Games like No Man's Sky
If No Man's Sky is your kind of game, the closest matches are Satisfactory, Rust and Starbound — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its discover untouched planets, atmospheric and cozy. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →No Man's Sky is a 2016 Action-Adventure game developed by Hello Games. Set across an infinite procedurally generated universe, it offers base-building, exploration, freighter fleet management, language learning, and extensive multi-tool and starship customization. Players can establish bases on any planet throughout the galaxy, and the game supports MMO-style co-op multiplayer. The title holds an 82% positive rating from over 180,000 Steam reviews. Reviewers and players describe the experience as atmospheric, immersive, and relaxing, praising the scope of an ever-expanding universe to discover. Nine years of free updates have continuously expanded the game's content. The game is verified on Steam Deck and carries a $59.99 price tag.
About No Man's Sky: No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Players who liked No Man's Sky also play
Steam players who put hours into No Man's Sky also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with No Man's Sky.
Top pick for No Man's Sky fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with No Man's Sky.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Rust
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with No Man's Sky.
Second-strongest match for No Man's Sky fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with No Man's Sky.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Starbound
WHY THIS
Shares base building, procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with No Man's Sky.
Third-strongest match for No Man's Sky fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with No Man's Sky.
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Shares base building and procedural generation with No Man's Sky.
Ranked #4 for No Man's Sky fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with No Man's Sky.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Elite Dangerous
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with No Man's Sky.
Ranked #5 for No Man's Sky fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with No Man's Sky.
Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with No Man's Sky.
Ranked #6 for No Man's Sky fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with No Man's Sky.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares base building, resource management and an atmospheric mood with No Man's Sky.
Ranked #7 for No Man's Sky fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with No Man's Sky.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
ASTRONEER
WHY THIS
Shares base building, procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with No Man's Sky.
Ranked #8 for No Man's Sky fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with No Man's Sky.
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Reviewers mention these as similar to No Man's Sky
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Starfield
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with No Man's Sky.
Reviewers of No Man's Sky cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.
Elite Dangerous
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with No Man's Sky.
Reviewers of No Man's Sky cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with No Man's Sky.
Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
Space Engineers
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with No Man's Sky.
Reviewers of No Man's Sky cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with No Man's Sky.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Outer Wilds
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with No Man's Sky.
Reviewers of No Man's Sky cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with No Man's Sky.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of No Man's Sky cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with No Man's Sky.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Empyrion - Galactic Survival
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with No Man's Sky.
Reviewers of No Man's Sky cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with No Man's Sky.
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with No Man's Sky.
Reviewers of No Man's Sky cross-mention this title as a similar play.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
ASTRONEER
WHY THIS
Shares base building, procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with No Man's Sky.
Reviewers of No Man's Sky cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with No Man's Sky.
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below No Man's Sky at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with No Man's Sky.
Priced ~83% under No Man's Sky on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with No Man's Sky.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under No Man's Sky on Steam right now. Shares Action with No Man's Sky.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under No Man's Sky on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with No Man's Sky.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under No Man's Sky on Steam right now. Shares Action with No Man's Sky.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under No Man's Sky on Steam right now. Shares Action with No Man's Sky.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with No Man's Sky.
Priced ~50% under No Man's Sky on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with No Man's Sky.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under No Man's Sky on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with No Man's Sky.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares base building, resource management and an atmospheric mood with No Man's Sky.
Priced ~67% under No Man's Sky on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with No Man's Sky.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with No Man's Sky.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with No Man's Sky.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with No Man's Sky.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with No Man's Sky.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with No Man's Sky.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Hello Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Hello Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Last Campfire
WHY THIS
Shares exploration and a cozy mood with No Man's Sky.
Another title from Hello Games, the studio behind No Man's Sky. Shares Adventure with No Man's Sky.
The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home.
Joe Danger
WHY THIS
Another title from Hello Games, the studio behind No Man's Sky. Shares Action with No Man's Sky.
Can you put the world’s most determined stuntman back into the limelight? Combo, boost and pull ludicrous stunts as Joe attempts to race his way back into the record books in over 100 eye-popping levels. Leap school buses full of screaming kids and pools of ravenous sharks! Dodge spikes and mousetraps!
Joe Danger 2: The Movie
WHY THIS
Another title from Hello Games, the studio behind No Man's Sky. Shares Action with No Man's Sky.
Joe Danger, the world’s most determined stuntman, returns to embark on a death-defying thrill-ride across the set of the greatest blockbuster movie ever made. Across 100 crazy levels he’ll chase crooks by police bike, destroy laser-firing robots with a stolen jetpack, escape giant boulders in a minecart, time-travel to punch dinosaurs...
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with No Man's Sky.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with No Man's Sky.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Shares base building and procedural generation with No Man's Sky.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with No Man's Sky.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with No Man's Sky.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with No Man's Sky.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Frequently asked about No Man's Sky
- Is No Man's Sky verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — No Man's Sky is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does No Man's Sky cost?
- No Man's Sky is listed on Steam at 59.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does No Man's Sky have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — No Man's Sky supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to No Man's Sky?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside No Man's Sky are Satisfactory, Rust, Starbound.
- Who developed No Man's Sky?
- No Man's Sky was developed by Hello Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on No Man's Sky.
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