe if make new save it will explain everything but I doubt that. There was a story to No...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I love NMS. I'm giving it a No, because of the Expeditions. No Man's Sky is a wonderful game that lacks "real content". There's often not really a clear goal, and that's wonderful... But then there's expeditions, content... real things. The grind. They're totally based on FOMO, you get a few weeks for each one and if you miss it, you miss it - you never get a chance to run that content, or collect those...
Well i must say thank you for this expeditio ncelebrating the 10 years - going through the milestones, hearing the mostly negative to very positive journey that the team went through did move me a lot. have been playing this game on and off throughout the journey, solo and with friends - and now its time to say thank you. It is not a perfect game but it is a game that i keep coming back to and enjoy the newly added...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 1060 3GB, AMD RX 470 4GB, Intel UHD graphics 630, 15 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
No Man's Sky scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/275850/no-man-s-skyReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.