No Man's Sky/Similar games
Games like No Man's Sky
24 matches, ranked by how much their player tags overlap
What “like No Man's Sky” means here
Open World Survival CraftSpaceSpace SimSurvivalCraftingSandbox
Matches come from the tags Steam players vote on each game, weighted so a rare tag counts for far more than one that sits on half the store. A game's popularity never moves it up this list.
1
Osiris: New Dawn
Open World Survival Craft · Space · Space Sim · Survival
53% of 15,087 reviews positive
97%
match
2
97%
match
3
95%
match
4
ASTRONEER
Open World Survival Craft · Space · Exploration · Survival
92% of 138,753 reviews positive · 1,900 playing now
94%
match
5
Starbound
Open World Survival Craft · Space · Sandbox · Crafting
90% of 123,182 reviews positive · 1,353 playing now
94%
match
6
The Long Dark
Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Exploration · Open World
89% of 122,934 reviews positive · 2,882 playing now
93%
match
8
Planet Explorers
Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Open World · Crafting
62% of 6,817 reviews positive
91%
match
9
Stranded Deep
Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting · Open World
74% of 47,679 reviews positive
91%
match
10
Empyrion - Galactic Survival
Open World Survival Craft · Space · Space Sim · Exploration
78% of 34,321 reviews positive
90%
match
11
Force of Nature
Open World Survival Craft · Crafting · Survival · Exploration
75% of 4,204 reviews positive
89%
match
12
Space Engineers
Open World Survival Craft · Space · Sandbox · Survival
89% of 134,088 reviews positive · 4,713 playing now
89%
match
13
The Forest
Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting · Open World
96% of 678,804 reviews positive · 6,542 playing now
89%
match
14
Green Hell
Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting · Open World
85% of 100,116 reviews positive · 4,634 playing now
88%
match
15
Don't Starve Together
Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting · Open World
95% of 539,743 reviews positive · 20,213 playing now
88%
match
16
Subsistence
Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting · Open World
72% of 13,740 reviews positive
88%
match
17
Terraria
Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Survival · Crafting
97% of 1,539,686 reviews positive · 33,789 playing now
87%
match
18
Miasmata
Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Exploration · Open World
77% of 1,229 reviews positive
87%
match
19
SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World · Crafting
56% of 8,835 reviews positive
87%
match
20
The Wild Eight
Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting · Open World
68% of 8,105 reviews positive
86%
match
21
Don't Starve
Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting · Sandbox
97% of 113,219 reviews positive · 1,054 playing now
86%
match
22
86%
match
23
Miscreated
Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World · Crafting
66% of 31,577 reviews positive
86%
match
24
Raft
Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting · Open World
93% of 375,981 reviews positive · 9,023 playing now
86%
match
Frequently asked
What games are similar to No Man's Sky?
The closest matches to No Man's Sky on Steam are Osiris: New Dawn, Breathedge, Edge of Space, ASTRONEER, Starbound. They rank highest because their Steam community tags overlap most with No Man's Sky's — shared tags include Open World Survival Craft, Space, Space Sim.
How are games like No Man's Sky chosen?
Every game is described by the tags Steam players vote on it. Rare, specific tags such as Open World Survival Craft, Space, Space Sim count far more than catch-all ones like "Indie" or "Singleplayer", and each game is scored on how closely its whole tag profile matches No Man's Sky's. Popularity never affects the ranking.