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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 15,085 reviews positive
97%
match
2
97%
match
3
95%
match
4
ASTRONEER
Open World Survival Craft · Space · Survival · Open World
92% of 139,161 reviews positive · 1,625 playing now
94%
match
5
94%
match
6
Starbound
Open World Survival Craft · Space · Sandbox · Survival
90% of 123,287 reviews positive · 827 playing now
94%
match
8
The Long Dark
Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World · Exploration
89% of 123,590 reviews positive · 1,884 playing now
93%
match
9
Planet Explorers
Open World Survival Craft · Open World · Sandbox · Crafting
62% of 6,818 reviews positive
92%
match
10
Stranded Deep
Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting · Open World
74% of 47,804 reviews positive
91%
match
11
Space Engineers
Open World Survival Craft · Space · Sandbox · Survival
89% of 134,370 reviews positive · 2,569 playing now
90%
match
12
Empyrion - Galactic Survival
Open World Survival Craft · Space · Space Sim · Survival
78% of 34,400 reviews positive
90%
match
13
Force of Nature
Open World Survival Craft · Crafting · Survival · Open World
75% of 4,209 reviews positive
90%
match
14
90%
match
15
The Forest
Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World · Crafting
96% of 681,382 reviews positive · 4,757 playing now
89%
match
16
Green Hell
Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting · Open World
85% of 101,854 reviews positive · 2,606 playing now
89%
match
17
88%
match
18
Subsistence
Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting · Open World
72% of 13,775 reviews positive
88%
match
19
Don't Starve Together
Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World · Crafting
95% of 542,510 reviews positive · 12,853 playing now
88%
match
20
SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World · Crafting
56% of 8,827 reviews positive
88%
match
21
Terraria
Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Survival · Crafting
97% of 1,551,879 reviews positive · 37,847 playing now
88%
match
22
Miasmata
Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Exploration · Open World
77% of 1,239 reviews positive
87%
match
23
The Wild Eight
Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World · Crafting
68% of 8,117 reviews positive
87%
match
24
Don't Starve
Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting · Sandbox
97% of 113,422 reviews positive · 850 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, Fragmented. They rank highest because their Steam community tags overlap most with No Man's Sky's, and 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.